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The '''Popular Democratic Front''' is a [[Caucus (Kiravian politics)|caucus]] in the Kiravian [[Federal Stanora]] made up of political parties and independents promoting a common platform of {{wp|socialism|socialist}} policies drawn mostly from the [[Kirosocialism|Kirosocialist]] tradition. The PDF was organised after passage of the [[Antipartisan law in Kiravia|Anti-Party Law]] as the successor to the People's Alliance, which had previously formed to take up the mantle of the [[Kirosocialist Party]] after its dissolution. Despite some electoral support in areas where Kirosocialist policies had been popular and where economic liberalisation had not been kind to local industries, the PDF failed to mount an effective opposition to liberalisation, and was gradually edged out from most of its support base by the [[Caritist Social Union]] and [[Coscivian National Congress]]. From 21189 until 21203, the PDF was a rather minor presence in federal politics, with its share of seats in the Stanora decreasing in each election, but some of its member parties retained varying degrees of power and influence in the politics of certain states. Since 21203, PDF affiliates have launched an electoral resurgence at the state level and begun increasing their federal representation.
The '''Popular Democratic Front''' is a [[Caucus (Kiravian politics)|caucus]] in the Kiravian [[Federal Stanora]] made up of political parties and independents promoting a common platform of {{wp|socialism|socialist}} policies drawn mostly from the [[Kirosocialism|Kirosocialist]] tradition. The PDF was organised after passage of the [[Antipartisan law in Kiravia|Anti-Party Law]] as the successor to the People's Alliance, which had previously formed to take up the mantle of the [[Kirosocialist Party]] after its dissolution.  


The Communist Party of the Kiravian Federacy and the Existential Humanist Party (Marxist), while not members of the PDF caucus, do have formal relations with it and coöperate with it on many initiatives. The Communist Party of Great Kirav rejects coöperation with the PDF and CPKF, which it has denounced as reformist and revisionist.
<!-- Despite some electoral support in areas where Kirosocialist policies had been popular and where economic liberalisation had not been kind to local industries, the PDF failed to mount an effective opposition to liberalisation, and was gradually edged out from most of its support base by the [[Caritist Social Union]] and [[Coscivian National Congress]]. From 21189 until 21203, the PDF was a rather minor presence in federal politics, with its share of seats in the Stanora decreasing in each election, but some of its member parties retained varying degrees of power and influence in the politics of certain states. Since 21203, PDF affiliates have launched an electoral resurgence at the state level and begun increasing their federal representation. -->


==Platform==
==Platform==
Provided below is the official common platform of the PDF for the 21206 federal election:
{{Cquote|We, the Popular Democratic Front, are united in our mission to liberate the Kiravian People from exploitation and domination by élite interests, establish social control of the means of production from above - through the political process - and from below - through labour organisation and workers’ self-management, democratise and equalise the enjoyment of social goods; and protect the productive classes, commons, and natural environment through a robust, capable, and transparent public sector.
|author=
*Establishment of a {{wp|socialist market economy}}
|source=Mission Statement of the Popular Democratic Front
*Nationalisation of the Kiravian energy sector, mineral resources, railways, airlines, telecommunications infrastructure, and flannel cloth industry
}}
*A federally-financed, provincially-administered single-payer public healthcare system
===Near-Term Objectives===
*Eradication of urban homelessness, slums, rural vagrancy, and substandard rural housing through an aggressive ten-year project of federally-financed social housing expansion  
Provided below is the official common platform of the PDF for upcoming electricians and legislative cycles:
*Aggressive development of rural broadband guaranteed internet access for all Kiravians
 
