Election of 2108
On 19 October 2108, Idriss Sankara dissolved the government and opened new elections to give Russia representation in the UNLA. The heady talk of space exploration that characterized the last election has ended, as famine and war have turned human attention inward.
Rationing continues years after it had been expected to end, and much of urban Russia is still in ruins. The previous coalition has broken as the Party for Freedom joined the opposition in protest, and the Peoples' Party itself has started to fracture over the recent peace deal. The five parties again present their platforms and candidates in open election.
Party Leader: Idriss Sankara, the incumbent UNO Secretary-General and a former trade unionist from Dakar, Senegal
Humanity has made huge strides over the past nine years. Under the direction of the Peoples’ Party, the oppressed classes of the world have thrown off their chains and built true democracy and true freedom. More work remains, however. We cannot settle for halfway compromises! There is nothing to lose; we have a world to gain!
Democracy, unrestrained by imperial subterfuge, has been enshrined in the Charter of the UNO. The tyranny of the workplace, however, remains. Now that the capitalist and imperialist powers have been removed from their position of privilege, the doors to true liberation are open wide! Nationalization of businesses must be continued, as must the reorganization of these businesses on principles of worker self-government and democracy. Toss out bourgeois capitalism and state capitalism!
Faced with the most extreme food shortage since 2072, the Peoples’ Party has gathered the resources of Earth together to make sure that not a single child starves. The government-sponsored settlement program in Canada has made food a certainty again, for the first time in decades. The expansion of this program to Siberia promises to end hunger, the scourge of humanity, for all eternity.
Reactionary forces challenge the gains of the Peoples’ Party. The rights to full employment and social welfare, only recently gained, are threatened by those who seek to return humanity to the capitalist yoke. The only way to secure our freedom is to topple the entire capitalist system! Onward, the Peoples’ Party marches towards a future of true freedom, true equality, and true democracy!
Party Leader: Tony Asquith, a member of the UNLA from Auckland, New Zealand
Nine years ago, the people of Earth conferred onto Idriss Sankara the highest honor possible, in a moment supposed to represent the triumph of democracy. Sankara has betrayed that trust and disgraced the office of Secretary-General through rank perfidy and disregard for democratic principles. The UNO is the symbol of democracy and freedom on Earth and its leader must be fully dedicated to those ideals. Democracy cannot be compromised! Freedom must march on!
Democracy must spread to every corner of the planet! The fact that the odious dictator Anton Ilyasov continues to govern Russia makes a mockery of UNO ideals. He must be immediately removed from power and tried for his crimes against peace and humanity. Only then can democracy truly come to Russia. Let his fate serve as a warning to the tinpot junta in Khartoum, the madman in Ashgabat, the despotic Gandhi clan in Delhi, and the totalitarian thugs in Jerusalem. Let the tide of democracy wash them all away!
Emergency measures have had to be taken to prevent widespread starvation – the famine, however, is at an end, and the emergency measures must end as well. Rationing must be ended as soon as possible, and that process should be expedited by a return to more efficient private farming. Siberia should be opened to New Homesteaders as private smallholdings. Divided into private farms, Siberia will produce enough so humanity can not only survive, but thrive. Nationalized factories should be sold back to private owners. Private enterprise is critical to economic development and the preservation of freedom, and these rights should be protected in all future cases.
As the Party for Freedom, we stand for one thing only: the liberty of mankind. The time for dictatorships is over, and the natural liberties of man will be reasserted. Let the last despots tumble! Let freedom ring across the globe!
Party Leader: Deborah Wang, a member of the UNLA and a former Methodist minister from Fresno, California
Humanity has again inaugurated the beginning of a new century will the shedding of innocent blood. Given the chance for peace, humanity has again rejected it and indulged in the carnage of brother murdering brother, sister murdering sister. We must look at this violence and firmly reject it. The Conservative Party stands for peace and humanity; firmly against bloodshed.
