{"id":20517,"date":"2019-06-08T00:26:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T16:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinaworker.info\/?p=20517"},"modified":"2019-06-08T00:27:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T16:27:01","slug":"sudan-counter-revolution-raises-its-ugly-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinaworker.info\/en\/2019\/06\/08\/20517\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Counter-revolution raises its ugly head"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Heroic people\u2019s resistance against bloody\nclampdown by regime\u2019<\/strong>s militias<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Serge Jordan, CWI<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Monday June 3 before dawn, the military regime\nand its thugs brutally dispersed the sit-in which had been camping outside the\nmilitary headquarters in Sudan\u2019s capital Khartoum since April 6, and which had served as the focal point for the\nongoing uprising that brought down long-time dictatorial President Omar\nal-Bashir.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This counter-revolutionary move was carried out\nby security forces and an array of reactionary militias, in particular the\nso-called \u2018Rapid Support Forces\u2019 (RSF). These violent paramilitary troops were\nofficially established in 2013 to become al-Bashir\u2019s praetorian guard. They are\noffspring of the tribal Janjaweed militia, who built a notorious reputation\nthrough mass killings, rapes, lootings and countless other atrocities during\nthe war in Darfur more than a decade ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Importing these methods straight into the heart\nof the capital, the RSF militiamen went on a murderous rampage across the city,\ntorching the tents at the sit-in, raping women, shaving the heads of protestors\nwith razors, flogging them with whips, chasing, beating up and mugging unarmed\ncivilians in the streets, shooting live ammunition in hospital wards, looting\nshops…Similar violence, although on a smaller scale, was unleashed in Port\nSudan, Sinar, Atbara and many other places. Video footages on social media are\nbearing witness to the ongoing violence used by the RSF, in Khartoum and other\ncities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sudanese Doctors\u2019 Committee has put the provisional death toll at over a hundred people, to be\nadded to the many hundreds injured. It is likely, however, that the real figure\nfor Monday\u2019s bloody crackdown is much higher. A credible intelligence source\nwith connections to the security apparatus reported to a Sudanese journalist\nthat \u201csome people were beaten to death and thrown in the Nile, some shot\nmultiple times and thrown in the Nile and others were hacked with machetes and\nthrown in the Nile. It was a massacre.\u201d Since then, about 40 bodies of dead\nprotesters have been pulled out of the river. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fear of revolution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through this barbaric repression, the military\njunta who usurped power after the fall of al-Bashir tried to instil terror\namong the masses and to strike a serious blow to the revolutionary struggle\nthat has shaken the country since December 2018. The use of rape, for example,\nis aimed at crushing the spirit of resistance of the many Sudanese women who\nhave invariably been at the first line of the revolutionary mobilisations, and\nplayed a key role in braving the humiliations the old regime visited upon\nthem.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before Monday\u2019s crackdown, the head of the so-called \u2018Transitional Military\nCouncil\u2019 (TMC), General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and his deputy General\nMohamed Hamdan Dagalo, leader of the RSF,\nvisited Cairo, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi. This\nwas presumably to receive the green light, assistance and advices of\nal-Sisi, the butcher of the Egyptian revolution, and of the reactionary\nmonarchs in the Gulf, the main regional backers of the TMC, for Monday\u2019s\nmurderous onslaught. All are dreaming of restoring a ruthless dictatorship in\nKhartoum that could drown the Sudanese revolution in blood, put to sleep any\nrevolutionary temptations that might develop in their own backyards, and carry\non with providing them cannon fodder for their war in Yemen.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The timing of these dramatic events is indeed not\nfortuitous. The inspiring revolutionary struggle of the Sudanese masses reached\nlast week a new dimension with a solid two-day general strike which brought the\ncountry to a complete halt. The success of that strike, displaying the huge\npotential power of the working class, clearly frightened the generals and the\npossessing classes across the region. Among other things, the revolution has\nbrought a new spur of life into independent working class activity, with the\nrebuilding of independent unions that were once destroyed by al-Bashir\u2019s\nregime. Workers had started showing they would be a serious social force to\nreckon with, and that they could threaten the whole edifice upon which the\njunta\u2019s political and economic power is erected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, there was a lack of decisive\nleadership as to what to do after the two days of general strike, which had\nleft the power of the generals hanging in the air.  Immediately after the end of the general\nstrike, the military rulers mounted a counter-offensive, deciding to strike at\nthe revolution\u2019s most iconic and vibrant expression. The leaders of the TMC stated that the sit-in had\nbecome a threat to \u201cthe security of the country\u201d and had to stop. Pro-regime\nmedia went into a frenzy to denounce the peaceful sit-in as a nest of drug\nsmugglers, debauchery and petty banditry, in an attempt to justify its dispersal\nand the subsequent massacre.