Vistarian Workingman's Party (Non-Socialist)
The Vistarian Workingman's Party (Non-Socialist) (Vistarian: Vistariaanse Arbeiderspartij (Niet-Socialistisch)) was a satirical political party and working class pressure group in the Ducal Federation of Vistaraland between 1993 and 2020.
Vistarian Workingman's Party (Non-Socialist) Vistariaanse Arbeiderspartij (Niet-Socialistisch) | |
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| Founded | 23 July 1993 |
| Dissolved | 6 December 2020 |
| Merged into | Alliance for Trade Unions and Cooperatives |
| Headquarters | Konisdrup, Koersland |
| Ideology | Labourism Employment rights Political satire |
| Colours | Cyan Teal "Not Red" (official) |
| Slogan | Het schrijven van Marx is hoe dan ook te moeilijk om te lezen! "Marx is too hard to read, anyway!" |
The party was formed in protest to the resurgence in suppression of working-class political organizations across much of the Vistari Keizerrijk under long-standing laws restricting the activities of socialist, syndicalist and Marxist organizations. Its party constitution expressively noted that "Though the party has no official stance on the restrictions towards socialist organizations on the basis that doing so might get itself labelled as part of the restricted groups, it notes that the current offerings for working-class political representation have failed to adequately present themselves in a manner which could not be mistaken for socialism by a government official who has successfully sanitized themself from the ideology."
Policies of the party, such as the programme of "non-revolutionary radical change" and the acknowledgement of "class polite disagreements" attempted both to raise awareness for solutions aimed at tackling economic inequality and disenfranchisement of the working class, as well as poke fun at the lengths to which other movements had to go to not be considered as falling under the widened umbrella for socialist taken by the Vistari legal system during much of the 1990s.