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The leading voice of the workers and trade unions across Lodamun
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January 4759
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New industries arise in St Martin
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Guns produced by anarchists in the new factories for small guns.
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Over the past months, the communes had seen incredible development in all domains, as well considerable progress in becoming important economic centers of Lodamun. Despite their stance against commerce, the trades intensified, leading to intense economic activity and new import of resources into the cities. With the new elections keeping the status-quo and the safety of the communes, the good progress is expected to continue as the local committees laid out plans for further development. Meanwhile an influx of tourists, immigrants and yes, capital! in the established communes. The better living conditions and the glaring prosperity had attracted many people willing to move in from various reasons, from political to economical. The tourist industry saw major increase as well, with better affordable prices leading to many tourists flocking in to see the pristine beaches of Lodamun. Most of them tho are for now Lodamese, but influx of foreigners is looked forward to.
The military strategists and the committees had started programs to stack up resources for any eventuality, including civil wars which would devolve into embargoes. The supplies being stacked up are bullets, various guns, canned food, water, medicine, clothes, various materials used for industrial activity and prime resources. These are to be deposited and be used as an emergency fund in case of embargoes or sanctions. The militias had also smuggled from the Lodamese military various anti-air gun vehicles and mountable heavy guns as well light armored vehicles and military-graded fire weapons alongside equipment. This had led to rumors and panic in some, raising the question, how was this possible? Some speculate that the syndicalists had infiltrated successfully into the military.
While the militias are gaining strength and popularity, even getting calls to intervene in worse off places, the new division, the Leftist Front is created in Providence, in order to spread influence and to aid the locals, giving out food, water, clothing and medicine to the locals. Their called saviors in their regions and praised for their presence, leading to variety of crimes against the upper class and the system, causing some civil unrest that was quickly secured by the police to avoid escalation.
On the other side, the Saint Martin economy is rousing to the top, with new production of small riffles and firing guns, as well SMGs and pistols. These new factories were open few months ago after some military strategists and experts defected to help the anarchist committees in building up new production lines of Lodamese guns, even if a bit outdated, their at military-graded level and inspired after older foreign models alongside tweaks and upgrades. The new production lines will chum guns for the Communes and arm the people and the organized militias protecting the area. Other industries that saw development were tourism, food industry, transport and internet. With the production of buses and other public transports in Orean, following cooperation resulted in new public systems of transportation of Lodamese people freely by the communes across the Northern parts, tho despite small, these programs are expected to grow, as international trade is bringing huge revenue to these cities. The food industry saw similar growth with that one from Orean, resulting in economic growth with new groceries, stores and bakeries. The smuggle of foreign technology as well with the creation of a connected grid to the satellites of Istalia for internet connection led to foundation of several important servers built by experts rented by the anarchists, with this offering a better more modern world to Lodamese citizens for free. The local committees plan on offering laptops and other gadgets for free as well in the coming future.
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