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The origins of the Labour Front of Kirav begin with the Aspen Party, one of many small parties to spring up in the immediate wake of [[Kiravian reunification]]. The party was founded in [[Elegia]] by  Lawn Guyland, a leader of the formerly [[Pan-Kiravian Congress of Trade Unions|state-sanctioned union]] local of forestry workers. The party positioned itself as opposed to Kirosocialism, not only for its policy failures but also for its efforts to engineer away traditional Coscvian culture and its often exploitative treatment of rural people. Importantly, however, it also positioned itself against economic, political, and cultural {{wp|liberalism}}, which Guyland viewed as yet another dead-end Occidental ideology to be imposed on Kiravia by elites, this time the [[National Reunification Front]]. The party won seats in the first post-reunification election, but its growth was stunted by lack of financial backing and consequent lack of media exposure. Its electoral base was confined largely to Elegia and the surrounding states and provinces. Scholarly analyses suggest that these initial limitations likely impeded the Aspen Party from reaching the rather large share of the Kiravian electorate who, in the words of one author, "had grown up in the Kiravian Union and fully internalised state propaganda about the brutality and banality of {{wp|capitalism}}, but were equally aware of the brutality and venality of the socialist system as practised by [[Kirosocialist Party|Kirsok]]."