Fellow delegates,
Please permit me to thank the Zardic gentleman for his contributions, which we in the Dorvish Communist Party fully support and applaud. The Anti-Communist League and its affiliate, the Iron League, are truly sinister organisations, whose methods and objectives are far from peaceable.
We are living in an age where the communist people are under attack more than ever before. All over Terra - in Dalibor, in Deltaria, in Rildanor, in Hulstria and Ostaland, and elsewhere - we have seen communists being discriminated against, persecuted and slaughtered. As a democrat, I respect the right of others not to agree with communism - that is their right. But equally, I plead with the World Congress to recognise that this modern ideology of anti-communism - in its most extreme and violent form - represents one of the gravest threats to human welfare on the planet. Governments, international organisations, leading commentators and others - in fact
everybody - have now surely
got to speak out about what is going on.
On a related matter, I am sad to report that in my own nation, Dorvik - one of the most powerful nations in the world and an influential Security Council member - has just passed a
radical set of religious laws which will seriously affect the civil liberties of those who do not follow the official Hosian religion. This particularly affects the communist community, due to our secular beliefs, but will affect others here too - including religious minorities, such as the Ahmadis.
Gloria Iustia, that great human rights monitoring organisation, has already spoken out about this. I hope many, many, many others here will too.
The rise of the reactionary right in Dorvik means women are also under attack, as we have seen with the cruel decision to
ban abortion in almost all circumstances and
imprison women's rights campaigners for distributing the simple abortion pill. Fellow delegates, events like these are not happening in a vacuum - they are happening because of a dangerous rise in reactionary right-wing ideology across Terra. This ideology represents a threat to human civilisation as we know it, and unless we collectively stand up to it, I promise you, there will be many more Leopold Nimitizes.
Fellow delegates, many coalition soldiers lost their lives fighting in Hulstria and Ostand. They gave their lives fighting the same tyranny I have been describing - the tyranny of reactionary right-wing ideology. You may remember the slogan from that war - "Make Karstadt the Tomb of Fascism". Did they give their lives fighting this evil, only so that the governments of the world could sit back and do nothing whilst the same evil flourishes and grows elsewhere?
The choice now is between action or inaction, strength or appeasement, courage or cowardice. I leave you with a question to ask yourselves: which side are you on?