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The old regime remnants and their international\nbackers meticulously planned their operation. The offices of Al Jazeera in\nKhartoum were shut down on May 31, and its\njournalists banned from reporting from Sudan. To restrict further\ncoverage, Internet was then shut down nationwide on Monday – and has not been\nrestored since. Regular army units were consigned to their barracks and many of\nthem were stripped of their weapons so that they could not obstruct the dirty\njob carried out by the RSF mercenaries. Scenes were later reported of soldiers\nsobbing helplessly as the carnage was unfolding.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This contrasts with the crocodile tears shed by\nWestern governments, which cannot make up for their staggering hypocrisy. The\nEU has pumped millions into the RSF over the years to curb migration from Sudan\nto Europe. The White House and many European governments have propped up and\nsupplied the Saudi regime with the weapons that have been used to gun down\nprotesters and other innocent civilians in Sudan\u2019s streets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No more negotiations with the bloodthirsty\ngenerals <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\npolitical lessons of what happened need to be fully drawn, to make sure that the blood of the martyrs of June 3 and of the\nsubsequent days has not been spilled in vain. Before this episode occurred, the CWI and its\nsupporters in Sudan had been consistently arguing against the illusion of\nconcluding a compromise with the old regime generals, who had grabbed power by\nforce for the very sake of cutting the revolutionary flood in its track. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A statement by Socialist Alternative Sudan on May\n23 explained: \u201cWhy should a revolution that got rid of Al Bashir through the\nsweat, tears and blood of our people end up negotiating a power-sharing\narrangement with part of the oppressive apparatus that protected and benefited\nfrom his rule for so long? There is no way the military rulers have any\nintention to relinquish power, and they will not leave the scene unless they\nare compelled to do so by the force of mass revolutionary action – the only\nlanguage they understand\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back\nin early April, the first reaction from the streets to the announcement of the\ncreation of the TMC was the slogan: \u201cThe revolution has just started\u201d, showing\nthat many people were not prepared either to fall\ninto the trap laid by the perpetrators of the military coup. Unfortunately,\nthis was not so much the case for the leaders speaking on their behalf,\norganised in the Forces for the Declaration of Freedom and Change (FDFC), who\naccepted to negotiate with Al Bashir\u2019s generals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FDFC is a broad opposition alliance whose\nspinning column is the Sudanese Professional Association (SPA, a network of\nprofessional unions which commands important authority among workers and\ngrassroots activists for its organising role in the movement) but which also\nincludes right-wing opposition parties embedded with the bourgeois Sudanese\nelite, like the National Umma Party and the Sudanese Congress Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These latter parties have a long legacy of making\nopening moves and concessions to Al-Bashir\u2019s regime; they never trusted the\nmass movement, but wanted to ride it in order to access lucrative political\ncareers in a future capitalist administration. Showing their true colours, the\nUmma Party leaders openly rejected the call for last week\u2019s general strike. Now\nthey have come out in support of the latest political manoeuvre of the TMC, the\nannouncement of elections within nine months. Elections held under the current\nconditions, with the military and security clique in control, would yet\nobviously be nothing but an authoritarian masquerade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By trying to pragmatically ensure the unity of the opposition under the\nleadership of the FDFC, the SPA leaders have mistakenly tied their hands to a\ndead-end strategy, trying to reconcile the demands of the revolutionary\nmovement with the cynical ambitions of the counter-revolutionary military\nrulers. All SPA supporters should demand that the SPA now\nbreaks ranks with all those pro-capitalist forces and leaders who would show\nany more readiness to strike a deal with the military butchers on the back of\nthe revolutionary movement.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FDFC negotiators thought they could appease\nthe corrupt and brutal junta and convince them to adopt a more \u201creasonable\u201d\nstand by sharing power in a hybrid sovereign body, composed of military and\ncivilian representatives. Several weeks were wasted in fruitless back-and-forth\nnegotiations with the TMC, throwing confusion in the movement and angering many\nactivists. As many protesters were clearly aware, the generals sat at the\nnegotiating table not for the sake of generously giving up their power, but in\norder to win time, fool the opposition with vague promises and wait for the\nright opportunity to resort to violence against the masses on the\nstreets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday General Burhan made a televised speech in which he said the TMC was willing\nto resume negotiations. This call was made as its henchmen were firing, beating\nand killing in the streets, and