[quote=Milkman]
About the canal:
It will be the greatest engineering project ever undertaken in Kervan. Considering the sheer size its construction will influence the involved nations at a more negative way.

1. Not everyone who lives on the land where the canal is intended to come will be eager to leave. Simple folks who have often lived in the same house, worked the same land for generations are not likely to be happy to move.
2. The costs of making such a canal will be astronomical. This will have to result in having less funds for other aspects of your nation. It will be interesting to see how syndicalists population responds to budget costs in traditional left-wing area's suchs as social security, healthcare and education.
3. Lifes will be lost, by the thousands proberbly. The building of a canal of that size will require tens of thousands of workers who will have to relocate to camps and temporary cities for years. In such places desease can often spread more quickly and working accedents will frequently happen.

So basicly the construction phase will be a great burdon on the countries financial situation and it will have a social impact as not everyone will agree that the sacrifice of money and lifes is worth it.
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These are serious considerations.  They cannot be completely bypassed, but the International is confident that Syndicalists will be able to prove themselves better than bourgeois capitalists and monarchists.  These numbered statements should address some of the concerns raised by Comrade-Representative Milkman.

1. As established in the last session of Congress, the RSI will work with local residents to determine ways in which they can have a stake in the project and some control over how it affects their land.  The RSI will also try to work with those who must move to find new lands and rebuild as close-by as possible with the best available access to whatever they need.  This may not address all grievances, but it will certainly do better by the peasants than mass expropriations in other nations.

2. The scale of Syndintern collaboration will, hopefully, prevent undue burdens from weighing on any one single nation.  Also, remember that we have achieved Syndicalism in liberated territory: With workers owning and managing their own means of production, the need for state-sponsored social stopgaps to absorb masses of poor and unemployed citizens is less than in the needlessly exploitative capitalist system.

3. The Revolutionary Syndicalist International utterly rejects any form of labor conscription: This project will be undertaken by volunteers (with incentives) and, if necessary, soldiers already prepared to die.  We will also do all in our power to provide proper medical facilities and resources to the workers, and to address safety issues.  Of course, some losses are inevitable, but losses are always inevitable for the great struggles of the working class, as our revolutions themselves have proven.

All power to the unions!