The Sudanese civil disobedience campaign against Austerity has achieved a tremendously impressive level of unity across the political spectrum, “including the Sudanese Congress Party, Democratic Unionist Party, Sudanese Communist Party, National Umma Party, Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/North and the Sudan Liberation Movement”. That should be a model for the region. Never let your differences with any group cause you to refuse collaboration on bigger issues about which you agree.
However, when I read statements like “The suffering of the [people] in the peripheries and the cities wouldn’t end unless the regime is toppled”, I have serious misgivings. The only way that this statement could actually be accurate is if the coalition of activists have prepared a program of alternative economic policies; because the fact remains that Sudan is in the grip of massive debt and under the iron fist of international lenders. In order to confront this, they will need a very strong dedication to alternative policies on a grassroots level.
We are living in an era in which the solution to oppression and deprivation is almost never going to be shuffling politicians and government administrations.