Red Day Liberators

The Red Day Liberators (RDL) are a radical socialist separatist organization founded and residing in the Republic of Katamur. Originally, the RDL believed and strove for the development of a socialist state that would replace the current Constitutional Monarchy and the sharing of the means of production with the general populace, However, since the end of the Muran Civil War the group has progressively been replaced by pro-separatist members who seek total independence for the Katamuran autonomous region. Due to this, the group has been preoccupied with infighting for decades, conflicting with the Army for the North Revival (ANR), the splinter group of the original RDL. The RDL are violently anti-monarchical and oppose the current government and it’s participants, being the primary offenders in numerous attempts at the lives of politicians. This has resulted in them being officially declared a terrorist organization. Numerous groups, both socialist groups as well as local communities within the autonomous regions have commented with disdain towards the group.

Despite being named after the Red Factory Day of 1470, The group formed on 12th March 1474, after Ugowzh Medska led a collection of workers to rebel and occupied the Gesti furniture manufacturing factory they worked in at [city name]. The workers armed themselves with weapons they stashed away inside the factory before shooting and killing members of the higher staff before eventually coming into conflict with police, shooting and killing 2 before securing their location at the factory. The workers held the factory for two days before the royal army arrived, in that time the workers, with Ugowzh leading the group, developed the basics of a manifesto demanding the surrender of the means of production back to the working man. On the 14th of march, local forces of the Royal Katamur Army were brought in to deal with the workers who had fortified their position and assaulted the factory, resulting in the death of 60 workers and 4 royal soldiers. The remaining workers were either arrested or successfully escaped. Ugowzh, with around 30 other people, evaded the chaos and disappeared without any trace from the city.

Knowledge of the RDL’s activity after the factory assault is slim. The most credible fact is their presence at the Florencian Revolution where the groups numbers swelled with many new fervorous members, as well as fighting experience in the numerous conflicts occurring during the Revolution. It’s here the group would develop both their guerrilla tactics as well as refine the image of a socialist society with the features of a Katamuran system which would later be developed by numerous political theorists during the 1500’s.

Members of the RDL would be publicly seen again in Katamur during the events of the Muran Civil War (1486-1491) cooperating with the larger United Workers Front who acted in more guerrilla based tactics then other elements of the Workers Front. The actions of the RDL at this time are often seen as abrasive and harsh, employing the use of car bombs, destruction of property (including religious buildings) with evident knowledge of non-combatants being inside, false flag attacks, and execution of surrendering and fleeing soldiers. Because of these, much of the higher command of the UWF wished to disconnect themselves from them, so as not to stain their post war reputation. From 1489, the UWF officially removed any support, primarily arms, for the RDL. Ugowzh, leading the now thousands strong group, opened fire at UWF members and joined the civil war as an independent party.

Following the conclusion of the civil war, The Provisional government set up by the Crowned Republic Civil Force (CRCF) declared an offer of forgiveness for members of any opposing factions still functioning within the national border, with some circumstances resulting in jail time. Those who did not surrender themselves now would be marked as traitors and killed if caught. Many members of the RDL surrendered themselves to the provisional government after accepting their losses and preferring jail time over executions. Some 3000 individuals reportedly remained and since then have been officially marked by the Katamur government as a terrorist organization.

After the conclusion of the Civil War, the RDL saw an increase of membership coming from the new semi-autonomous regions the new Crowned Republic implemented, all of whom wished for total independence from the crown, aligning to the deconstructive methods the RDL foresaw with a socialist Katamur. This influx initially proved effective, early post-war activity of the RDL was the highest it would ever be and was a prominent annoyance for the new republic. This influx eventually dissipated after the conclusion of the reconstruction period and would spike again after the defeat of Katamur in the Second Great War. This large rise of membership would later prove the groups downfall in 1545 when many veteran members of the RDL argued the vision of the group had shifted from it's original trail, being cluttered with separatist focused thought rather then the construction of a socialist Katamur. This disagreement among members would eventually result into the creation of the Army for the North Revival, who have since been in conflict with the RDL at a varying amount of severity. The RDL continue their assault on political members of the Crowned Republic. However these attacks are few and far between with majority of group resources being likely shifted towards defeating the ANR. Since the split in 1545, the RDL have been responsible for around 400 civilian deaths.

Ideology of the Red Day Liberators
The Red Day Liberators initially worked under the ideological thoughts of the founder, Ugowzh Medska, who developed his knowledge of primarily Social Republicanism from Pamphlets brought over from Florencia. He saw the need for the creation of a Katamuran type of socialism, something that was still in it's infancy and would be heavily influenced by the Red Factory Day as well as the actions of the RDL. Ugowzh believed in a collective ownership of the means of production and an elected government headed by a socialist party that would share leadership with an elected party, a major deviation from the Florencian model. These ideas were drafted in the initial manifesto the workers developed during the siege. After the groups movement to Florencia, The ideas of Ugowzh and other major members of the group further developed the ideas each presented with the new developing Florencian Socialist Republic as a proof of concept. The form of the new Katamuran Socialist model would eventually deviate considerably from the original Florencian model on the following matters:

Nationalism
While the florencian model enshrined the necessary importance of fraternity between different racial groups, Katamur was largely homogeneous with differences relating more in a minor cultural format rather then radically different cultures from parts of the world. The Katamuran model instead saw the need to eliminate complications relating to race by releasing non-katamuran cultures into either near or complete autonomous areas acting as separate national entities that would cooperate with each other for the betterment of the working class while retaining separate governments to ensure the culture is protected and functions as it wishes instead of numerous competing cultures fighting in the same government. The goal of the system would later develop into an additional separation of minor cultural groups (such as those of the Katamuran people) which would collectively be under the central government. This was to ensure a further cultural collectivism guaranteeing a unified people.

Individualism
The system devised by the RDL possessed a combination of individualism based systems coupled with collectivist fallback's. This is most true in the ideas of the central government which sees the establishment of a vanguard party that acts as a protective measure to maintain the enshrinement of socialist ideas and a constant stable platform for all other elected parties to work in tandem with. The ideology saw the synthesis of the individual within a collectivist society, where groups would work to maintain the well-being of an individuals life through systems of welfare that would be locally developed rather then established in full by the central government, instead the central government only enforcing a basic framework that could be molded to the satisfaction of the communities in need.

These ideas, especially those concerning a support for the separation of different national identities into their own independent nations obtained massive traction with some rta-Katamur who hoped for complete independence from Katamur. This slowly turned the groups ideal into favoring more elements of deconstructing the government and giving more power to smaller denominations of national power rather then a singular federal entity, this idea has been denied by traditional hardliners who see the need for a strong central government to lead the people.