Reading Details of Sudan’s War (3-3)

By: Ibrahim Al-Bashir Al-Kabbashi

The history of the peoples who waged struggles that led to the harbors of emancipation and then renaissance tells us that they were able to produce their leaders who were born from the placenta of sincerity, integrity, solidity, and detachment. They are not terrified by the threat of an enemy, nor are they lured by the temptation of money or prestige, nor are they disturbed by any thoughts of betrayal… and there are many of them. Those who are motivated by the solid value of Sudanese patriotism must highlight these fortified leaders with a vigilant precaution against what Abul-Rahman Al-Kawakibi called “unfortunate slavery,” represented by foreign infiltrations and dictates. In Al-Kawakibi’s words in his book “The Natures of Tyranny”: “When another country seizes the opportunity (the opportunity for uncontrolled distraction), it seizes control of the country, and renews the captivity of the servants with little effort, so the nation enters another role of ill-fated slavery.” Al-Kawakibi was writing in the year 1899, that is, one hundred and twenty years before the “unfortunate slavery” came to the people of Sudan between the years 2019 and 2024 and beyond.
The masses of Sudanese have responded to the duties of national liberation, with vigilance and attention matched only by the outburst of their ancestors in Mahdia a century and a half ago. As insightful people say: Awakening is the disturbance of the heart due to the fear of the situation, and gain insight to realize the transgression. Without profound benefit from the lesson, no conversation can lead us to sustainable salvation. It is also not useful for us to dwell on what we are accustomed to from the old structures of political action.. because, firstly, they are variable efforts and systematic methods, not ideological constants. Secondly, because it suited a past political theatre, the current war created astonishing facts that Sudan had not witnessed in its medieval and contemporary history. What the majority of the people of Sudan have come to realize today is that insisting on adopting the tools and structures that many politicians have adopted in the past in terms of tools and structures through which they practice their party activity, and insisting on that as circumstances and situations change, only means abolishing the insight that indicates the characteristics of the current dominance, which is represented by ambitions of vigorous colonialism. This outdated, rigid approach inevitably leads to the formation of a situation that threatens the existence of the entire state and what is in it and who is on it. It is the duty of everyone – therefore – to create a national alignment that responds positively to the challenges of national liberation that arise.
We cannot tire of saying that sticking to the old patterns of political action has contributed greatly to producing our current crisis reality. The old patterns of political action will not lead us to a better goal than what we are experiencing today. The people of Sudan are not required to drink the entire Red Sea until they are sure that it is bitter and untestable and not suitable for their lives. What we have tasted of the reality of the past decades is more than enough. This goes without saying that the all movement of political society is not structural-organizational stagnation that does not change, even if everything around it changes. Change, as well as adaptation, is one of the characteristics of effectiveness in every political or administrative system.
Millions of Sudanese today have a rare opportunity to organize around one goal: the goal of liberation from the shackles of colonialism, occupation, and foreign ambitions, which dominate us by origin and by proxy. What is available from the interactions of the scene indicates to us only two paths: Either liberation or enslavement… Either rising or falling… Either up or down… Either rising without a ceiling or falling without a bottom… “For whoever of you wishes to advance or fall behind”… What is available to us requires wide scope systematic change in engaging in national work.
Researchers say: A person changes for two reasons: when he suffers or when he learns… when he suffers more than a normal person can bear… and when he learns through harsh experience and clear proof. There is no doubt that the people of Sudan have suffered enough from both causes.
