The Masses Remain Capable of Action and Change: Sudanese CP

Via the Sudanese Communist Party Political Bureau

Mass Communiqué

On the Seventieth Anniversary of Independence and the Seventh Anniversary of the Glorious December Revolution: The Masses Remain Capable of Action and Change

As our country marks the seventieth anniversary of independence and the seventh anniversary of the Glorious December Revolution, our people confront one of the gravest moments in the nation’s history. The condition of a collapsed state is embodied in two de facto authorities that divide the country between Port Sudan and Nyala, waging a bloody struggle over power and wealth while hurling millions into the inferno of war and displacement, violating human dignity, and destroying the very foundations of life and survival.

In the face of this catastrophic reality, the vanguard of our people has taken to the streets in cities and villages alike to commemorate the Revolution, affirming that December was not a fleeting episode but an ongoing revolutionary process. These peaceful mobilizations were met with brutal repression - live ammunition, arbitrary arrests, systematic abuses, and the confiscation of fundamental rights and freedoms - exposing without equivocation the true nature of these authorities as regimes hostile to the masses, viewing the people as an obstacle to their class-bound and authoritarian projects.

Despite their constraints under repression and war, these actions have laid bare the panic gripping the counter-revolutionary forces: senior military officers, remnants of the Islamist movement, and their allied militias entrenched at the center of power. Conversely, they have demonstrated an advanced level of political consciousness among democratic national forces, their capacity to read the balance of forces, and their transition from phases of defense and regroupment to direct mass action - placing principled positions in the public sphere and reaffirming the continuity of peaceful struggle for freedom, peace, and justice, the unifying slogan of the Glorious December Revolution.

This mass upsurge confirms beyond doubt that the revolutionary spark has not been extinguished, and that the masses - when forearmed with conscious grassroots organization and revolutionary leadership - are capable of breaking the equations of repression and war and thwarting the designs of counter-revolutionary forces.

From the earliest battles for independence, despite the vacillation and collusion of dominant political elites - between those who advocated unity with Egypt and those who proposed a truncated independence through accession to the Commonwealth - the democratic national forces, foremost among them our Party, raised the banner of full independence and the right of self-determination. Through persistent mass work among workers and farmers, trade unions, the student movement, intellectuals, and women, the independent national option was imposed upon political leaderships, and independence became a historical reality wrested by the people through organized action.

The December Revolution came as the culmination of a long accumulation of struggles and experiences. From the experience of the National Democratic Alliance, to the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and the subsequent participation in governing institutions, our people - and their democratic national forces - learned, through the dialectic of trial and error, the falsity of illusions about reform from within an authoritarian, class-based power structure. With revolutionary awareness, they moved from participation to opposition, and ultimately to the overthrow of the regime.

This transformation rested on young revolutionary vanguards and on mass organizational alternatives forged by the independent movement of the people. At the initiative of the Sudanese Communist Party, Popular Resistance Committees were formed as a living expression of democratic grassroots organization and as a revolutionary alternative to the mass organizations usurped and destroyed by the regime of the Muslim Brotherhood. As the struggle evolved and popular participation expanded, this organizational form developed into broader and more deeply rooted structures known as Resistance Committees, within which the slogans of struggle crystallized and were translated into clear political demands: the overthrow of the regime and the construction of a democratic popular authority that expresses the interests of the toiling majority.

Today, after more than two years of a devastating war waged by parasitic economic interests and rival military and security bureaucracies - forces that see the homeland as mere spoils and seek to tether it to competing external axes - urgent tasks present themselves before the grassroots mass movement. Foremost among these are: the immediate cessation of the war; the unconditional opening of humanitarian corridors; the restoration of the revolutionary path; the consolidation of civilian democratic governance; the guarantee of non-impunity; the withdrawal of the military, the Rapid Support Forces, and all militias from politics and the economy; the dismantling of the empowerment system and the recovery of looted public assets; and the completion of comprehensive security arrangements leading to the dissolution of all militias and armed movement forces and the building of a unified, professional national army under civilian oversight.

These tasks can be accomplished only through organized mass action, as the true gateway to resolving the comprehensive national crisis and paving the way for building an inclusive democratic national alternative - one that safeguards the independence of national will and the unity of the country in land and people, realizes justice, peace, and balanced development, severs relations of dependency and regional and international polarization, and gives authentic expression to Sudan’s sovereignty and independence.

Glory and immortality to the martyrs.

Inevitable victory to the struggle of the masses.

Long live the struggle of the Sudanese people for peace, freedom, and justice.

Political Bureau of the Sudanese Communist Party

Sunday, 28 December 2025