Solidarity with the Sudanese People, for Peace, Freedom and Democracy

We, the undersigned, participants in the 23^rd International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties, held in Izmir - Turkey, call for an immediate end to the ongoing catastrophic war in Sudan, that erupted on 15 April 2023. It has resulted in 9,000 people killed and more than five million people forcibly displaced.

This bloody war is a power struggle among the military rulers and the generals of both the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). Its aim is to crush the legitimate aspirations of the Sudanese people for freedom and democracy. It is fuelled by imperialist powers and their reactionary allies in the region, attempting to impose political schemes to serve their strategic interests and continue to control and plunder the Sudan’s natural resources and wealth.

We call for:

• The release of all the detainees held by both warring sides.
• The abolition of all the draconian laws suppressing freedoms.
• The creation of safe corridors to deliver urgent humanitarian aid.
• Bringing to Justice the perpetrators of crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide against the people in Khartoum, Darfur and Kordofan.
• Disbanding all the militias, including the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the withdrawal of the army to its barracks, and building a professional national army.
• Ending foreign intervention by imperialist powers and reactionary regimes in the region.
• Respecting Sudan’s national sovereignty and unity.

We reiterate our solidarity with the Sudanese people, their democratic forces and the fraternal Sudanese Communist Party, and firmly support their struggle for freedom, democracy, social justice, and building a democratic civil authority.

SolidNet Parties signing the Solidarity Statement

1. Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism
2. Communist Party of Australia
3. Communist Party of Azerbaijan
4. The Party of Labour of Austria
5. Democratic Progressive Tribune
6. Workers' Party of Belgium
7. Communist Party of Britain
8. Communist Party of Canada
9. The Socialist Workers' Party of Croatia
10. The Progressive Party of the Working People
11. Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
12. Communist Party of Denmark
13. Communist Party of Finland
14. French Communist Party
15. Unified Communist Party of Georgia
16. German Communist Party
17. Communist Party of Greece
18. Hungarian Workers' Party
19. Communist Party of India
20. Communist Party of India (Marxist)
21. Iraqi Communist Party
22. Communist Party of Kurdistan – Iraq
23. TUDEH - Party of Iran
24. Communist Party of Ireland
25. Workers' Party of Ireland (Official)
26. The Workers' Party of Ireland
27. Lebanese Communist Party
28. Communist Party of Luxembourg
29. Communist Party of Mexico
30. Popular Socialist Party of Mexico
31. New Communist Party of the Netherlands
32. Communist Party of Macedonia
33. Communist Party of Norway
34. Communist Party of Pakistan
35. Palestinian Communist Party
36. Palestinian People's Party
37. Paraguayan Communist Party
38. Portuguese Communist Party
39. Communist Party of the Russian Federation
40. Communists of Serbia
41. New Communist Party of Yugoslavia (NKPJ)
42. South African Communist Party
43. Communist Party of the Peoples' of Spain
44. Communist Party of the Workers' of Spain
45. Communist Party of Spain
46. Communists of Catalonia
47. Communist Party of Sweden
48. Syrian Communist Party Unified
49. Swiss Communist Party
50. Sudanese Communist Party
51. Communist Party of Turkey
52. Communist Party of USA
53. Communist Party of Venezuela

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