The Glorious Revolution began in the factories and in the fields of France where the people, long oppressed by the imperialist monarchy, chose to rise up and avenge the murder of their brothers for the shallow and futile aims of capitalism.
The people cried out and Citizen Babeuf answered their call. He returned from his foreign exile to guide his people and fulfil the promises of abolishing oppression and scattering the poverty that had gripped them for so long. On the 29th of Prairial 118, he stood at the head of cheering crowds in Paris waving red flags and old tricolors kept hidden from the oppressors and marched them to the royal palace before the tyrants could react. No guard dared stand before the will of the people but rather they joined them and pursued every member of the line of Capet until the riches that these criminals had stolen could be distributed back to those who had been defrauded. Another such scene displayed itself against the ministers who had administered royal oppression so diligently. The butcher Vannes, the warmonger Metz and the simpering Albi were led to the prisons they had filled with sons and daughters of the Revolution and kept there until they could be justly tried for their crimes. The coward Montpensier was nowhere to be found in Paris and it was reported that he was leading other traitors to Normandy where he continues to plot until he will finally be taken down.
The capitalist powers of the world reacted with fear to the Revolution by excluding France from all deliberations between Great Powers and chose to consider Denmark as their string to puppet Europe.
This did not tarnish the resolve of Citizen Babeuf but encouraged him to call upon the downtrodden masses of France to choose their representatives with local Conseils to create a new foundation for the Commune that had been obtained after so much strife.
Citizen Babeuf leading the people to freedom.
For the first time in history, every non-aristocratic male was called upon to elect his representatives among revolutionaries and those who had pursued the cause of justice against the king. The members who appeared at the Constitutional Council were a plethora of virtuous men 53.8% of which identified as Communist while a minority of 15,4% identified as Socialist and 30.8% as Liberal. Notable among these were Citizen Babeuf, the former Communist Deputy and champion of the rights of the people Mathieu Baudelaire, Lucien Brunet former count of Chartres who had been minister and had first given the People power over the king's whims, and the great revolutionary Citizen Marat.
Citizen Marat came from humble origins and was born in the year 70 of the Revolution to a proletarian family in Aurillac. From a young age, he worked on the railroads and later the capitalist factories. It was here that he first encountered Communism and was made aware of the absurd oppression he was living under. This led him to found his own clandestine association where he prepared the proletariat of France for the day in which the Revolution would finally arrive and wipe away all class and injustice. After this, he began to have more and more contacts with the revolutionaries of Europe and this culminated at the Seventh Congress of the International Working Man's association in Struttgart. There he came into contact with such names as Citizen Babeuf, Rosa Luxemburg and the late Vladimir Lenin who all encouraged him to develop and expand his theories. In 118, he drove his fellow citizens to revolt against the tyrant and ensured the safe return of Citizen Babeuf to France.
Citizen Marat is one of the greatest benefactors to the Revolution.
The first issue faced by the Council was the determination of the new style of government for the Country to ensure that the voice of the proletariat be heard. Brunet remained in favor of the establishment of a bourgeois republic with an elected president and parliament under the principle of universal suffrage. Citizens Marat and Babeuf reminded the assembly that these tools of the oppressors could not be trusted to take care of the people but would simply turn into tools of subjugation wielded by the capitalists. They presented the more reasonable solution of entrusting the State to the care of the Parti Ouvrier Français who had selflessly freed France from the king and would undoubtedly continue caring for the workers. This provoked much discussion in the chamber, especially along those members of the Socialist and Liberal minorities. The deliberation was to be decided by Baudelaire who was well respected by all those present and could be trusted for an impartial decision to benefit everyone. He commended Citizens Marat and Babeuf on their loyalty to the cause and thanked Brunet for his past contributions before stating that he had grown to love the principle of a Council, but he could not accept an executive that may become so powerful as to become king in all but name. Citizen Marat picked up Baudelaire's words and crafted a proposal whereby the government would be composed by the Parti Ouvrier Français functioning as an Upper House and guard to the Constitution with its General Secretary acting as a President. The government itself would be nominated by the Secretary and remain in office for the amount of time that shall be deemed necessary for the good of the Nation.
The votes at the Consitutional Council were greatly anticipated by all.
The time to decide came and the vote was closer than any had expected with the single vote of Citizen Marat tipping the scales in the direction of a government based on Communism. Many of the disgruntled Liberal members chose to leave the assembly but the true followers of the Revolution remained and helped to craft their future.
