Perseverance in the Workforce

Othman Jalal

(1)
The slogans of the December 2018 revolution, led by the leaders of the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), “Progress, Perseverance,” were merely deceptive facades aimed at ascending to power. When the revolutionaries deserted them, their second means of staying in power became their alliance with the military leadership and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), extending the transitional period to fifteen years, as exposed by the late Hemetti. In fact, they were even willing to serve as a civilian political incubator for a new autocratic regime, were it not for the army leadership’s realization that such a scenario would either lead to a civil war or the disintegration of Sudan. Thus, the military severed its ties with them following the decisions of October 25, 2021.
The third means of returning to power was the framework agreement in December 2022. When this failed to convince the military leadership, which had adopted the slogan of consensus among all political forces as a condition for managing the transitional phase, they resorted to forming an alliance with Hemetti to pressure the army leadership into agreeing to a power-sharing deal.

(2)
In all these stages, the lack of interest from the leaders of the SPA / Progress / Perseverance alliance in soft power—ideas, awareness, the revolutionaries, and the community—became evident. They preferred to rely on hard power, namely the army and the RSF militia.
The desperate behavior of the SPA leaders towards power led to the growing influence of external plans, especially those of Israel and the UAE, which aimed at aborting the December revolution by excluding the revolutionaries and the community and preventing the revolution from achieving a sustainable democratic transformation.
Achieving the revolution’s slogans would have meant fulfilling the aspirations of the Sudanese community in governance, politics, economy, culture, and development, thereby elevating Sudan to the status of a major regional power. This would have also encouraged Arab and African nations to follow the Sudanese model of revolution. Such a scenario contradicts Israel’s concept of strategic security, as well as the autocratic regimes in the Arab and African surroundings, and the semi-feudal bourgeois regimes in the Arabian Gulf. It also opposes the ambitions of the criminal Mohammed bin Zayed to dominate our economic resources, natural resources, and seaports.

(3)
When the Israeli and Emirati plan failed to achieve its objectives through the Sudanese army leadership, they turned to form a tactical alliance between the SPA leadership as a civilian political incubator and Hemetti’s militia to destroy the army in a devastating and surprise military operation, and then replace the army with the RSF. The next step was to eliminate the leaders of the Progress Alliance and establish an autocratic, functional, and dynastic regime led by Hemetti and his family, as occurred in the failed scenario on April 15, 2023.
After the failure of plan (A), the Israeli and Emirati plan invested in the alliance between the SPA leadership and Hemetti’s militia to implement plan (B), which was to destroy Sudan’s infrastructure, ignite a war of all against all, and dismantle Sudan into small states based on deadly identity conflicts.

(4)
The Sudanese people’s solidarity with the army in the Battle of Dignity thwarted the plan to tear apart Sudan. So, what is plan (C) for the Israeli and Emirati alliance?
This evil alliance understands that the inevitable victory of the Sudanese people and army in the Battle of Dignity marks the birth of a comprehensive civilizational renaissance, with all of Sudanese society as its foundation. Therefore, they resorted to the negotiation tactic to re-establish the alliance between the SPA leadership and Hemetti’s militia in the national political arena. When this plan failed as well, they resorted to the illusionary separation tactic between soft power (the “Perseverance” group) to continue investing in civilian political power over hard power, and expanding this by recruiting mercenary Abel Helo and other political opportunists to form a parallel government in what are called the RSF-controlled areas. This tactical step aims to gather regional and international political and diplomatic support and rebuild the military capabilities of the Daqlo militia to strike against the Sudanese state. The goal is then to eliminate allies in the Perseverance group and the foundational forces, and if this scenario fails, the plan involves creating a functional state in Greater Darfur and parts of Kordofan. But, alas.

(5)
The leaders of the political forces in their transformations from SPA to Progress to Perseverance have proven they never left the station of dependence and perseverance in serving the Israeli-Emirati plan. They have gained the skills of acting, regardless of the role history’s grand drama assigns them. If there is no role available other than that of a scoundrel, they are willing to accept it rather than remain outside the play. They were deceived by history and thus became its fools, to use Hannah Arendt’s expression.
The war makers abroad see this as a zero-sum game, and despite the signs of victory, I expect the worst-case scenario: direct Israeli and Emirati military intervention under the guise of the parallel entity currently being formed in Nairobi, or enticing neighboring countries with bribes to support the militia militarily.
Our duty is to maintain a state of general mobilization, to awaken the entire Sudanese society to fight side by side with the army, and to activate military operations in Darfur and Kordofan until every speck of dirt defiled by the wicked militia is cleansed.
The unity and alignment of the leadership, people, and army is the key to victory in the Battle of Dignity and national honor.