Septembrists

The Party of National Renewal (Parti du Renouveau National), better known as the Septembrists, were a radical faction of the Redonian Revolutionary Front, who dominated the government of the Third Republic of Redon from 1920 to 1966.

Founded in 1901 as a militant workers movement, the party was among the first to join the RRF and played a large part in organising the 1902 General Strike that precipitated the fall of the De Montfort regime. After attaining a plurality of votes at the 1920 Republican Assembly, and failing to form a coalition, the supporters of the PRN faction seized control of the country in the September Revolution. The Septembristes, as they came to be known, subsequently purged the RRF of most major political rivals and became the dominant governing faction of the Third Republic.

The Septembrist government lasted until the Revolution of 1966 finally pressured the regime into allowing free elections, which were finally won by the oppositionist Octobrist coalition, beginning the Reformation period that saw the transition of Redon to a democratic socialist republic.

Ideologically, the Septembrists were nationalists who believed in a centralised and militarised state capable of defending itself from capitalist and reactionary aggression both from within and without. The Septembrist government nationalised strategic sectors of the economy, instituted national conscription and created the Committee of Public Safety, an internal security agency with broad authority to detain and remove opponents of the regime. It also heavily opposed the self-determination of national minorities, and promoted assimilation and ethnic Redonian settlement in minority regions.

The beliefs and practices of the Septembrists are often known as Septembrism. Though generally discredited from association with the period of authoritarian rule, principles of Septembrism are still embraced by certain political movements in Redon, such as the National Septembrist Party and the Eight Stars Movement, the latter of which is represented in the Supreme Directory.