hours before security forces arrested a\nprominent politician of the opposition, Yasir Arman, leader of the Sudanese\nPeople\u2019s Liberation Movement North (SPLMN). The\nFDFC spokesmen have, rightly, stated that they would stop all political contact\nwith the Military Council, and suspended the negotiations as they consider \u201cthe\njunta no longer eligible to negotiate with the Sudanese people\u201d. But it never\nwas before! From the very beginning, while under tremendous pressure from the\nmass movement, the TMC was nothing but the nerve centre of the\ncounter-revolution, composed of notorious corrupt war criminals and old regime\nsupporters, who sought to hijack a revolution that represented a direct threat\nto their brutal rule and their exploitative system. From their point of\nview, the removal of Al-Bashir and other top officials happened only to try and\npreserve the essential foundations of the old state machine and safeguard their\nown positions, out of which they derive important privileges and economic\nwealth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Heroic resistance<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the extent of the\nregime\u2019s violence, protesters driven out of the site on Monday outside the\ndefence ministry displayed a heroic resistance, continuing to demonstrate,\nerecting barricades in the streets of Khartoum and the neighbouring city of\nOmdurman. In neighbourhoods throughout the capital, people poured onto the\nstreets to protest the junta\u2019s actions, barricading streets with bricks,\nburning tires, blocking bridges. On Tuesday, videos appeared on social media\nshowing residents even performing Eid al-Fitr prayers behind their barricades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a CWI supporter\nliving in Khartoum, protesters barricaded most roads in the city as of\nWednesday June 5, although some have since been removed by force. Fierce street\nbattles regularly oppose angry youth to RSF patrols roaming around and\nterrorising people; gunfire continues to be heard and more killings are taking\nplace. On Tuesday evening, security forces tried to break up Port Sudan\u2019s\nsit-in in front of the 101st infantry division without being able to do so,\nwhile Port Sudan workers have continued acts of strikes and civil disobedience.\nProtestors closed most of the main roads and a number of neighbourhoods using\nroadblocks and tire fires. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Tuesday, Wednesday and\nThursday, angry marches, mass demonstrations and road blockades also erupted in\nvarious parts of the country as the extent of the massacres in Khartoum became\nclear. On Wednesday, mass demonstrations broke out in Zalingei in Central\nDarfur, El Geneina in West Darfur, and Nyala in South Darfur, braving tear gas\nand live bullets and chanting slogans demanding the fall of the military junta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sections of the working class\nhave downed tools in protest to the military junta\u2019s actions, as did the oil\nfield workers in West Kordofan. On Monday, internal and external flights had\nstopped at Khartoum International Airport coinciding with the announcement by\nthe Sudanese Pilots Association of an all-out civil disobedience without any\nexception to any flights. In reaction, regime militias have been forcing striking workers to work under threats on\ntheir lives. Airport workers who were on strike were visited at their\nhome addresses and forced to go to work at gunpoint. One man who refused was\nshot in front of his family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The threat of such brutal counter-revolution\nneeds to be answered with mass, organised collective action and self-defence by\nthe revolutionary masses. As militias are spreading terror, rape and slaughter,\nthe organization of the physical defence of the revolution has become a\nlife-or-death question. Defence committees should be set up in all\nworkplaces, communities, and neighbourhoods, and link up with each other to\ncoordinate their action, and centralise any weapon they can find, including\nmakeshift ones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The class divisions within the armed forces and\nthe revolutionary sympathies that still prevail among many ordinary soldiers\nshould also be acted upon without delay. After all, the looming mutiny in the lower ranks of the army was one of the key\nreasons behind the junta\u2019s rush to get rid of Omar Al Bashir. Public calls should be made by the SPA\nand the revolutionary committees towards the rank-and-file soldiers and junior\nofficers to refuse any orders coming from the military council, rebel against\ntheir commanders, democratically elect their own committees, and link up with\nthe revolutionary people to help them hunt down and disarm all the\nmilitias, and arrest and try all the killers, rapists and torturers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The calls by the SPA for a \u201ccomplete civil\ndisobedience; the closing of all main streets, bridges and ports; and an open\npolitical strike at all places of work and facilities, in the public and\nprivate sectors\u201d are going in the right direction. Whereas the calls for this \u201ccomprehensive strike\u201d have\nbeen made for starting on Sunday, there are signs of it developing already \u2013\nalthough with the Eid holidays, it is difficult to evaluate the extent of this.\nIn any case, the masses do not have the luxury to wait. Immediate and decisive\naction is required to defeat the counter-revolution\u2019s current\nrampage. Barricades on the streets, strike actions with\nworkers\u2019 defence groups protecting the workplaces, occupations of strategic\nlocations and infrastructure, are the way to go to paralyse the current\noffensive from the reactionary junta, its militias and security forces, and\nbegin a decided revolutionary counter-offensive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Down with the TMC – Power to the workers and the\nrevolutionary people!