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Military Coup in Sudan

1. A saying attributed to Saint-Juste:  “ Those who make revolutions by halves do nothing but dig their own tombs.“ What applies to Egypt and Syrian, applies to Sudan.  2. The call by two Sudanese trade unions for a general strike must be supported. 3. The general strike must go beyond stopping the economic machine and challenging the military; it must create organs of power. A crucial revolutionary action the revolting Sudanese did not create two years ago. 4. The compromise with the military was a plunder. 5. No trust in the foreign powers that call for the release of “the civilian leaders.” They are for a compromise and ‘peaceful’ arrangement. They are the same powers supporting the Egyptian dictatorship and supported the recent coup in Bolivia. The same powers that talk about ‘civilian rule”, send the IMF and the World Bank to prolong the life of the current regimes and perpetuate the conditions that breed social conflicts, uprisings, migration, etc. My comment from July 2019:  The

Spain – Of Pets and Men

Imagine for a second the reverse: the troops are chasing animals on the beach. What would the reaction of the ‘civilised’ world be?

Aijaz Ahmed on Said’s “Orientalism”

Trenchant! The book’s  most passionate following in the metropolitan countries is within those sectors of the university intelligentsia which either originate in the ethnic minorities or affiliate themselves ideologically with the academic sections of those minorities. . . . These [immigrants] who came as graduate students and then joined the faculties, especially in the Humanities and Social Sciences, tended to come from upper classes in their home countries. In the process of relocating themselves in the metropolitan countries they needed documents of their assertion, proof that they had always been oppressed.... What the upwardly mobile professionals in this new immigration needed were narratives of oppression that would get them preferential treatment, reserved jobs, higher salaries in the social position they already occupied: namely, as middle-class professionals, mostly male. For such purposes,  Orientalism  was the perfect narrative. Aijaz Ahmad, Orientalism and After , pp. 195