SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Jacobin - The People of Sudan Don’t Want to Share Power With Their Military Oppressors
Muzan Alneel, co-founder of ITSinaD think-tank, compares the revolutionary role of the resistance committees (RCs) to the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) political parties.
Alneel notes that protesters described the FFC’s power-sharing agreement with the military as “the partnership of blood…that came at the cost of ignoring both criminal justice for the revolution’s martyrs and economic justice for the living” with the FFC accused of economic policies that “led to terrifying levels of inflation and an increase in the cost of living that exceeded 300 percent,” which subsequently invited the coup.
As the RCs became “the voice of the street, confronting the transitional government’s unwillingness to create tools of democratic participation in political decision-making”, Alneel attributes “their total rejection of compromises with the military and closed-room negotiations with Sudan’s political club,” to the RCs primary commitment being to their respective neighbourhoods rather than political alliances or international donors.