{"id":66677,"date":"2021-11-09T00:45:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T00:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/?p=66677"},"modified":"2021-11-09T00:45:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T00:45:01","slug":"66677-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/66677-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Down with the Sudanese military coup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Support the Marches of Millions and the international mobilisations!\u00a0<\/span>No partnership, no bargaining, and no negotiation!\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The revolution continues!<\/span><\/span><\/em>
\nMartin Ralph – ISL\/Britain<\/span><\/span>
\nAs we write the Sudanese revolution, which began at the end of 2018 and overthrew Omar al-Bashir, is alive and has fought the military coup of 25 October every day with mass demonstrations, street occupations and blockades. <\/span>
\n\u201cWe appeal again to the resistance committees in all districts and all revolutionary political, professional, rights defender\u2019s forces in all the cities and villages of Sudan to come together and occupy the streets and barricade them, and to continue all forms of civil disobedience and complete strike until we defeat the coup reaching to what our people deserve under the flags of Freedom, Justice and Peace.\u201d<\/i> <\/b>Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), including doctors and teachers which played a leading role in the 2019 revolution against the al-Bashir dictatorship.<\/span>
\nThe military coup was led by Sudan\u2019s Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC)* chairperson Lt. Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan and Commander in Chief of the Sudan Armed Forces, who declared the State of Emergency after the military seized power.<\/span>
\nMillions of workers, youth, women and rural workers throughout Sudan responded with massive mobilisations in many cities, towns and rural areas, including workers areas such as Atbara, Port Sudan and Khartoum. On 30 October, \u201cMarches of Millions\u201d was called throughout Sudan. The masses were supported by marches throughout the world and support grew from militant trade unions like CSP Conlutas and Black Lives Matter in Britain.<\/span>
\nThe resistance to civilian\/military government never went away. Protests have been going on since 2019. On 30 June 2021 protests took place against the austerity measures demanded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).<\/span> Fuel and bread subsidies were removed in June 2021, shortages of basic goods and services and a spike in food insecurity. Food and transportation costs surged and inflation is approaching 400 per cent. <\/span>In the capital, Khartoum, placards read \u201cBread for the poor\u201d, “No to (IMF) policies.”<\/span><\/span>
\nThe protests also demanded elections for the government, the end of the TNC and condemned the lack of action in bringing those responsible to trial for repression against protestors in 2019. <\/span>
\nThe USA and many others speak against the coup but they create the IMF policy of reform that and implemented by the civilian\/military TNC. The IMF is a central arm of imperialism supported by the USA, EU and UK. While for its own reasons the military carried the coup, the civilian part complied completely with the IMF. Those leaders are no friends of the protests that have been taking to the streets for more than a year.<\/span>
\nWhy Now?<\/b><\/span>
\nThe coup took place just days after the \u201cMarches of the Millions\u201d throughout Sudan on 22 October. For example, in Omdurman, thousands of people marched from seven neighbourhoods towards the Parliament building along the Nile. They chanted slogans rejecting the rule of the military. In Khartoum, tens of thousands of people from various neighbourhoods occupied El Sitteen Street to demand civilian rule. Members of Resistance Committees in El Jereif, east of El Sitteen Street, called for the cancellation of \u201cthe partnership of blood\u201d between the military and civilian components of the government. Demonstrators in Khartoum North gathered in El Muassasa Street in support of the democratic transition.<\/span>
\nThe capitals of the five Darfur states also had Marches of the Millions demanding civilian rule. The army replied with tear gas, sound bombs and bullets, many people were injured, detained and some were killed. On 23 October, actions continued, including roadblocks in the capital and elsewhere. So the resistance was rising before the coup. <\/span>
\nThese rising, pre-coup, protests were against the civilian\/military rule that has led to workers and people suffering due to economic decline, high prices, and scarcity of food and fuel and high prices. While the TSC \u201cgoverned\u201d the Arab para-military forces in Darfur continued their rape of women, burning villages and farmland belonging to the non-Arab Darfur people. The leader of this brutal force was Lt. Gen Mohamed Dagalo \u2018Hemeti\u2019. He became the Sovereignty Council Deputy President in 2019! He should be arrested and put on trial and not be the second military command of the army and in the government.<\/span>
\nThe 2019 agreement meant a civilian government council should be created by the end of 2021 something the military did not want. The military are an integral part of the capitalist class and own at least 200 companies. A civilian government, being pushed by the revolution from below, might force the removal of those companies from military control.<\/span>
\nThe military is part of the capitalist class<\/b><\/span>
\nThe civilian-military government called the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC)*, is a product of the Sudanese revolution in 2019 that forced the old dictator Al-Bashir from power. This so-called peaceful process diverted the revolution from increasing its power. But it was not destroyed.<\/span>
\nIn Sudan, the military that owns many companies is more than a pillar of the ruling elites and the big capitalist owners. They are part of the capitalist class and great capital. They are also linked to governments such as Saudi Arabia. The leaders were involved in the dictatorship and the genocide in Darfur.<\/span>
\nAs history teaches us from Chile to today, whenever a government of civilians has military leaders inside it, it is a preparation for counter-revolution such as we see today in Sudan.<\/span>
\nContinue the revolution of December 2018<\/b><\/span>
\nIt has been reported by Sudanese refugees that the resistance committees are very strong in the working class and middle-class neighbourhoods. They continued from 2019 and have grown stronger, they have elected leaderships in many cases and are fighting alongside the trade unions (that are active both in the public and private sectors).<\/span>
\nThe Sudanese Workers Alliance for the Restoration of Trade Unions (SWARTU) issued the following statement on October 26, in response to the coup,<\/span>
\n\u201cThere is no alternative but to continue the struggle, bring the downfall of the coup, mobilise our masses and achieve the complete demands and aspirations of the December revolution.<\/span>
\n\u201cThe coup of parasitic capitalism was instigated by the warlord, Hemeti, and Burhan, the Al-Bashir Security apparatus, and the rest of the warlords who traffic in the suffering of their people, and the political brokers who come in every colour and shape.\u201di<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\nThe revolution is finding renewed energy. It will have to go much further to meet mass demands which include:<\/span><\/p>\n