Revolution Rises in the East
Chapter 6
Bureau of the Fourth Communist International
List of Members (1937)
Nosaka Sanzo (Japanese People's Republic)
Miyamoto Kenji (Japanese People's Republic)
Li Dazhao (People's Republic of China)
Pak Hon-yong (People's Republic of Korea)
Zletav Baransky (People's Republic of Siberia)
The following is a short clip from a newsreel appearing in Japanese theaters in June 1937:
Arise, Workers of Japan! We bring you word of the International Proletarian Revolution!
Progressive forces in China are showing the superiority of Marxist-Trotskyist ideals. The Imperialists flee our forces, and the combined might of the Communist International is crushing all the Reactionaries that dare oppose us. Nanjing will soon fall, and with it we will show the world the inevitability of the International Revolution!
In North America, the states of the oppressors continue their fruitless war. The United States have been annexed by the Combined Syndicates; however, they continue their war against the American Union State. The Monarchists in Canada officially annexed New England and Canada, which has strained relations between them and the CSA. And the Pacific States of America are collapsing against the supposedly 'progressive' Mexico.
The Workers and Peasants of Asia are victorious with the final defeat of Imperial China! The
emperor Pu-yi escaped his fate only by fleeing to Germany. But this matters little in the grand scheme of things: for the first time ever, the International Revolution has changed the borders of the map!
The issue of Formosa arose at the Second Congress of the Communist International. The island was taken from Imperial China by Imperial Japan, and hosts many military bases important for furthering the Revolution. The Japanese People's Republic recognized that the island was rightfully Chinese territory, and seized unlawfully by Imperialists in Japan. In return, the People's Republic of China has granted Japan a lease over the island for the time being.
In Spain, there is revolution, but not of the Marxist-Trotskyist variety. Reactionaries there have decided that the
Kingdom of Spain is still too Progressive for them! The novelty of this situation distracts from how sad it is, but we are sure that all Japanese will join in hoping for confusion to the Imperialists.
Elsewhere in Europe, the Empire of Russia is flexing its military might with its recent nationalistic annexation of the Don-Kubans. This is the latest in a recent trend of larger nations in Europe absorbing smaller ones--the Austrians annexing Bohemia and the Poles annexing the nation to their south are other recent examples.
Look at this map. Only a year ago, only Japan was red. Now, it has multiplied and spread. One day, the International Revolution will spread red all across the map of the world!