ARCHIVE DOCUMENTS

The masses must unite in a broad front for democracy,
unions' rights, freedom of organization and expression,
ending the war, making peace, and improving living standards

The events that took place in the morning of Friday June 30, 1989, were nothing
but a military coup that aimed to destroy democracy and curtail the right of
citizens to freedom of organization and expression, the right to strike and the
labor rights that never were offered as a gift to the people of Sudan. These
were rights realized by the persistent struggle of people, the sacrifices of a
great many martyrs and thousands of those detained and made to live in
destitution, in addition to civilian and military prisoners. The struggles of
all these people culminated in the glorious Revolution of October and the
March/April's Uprising.

The occurrence of the coup has not only blasted democracy. It has equally
derogated a great heritage of struggles made by thousands of our people from
all political avenues with blood and the dearest sacrifices. It was under a
pretext of democracy failure that the coup leaders issued decrees and decisions
that suspended the constitution, disbanded constitutional institutions,
disbanded political parties, trades unions, and associations, and closed down
press institutions. A state of emergency was announced and a campaign of
dismissal from work, arrest of civil and military leaders continued unabated.
In less than 24 hours, all democratic freedoms for which the people of Sudan
struggled tens of years to exercise were eventually confiscated.

Democracy never failed as coup leaders claimed. With democracy and the right of
people to go strike, demonstrate, and express their opinions, the people of
Sudan were able to defend the sovereignty and independence of the country. They
aborted the conspiracy of Nimeiri who submitted to American wishes to set-up four
American bases, offered military facilities to foreign armies, and made of the
land of Sudan a military base for the NATO forces to strike liberation
movements, and interfere in the internal affairs and sovereignty of neighboring
states.

With democracy, our people stopped the Moses Operation as the worst conspiracy
of our times to transfer Falasha jews from behind the back of our people for
US$56 millions that were handed out to Nimeiri and assistants of his defunct
regime. The people of Sudan aborted with the glorious uprising of March/April
1985 the conspiracy against Sudan's sovereignty and independence.

The organized political movement with democratic means and the exercise of the
right to demonstrate and criticize with free expression in the press and
political functions successfully stopped the pursuit of the forces of reaction to
keep up the May September laws, tear apart the unity of Sudan, issue an Islamic
constitution, and establish an Islamic republic that would make of non-Muslims
second-class citizens.

The popular movement defeated warmongers and the military solution. The
popular movement enforced the peace solution on the government to negotiate
ending the war for peace making and the convening of a constitutional
conference on September 18, 1989. The masses were seriously determined to
achieve peace what ever the cost might have been.

Through trade unions and with democracy, the masses of workers, employees,
professionals, farmers, students, and other sections of the population defended
their rights and opted for more democracy to face out the deteriorating
economic conditions they suffered.

This is a small result of the fruition of the exercise of democratic rights
to assembly and expression. It is true there were loopholes in democratic rule
whether in the parliament or the election law as established or exercised by
some parties, journalists, and organizations. The solution is not to confiscate
democracy or to impose patronage system on people.

The solution lies in the increase of democracy by abandoning all the
legislation or measures that curtailed the right of people to free assembly and
expression. The people of Sudan are not minors or inexperienced people. They
have learned via democratic institutions and the workaday practice of democracy
how to correctly evaluate events and experiences, and they know what is good or
bad.

The political struggle the Uprising Forces experienced since the early days of
the Uprising against right-wing forces concerning democratic rule and the
expansion of democracy was crowned with the December 1988 Uprising and was
further supported by the well-reputed Memorandum of the Armed Forces. The
Uprising brought about the transitional program which was signed by all
parties - except for the National Islamic Front - and all trades unions and
associations.

The program forced the authority to recognize the new political reality, the
role modern forces played in political life, and the need to represent modern
forces in the Constituent Assembly in accordance with a new election law that
should realize the weight of these forces, the constituencies of cities and
modern production centers, and representation of the armed forces and the other
disciplinary forces in the Constituent Assembly.

That was a step forward. It was victory for the working masses and all modern
forces. It could have definitely led the Intifada Forces with a broader
struggle to make a favorable change in the Constituent Assembly.

