GENERAL STRIKE: Civil Disobedience or the Start of a Revolution?Dorvik has always been a proud vanguard of the free market and conservatism, but the election carried out in June 4389 proves otherwise. The National Bolshevik Party won the elections with 53.93% approval, with the Workers Anarchist Federation following behind with 46.07%. However, these elections were not peaceful ones, as the majority of Dorvik's workers, both from the AAF and the Dorvish Communist Party (
DKP) united in the
Gewerkschaftskongress or Trade Union Congress, the anarchist headquarters in Haldor, to discuss what the trade unions and most importantly the workers themselves should do to prevent a Fascist state. The Maximist branch of the AAF, known to be more conservative and nationalist, proposed helping the National Bolshevik Party and joining them in the government, while the Autonomist branch, known for their decentralization and libertarianism, decided that a general strike was the only way the revolutionary class could defend themselves. In the end, the Autonomists obtained most of the votes in the congress, and the
Generalstreik, or General Strike, had begun.
Lone member of the Revolutionary Militias standing against the police forceWhat had started as a small group of unhappy teenagers soon became a massive wave of revolutionaries shouting "
Break the Chains!", the Federation's motto, while setting up barricades and claiming strategic points in Kordusia's major cities. Radio stations, metro stations, police departments, factories and many other places were completely overrun by the protesters, and the police have had to resort to physical violence in many cases to keep the revolutionaries back.
Some claim that these protests, the General Strike itself, will dissipate in a matter of weeks. But most believe that these actions taken by the AAF, DKP and the NBP will lead to a civil war between the forces of the left and right, and that it is only a matter of "when".