International Communist Party



The International Communist Party is a CN alliance for socialist and communist players, dedicated to the peaceful spread of communist thought.

History
The ICP was founded by Matthijs on the 11th of April, 2006, as one of the political parties of the International Coalition of Socialist Nations. Matthijs and Harry Pollitt were involved in an attempt to split from the ICSN a week later, which failed to gain popular support. Its board was then closed, because the General Assembly of the ICSN voted to close all parties.

On the 27th of April, when the ICSN was at war with the NPO, Matthijs wrote a lengthy history/criticism of the ICSN, announced his leaving of that alliance, and swore an oath of non-aggression to the NPO Emperor Ivan Moldavi. Harry Pollitt soon followed, and a temporary sign-up topic was posted in the Alliances & Wars board of the Cyber Nations forum, for new members who were not at war with the NPO to apply for the founding committee that would be dedicated to laying its groundworks of this new alliance.

Players at war, or those who already had obligations to other alliances, were invited to join the Internationalist Brigade, an organisation within the alliance for non-members to discuss with the ICP membership.



On the 28th of April, the official forum for the ICP was announced, and founding committee members, Internationalist Brigadiers and diplomats from other alliances were invited to register and start posting. Remaining ICSN members have largely reacted negatively to the ICP. They consider the ICP(and all former ICSN members who took the oath) to be cowards and traitors, and find it dangerous to have another communist alliance in the game, which could take members away from them. Because of this, many members of the ICSN are in favour of going to war with the ICP.

Organisation
The members of the ICP will be known as the "Founding Committee" until the 1st of May, when the alliance will officially announce its name, pass its socialist constitution, and open a new sign-up topic.

Apart from the actual alliance, the ICP also runs an Internationalist Brigade. The idea of the I.B. was conceived of because there are many socialists and communists in Cyber Nations who already have obligations with other alliances in the game, but are still interested in discussing real life politics, and communism in CN.

Charter
To be announced.