*Restructuring labour negotiations nationwide to a tripartite model mediated by the government, as already exists in [[Devahoma]], [[Vôtaska]], and [[Intravia]]
*Nationalise the Kiravian energy sector, mineral and forest resources, railways, airlines, telecommunications infrastructure, and flannel cloth industry
*Inclusion of the right to strike and the right to unionise in the [[Statute of Liberties]]
*Restore public responsibility for housing and utilities, expand public housing, and scale user fees for municipal services according to household income.
*A policy of gradual {{wp|import substitution}} for steel, automobiles, heavy machinery, furniture, plastics, and other select goods, achieved through subsidies and protective tariffs/quotas
*Equalise health outcomes through a federally-financed, provincially-administered single-payer public healthcare system
*No economic integration or enhanced migration régime with [[Mid-Atrassic Crona]]
*Eradicate urban homelessness, slums, rural vagrancy, and substandard rural housing through a ten-year project of federally-financed social housing expansion
*Increased investment in nuclear energy, scientific research, and space exploration
*Reïntroduce price controls for essential goods
*A government-mandated inflation target for the [[Reserve Bank of Kirav|RBK]]
*Establish a more robust and redistributive tax regime over financial transactions to curb speculation and manage negative externalities.
*A return to {{wp|armed neutrality}} with a moratorium on overseas military deployments; withdrawal from the [[League of Nations]] and independence for Kiravian League mandates.
*Aggressively develop rural broadband to guarantee internet access for all Kiravians
*Restructure labour negotiations nationwide to a government-mediated tripartite model
*Adden of the right to strike and the right to unionise in the [[Statute of Liberties]]
*Center employment and domestic productivity in trade policy
*Stop economic integration and travel liberalisation with [[Mid-Atrassic Crona]]
*Increase investment in nuclear energy, scientific research, and space exploration
*Set a government-mandated inflation target for the [[Reserve Bank of Kirav|RBK]]
*Return to {{wp|armed neutrality}} with a moratorium on overseas military deployments; withdrawal from the [[League of Nations]] and independence for Kiravian League mandates.
 
===Ideology===
The party identifies [[Kiravian Marxist philosophy]], {{wp|Arab socialism|Coscivian social-nationalism}}, and {{wp|Breakfast burrito|rGyanarajsism}} as the theoretical foundations of its ideological system. Although it adopts an explicit statement of ideological principles and its institutions are governed by and involved in continuing ideological studies, the PDF explicitly follows a "close {{wp|popular front}}" strategy, aiming to unite the Kiravian Left and counteract the "fissile tendency of proletarian and people's parties to sunder over secondary and tertiary disagreements", deferring application of the finer points of its particular broad-church Kirosocialist manifesto until after the "restoration of bourgeois domination of Kiravia has been countered effectively by the collective action of the working class."
 
==Currants==
[[File:Ribes rubrum a1.jpg|thumb|''Ribes rubrum'', long used as a symbol of the Kiravian Left]]
 
Political analysts often speak of four coëxisting ‘currents’ in the PDF that are identifiable with its different internal factions, voter blocs, and rhetorical approaches.
 
*A '''dark red current''' ( ''ulsihūriruor'' ) deeply committed to the legacy of the old Kirosocialist Party and the Kiravian Union, critical of the present constitutional order, and appealing to Kirosocialist nostalgia and hard {{wp|Anticapitalism|anti-capitalist sentiment}}. The dark-red current draws support from aging loyalists of the old regime, residents of [[Three Kiravs Model|Second Kirav]] industrial towns ill-served by market reforms, and certain ethnic communities.  This current's political "brand", so to speak, is often referred to pejoratively as “burnt-brick socialism”, alluding to its adherents’ ideological inflexibility, the {{wp|urban decay}} characteristic of its electoral strongholds, and the social background of many of its supporters (brickburning was traditionally a craft reserved to marginalised castes). Party cadre belonging to the deep-red current believe that theoretical rigour and conserving Marxist roots and Devinist methods of Kirosocialism are important, even if the salience of such questions has become obscure in today's Kiravia; the attitudes of its voter base are characterised by {{wp|left-wing populism}} and nostalgia for the Kiravian Union.
 