<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the course of the revolutionary struggle, a\nfar-reaching process of grassroots organization took shape in the communities\nand in the workplaces, in local areas and at the sit-in protests, in effect\ndeveloping a situation of \u201cdual power\u201d: challenging the old state machine run\nby the generals and old regime remnants, appeared the embryos of a new society,\nin the form of various local revolutionary committees. With these local\ncommittees as a foundation unit, a new revolutionary state power could be\nbuilt, that could give the challenge to the military clique in the TMC and its\nvarious appendages. Neighbourhood, strike and workplace committees, if\ngeneralised, could elect representatives to local, regional and nationwide\ncouncils, and vie for political power in the name of the revolution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For such a struggle to mobilise the widest\nenergies and support, it has to harness on its banner not only demands for a real\ndemocracy in Sudan; but also demands addressing the burning social and economic\nquestions that are continuously subjecting the masses to daily suffering: the\nstruggle for bread, jobs, decent wages, housing, land, access to education and\nhealthcare, transport and social provisions. If argued consistently, such a\nprogram could even contribute to break the ranks amongst some of the most\ndowntrodden and under-class youth being enrolled in the regime\u2019s militias and\ncurrently weaponised to repress the movement. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet eventually these demands can only be\nfulfilled if the key sectors of the economy are taken off the hands of the\ncorrupt military elite and of the domestic and foreign capitalist class, who\nare siphoning them for their own enrichment. As The Economist commented on\nApril 27, \u201cThe junta has much to lose. An estimated 65%-70% of state\nspending goes on security, compared with just 5% for public health and\neducation. Families connected to the military and security services run the\nbusinesses that dominate the Sudanese economy.\u201d<\/em> These businesses should be\nbrought under public ownership, to be democratically planned and managed by the\nworkers and the revolutionary masses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A government of working people and poor farmers,\nimplementing socialist policies, would put an end to the pillaging of the\neconomy and the ocean of misery it brings along, and disarm the\ncounter-revolution both politically and militarily. Appealing to\nthe workers, poor and oppressed people of Africa and\nthe Middle East to join the fight against capitalism and dictatorship, such a government would be a huge source of inspiration to the\nmillions of people internationally watching with anxiety the unfolding battle\nbetween revolution and counter-revolution in Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As it is, the future of the Sudanese revolution\nis very uncertain. The political vacuum inherited from the absence of a mass\nparty, that could unite the workers and the revolutionary people behind a clear\nprogram and show a decisive way forward, weighs heavily on the movement. Reports\nof tensions and clashes between the Sudan Armed Forces and the RSF indicate\nthat the situation could get very messy, with elements of a civil war taking\nshape or even the possibility of a \u201ccoup within the coup\u201d, or of more serious\nclashes between various armed factions and militias vying for control. However,\nthe revolutionary movement has not pronounced its last words, and it is the\nduty of all socialists, trade unionists and left activists around the world to\nassist this struggle in any way they can to drive it to a successful outcome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our demands<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Immediate mobilization to the defence of the Sudanese revolution \u2013 for an all out, countrywide general strike against the coup council  <\/li>
  • For the mass and democratically organised self-defence of the revolution. Build strike action and protection committees in all workplaces, streets and neighbourhoods. Disband and disarm the Rapid Support Forces and all the regime\u2019s militias. <\/li>
  • Defend all democratic rights, release all political prisoners and people arrested in the last days. <\/li>
  • Bring down the military regime, arrest the TMC leaders – for a worker’s and poor’s government based on people\u2019s committees. <\/li>
  • For the Sudanese people’s right to determine their own future – no to the meddling and intervention in Sudan\u2019s affairs by international and regional powers. <\/li>
  • Scrap the military and security budgets \u2013 for a program of massive public investment in infrastructure, health, jobs and education  <\/li>
  • Nationalisation under workers\u2019 control of all the companies and assets belonging to old regime cronies, military and security officials <\/li>
  • International workers\u2019 solidarity with the Sudanese revolution \u2013 no trust in the African Union, the European Union and other imperialist bodies and governments<\/li>
  • Down with capitalism, exploitation and war. Return all Sudanese troops from Yemen immediately.<\/li>
  • For a free, democratic and socialist Sudan, recognising the right of self-determination for all oppressed nationalities and ethnic groups<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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