Sudan: from revolution to barbarism The counter-revolution has pulled Sudan into the depths of barbarism.
In 2019, the workers had power in their hands, but the reformist leaders betrayed them and handed power back to the regime. By 2022, the revolution was lost. A year later, the revolution’s executioners turned their guns on each other, each backed by a constellation of different foreign powers. Now they have laid waste to Khartoum, launched a genocide in Darfur, and unleashed the world’s most catastrophic famine in 40 years. To date at least 400,000 people have been slaughtered, 4 million have fled the country, and a further 7 million have been internally displaced. More than 30 million are in need of humanitarian assistance, of which 6.3 million face extreme levels of starvation. Two and a half years of war have effectively ripped the country in half. Socialism or barbarism is not an empty phrase, but exactly the perspective that faced Sudan in 2019. Revolutionaries must absorb the lessons of Sudan to prepare for future battles.
https://marxist.com/sudan-from-revolution-to-barbarism.htmKshama Sawant: Mayor Mamdani, DSA Leaders, and Business Unionist Labor Leaders Are Selling Out New York Public Sector UnionsThe teaching assistants, who work with students with disabilities, are grossly underpaid and overexploited, with annual salaries starting at under $34,000 and topping out at under $57,000 after about 15 years of work. This is in a city where the minimum individual pay to get by is around $80,000. Not surprisingly, over 1,800 teaching assistant positions, also known as paraprofessionals, remain unfilled. The City Council’s legislation is strongly supported by the United Federation of Teachers, the union that represents over 200,000 workers in NYC’s public school system. Despite the dire conditions faced by the paraprofessional public school workers, and himself having acknowledged that a NYC family needs an annual income of over $300,000 to be able to afford childcare, Mayor Mamdani opposes the $10,000 bonuses. Mamdani, currently the most prominent leader of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), has announced that he will be suing the City in order to repeal the bonuses.
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