*A '''bright red current''' ( ''rensihūriruor'' ) locating itself the Kirosocialist tradition and adhering to Kirosocialist (rather than {{wp|Liberal socialism|liberal-socialist}}) ideology, but adapting to post-reunification developments with a focus on near-term objectives and mainstream electability. The bright-red current appeals more to the metropolitan working class of First Kirav, and tends to emphasise humanitarian concerns (such as housing, public safety, healthcare), public services, and good governance in the face of corporate corruption. Bright-red sections of the PDF may take inspiration from [[Kirosocialism#212th century|Kirosocialism of the 212th century]], Kirosocial democracy, {{wp|Arab socialism|Coscivian social-nationalism}}, or other theoretical schools. Some provincial and municipal parties taking a bright-red approach have sought to portray themselves as "socialists for growth" and associate themselves with the image of socialist mayors like [[Cities of Kiravia#Denisar|Denisar]]'s M.K. Stornoğuvin who are perfectly comfortable courting foreign investors to create local jobs and grow the tax base.
 
*A '''light red''' or '''pink current''' ( ''adèktivihūriruor'' ) favourable to {{wp|liberal socialist}} and {{wp|social-democratic}} policy approaches and not indebted to Kirosocialist ideology or the Kiravian Union. The light-red current is more liberal than the bright-red current on political matters, but somewhat more statist on economic matters and much more hostile towards business interests. The light-red current is a marginal but growing force in coastal state parties.
 
*A '''magenta current''' representing a revival of certain early 20th-century Kiravian progressive movements, such as [[Instructivism]], that helped to influence the development of Kirosocialism but were ultimately displaced by it. The magenta current presents itself as pragmatic, forward-looking, and attentive to contemporary social problems, to which it offers technocratic solutions inspired by modern science and {{wp|mainstream economics|mainstream economic}} studies. The magenta current is deeply suspicious of the financial sector and capital markets, but being outside of the socialist camp proper it takes no issue with the market economy itself, preferring directive and regulatory application of state power than in public ownership. It has been labelled by its detractors to the left as "naked dictatorship of the {{wp|intelligentsia}}" and by its detractors on the right as "{{wp|dirigism}} with a human face".
 
*A '''religious socialist current''' driven by {{wp|Christian socialism|Christian socialist}} and {{wp|Islamic socialism|Islamic socialist}} elements excluded from the [[Caritist Social Union]]. Inspired by {{wp|liberation theology}} rather than Kirosocialism, this current has a different image and voter base from the dark/bright and light red currents. Much of its support comes from Third Kirav and from agricultural workers, and unlike the other currents, it has a significant following outside Great Kirav, particularly in [[Sarolasta]] and [[Tiorentia]]. This current is especially prominent in the Farravonian states, and in [[Verakośa]], where Christian-left parties are the senior state-level PDF affiliates. Numerous Catholic university towns in Farravonia have had mayors in this vein.
 


==Factions==
<!--Most tendency groups are organised as a interstate conferences of state-level parties. However, the SPKF, SPKU, and RCKK are federated parties with nationwide Central Committees and operate as multi-state political parties under [[Antipartisan law in Kiravia|political party control laws]].
Envisioned as a broad front of socialist parties with a significant degree of ideological diversity among them, the PDF can be subdivided into a number of factions, officially termed "tendency groups"). <!--Most tendency groups are organised as a interstate conferences of state-level parties. However, the SPKF, SPKU, and RCKK are federated parties with nationwide Central Committees and operate as multi-state political parties under [[Antipartisan law in Kiravia|political party control laws]].


