Address to the oppressed peoples of the World

All over the world, ordinary people like you and I struggle under tyrants who send us to war for their petty grievances, who starve our children for their profit, whose negligence mains and kills us, who wash their hands of any culpability.

We say: enough!

We are no lesser people than those who sit on thrones and grant themselves the right to rule. We are no less than they. They granted themselves the right to rule and we can take it away. We can govern ourselves as equals under the law and in fact.

The hard word of liberty has already begun: our cousins in the South have already killed a thousand Kingsmägen - the most formidable weapons of a despotic regime - proving that the tyrants and their tools are flesh and blood. The tyrants of the North have no such weapons. It will not take a war to overthrow them. When our Southern cousins as what we did to aid their fight, what will we say? That we did nothing, that we were unmoved by their bravery and the forced sacrifice of their children?

We say: no.

Together, we will rise up and claim our birthright. Together we will lead each other out of the darkness. Together we will build a world where our children will never know the pain of hunger or the fear of destitution nor be forced to die for the pride of kings or the false glory of an iron-footed bishopric.

All of this is possible if we reject the tyranny of bishops and kings; if we reject the lash of the timeclock and the workhouse.

Freedom, equality, justice, dignity - this is the inheritance of all people. It is past time that we rise up, claim our inheritance, and forge our own destiny as citizens of liberty.

Written in 5.918, most likely by Cousin X , the Address to the Oppressed Peoples of the World spoke directly to an audience of people labouring under an increasingly exploitative system of kings and theocracies. The attempted assassination of King Johann XI of Kihr renewed the zeal of the democratic and anarchist movements across North Erwa, and likewise the violence of their repression.