رسالة إلى مؤتمري الشيوعي والحركة…وحدة مهمشي الريف والمدن هي المخرج الوحيد

Al Bagir

I personally see a protracted period of transition for both the SPLM and the SCP, which makes any serious opportunity for an effective working political relationship look remote

The two Congresses are unlikely to result in any radical outcomes or shifts in political strategy

The SPLM has effectively discarded the politics of the New Sudan and is now more focused on maintaining its power in the South and I believe some within its hierarchy believe that the most effective way for it to do so is through maintaining a working relationship NCP. This approach will effectively create a sustainable impetus for Separation and will undermine all voices working to make Unity attractive. What will eventually become of its Northern Sector is unknown … those leading the effort may want to consider their fate in a post 2011 Sudan and seek to reposition themselves within the broader democratic mass movement to achieve more relevant goals. This will necessitate resorting to a differentiated and segmented strategy that will reposition them as something other than merely an appendage and hopefully a beneficiary of power games accrued further South

For the SCP the 5th Congress is unlikely to usher a new era or address all of the existential challenges it faces. More likely are incremental changes that will fall short of completely transforming the Party … this will probably remain a work-in-progress dependent on the evolution of the democratic mass movement

I am in agreement with Magdi (if I understood him) .. I see any common struggle for change must evolve from the grassroots. It is only through such an effort that we can hope to bridge the schism between the current dichotomy presented by power-sharing without effective political and social democracy model as presented by the SPLM and the vision of SCP that views effective democracy as a prerequisite for all sustainable change

Until we can develop a common platform to dynamically address all the facets of marginalization, i.e., national and regional as well as those related to class/social entitlements we are unlikely to be successful. Moreover, the likely, outcome of this failure is deferring the struggle over entitlements in favor of prosecuting the one related to nationalist/regional aspiration and as such merely allow elites from various regions to leverage the struggle to their own ends rather than to affect genuine grassroots empowerment