WORLD WORLDWIDE AFRICA SUDAN - news journal UPDATE - (en) Sudan: Why Would You Become an Anarchist in Sudan? (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 This question has always haunted me at many moments in a country of

ideological, cultural, ethnic, tribal, and political diversity-where
countless choices exist, yet none can be freely made. The moment you are
born, your identity in Sudan is determined by religion, while your tribe
plays a crucial role in shaping your culture and even your fate. ---- To
become an anarchist in Sudan, you must have already escaped all these
imposed identities and the suffocating constraints that push us into the
furnace of the state. ---- Sudan is a country where war, crises, and
disease have never ceased. Its people, saturated with military,
religious, and tribal ideologies, serve as perfect fuel to ignite conflicts.

In such a country, I have always looked at my life with amazement. Our
struggles often resemble action films-perhaps bizarre or unbelievable to
outsiders-where survival means constantly fleeing from warring factions,
dodging a hail of bullets fired directly at you. Bullets of the state,
religion, tribe, sect, and armed factions.

Choosing to be an anarchist is an expression of true awareness of the
failures of these systems. It is a consciousness that pushes you to the
limits of both practical struggle and the deeply complex human
experience. And this path leads to only two possible outcomes: you
either survive as a true revolutionary resister, or you are consumed by
the spiral of power.

Just as authority in Sudan takes many forms, so does opposition. There
are political resistance movements, parties, mercenary armed groups,
so-called revolutionary and liberal militias built on tribal structures,
and cultural factions engaged in deep propaganda-driven authoritarianism.

These intertwined hierarchies form the crises of Sudanese peoples. Sudan
is, in reality, a collection of small peoples trapped within a state
that wields brutal power, recognizing no human rights beyond its own
interests.

Furthermore, the ideology of extremist Islamists has been another tool
for deepening ignorance and backwardness in Sudan.

Striving to confront all of this as a lone anarchist is like fighting as
a wolf among packs of hyenas. If they find a single weakness in you, it
will mean your inevitable destruction.

The path forward begins with seeking out those who share your ideas,
developing them, and offering them knowledge and education. As an
anarchist, you carry the feeling that wherever you are, and whatever
your capacity, your mission is to spread freedom. The price of that
freedom may be high-it may even cost you your life. Yet, all of this is
just a small contribution to the scale of liberation that people need to
live a dignified human life.

Freedom is the highest state of being, and anarchism shows us how to
achieve and practice it.

Freedom is not just a poetic word to express aspirations-it is an
effort, a commitment to being free with yourself and others, and a
struggle to make freedom a reality. To be an anarchist is a blessing
that cannot be monopolized or hidden. To be free is to be an anarchist,
and to be an anarchist is to be free.

- Fawaz Murtada

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