Common appeal by communist and workers’ parties in solidarity with the working people of Sudan demanding the immedate release of the leaders of the CP of Sudan and all political detainees.

ICP, 30 January 2018

The persecutions by the government of Sudan towards the political opposition including leaders of the CP of Sudan, which had mobilised the people against economic conditions, meets  international reaction by communist and workers’ parties in solidarity with the people of Sudan.

The appeal is as follows:

The Communist and Workers’ parties that sign this statement have received verified information that in the past few days Comrade Mohamed Mokhtar Al-Khatieb, the Political Secretary of the Sudanese Communist Party, and a number of members of the Central Committee and leading cadres of the SCP have been arrested by the security forces of the regime. The party leadership was attacked following a successful mass demonstration in center of the capital Khartoum on Tuesday 16 January 2018 protesting against the rise in the price of bread.

We believe that the health and lives of the detainees of the Sudanese Communist Party are in imminent danger.

The dictatorial regime in Sudan has demonstrated that it will resort to the use of force to prevent the peaceful protesters from practising their constitutional rights  to organise and participate in peaceful demonstration against the regime’s economic policies.

The arrest of the communist leaders in Sudan is coupled with the detention of opposition political leaders and activists, and the confiscation of newspapers, including Almidan, the central organ of the SCP.

The Communist and Workers’ parties co-signing this statement express their support to and solidarity with the struggle of the Sudanese people and workers for peace, democracy and social justice and demand:

• The immediate release of all political detainees;
• Freedom for Comrade Al-Khatieb and leading cadres of SCP;
• Respect of democratic rights and freedoms of the people;
• The abolition of the new economic measures introduced by the regime that will inevitably result in starving the majority of the Sudanese people.

The parties that signed the common appeal:

1. Communist Party of Albania
2. PADS
3. Party of Labour of Austria
4. Communist Party of Australia
5. Communist Party of Azerbaidjan
6. Progressive Tribune, Bahrain
7. Communist Party of Bangladesh
8. Communist Party Wallonia-Brussels (Belgium)
9. Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB)
10. Communist Party of Britain
11. Socialist Workers Party of Croatia
12. AKEL, Cyprus
13. Communist Party of Egypt
14. Communist Party of Macedonia
15. German Communist Party
16. Communist Party of Greece
17. Hungarian Workers Party
18. Communist Party of India
19. Communist Party of India (Marxist)
20. Iraqi Communist Party
21. Tudeh Party of Iran
22. Communist Party of Ireland
23. Workers Party of Ireland
24. Communist Party (Italy)
25. Jordanian Communist Party
26. Lebanese Communist Party
27. Socialist People’s Front, Lithuania
28. Communist Party of Luxembourg
29. Communist Party of Mexico
30. New Communist Party of the Netherlands
31. Communist Party of Norway
32. Communist Party of Pakistan
33. Palestinian People’s Party
34. Paraguayan Communist Party
35. Philippine Communist Party [PKP-1930]
36. Portuguese Communist Party
37. Communist Party the Russian Federation
38. Union of Communist Parties – CPSU
39. New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
40. Party Communists of Serbia
41. Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE)
42. Sudenese Communist Party
43. Communist Party of Turkey
44. Communist Party USA