Sudán- December 20th 2018

As yesterday in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and today in Iran, Lebanon and France…

The riot for bread has started

onfronting the government of Al Bashir, partner of the genocidal Al Assad, the workers and the masses break into the scene with the war cry:

The people want the fall of the regime!

In Sudan, the masses took to the streets at the war cry “The people want the fall of the regime!”; the same war cry that went through the revolutions of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen since 2011 and today sounds in the streets of Iran. We are before a new uprising for bread… literally, since the protests started against the rise of the prices of food, bread in particular, and against the increasing cost of living which hits the possibility of a decent life for the workers and the poor. The masses take the streets of Sudan, where once again the demand is bread and the fall of the regime. In the city of Nhoud, the students marched with the slogan “no to hunger”, while in Port Sudan there was a massive demonstration with the battle cry “The people want the fall of the regime!” The same thing happened in Atba, stronghold of the struggle against the government of Omar al Bashir, where they also set the main buildings of the ruling party on fire. In the capital city, Khartoum, the demonstration was massive and clashed against the army, which repressed with live ammunition, killing 8 exploited that were marching for the fall of the regime. The mass actions are generalized, but not new. In January this year there have been days of struggle with mass demonstrations against the prices that had begun to rise. But the government of Omar al Bashir repressed them hardly, putting the leaders and main activists in prison. A few days ago, the masses marched in Khartoum with the Palestinian and Syrian revolution flags to protest against the Sudanese president that went to Damascus to have a meeting with the fascist genocidal Bashar Al Assad, to re-establish bi-lateral relations. Since them, the Sudanese masses remained on the streets, with the same war cry of the Syrian revolution, seeking to topple Omar Al Bashir’s government and his dictatorial regime, who is in power since 1989 after a coup d’état. The exploited cannot take any more the hunger, misery and the increasingly cost of living, which is multiplied by the devaluation of its currency and the economic suffocation imposed by the UN sanctions, as they accuse Bashir of “crimes against humanity” for his massacres in the Darfour region in the ‘90s, when he consolidated his dictatorship. He still keeps great parts of Sudan militarized, especially the south, where there are local bourgeois gangs seeking for a cut of the oil revenues. The economic situation in Sudan has worsen this last period of time, and so they are worsen the living standards of the exploited. In 2011, when USA divided Sudan and declared Southern Sudan an independent state, as a US direct colony, Sudan suffered a hard blow to its economy as it lost 75% of the oil reserves, which passed to the hands of the US, behind the flags of “Southern Sudan”. So, Sudan entered in recession and the government started to slowly unload the crisis on the masses, imposing it by the force of repression. In 2013, when the crisis couldn’t be bared anymore, there was a rising that forced the government to yield some concessions, like subsidising bread and other food (taking into account that Sudan is a food importer, while it is dedicated to gold export as well as the sale of Arabic Gum, used in the manufacture of paint, glue and other products). To stop the masses by repressing them and giving them concessions had a cost. That very same year, Sudan started to increase its foreign debt exponentially. And now, imperialism wants to be paid… especially the French imperialism (the historical and main oppressor of Sudan) wants to double and multiply the plundering of that country, at the expense of starvation and the blood of the Sudanese exploited. The French imperialism is in the middle of a trade war between the imperialist parties and it needs to take as much as it can from its colonies, semi-colonies and its own working class. Thus, as a good lackey to imperialism, the Sudanese government removed the subsidies on food at the end of last year. This led to last January uprising mentioned before. As it was suppressed, the attacks on the living standards of the masses continued. The cost of living sky-rocketed. The price of bread was tripled in 2018. Fuel prices went up high. The currency was deeply devaluated after mid-2018, worsening the situation for the masses even more. The sporadic protests were increasing and Omar Al Bashir shuffled his entire cabinet, even the Prime Minister, last September. He “tried to reduce social tensions”. However, the exploited ended up bursting out and taking the streets against the dictatorship of Omar Al Bashir. The masses in Sudan break into the revolutionary scene, together with the exploited that take to the streets in Tunisia and in Jordan for a decent life against the misery that those governments lackeys of IMF want to impose on them. They join the masses in Southern Iraq that fight for a decent life. Sudan enters to the fight as the workers and the people of Iran, who are staging hard struggles against the Ayatollahs. They stand together with the exploited in France, which staged revolutionary days of struggle at the battle cry “Macron, resign!”, they hit on the heart of one of the imperialist gangs that plunder Maghreb and Middle East. They are also allies of the Syrian masses that resist in the last trenches of the revolution, as well as the Palestinian masses in their fight of the Zionist occupier, of Egypt that fight against the counterrevolutionary dictatorship of Al Sisi, of Yemen that confront the Saudi invasion… Facing this situation, the government tries a new deception: it let Sadiq Al Mahdi to re-enter the country again, when he was toppled in 1989 by Omar Al Bashir leading the army. They have brought to the country the main figure of the “opposition”, returning from exile, so he can place himself above the masses, channelize them to a way out inside a regime that contains both, preventing Bashir from falling by the hand of mass revolutionary actions. However, Mahdi made a rally with only a few followers (those who always had been with him) when he returned. This shows he has not mass influence, and in the deep, the exploited know that neither Mahdi or Bashir could stop this attack and cannot be able to live in decent conditions until the regime doesn’t fall. Just as in Iran and in Lebanon, the workers of Sudan start to rise in riots for bread and against the plundering of imperialism. What would the social-imperialist left say now? Would they say they are “barbaric” people? Or “backward”? Would they say they are ISIS? No, you imbeciles… it is hunger! Long live the mass uprising in Sudan! Out with Omar Al Bashir! The people want the fall of the regime! Dissolve the officer caste of the Sudanese murderous dictatorship! Rank and file soldier committees to fight together with the masses! For self-defense committees of the masses to defend from repression! As the experience in Tunisia or in Syria… Set up committees of workers and exploited by city, region and coordinate them nationally!