The matter of the former Colonies was considered next. It was generally agreed that such an Imperialist institution should cease to exist but there were concerns that leaving these people without protection would only cause them to be subsumed into worse bourgeois nations who would continue to bleed them dry. Citizen Babeuf skillfully solved this problem by proposing that the former Protectorates be transformed into sister Socialist Consiliary Republics that would be federated with the French SCR for mutual defense against capitalist encroachment. This idea passed without any opposition and it was decided that the ensemble of former colonies and the Homeland would now and forever be known as the Commune of France.
Baudelaire then displayed all of the vision he has been known for by proposing a host reforms for the benefit of the working class. His first proposal, shared by all, was the introduction of a state-of-the-art school system that would allow anyone, no matter their status, to provide all of their intellectual skills to the community. Further ideas were applauded by all but the Liberals and included a minimum wage sufficient to provide a dignified life for all, an with an 8-hour workday, generous unemployment subsidies for those awaiting a profession, and an equal pension for those who could no longer work. All of these ideas passed with a more than 80% majority and proved the crowning achievement for a life in service of the People.
Mathieu Baudelaire crowns his political career by breaking the chains he had fought so long.
The last touches were set by Citizen Marat and strongly opposed by Brunet. Marat believed that, to preserve the Revolution, it would be necessary to abolish all private press and provide information to the people only from the guiding hand of the State rather than allowing for each publisher to expouse their biased agenda. He also advocated for the abolition of public meetings since all such requests would be handled by the Conseils and appropriately conveyed to the Government.
On the 25th of Ventôse 120, the Constitutional Council convened to sign the Constitution with the moving scene of Baudelaire being carried to the chamber despite the illness that would soon take his life. All prominent members signed proudly with the exception of Brunet who chose to take a ship to America with others who could not see the vision of the new world about to rise.
With the Constitution established, the Parti Ouvrier Français selected Citizen Babeuf to act as its Secretary and head of the Commune of France while Citizen Marat was chosen to act as Chairman of the Council of Ministers.
Citizen Chairman Marat used his new powers to protect the Revolution by seeking out its enemies and ensuring that they could no longer scheme in the darkness for a royalist restoration. In Fructidor 120, the royal family with its Spanish and Sicilian branches was put on trial for the willful murder of two million Frenchmen in the fields of England. The testimony of soldiers and civilians alike was heard, and every time there emerged further proof that the royals had conspired with the other Capitalist powers to exhaust the proletariat by means of senseless fighting. The former king Philippe Capet was allowed a rebuttal but wasted his chance by spouting lies and claiming that his relatives had had no part in the massacres without regard for the copious evidence presented. This weak defense was quickly set aside as the Tribunal of the People condemned every member of the Capet family to death.
On the new year 121, the condemned were paraded in front of the crowds of Paris and led to Place de la Révolution where Madame la Guillotine waited once more. The charges were publicly read and then the blade fell again and again following each step of the succession, passing from Philippe to Henri to Alphonse until no possible claimant was left.
Great crowds gathered to witness the execution of so many kings.
With no Capets left, it came time to change the Tricoleur and replace the white of monarchy with red for the spilled blood of the martyrs of the revolution who had helped rid France of its masters. The new Étendard Sanglant was then adopted as the official flag for the Commune of France as an eternal reminder of the destiny of all tyrants.
The Commune has its new flag.
The Tribunals of the People worked hard in the following year to preserve the Commune as they searched for any capitalists or aristocrats that were plotting against the Government. Several prominent landowners and industrialists were shot after their trials and among them was the former Prime Minister Vivien de Vannes. Former Ministers Ange de Metz and Gaston d'Albi were condemned to exile but ended up being shot after their escape attempts went wrong. There are reports that former Minister Anatole de Montpensier has begun to style himself as Regent-Marshal and is housing some of these traitors while attempting to organize Fascist brigades with the aim of suffocating the Revolution.
In reaction to this threat, Citizen Chairman Marat assigned the Ministry of the Interior to Citizen Danton with the goal of rounding up foreign counterrevolutionary spies and giving them to justice.
Citizen Danton was born in the year 80 to a pair of struggling artists in the periphery of Paris. Unable to pursue a formal education, he learned the art of poetry from family friends and wrote several compositions on the life struggles of the proletariat. In 106 he came into contact with underground Communist groups and took charge of his local section with his theories on the extending the future Revolution to the entire world. After the disastrous year of 117, he managed to meet Citizen Babeuf and aid him in organizing the crowds of Paris to take down the tyrant Philippe.
At the moment of writing, Citizen Danton is in the midst of spreading the Tribunals of the People to the countryside and all foreign borders have been closed to stop any counterrevolutionary spies from escaping. The Commune faces a dangerous period from its birth, but we will be triumphant when the weed of bourgeois capitalism will be finally thrown into the furnace of history.
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