Syndicalist Insurgency

The Syndicalist Insurgency, also known as the Central Artemian Workers Uprising or the Central Artemian Insurgency, was a violent spanning 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 centered around several armed militias, the most prominent being the Artemian Anarchist Federation (AAF), an umbrella group 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, which were used as remote save havens by syndicalist sympathizers. The Syndicalist Insurgency was one of the longest running violent conflicts in Artemia. The insurgency featured, , , , and militant which destabilized the region.

The conflict had both military and political dimensions. Each of the affected government, in turn, attempted to respond to the insurgency. Participants in the Insurgency included politicians and political activists across the political spectrum, and the range of responses included everything from the 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, most especially the neighboring Central Artemian People's State, a state sympathetic to transnational socialist causes. As a result, there were a number of and crises between the states of Central Artemia and nations supporting the Syndicalist Federations. By the late 1950s, the AAF's aggressive militancy was largely suppressed. In the 1960s, the remaining syndicalist political movements in Central Artemia turned peaceful. The Syndicalist Insurgency had longlasting effects on the internal politics of nations across Artemia, and 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 formal armed conflict did not start until the AAF was formed in 1927. Others point to the 1937 Modrovian coup attempt, the first instance when the Syndicalist Federations made an attempt to a government in the region. The next two decades marked a far more violent period. Beginning in 1927, the conflict resulted in the deaths of more than ??,??? people. This included police and security officers, members of the armed forces, politicians, journalists, civilians and militia members themselves. There also were thousands of people injured, kidnapped, executed, or forced into exile, either to flee from the violence or to avoid capture by the authorities.