Resolution on Sudan
One year after the beginning of the clashes between rival armed factions, Sudan is still plunged into a devastating war that has claimed nearly 15,000 lives and resulted in eight million civilians fleeing the country, 25 million people in urgent need of assistance and a looming famine that is likely to worsen.
A people who revolted against despotism, imperialism and neo-colonialism find themselves driven out of their own country, suffering massacres, killing, starvation, rape of women ...
In December 2018 the brave and heroic Sudanese people rose up against the reactionary authoritarian and comprador regime and put an end to the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood led by Omar Al-Bashir, who impoverished his people, sold their resources and caused wars, diseases and epidemics in the country and divided the country to the benefit of imperialist interests.
On October 25, 2021, the reactionary military junta staged a military coup in Sudan. It dissolved the Sovereign Council and the government, and declared a state of emergency. The military arrested Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok and several ministers and civilian political leaders who had led the government in cooperation with the military since the popular revolution of December 2018. It had ended. Yet this change of government had not fundamentally altered the balance of power.
In the face of the military coup, the courageous Sudanese people demonstrated an extraordinary fighting spirit. Led by revolutionaries, they took to the streets, declaring civil disobedience and a general sit-in. The military met the popular uprising with fire and repression, killing over 35 people.
A year and a half after the military coup, civil war broke out between two rival groups.
On April 15, 2023, clashes broke out across the country, mainly in the capital Khartoum and in Darfur. The clashes began when FSR rapid support forces launched attacks on key government sites and attempted to seize power. Air strikes, artillery fire and heavy gunfire were reported throughout Sudan, including Khartoum. Mohamed Hamdan Dogolo, leader of the RSF, claims control of most government sites, although the leader Abdel Fattah al.Burhan claims control of all of them.
This civil war, like the other wars that have hit Sudan, is a reactionary war between two reactionary pro-imperialist blocs, a war pushed, fuelled and financed by rival imperialist forces to continue exploiting and plundering Sudan, to provoke another division in this great country rich in mineral products, and to put an end to the revolutionary ambitions of the oppressed classes of the Sudanese people.
Imperialism is behind this civil war, and it is the imperialist powers and their comprador agents who are sowing the seeds of war and funding the rival warring parties.
At the ICOR Africa Conference after a thorough discussion on the Situation in Sudan was taken all the forementioned:
Denounces and condemns firmly the reactionary and unfair civil war of Sudan which is nourished and financed by the rival imperialist powers and perpetrated by their criminal agents.
Consider this war as part of the imperialist attacks against Africa and Sudan in particular which continues for decades and which led to its division before and now a new division is being prepared to weaken Sudan and impede the revolutionary aspirations of the heroic Sudanese people .
Calls for an immediate end of this reactionary war and launch an appeal to all revolutionary and progressive forces in Africa and in all over the world to organize a solidarity movement with the oppressed people of Sudan .
Express full solidarity with Sudanese people and the progressive forces and revolutionary organizations, that struggle for peace, progress and socialism in Sudan.
The best allies are the revolutionaries, their parties and the workers and masses of the world. ICOR Africa welcomes the revolutionary and communists in ICOR as progressive forces of international solidarity and revolutionary overcome of imperialism.