WORLD WORLDWIDE US USA - news journal UPDATE - (en) US, BRRN: International Statement: Solidarity with the Struggle Against War in Sudan (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 This statement was written by members of Black Rose/Rosa Negra's

International Relations Committee and endorsed by member organizations
of the International Coordination of Organized Anarchism (ICOA). ----
Black Rose/Rosa Negra continues to work closely with members of the
Anarchist Group in Sudan (AGS), supporting their organizing and
education efforts on the ground. ---- With the fall of el-Fasher, the
world has seen a terrifying glimpse of the unfolding genocide in Sudan.
Out of the authoritarian reaction against the 2019 Sudanese revolution,
twin monsters have emerged which are devouring the country, leaving
bloodstains large enough to be seen from space.

More than 150,000 people have died in Sudan since the Rapid Support
Forces (RSF) and Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) began fighting a civil war
in April 2023. The war has forced 12 million from their homes and
created one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. In the RSF's
assaults, Black, dark-skinned, non-Arab people are being targeted again
and again, betraying a racist and genocidal intent behind their quest
for control.

The capture of el-Fasher by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has seen
large scale sexual violence carried out against women and children.
Healthcare facilities and workers are being targeted. There are reports
of young women being rounded up and assaulted. These patterns mirror
what we have seen in past genocidal campaigns.

While the news is dominated by the genocidal rampages of the RSF, on the
other side of the front lines the SAF has been carrying out killings,
disappearing activists in prison, and allowing Islamist gangs to grow
and terrorize the people. Although there is more stability in the
SAF-held areas, it is the illusory stability of a blood-drenched
dictatorship.

In the face of these ongoing atrocities, we hold up the memory of our
four comrades from the Anarchist Group in Sudan who were martyred in
el-Fasher: Faisal Adam Ali, Radwan Abdel Jabbar ("Kahraba"), Adam Kibir
Musa and Abdel Ghaffar Al-Tahir ("Al-Sini"). We call for active
solidarity with those struggling for peace in Sudan. As our comrades said,

"Direct struggle against power carries a steep price: our lives and our
freedoms. Your comrades in Sudan chose not to remain silent - that is
the nature of revolutionaries. We want peace and call for peace and the
rejection of war, yet the most horrific expressions of racist authority
in Sudan, imperial domination, and international rivalry are manifesting
themselves. Therefore we ask you to expand support campaigns worldwide:
our comrades have a right upon us - their defense of el-Fasher is a
defense of all revolutionaries."

Governments that claimed to support a ceasefire, including Egypt, the
United States, Saudi Arabia, and others, have failed in their promises
and have done nothing to protect Sudanese people. What happened in
el-Fasher was expected because no meaningful action was taken.

When Sudanese people try to flee for safety from the terrors of
conflict, they face hostile borders across North Africa, Middle East,
Europe, and anywhere they turn. The border policies of countries that
refuse access to Sudanese refugees, condemning them to starvation and
massacre, must be seen as a key component of the ongoing violence. And
in a moment when Trump is simultaneously ending Temporary Protected
Status for South Sudanese while welcoming white Afrikaaners as supposed
victims of a fantasy "genocide" in South Africa, the racist
underpinnings of this border system cannot be denied.

Still, the Sudanese people are resisting barbarism and carrying forward
the fight for freedom even in these conditions. Despite the harsh
conditions, the resistance is alive in Sudan, through the remnants of
the revolutionary neighborhood councils, independent militias, and soup
kitchens. Our comrades in the Anarchist Group in Sudan represent a
revolutionary militancy that was forged through the revolutionary
struggles before the civil war began in 2023. Those outside Sudan should
work to not just oppose the war, but to make practical connections with
the independent organizations of the dominated classes in Sudan. We
specifically call for Anarchist solidarity and support to the Anarchist
Group in Sudan.