The tendency groups currently operating within the PDF are:
The tendency groups currently operating within the PDF are:
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*'''Union of Religious Socialists''' - Grouping of religious (mostly {{wp|Christian socialist}} and {{wp|Islamic socialist}}) parties, most of which joined the PDF after expulsion from the [[Caritist Social Union|CSU]] for their anti-capitalism and radicalism.
*'''Union of Religious Socialists''' - Grouping of religious (mostly {{wp|Christian socialist}} and {{wp|Islamic socialist}}) parties, most of which joined the PDF after expulsion from the [[Caritist Social Union|CSU]] for their anti-capitalism and radicalism.
-->
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==Organisational Relations==
The [[Minor_Kiravian_Political_Parties#CPKF|Communist Party of the Kiravian Federacy]] and the Existential Humanist Party (Marxist), while not members of the PDF caucus, do have formal relations with it and coöperate with it on many initiatives. The [[Minor_Kiravian_Political_Parties#CPGK|Communist Party of Great Kirav]] rejects coöperation with the PDF and CPKF, which it has denounced as reformist and revisionist. The PDF has a tense relationship with the [[Social Democrats KF]].
The PDF and its members retain strong ties to {{wp|organised labour}}, particularly the [[Pan-Kiravian Congress of Trade Unions]], which is considered its ''de facto'' labour wing.
The [[National Union of Working Families]] is a Kirosocialist and social-nationalist interest group advocating for the rights an advancement of the ''[[yakav]]em'' or "village menial" castes, a historically disadvantaged stratum of Coscivian-Kiravian society. Similarly, the [[Revolutionary Vanguard of Depressed Castes]] is a left-wing Kirosocialist and Convist organisation that militates on behalf of the heavily discriminated ''[[harsitem]]'' castes, who were (and still often are) subject to strict social segregation and {{wp|untouchability}}. Both organisations predate the Kiravian Union and have always been closely tied to the PDF and its predecessors, retaining strong influence within PDF party structures even as the ''yakav'' and ''harsit'' electorate have diversified their political preferences and are no longer as reliable a {{wp|vote bank}} for the PDF as they once were.


==Voter Base==
==Voter Base==
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Although numerically insignificant in federal elections, various small and marginal ethnic groups that benefitted from government development projects under Kirosocialism, such as the [[Kiʞik language|Kiʞik Coscivians]] and the [[Ethnic Groups in Kiravia#Salyar|Salyar]], continue to support socialism and provide an important source of votes for PDF affiliates in state and local elections.
Although numerically insignificant in federal elections, various small and marginal ethnic groups that benefitted from government development projects under Kirosocialism, such as the [[Kiʞik language|Kiʞik Coscivians]] and the [[Ethnic Groups in Kiravia#Salyar|Salyar]], continue to support socialism and provide an important source of votes for PDF affiliates in state and local elections.


==Membership==
==Provincial Affiliates==
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!State
!Party
!Delegates
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||[[File:Teal_Ensign.png|25px]] Alavora
||Socialist People's Party
||{{Infobox political party/seats|1|3|hex=#b40404}}
|-
||[[File:CascadaFlag.png|25px]] [[Cascada]]
||''Socialist Freedom Party''
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|5|hex=#b40404}}
|-
||[[File:DevahomaFlag.png|25px]] [[Devahoma]]
||''Devahoman Socialist Party''
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|5|hex=#b40404}}
|-
|rowspan=3|[[File:KasteraFlag.png|25px]] [[Kastera]]
||''Kasteran Constructive Party''
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|5|hex=#b40404}}
|-
||''Socialist Party of Kastera''
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|5|hex=#b40404}}
|-
||''Convist Party of Kastera''
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|5|hex=#b40404}}
|-
|rowspan=2|[[File:KaviskaFlag.png|25px]] [[Kaviska]]
||''Socialist Party of Kaviska''<br>Christian Liberation Party
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|7|hex=#b40404}}
|-
||''Convist Party of Kaviska''
||{{Infobox political party/seats|0|7|hex=#b40404}}
|-
|}
 
