25/3/2022: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung – It’s the Economy (Too), Stupid!, by Muzan Alneel

Muzan Alneel, cofounder of the ISTiNAD think-tank, suggests that a Sustainable Development Commission proposed by the Resistance Committees implements economic transformation via industrialisation policies that produce the surplus value necessary to establish inclusive health, education, housing and employment systems in Sudan based on a people-centred approach that minimises public harm.

Industrialisation would alleviate the “curse” of the rentier economy, which Alneel attributes to Sudan’s instability. Alneel argues that the revenues generated from Sudan’s limited extractive resources require oppression and primarily benefit security forces and militias that dominate them - at the expense of national development.

Alneel adds that Sudanese civil society acknowledges the curse as the “root cause” of national issues, but it is not discussed in UN consultations, while the civilian component of the transitional government ignored proposals for alternatives in 2020.