Syndicalist Insurgency

The Syndicalist Insurgency, also known as the Central Artemian Workers Uprising or the Central Artemian Insurgency, was an armed and between the 1920s and 1950s between several states in Central Artemia and several armed  social and political organizations which sought to overthrow their governments and spark a. The movement was built around several armed militias, the most prominent being the Artemian Anarchist Federation (AAF), which lead several campaigns of attacks beginning in the early 1930s. The AAF was proscribed as a terrorist organization by the Ostben, Modrovian, Gardic, and Ringeriker authorities. The conflict took place primary in Ostboland, Modrovia, and Gardarike, although it was also present in islands off of Ringerike used as remote save havens. It was one of the longest running violent conflicts in Artemia. The insurgency featured, , , , and which destabilized the region.

The conflict had both military and political dimensions as each government, in turned, attempted to respond to the insurgency. Its participants included politicians and political activists across the political spectrum, and the range of responses included everything from a harder line stance adopted by Modrovia, to a more conciliatory posture from Ostboland. Syndicalist forces were also aided by a number of other states between the 1930s and 1950s, causing between the affected states and foreign governments. By the late 1950s the aggressive militancy of the AAF was largely supressed, and remaining syndicalist political movements turned peaceful. The Syndicalist Insurgency arguably sparked movements towards greater Artemian unity, such as the creation of the Pan-Artemian Coalition.

Although the socio-political forces which lead to the in Artemia began before the Grand Campaigns, most now agree that armed conflict did not start until the AAF was formed in 1927. Many date the official start of the insurgency to the 1937 Modrovian coup attempt. Since then, the conflict resulted in the deaths of more than ??,??? people, including police and security officers, members of the armed forces, politicians, journalists, civilians and militia members. There also were thousands of people injured, kidnapped, executed, or going into exile, either to flee from the violence or to avoid capture by the authorities.