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[[File:TealEnsign-Light.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Aventurine Bay'''
[[File:TealEnsign-Light.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Aventurine Bay'''
*Workers' Party
*Workers' Party
<br>
[[File:CascadaFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Cascada'''
*Socialist Freedom Party
<br>
<br>
[[File:TealEnsign-Light.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Daridia'''
[[File:TealEnsign-Light.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Daridia'''
*Party for Bread & Roses
*Party for Bread & Roses
<br>
<br>
[[File:EtivéraFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Etivéra'''
[[File:EtivéraFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Etivéra'''<br>{{Infobox political party/seats|1|5|hex=#b40404}}
'''Change To Win Coalition'''
'''Change To Win Coalition'''
*United Socialist Party
*United Socialist Party
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*Socialist Party
*Socialist Party
*Christian Social-Ecologist Movement
*Christian Social-Ecologist Movement
<br>
[[File:IntraviaFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Intravia'''
*Democratic Worker-Farmer-Miner Party
*Socialist Labour Party
<br>
<br>
[[File:IrovasdraFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Irovasdra'''
[[File:IrovasdraFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Irovasdra'''
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<br>
<br>
[[File:KaviskaFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Kaviska'''
[[File:KaviskaFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''Kaviska'''
*Justice & Development Party (SRI)
*New Union Party
*Renewal Party (RFC)
*Socialist Alternative Party
*Excelsior Party
*Democratic Labour Party
*Endeavour Party
*Revolutionary Committee of the Renaissance Party
*Enterprise Party (NCC)
*Moderate Civic Party for Evira (MIC)
<br>
<br>
[[File:KannurFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''[[Kannur]]'''
[[File:KannurFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''[[Kannur]]'''
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[[File:SerikordaFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''[[Serikorda]]'''
[[File:SerikordaFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''[[Serikorda]]'''
*''numerous''
*''numerous''
<br>
[[File:SuderaviaFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''[[Suderavia]]'''
*Convist Party
<br>
<br>
[[File:SydonaFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''[[Sydona]]''' {{Infobox political party/seats|2|4|hex=#b40404}}
[[File:SydonaFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''[[Sydona]]''' {{Infobox political party/seats|2|4|hex=#b40404}}
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[[File:UmcaraStateFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''[[Umcara]]'''
[[File:UmcaraStateFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''[[Umcara]]'''
*Umcaran Renaissance Party (RFC)
*Revolutionary Committee of the Umcaran Renaissance Party
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[[File:Flag of Ontario (Green Ensign).svg|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''[[Verakośa]]'''
[[File:Flag of Ontario (Green Ensign).svg|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''[[Verakośa]]'''
*I'm tired.
*Working Families Party «I'm Tired!»
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[[File:VôtaskaFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''[[Vôtaska]]'''
[[File:VôtaskaFlag.png|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] '''[[Vôtaska]]'''
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===Other Conference Members===
===Other Affiliates and Observers===
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*Coscivian-Cetacean Communist Party (''observer'')
!Subject
[[File:Flag of the Republic of Sonora.svg|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] [[Ethnic groups in Kiravia#Qódava|Qódava Nation]]
!Party
*Great Socialist Party of Qódava
!Local Seats
[[File:Bandera Partido Renovemos Alajuela Costa Rica.svg|text-bottom|frameless|upright=0.1]] [[Tryhstian Littoral]]
|-
*Partido do Trabalho
||[[File:Flag of the Republic of Sonora.svg|25px]] [[Ethnic groups in Kiravia#Qódava|Qódava Nation]]
 
||Great Socialist Party of Qódava
||{{Infobox political party/seats|63|63|hex=#b40404}}
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||[[File:Bandeiramucuri.jpg|25px]] [[Tryhstian Littoral]]
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Latest revision as of 17:23, 2 April 2024

Popular Democratic Front
Plānothāruaritaver

Symbol
Headquarters Viskonsin Hall
Kartika, District of Coīnvra
Secretary-General Alun Saxarnon
Chairman Féraluir Sekerin
Whip Matéus Salomon
Platform Kirosocialism
Left-wing nationalism

Factions:
Liberal socialism
Communism · Convism
Religious socialism

Newspaper Guardian of Truth
Electoral Symbol
Herring Sea Islands
24 / 40
Federal Stanora
100 / 545

The Popular Democratic Front is a caucus in the Kiravian Federal Stanora made up of political parties and independents promoting a common platform of socialist policies drawn mostly from the Kirosocialist tradition. The PDF was organised after passage of the Anti-Party Law as the successor to the People's Alliance, which had previously formed to take up the mantle of the Kirosocialist Party after its dissolution.


