Camchéachta

Camchéachta (English: "Starry Plough") is a and  political party active in several federal subjects of the Kiravian Federacy. It is notable for its combination of a socialist economic platform with Gaelic identity politics, and for its strong showings in state and local elections, which have made it the most successful new left-wing party to emerge in the post-Kirosocialist period.

Ideology and Platform
The ideological foundations of Camchéachta are a synthesis of socialism with Gaelic identity politics. While a great many state-level political parties in Kiravia appeal to the identity and interests of particular ethnosocial, sectarian, or other such communities, and it is especially common for state-level socialist parties that have remained represented in the post-Kirosocialist era to owe their political survival to one or more ethnosocial voter blocs, Camchéachta differs from this norm in that it is not merely a socialist party that appeals mainly to Gaelic voters. Rather, it presents the interests of the Gaelic people as naturally lending themselves to socialist political solutions and justifies its economic and geopolitical stances in terms of the Gaelic historical experience. In the words of party chair Séan Féin: "The struggle of the Celtic peoples for our cultural survival is inseparable from the struggle against capitalist and imperialist domination. In fighting capitalism, we fight the Anglo, and in fighting the Anglo, we fight capitalism. They are the same side of the same coin."

This combination is unprecedented in Kiravian political culture, and was unexpected at the time of the party's founding. As a class, Kiravian Gaels - especially Gaelic-speakers and Gaelic Highlanders - have demonstrated pronounced libertarian leanings, influenced by a very limited indigenous experience of true statehood, the state-repelling environment of the Eastern Highlands, and the anti-authoritarian themes of Celtic Romanticism. Gaels were strongly opposed to Kirosocialism, and the majority continue to report more individualist and libertarian attitudes than the Kiravian average. This contrasts with Kiravian Prythonic Celts, who have a long history of involvement with trade unionism and have been a reliable bastion of support for left-wing economic policies.

Camchéachta's economic policies are best described as a populist, non-sectarian brand of socialism. The party has run on promises to establish public single-payer healthcare systems at the state level and has supported incremental reforms to widen access to health services. It advocates for greater investment in public housing, public education, public transport, and other social services, as well as legislation to strengthen labour unions and increase job security. Cahmchéachta advocates state ownership (at either the federal or federal-subject level) of mineral resources, public utilities, railways and other large transport infrastructure, and certain heavy industries. According to its party manifesto, Camchéachta views halting and reversing privatisation, the development of a welfare state, and increasing unionisation and worker input into enterprise management as critical first steps towards establishing comprehensive social control over the means of production.

The movement behind Camchéachta has been described as "more Beer O'Socialism than Kirosocialism", in that it shares many traditional Kirosocialist goals and participates in Kirosocialist institutions such as the New Deal Alliance caucus, yet (unlike most of its sister parties) it makes little reference to the Kirosocialist canon and does not campaign on nostalgia for the Kirosocialist era.

Voter Base
Camchéachta's main base of support are urban working-class Gaels, Féinem, and some Heldican Coscivians in Northeastern Kirav.