Statement of the ILPS
The International League of Peoples’ Struggle condemns the imperialist attempt to carve up Sudan through a genocidal proxy war that has pitted rival factions against each other for no other reason than to secure access to minerals, transport routes, and political influence along the Red Sea and East Africa. The Sudanese people have weathered many years of brutal war and aspire for a just and lasting peace. The world’s people must rally in solidarity with them and expose the imperialist nature of the war in Sudan so that the system itself can be confronted and changed.
The imperialist scramble for Sudan mirrors past methods of carving up countries for political influence and access to markets and raw materials. The US and NATO worked to destabilize and break apart Yugoslavia in the 1990s to take advantage of a weakened Russia and Eastern Bloc countries after the fall of the Soviet Union. The US would do the same with Iraq, and more recently Libya and Syria, invading these countries and then backing various warring factions to keep the countries destabilized and easy to politically manipulate. This has already happened in Sudan when the US backed the violent 2013 secession of South Sudan that severed over 25% of the country and kept both countries mired in civil war.
This shows that the imperialists are carrying out a similar plan for partitioning African countries the same way they are trying to carve up and partition countries in the Arab world. Establishing fragmented states with internal wars in the whole region is the ultimate goal so that “Israel” would be the only major power controlling the region and all natural resources. The war in Sudan, along with the war in Democratic Republic of Congo, the genocide in Gaza, the regime change and fragmentation of Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Lebanon over the past years, and the aggression against Yemen and Iran are all part of the same imperialist campaign to carve up and crush peoples’ resistance in the entire regions of West Asia and Africa.
Over 150,000 people have been killed in Sudan since the war started between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo Musa “Hemedti”. The war has destroyed many cities and villages, hamletted and displaced millions of people, and created one of the most severe famines in the world akin to the forced starvation of Palestinians by the Zionist occupation. 25 million people face acute food insecurity while over 14 million are internally displaced.
Since the recent capture of El-Fasher by the RSF, at least 2,000 civilians were summarily massacred, while mass rape of women has been used as a patriarchal tool of war, encouraged from the highest levels of command. Over 25,000 people have fled El-Fasher since then.
Following the popular uprising that toppled former President Omar al-Bashir, al-Burhan and Hemedti, who both previously served Bashir together, began a bloody war for political influence, leading to the war that fully erupted in 2023. The US, who attempted for years to overthrow Bashir to seize Sudan’s strategic Red Sea coast and many mineral reserves, now plays its hand carefully as its allies and proxies keep the conflict fueled from either side. One has only to look at the myriad of forces involved to see US imperialism’s fingerprints on the entire crisis in Sudan.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), a willing US puppet in the Gulf region, has emerged as the RSF’s chief backer, supplying them with weapons, vehicles, and financial support. The RSF-controlled areas of Sudan contain some of the richest gold reserves in the country, which the UAE then smuggles back to Abu Dhabi through the black market and sells openly to foreign buyers as the world’s largest gold market.
Zionist Mossad agents have also advised RSF leaders. This is because the RSF has been used by the UAE as paramilitaries in Yemen, fighting to topple the Ansar Allah government. In this way, the Zionist entity’s involvement in the Sudan war has been a means to fuel its own proxy war in Yemen against the Axis of Resistance.
Meanwhile, the SAF has been backed by US allies such as Egypt, Turkiye, and even Ukraine until Russia began backing the SAF. This exposes the US’s complicity in supporting both sides through the conflicting political and economic interests of its regional proxies.
Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa are also involved in the war, with Chad, Kenya, and Ethiopia supporting the RSF, mirroring the many African countries that backed different sides in the Second Congo War, one of the most brutal proxy wars in history that has sometimes been referred to as the “African World War.”
The US has chosen to allow its puppets in the region to pull the strings of the Sudan war so as to profit off of weapons sales to both sides and hope that its rivals like Russia and Iran can become weakened through the regional instability. It must be understood that the US is the primary player responsible for Sudan’s crisis and the genocidal levels of violence and upheaval being inflicted on the people of the country.
In light of the dire crisis for the Sudanese people, the ILPS joins with the freedom-loving people of the world in calling for urgent action to halt the mass killings and forced starvation that is putting millions at risk. The people must demand an immediate halt to the food, medicine, and fuel blockades of both sides that are in violation of international law and leading to many preventable deaths.
Ultimately, the League calls for an increase in militant action to expose and oppose US imperialism’s machinations in the Sudanese proxy war and for all foreign backers of the war to be confronted so that their attempts to carve up Sudan become no longer tenable. Only by confronting the imperialist system itself, most notably by confronting imperialism’s puppet governments that willfully act on its behalf, will we see an end to the war, genocide, and plunder that the people struggle so heroically to be rid of to this day.
Signed,
International League of Peoples’ Struggle