Platform

We, the Popular Democratic Front, are united in our mission to liberate the Kiravian People from exploitation and domination by élite interests, establish social control of the means of production from above - through the political process - and from below - through labour organisation and workers’ self-management, democratise and equalise the enjoyment of social goods; and protect the productive classes, commons, and natural environment through a robust, capable, and transparent public sector.

— Mission Statement of the Popular Democratic Front

Near-Term Objectives

Provided below is the official common platform of the PDF for upcoming electricians and legislative cycles:

  • Nationalise the Kiravian energy sector, mineral and forest resources, railways, airlines, telecommunications infrastructure, and flannel cloth industry
  • Restore public responsibility for housing and utilities, expand public housing, and scale user fees for municipal services according to household income.
  • Equalise health outcomes through a federally-financed, provincially-administered single-payer public healthcare system
  • Eradicate urban homelessness, slums, rural vagrancy, and substandard rural housing through a ten-year project of federally-financed social housing expansion
  • Reïntroduce price controls for essential goods
  • Establish a more robust and redistributive tax regime over financial transactions to curb speculation and manage negative externalities.
  • Aggressively develop rural broadband to guarantee internet access for all Kiravians
  • Restructure labour negotiations nationwide to a government-mediated tripartite model
  • Adden of the right to strike and the right to unionise in the Statute of Liberties
  • Center employment and domestic productivity in trade policy
  • Stop economic integration and travel liberalisation with Mid-Atrassic Crona
  • Increase investment in nuclear energy, scientific research, and space exploration
  • Set a government-mandated inflation target for the RBK
  • Return to armed neutrality with a moratorium on overseas military deployments; withdrawal from the League of Nations and independence for Kiravian League mandates.

Ideology

The party identifies Kiravian Marxist philosophy, Coscivian social-nationalism, and rGyanarajsism as the theoretical foundations of its ideological system. Although it adopts an explicit statement of ideological principles and its institutions are governed by and involved in continuing ideological studies, the PDF explicitly follows a "close popular front" strategy, aiming to unite the Kiravian Left and counteract the "fissile tendency of proletarian and people's parties to sunder over secondary and tertiary disagreements", deferring application of the finer points of its particular broad-church Kirosocialist manifesto until after the "restoration of bourgeois domination of Kiravia has been countered effectively by the collective action of the working class."

Currants

Ribes rubrum, long used as a symbol of the Kiravian Left

Political analysts often speak of four coëxisting ‘currents’ in the PDF that are identifiable with its different internal factions, voter blocs, and rhetorical approaches.

