From Sudan to Palestine: Stand with All Peoples Fighting for Freedom and Self-Determination

Statement of the People of Color Commission, SPUSA

Horrific news of Genocide has been coming out of Sudan in the latest attack by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in south-western Sudan against the non-Arab Masalit indigenous people. The RSF is led by a former Janjaweed militia commander. It split from the military junta which took power in a military coup in 2021.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is one of the supporters and weapons supplier to the RSF. The UAE, through its support for the RSF seeks to gain control of the rich mineral resources, particularly gold, and land in the area as well as eventual control of access to the Red Sea to counter Yemeni Houthi control of the Bab Al Mandib in the South.

The UAE with its ties to the Zionist Entity has been silent and enabling Genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and is rumored to support some of the collaborator militias. The fight of Palestinians in occupied Palestine and the Sudanese people in Darfur is one and the same. It is a fight of indigenous peoples against oppression and subjugation in a geopolitical game for control of resources and denying the right of peoples to self-determination and control of their own destiny. We, in the Socialist Party USA People of Color Commission stand in solidarity with the Sudanese people of Darfur and the Palestinian People in their struggle for freedom. We demand that all those responsible of committing acts of Genocide and those who support them by providing the weapons as well as political and diplomatic cover be held to account for their war crimes. Freedom to the People of Sudan and of Palestine. Freedom to all Peoples fighting for their right to self-determination.