No nation has been afflicted with calamities as great as what has befallen us, but that was the strongest driver of its alertness…a mental and emotional alertness that transforms what died in the folds of heedlessness and indifference into motivated attention. In the past, it was attributed to Imam Ali, may God bless him and grant him peace, that he said: “People are asleep, so when they die, they wake up.” All this I say is nothing but a call to attention from the natural and moral death that has befallen the people of Sudan, just as it is a call to establish a sustainable political society that is secure, mature and stable. A vision that constantly seeks to capture the lessons of the circumstantial trinity within which awakening arises and sermons are generated, absorbing the lessons of the past and present and the demands of the future. In conjunction with this, we also call for the interaction of another three-dimensional syndrome, which not all stable political systems have overcome, which is the syndrome of political thought, political institutions, and political performance… good political thought that is consistent with the roots and characteristics of its societal reality, and expressive political institutions. About the necessities of our human existence, committed to the contents of that rational thought, and disciplined political performance according to the standards of political thought and its institutional templates.
The masses of the people of Sudan, who are lined up in the Army of Dignity, must elect people of honesty, steadfastness and loyalty (the youth in particular) as their leaders towards liberation. National Liberation Shura Councils must be organized from the smallest population center until the Sudanese National Liberation Parliament is formed, its leaders are elected, and it undertakes all the tasks and requirements of liberation: military, political, financial, and others. It is always better for the National Liberation Council to carry out all the duties of this stage, both internally and externally… and to strive to protect the country against the intrusions of “unfortunate slavery” that were previously mentioned.
Fourthly:
The most significant consequence of the current war is the complete collapse of the economy in most of its sectors. With the spread of poverty and its extent expanding every day, millions of families returned to the basic support centers and spontaneously organized to revive solidarity relationships based on local and kinship foundations.
The public production sector no longer has a positive return on GDP. The government sector no longer has the resources to employ and support millions.
What was mentioned above applies to the banking sector. The traditional procedural standards for bank financing no longer exist. Preventing the risks of solid collateral financing led to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) occupying all real estate, plundering all fixed and movable assets, and destroying factories, stores, and banks or transferring them to the countries of the invading mercenaries. It is no longer possible for the normal cycle of the national economy to take place, even at the slightest rate. However, what is more appropriate for our topic is to devote effort to exploring the positive economic action approach that the Sudanese people and their government (when it is formed) can adopt in the face of this situation.
The most prominent title for the approach that does not seem to the country to be a way out that is more compatible with its reality is “social solidarity economy.”
This approach requires re-engineering the traditional economic movement based on the public sector and the private sector to accommodate a third sector that is more feasible at this stage. It is the social-solidarity economic sector, which was necessitated by the current circumstantial contexts. This is an approach whose goal is to include millions of people (particularly youth) in millions of diverse economic activities.
Within the limits of this space, I would like to point out that this approach was not established for me suddenly, nor was it the result of a Sudden thought or hasty idea. It did not form within days or months. Rather, it is a Sudanized design, drawn from dozens of experiments in dozens of countries, and I have directly observed their most effective results over a period of nearly a quarter of a century.
The conviction is increasing day by day that this program is the best scientific and practical option for our current reality, and the most feasible for lifting millions out of the state of poverty that is creeping closer to hitting every home.
The program is based on the integration of production factors: monetary capital, intellectual and administrative capital, and raw resources.
When the program was initially designed about a quarter of a century ago, it was targeting millions of young university graduates (more than 15 million young people, with about 300 scientific specializations, their ages in the first half of their twenties, etc.) in business, services, and small and medium industries, in the industrial and agricultural sectors, mining, services, etc.
The program, in its inception, was intended to satisfy the work desires of millions of young people. However, the paralysis resulting from the war’s repercussions made it the most suitable (and to a greater extent) for the entire country, but with four conditions for success. If one of them was left behind, its system would collapse, completely or partially.
The four conditions are detailed in the PowerPoint application, along with details of the procedural paths and standard work method.
It is necessary to point out here that this program does not replicate what is known as microfinance. It is also not equivalent to acts of charity, donations, and charitable acts of kindness, which by their nature are directed to treat an individual need, an emergency disaster, or a temporary humanitarian situation.
This is a comprehensive productive renaissance program. If the opportunity arises, I will be honored to review parts of its work in an hour and a half.
I wanted good.. and every person has what he has earned.. and upon Allah we depend to show us the path.
January 2024