The Masses Make History and Must Fight for a Communist World
November 17— Genocide has been committed by local and rivaling world capitalists for years. It continues in Gaza, where the Israeli rulers have killed more than 69,187 Palestinians. Maybe 200,000. More than 1.9 million have been forced to abandon their former homes. All the hospitals have been destroyed. The living conditions are horrifying, especially amid recent floods.
But in the face of all this, the resilient Palestinian masses survive through collective efforts. They continue their resistance and their fight for a different world.
Many remember the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan twenty years ago. Another genocide rages in Sudan today, also orchestrated by local and world capitalists. Official figures show that, in the ongoing war and genocide in this African country, at least 150,000 people have been killed. The real death toll is much higher. More than 12 million people have been forced to flee their homes. The healthcare system has been devastated. Over 70% of hospitals are not functioning. There are epidemics of diseases such as cholera and measles.
Yet the Sudanese masses have a long and notable history of mass popular resistance. They have successfully made revolutions and ousted dictators in the past. That resistance continues.
Geopolitics and Genocide
Sudan is important to the world’s capitalists because of its geostrategic location at the crossroads of sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. It has significant natural resources. It plays a crucial role in the management of the Nile River and regional trade. The rivaling world capitalists are willing to destroy the Sudanese population to control the territory.
Two factions vie for control. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) represents the government and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) the opposition. Rivaling world capitalists have armed, trained, and supported both factions, often both at the same time.
The war and genocide reached a peak after a Framework Agreement was proposed in December 2022. Its purpose was to integrate the RSF into the regular army and establish a civilian government. However, Russia viewed the plan as a Western-backed project (US, Europe, and others). Today, the war and genocide continue in Sudan.
International capitalists, including the United Arab Emirates and Russia, stood to lose the most from the plan. Those that would gain the most would be the US, Europe, Iran, and Türkiye.
Chinese-made weapons, indirectly transferred through the United Arab Emirates (UAE), are currently being used in the civil war. Amnesty International recently identified that Chinese-made GB50A guided bombs and 155mm AH-4 howitzers had been used in Sudan. The weapons were manufactured by the Norinco Group, also known as China North Industries Group Corporation Limited, a state-owned corporation.
In Gaza as well as in Sudan it is international capitalists—from the West, Russia, China, and the Middle East—that are causing the horrors of genocide. These capitalists are prepared for total destruction of our working-class brothers and sisters around the world.
But the masses are indestructible, as they have shown in Gaza and Sudan.
Only Communism Can End Genocidal Capitalism
The Sudanese Communist Party (SCP) was founded in 1946. It became a major force in that region. The SCP and the masses played an instrumental role in the October 1964 Revolution. The party brought people together from all ethnic groups and belief communities. In Sudan it was the only which involved women in leadership.
However, the SCP did not mobilize for communism and the heroic masses’ actions did not lead to the overthrow of capitalism with communist revolution. Something we all must do now.
The masses everywhere remain present and combative. The genocide in Gaza has mobilized the entire world. Student strikes, massive street demonstrations, even some soldiers refusing orders and joining the resistance, prove what the masses are capable of. Industrial workers and soldiers are key.
Comrade Hamza in Gaza, faced with the horrors of the genocide and having witnessed the collectivism of the Gazan masses’ resistance and survival, declared: “I have seen the future, and the future is communism.” Comrades there are building the International Communist Workers’ Party. The working class in Sudan and everywhere must do the same.
Our party is finding, everywhere we organize, that masses are open to communism as the only answer to war and genocide. From Gaza to Sudan, from India to El Salvador, from the United States to South Africa, to every corner of the Earth, let’s make communism a reality!
Read our manifesto: Mobilize the Masses for Communism available here