The war in Sudan could not continue without the involvement of external
power. For generations Africa has been the site of colonial
contestation, with foreign governments dividing up the natural resources
of the continent for their own benefit. The colonial approach to Africa
continues in full force to this day. However, with the decline of the
US's global hegemony, the space is now opening for newer regional powers
to scramble for a piece of Africa. The main external engines of the
bloodshed in Sudan are Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which support the
Sudanese Armed Forces, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE - home of Dubai
and Abu Dhabi), which supports the RSF, and appears to be the biggest
foreign power in the Sudanese civil war.

The UAE sends limitless supplies of drones to the RSF, and what it takes
home in return is very clear-about $2.3 billion of gold taken from Sudan
in 2022, along with agricultural products and other natural resources.
While Sudanese starve and die, there are billions of dollars of gold
being smuggled out, funding another profitable war for global capital.
The UAE's complicity in genocide in el-Fasher is clear, and it does not
come as a surprise from a country that was still using Black African
slave labor up until the mid-20th century, and continues to rely on the
super-intensive racialized exploitation of Black and South Asian migrant
workers.

While the RSF has no offices or embassies, the UAE has political and
business interests around the globe. With tourism accounting for 13% of
the UAE's GDP, global public opinion can have a material impact on their
economy and force them to rethink their foreign policy decisions. The
UAE knows that it needs to continue diversifying its economy away from
reliance on oil revenue, and so invests heavily in improving its public
image to encourage tourism and investment. For example, the "Dubai
chocolate" craze was carefully promoted by the UAE government so that
when people think of "Dubai" they think of luxury and exotic treats, not
of a repressive dictatorship built on slave labor at home and genocide
abroad. Working class organizations can target the visible outposts of
UAE interests to draw attention to their role in anti-Black genocide,
puncturing their fake self-promotion narrative and causing a powerful
economic impact.

Of course the UAE is not the only complicit actor. Our comrades have
reported that UK-made weapons have found their way into Sudan, likely
via the UAE. We must pressure all states to enact an arms embargo on
countries that are supplying the warring sides in Sudan. The UK also has
a historic complicity, as the anti-Black racism of the RSF forces builds
on the legacy of Britain's divide-and-conquer colonial rule in Sudan.

Through the Palestine solidarity movement, we have seen that the real
key to international solidarity is building the organized power and
political consciousness of the working class. Without the power of mass
organization, international solidarity becomes the same small circle of
activists moving from issue to issue, "raising awareness" without
creating a material impact. The docker strikes in Italy were made
possible by decades of class struggle. But the dedicated, slow, rooted
organizing of class power through many struggles built the capacity to
put meaningful international solidarity into practice. The most
effective thing that we can do for freedom in Sudan is to fight for
revolution at home against the global racist imperialist war machine.

With the global solidarity of the dominated classes and our
revolutionary organizations, we can support our comrades struggling for
freedom and survival in Sudan, stop the genocide, end the war, and
continue the unfinished work of the Sudanese revolution.

Signed by the following members of the International Coordination of
Organized Anarchism:

(Anarchist Yondae)[Korea]
ACF - Anarchist Communist Federation
ACG - Anarchist Communist Group
BRRN - Black Rose Anarchist Federation / Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra
CAB - Coordenação Anarquista Brasileira
Die Plattform
Embat
FAR - Federación Anarquista de Rosario
FAS - Federación Anarquista Santiago
FAU - Federación Anarquista Uruguaya
La Tordo Negro - organización anarquista entrerriana
Midada
OAC - Organización Anarquista de Córdoba
OASC - Organización Anarquista de Santa Cruz
OAT - Organización Anarquista de Tucumán
ORA - Organización Resistencia Anarquista (Buenos Aires)
Organización Impulso Anarquista (Neuquén-Río Negro)
TA - Tekosîna Anarsîst
UCL - Union Communiste Libertaire
Vía Libre Grupo Libertario
Anarchist Group in Sudan

https://www.blackrosefed.org/solidarity-with-the-struggle-against-war-in-sudan/
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