The political dispute was thus moved with the increasing support of the masses
to enforce the necessary enhancement of democratic rule.

The June coup aborted this struggle that put under siege all of the forces that
had been antagonizing the struggle to broaden the base of democratic rule.

The various experiences of the people of Sudan against dictatorial rule
especially the dictatorship of the killer Nimeiri indicated that the attack against
our country's sovereignty, freedom, and independence always started with
attacks on democracy and the confiscation of the right of people to free
expression. The selling off of Sudan's national sovereignty and the right of
Sudan to plan on its own initiative internal and external policies became a
dangerous situation that is exacerbated by the existing collapse of the economy
and financial affairs due to inflation and the scarcity of basic commodities.
This situation can only be evaded by mobilizing the masses to apply democratic
economic measures with the full participation of workers to design the policy
of economy and production, distribution, democratic people's councils, and the
eradication of parasitic capitalism, underground market, smuggling, unlawful
storage of commodities, and the abuse of foreign currency exchange.

The activation of popular participation in State production institutions and
other economic entities motivates people to increase productivity and move away
from the crisis and the deteriorating economy. It shuts out the door before
begging for assistance under conditional foreign support.

The repressive measures the coup leaders imposed will certainly lead to
destruction and economic collapse as they excluded the masses from the exercise
of democratic freedoms. We already had concrete evidence from practices of the
isolated prices' courts and the other forms of suppression by Nimeiri that
proved the failure of all non-democratic measures to exclude people's
participation.

The experiences of our people indicated that transgressing democracy would have
no ends whenever it is started or any limited harm to political groups. The
killer Nimeiri's experience ascertained the fact that transgressing democracy
will turn into a single-candidate dictatorship, a fascist bloody rule that will
make of the country a large detention camp with unprecedented intrusion of
authority in the privacy of citizens and their freedoms. The people of Sudan
will never forget these dark days that made of Sudan a state of hell.

The people of Sudan recall these horrible days when citizens were compelled to
take with them marriage contracts and other personal documents to defend
themselves from accusation of adultery., when citizens would be expecting
arrest and detention for unlimited number of years or that their homes would be
searched for no reason, when they would be dismissed from work or tortured and
made criminals without offense. All these and other ill practices abandoned the
proper rule of the law and Nimeiri and his tools of suppression became the law.
Our people will definitely remember all these days as they listen to the
suppressive measures the coup leaders announced - measures that are the one and
same with those earlier imposed and implemented by the killer dictator Nimeiri.

Experience has taught, however, that the people of Sudan who made up the
October Revolution and the March/April Uprising, who made many subsequent
uprisings the last of which was the September 1988 Uprising all over Sudanese
cities, will never be frightened by repressive laws until the day they would
rise to eradicate these laws, the law-makers, and law enforcers.

Our party renews commitment to the Charter for Defense of Democracy as signed
by all parties, except the National Islamic Front, together with the Armed
Forces Command at that time, which says:

First: The democracy that is based on political pluralism, people's
sovereignty, independence of the judiciary, rule of law, and human rights is
the only way that is acceptable to us as a foundation for rule - a ruling
regime that guarantees human dignity and maintains the rights of humans to
participation, freedom, and justice as the rights endowed by God and no one who
ever is allowed to curtail.

Second: We absolutely reject any tendency or stand that aims to establish a
dictatorship, whether military or civilian, or aims to abort the democratic
system of rule for whatever reason that may be.

Based on all this, we call upon the masses of Sudanese people with all their
political orientation to form a broad front for the defense of democracy and
the restoration of peoples' rights to free expression, organization, strike,
movement, demonstration, and the other rights our people obtained through long
and persistent struggle.

The struggle for the return of democracy and rights, as ascertained by
experience, is never separate from the struggle for peace and the improvement
of the living standards of citizens. The workaday masses' program must be the
achievement of masses unity to struggle for democracy, peace, and bread.

No for the military dictatorship.
No for the continuity of war.
The will power of the triumphant people of Sudan must unite against coercion
and terrorism
Victory is for the people of Sudan

July 2, 1989
The Central Committee
Communist Party of Sudan