On the Genocide in Sudan
Liberation stands in unflinching solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Darfur and broader Sudan who are confronting yet another eruption of genocide rooted in imperialist-backed paramilitarism and uneven exchange. For decades, the region of Darfur has been the target of mass violence, displacement, and extermination by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia, whose origin lies in the genocidal campaign waged by the Janjaweed under the former regime of Omar al‑Bashir.
As the RSF renews its assault against the non-Arab, indigenous communities of Darfur, the politics of international complicity are laid bare. The Gulf state of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been documented by US intelligence and human-rights investigations as a key supplier of advanced weaponry, drones, logistics, and financial support to the RSF regime of terror.
Sudan's weapons, gold, and assets are not merely local spoils but pieces in an imperial chain. The UAE profits from the extraction of Sudanese resources while the Sudanese workers, peasants, and Indigenous masses suffer the violence and terror required to maintain that extraction. The RSF functions as the paramilitary guard of a regime that imposes unequal exchange upon the periphery, while the UAE anchors that extraction in global capital networks.
We assert the following:
- Genocide is underway: The seizure of El‑Fasher by the RSF, followed by mass killings, summary executions, house-to-house door-to-door clearances, and targeted ethnic violence against Fur, Zaghawa, and Berti communities constitutes genocide under the framework of the Genocide Convention.
- UAE‐imperialist complicit action: The UAE’s supply of weapons, Chinese drones sub-contracted via the UAE, logistics via Bosaso and other hubs, and the financing of RSF gold networks all amount to a colonial continuation where Gulf capital profits from violence in the global South while directly aiding paramilitary genocidal forces in Sudan.
- Arms trade must cease: States in the imperial core, particularly the US, UK, and France, who continue arms exports to the UAE, despite evidence of diversion and misuse, must be held accountable. Their complicity in prolonging a genocidal war cannot be ignored.
- Self-determination for the oppressed: The peoples of Darfur and Sudan must be supported in their struggle to dismantle the RSF regime, uproot paramilitarism, and establish genuine people’s power rooted in worker-peasant alliances and anti-imperialist solidarity, rather than being confined to humanitarian relief or elite-brokered peace deals.
- Global working-class solidarity is not simply a “regional conflict” but a facet of the worldwide class war. The same forces that bankroll paramilitaries in Sudan are connected to global capital, which exploits labour in the Global South, extracts resources under unequal exchange, and deploys violence to maintain capital accumulation. Workers in the imperial core, “lumpen proletariat” sectors, and the working poor globally must recognise that our enemy is common, and our solidarity must be transnational.
Immediate demands:
- The RSF must be designated a Foreign Terrorist Organisation by all parties. All aid, arms, and diplomatic support for it must be cut off.
- The UAE must be subject to targeted sanctions, its arms trade audited, and companies supplying the RSF must be frozen and prosecuted.
- A complete and independent international tribunal must investigate the genocide in Darfur and hold the RSF leadership and external backers accountable.
- A genuine cease-fire, humanitarian corridors, and the demilitarisation of civilian zones must be enforced immediately, with protection by a multinational anti-imperialist force under civilian oversight.
- Reparations and self-managed reconstruction for Darfur’s Indigenous communities: land return, housing, resources, and control of governance must be secured.
We declare: the genocide in Sudan is not an accident of history or a “civil war” in isolation; it is the escalation of imperialist war, paramilitary extraction, and global capitalist accumulation. To confront it, we must adopt a strategy rooted in dialectical materialism: analyzing the concrete class forces, imperial relations, the contradiction between capital and labor, and mobilizing the oppressed internationally. In solidarity with Darfur’s workers, peasants, women, youth, and Indigenous people, we pledge to fight until the RSF is dismantled, the UAE’s arming of genocide is ended, and a new Sudan rooted in class emancipation and anti-imperialist justice rises.
Liberation
November 3, 2025
