Sudan and Algeria: Presidents fall, resists the regime

After 30 Y 20 years in power, mobilizations were shot Omar al-Bashir and Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The military seized power to support the old regimes and the people continue to mobilize to oust them. On our site you will find several publications on new Arab rebellions, in this case update.

Sudan

Popular protests began in December 2018 before rising bread. The protests took place until the 6 of April, coinciding with the celebration of 34 anniversary of the riots 1985, thousands of Sudanese were concentrated around the headquarters of the Armed Forces in Khartoum, until that moment, the Army had not intervened.

Units of riot police tried to evict the protesters causing deaths and injuries. Finally, mobilization prevailed and security forces announced they would no longer repress. So the fall of dictator Omar al-Bashir was sealed. Were 30 years of despotic power, wealth for the few, hunger and hardship for the great majority, of corruption, Delivery and looting IMF.

The former president was arrested by the army at the Presidential Palace. The people celebrated the achievement, which it is not without contradictions and dangers. The armed forces seized power and took measures "emergency": suspension of the Constitution, closure of the Khartoum International Airport, collaborators arrest al-Bashir at the headquarters of the Islamic Movement and other. According to General Awad Ibn Awf, They will rule for two years with the launch of a Transitional Council.

It is a great paradox of reality: soldiers who were critical of the dictatorship for years, They turned their backs to be his boss and perched on a power that is not theirs.

Alliance for Freedom and Change, bringing together opposition parties and social groups, He said in a statement: "It is a coup led by the regime to stay in power", "Presented the same faces against our people rebelled" and called "continue sitting in front of the headquarters of the Armed Forces" and protests in the rest of the country. They also demand that power be handed over to a civilian transitional government. "Those who destroyed the country and killed our people try to steal every drop of blood and sweat shed by the Sudanese people in their revolution".

The military government continued repression continues adding wounded and dead, at the same time refusing to hand over al-Bashir for me to be tried for crimes against humanity.

Algeria

Chief of Staff, Ahmed Gaid Salah General came to support Bouteflika's candidacy for a fifth term and criticize mobilized. But he yielded to pressure from the street, He praised the "civility" of peaceful demonstrations and Tuesday 26 March ruled in favor of disabling the president through article 102 of the Constitution. Street opposed this route, since it would involve a transition period of three months driven by the same regime.

Finally, he 2 April fell Abdelaziz Bouteflika, after the powerful mobilizations and strikes that prevented sustained his fifth term and sent home. As an interim president took Albdelkáder Bensalá, former president of the Senate during the last 17 years. Thousands of students demonstrated against his appointment.

Gaid Salah has been clear in expressing in his speech the position of the army saying it is "unreasonable" manage the transition without existing institutions, which they are the demonstrations reject. The presidential elections were to take place the 18 April passed to 4 of July.

Both the speech and the announcement of the election date were rejected on the same day tens of thousands of people marched in Algiers, Bouira and Tlemcen. The people have no confidence that the provisional president and army chief to ensure transparency of the transition process when they are the same people who for 20 years four presidencies validated Bouteflika. Unless least you can expect from the interference of French President Emmanuel Macron, first defender Bouteflika and then drive a long transition.

The mobilized population has perceived the trap they intend to take it down, in the streets "is sung Regime, scram "and is rejected Gaid Salah who has hinted at a possible next step in an intimidating: a "declaration of state of emergency". The regime wants to perpetuate, the people want to bury.

new notes

Sudan and Algeria, the new onslaught of peoples continues to emanate aroma Arab Spring, He has even managed to shoot down two governments, something that was not the common denominator of the previous wave.

In both cases, independent demonstrations, strikes and forceful action again demonstrated its effectiveness, both against the lies of the current power for decades as the repression of the armed forces and security.

The decision of the mass movement is heroic, even in very poor conditions and social policies, thus by no means the last word. Mobilizations sustained democratic revolutions are questioning the government, the regime and the capitalist system.

At the same time a political drama is repeated: the absence of a revolutionary and consistent direction, recognized and respected by the mass movement. It is a box blank or take other policy directions, in the case of Algeria and Sudan, the military itself and officials who for decades were the ruling kidney.

After the government dropped, They regroup to hold the old dictatorial and corrupt regime, trying to curb the aspirations of the mass movement for sweeping also oppressive regimes that starve and placed in absolute misery, under the orders of international usurers agencies. Are weak regimes in the sense that they are receiving a historic blow, but they appeal to repression and traps to get by. We'll see if they can do.

Reelecting take many years by election cheaters do not want to give even the basic claim of immediate and transparent elections. When the screen collapses democracy they are those who take the military command. Not enough to elect another president, it is necessary to defeat the regime, the people discuss and decide freely their economic destiny, political and social, by Free and Sovereign Constituent Assembly.

Whatever, The first is to exercise the broadest international solidarity with the peoples in struggle and in that way, build new combative and democratic directions. It is an indispensable task building revolutionary socialist parties to fight for departures favorable background to the great majority.

Ruben Tzanoff

reproduced from Anticapitalist Network | 12.4.2019