  • A dark red current ( ulsihūriruor ) deeply committed to the legacy of the old Kirosocialist Party and the Kiravian Union, critical of the present constitutional order, and appealing to Kirosocialist nostalgia and hard anti-capitalist sentiment. The dark-red current draws support from aging loyalists of the old regime, residents of Second Kirav industrial towns ill-served by market reforms, and certain ethnic communities. This current's political "brand", so to speak, is often referred to pejoratively as “burnt-brick socialism”, alluding to its adherents’ ideological inflexibility, the urban decay characteristic of its electoral strongholds, and the social background of many of its supporters (brickburning was traditionally a craft reserved to marginalised castes). Party cadre belonging to the deep-red current believe that theoretical rigour and conserving Marxist roots and Devinist methods of Kirosocialism are important, even if the salience of such questions has become obscure in today's Kiravia; the attitudes of its voter base are characterised by left-wing populism and nostalgia for the Kiravian Union.
  • A bright red current ( rensihūriruor ) locating itself the Kirosocialist tradition and adhering to Kirosocialist (rather than liberal-socialist) ideology, but adapting to post-reunification developments with a focus on near-term objectives and mainstream electability. The bright-red current appeals more to the metropolitan working class of First Kirav, and tends to emphasise humanitarian concerns (such as housing, public safety, healthcare), public services, and good governance in the face of corporate corruption. Bright-red sections of the PDF may take inspiration from Kirosocialism of the 212th century, Kirosocial democracy, Coscivian social-nationalism, or other theoretical schools. Some provincial and municipal parties taking a bright-red approach have sought to portray themselves as "socialists for growth" and associate themselves with the image of socialist mayors like Denisar's M.K. Stornoğuvin who are perfectly comfortable courting foreign investors to create local jobs and grow the tax base.
  • A light red or pink current ( adèktivihūriruor ) favourable to liberal socialist and social-democratic policy approaches and not indebted to Kirosocialist ideology or the Kiravian Union. The light-red current is more liberal than the bright-red current on political matters, but somewhat more statist on economic matters and much more hostile towards business interests. The light-red current is a marginal but growing force in coastal state parties.
  • A magenta current representing a revival of certain early 20th-century Kiravian progressive movements, such as Instructivism, that helped to influence the development of Kirosocialism but were ultimately displaced by it. The magenta current presents itself as pragmatic, forward-looking, and attentive to contemporary social problems, to which it offers technocratic solutions inspired by modern science and mainstream economic studies. The magenta current is deeply suspicious of the financial sector and capital markets, but being outside of the socialist camp proper it takes no issue with the market economy itself, preferring directive and regulatory application of state power than in public ownership. It has been labelled by its detractors to the left as "naked dictatorship of the intelligentsia" and by its detractors on the right as "dirigism with a human face".
  • A religious socialist current driven by Christian socialist and Islamic socialist elements excluded from the Caritist Social Union. Inspired by liberation theology rather than Kirosocialism, this current has a different image and voter base from the dark/bright and light red currents. Much of its support comes from Third Kirav and from agricultural workers, and unlike the other currents, it has a significant following outside Great Kirav, particularly in Sarolasta and Tiorentia. This current is especially prominent in the Farravonian states, and in Verakośa, where Christian-left parties are the senior state-level PDF affiliates. Numerous Catholic university towns in Farravonia have had mayors in this vein.


Organisational Relations

The Communist Party of the Kiravian Federacy and the Existential Humanist Party (Marxist), while not members of the PDF caucus, do have formal relations with it and coöperate with it on many initiatives. The Communist Party of Great Kirav rejects coöperation with the PDF and CPKF, which it has denounced as reformist and revisionist. The PDF has a tense relationship with the Social Democrats KF.

The PDF and its members retain strong ties to organised labour, particularly the Pan-Kiravian Congress of Trade Unions, which is considered its de facto labour wing.

The National Union of Working Families is a Kirosocialist and social-nationalist interest group advocating for the rights an advancement of the yakavem or "village menial" castes, a historically disadvantaged stratum of Coscivian-Kiravian society. Similarly, the Revolutionary Vanguard of Depressed Castes is a left-wing Kirosocialist and Convist organisation that militates on behalf of the heavily discriminated harsitem castes, who were (and still often are) subject to strict social segregation and untouchability. Both organisations predate the Kiravian Union and have always been closely tied to the PDF and its predecessors, retaining strong influence within PDF party structures even as the yakav and harsit electorate have diversified their political preferences and are no longer as reliable a vote bank for the PDF as they once were.

Voter Base

A considerable portion of the caucus' voters belong to Antaric Coscivian ethnic groups. Antaric Coscivians were generally supportive of the Kirosocialist régime and did well under Kirosocialist rule. The same can be said of many East Coscivian ethnic groups, such as the {Muśkem}.

Pretannic Celts, especially those living in mining areas of Etivéra, Váuadra, Íarthakelva, Atrakelva, and Kiorgia, are a very strong demographic for the PDF, having wavered very little in their support for socialist parties since the Kirosocialist Period.

Although numerically insignificant in federal elections, various small and marginal ethnic groups that benefitted from government development projects under Kirosocialism, such as the Kiʞik Coscivians and the Salyar, continue to support socialism and provide an important source of votes for PDF affiliates in state and local elections.

Provincial Affiliates

Other Affiliates and Observers

Metrea

  • Coscivian-Cetacean Communist Party (observer)

Qódava Nation

  • Great Socialist Party of Qódava

Tryhstian Littoral

  • Partido do Trabalho
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