Over a million souls were lost in the destruction of Russia, and tens of millions more have been forced out of their homes. To speak nothing of those blinded, crippled, and disfigured by the terrible weapons of modern war. We call on all of Earth to think of the mothers grieving for lost sons and daughters, children crying out for their lost parents. This tragedy cannot be repeated.
Humanity must turn the fruits of our labor inwards to alleviate the suffering of mankind. First, Russia must be rebuilt, as its buildings and streets still bear the scars of that terrible war. The cost to improve the lives of men and women everywhere is nothing to that lavished on the military. That institution of death and human suffering must be defunded. Let us instead build our own society into a city on a hill, one that welcomes the wayward nations of the world should they seek to join us. We shall beat our swords into ploughshares!
Further conflict invites only disaster. The bloodbath in Russia was a restrained conflict; a war with Israel will unleash the full destructive force of humanity upon the world. For decades, the Israeli government has made it very clear that invasion will trigger nuclear war. This will kill us, down to the last man, woman, and child. We must pull back from the brink! If peace and brotherhood do not prevail, humanity will die at its own hands!
Party Leader: Polina Podolski, a member of the UNLA and a retired army general from Kielce, Poland
The first difficult steps have been taken on the path to human unity. Sacrifices have had to be made, but we must shoulder these hardships for the sake of future generations. This is a conflict to end war, to end hunger, and to end strife! If these battles are won, humanity will enter into an age of boundless possibilities; if it is lost, then we perish at own hands. We must push on to victory!
Russia, the most formidable of the rogue states that oppose the UNO, has fallen and submitted to our forces. Three cheers for the UNO! Three cheers for General Ishii! Three cheers for unity! The way is now cleared to peace and unity. War against Sudan, Turkmenistan, Israel, and India must be pursued at the earliest opportunity. This is the top priority of any government.
The fate of the human race, its very survival, depends on our actions at this moment. We call on the people of Earth to bear the burdens of war, of rationing, of all hardship, to secure the life and freedom of future generations. The choice we face is unity or death. Fight for unity!
Party Leader: Park Soo-jun, a member of the UNLA and a factory-owner from Kaesong, Korea
Human freedom is imperiled today more at any previous point in human history. Our basic and fundamental rights are under constant attack from a despotic and tyrannical government that seeks to enslave the Earth. Communist rule has brought only hunger and fear. If the Peoples’ Party is allowed to continue, liberty will surely perish! Only the Liberal Party has consistently stood up to UNO overreach and tyranny, only the Liberal Party defends the cause of human freedom!
Since his election, Sankara and his cronies have concentrated all power in their own hands and sought to undermine democracy by attacking its most fundamental guardian: private property. Private property has always secured liberty by giving free citizens the means to resist tyranny. The seizure of property – as has been going on for the past nine years – is the first step to reducing mankind to a state of slavery and total dependence on the government. The illegal nationalizations of the previous government must be reversed and private property must be protected at all costs in the future.
The Peoples’ Party is trying to spread its tyranny and attack the last free nations of Earth. Nations have a right to self-government, but the Peoples’ Party seems intend to crush that right under the socialist jackboot. The first blood of the 22nd Century has come from the unprovoked and unjustified invasion of a peaceful country, a testament to the criminal character of the present government. Now they plan to celebrate this bloody conquest by stealing Russian land; the Liberal Party firmly opposes this kind of blatant colonialism.
The government policies of rationing and farm collectivization have turned a temporary crisis into a permanent food shortage. The drought is over! Yet despite years of good weather, there is still rationing! The rationing program interferes with the free market in grain and results in these shortages. The government has kept rationing in place not because it is necessary, but as a cynical tool to control the masses and make us dependent on them for food. Let us not give away our freedom in exchange for bread!
The Peoples’ Party has already started along the path of stripping away our natural rights as free men and women. The Liberal Party has opposed them alone, for alone the Liberal Party stands for the time-tested values of democracy, free enterprise, and a free society. Vote Liberal Party to defend our rights from tyranny!