WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #15-25 - Why become an anarchist in Sudan? (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 We publish this text published in the first issue of Espoir in

January-February 2025, a French and Arabic-language newspaper of
political and literary criticism edited by the Sudanese Anarchist Group
and the French CNT-AIT ---- This question has always tormented me, on
several occasions, in a country characterized by its ideological,
cultural, ethnic, tribal and political diversity - where there would be
an infinite number of choices, none of which can be exercised freely.
Since your birth, your identity in Sudan is defined by religion, in the
same way your tribal affiliation plays a crucial role in shaping your
culture and even your destiny.

To become an anarchist in Sudan, you must already have managed to free
yourself from all these imposed identities and the suffocating
restrictions that push us into the furnace of the State.

Sudan is a country where war, crises or diseases have not ended. Its
people, steeped in military, religious and tribal ideologies, are the
perfect fuel for conflict.

In such a country, I have always looked at my life with amazement.

Our battles often resemble action movies - it may be strange or
unbelievable for foreigners - where survival means constantly running
away from warring factions and dodging a barrage of bullets fired
directly at you.

Bullets from the state, religion, tribe, sect and armed factions.

Your choice to be an anarchist is the expression of a real awareness of
the failure of these systems. It is the awareness that pushes you to the
extreme limits of practical struggle and profound human experience. This
choice leads to only two results. Either you remain a true revolutionary
resistance or you are swept away by the whirlwind of power.

Just as power in Sudan takes many forms, the opposition also has many
faces. There are political resistance movements, parties, mercenary
armed groups and militias that are described as revolutionary and
liberal but built on tribal structures, as well as cultural factions
imbued with ideologies of authoritarian propaganda. These intertwined
hierarchies are at the root of the crises of the Sudanese people. Sudan,
in reality, is nothing more than a small group of peoples locked in a
state that exercises brutal authority and does not recognize any human
rights outside of its own interests.

In addition, the ideology of Islamist extremists has played another role
in the worsening of ignorance and backwardness in Sudan. Trying to cope
with all this as a single anarchist is like fighting like a wolf in the
midst of a pack of hyenas. If they find a weakness in you, it will
inevitably be your defeat. The path to follow begins with finding people
who share your ideas, developing them and transmitting knowledge and
education to them. As an anarchist, you feel that your mission, wherever
you are and whatever your ability, is to spread freedom. The price of
this freedom can be high: it may cost you your life. All this, however,
is only a small contribution to the balance of liberation that people
need to live a dignified and humane life.

Freedom is the highest state of being, and anarchism shows us how to
achieve it and practice it. Freedom is not just a poetic word for
aspirations: it is an effort, a commitment to be free with oneself and
with others, and a struggle to make freedom a reality. Being 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

https://umanitanova.org/perche-diventare-anarchico-in-sudan/
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