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11/29/2025 The UN Security Council Resolution on Palestine Is Not a "Peace Deal;" It's a Green Light for Genocide and OccupationRead Now The UN Security Council Resolution on Palestine Is Not a "Peace Deal;" It's a Green Light for Genocide and Occupation
The Resist US-Led War Movement condemns UN Resolution 2803 that aims to shield the Zionist occupation from accountability for its genocide and campaign of settler colonial expansion. This move will only further cement the occupation by masking it in a facade of peace, even while it continues the genocide against the Palestinian people. True peace can only come from the self-determination of Palestine, and this can only be achieved by completely ejecting the occupation forces through the people's resistance. The US-backed plan for Gaza has been approved by the UN Security Council, positioning Donald Trump in a leading role for the territory's administration. The resolution, which passed 13-0 with abstentions from China and Russia, creates a so-called "international stabilization force" and outlines a "potential pathway to Palestinian statehood" after meeting "specific goals." However, beyond its facade as a "peace plan," this US-led initiative represents a a new tactic to continue the occupation of Palestinian land and a deliberate attempt to undermine genuine Palestinian self-determination. It is a false "peace" contingent on surrender and designed to open the door for more American economic domination in West Asia. The resolution states that for two years, a Trump-led "Board of Peace" will oversee foreign troops, a panel of Palestinian technocratic "experts", and a local police force with vague pretenses of who it will consist of. The stabilization troops are tasked with "securing borders" in cooperation with a trained Palestinian police force and facilitating humanitarian aid into Gaza through coordination with neighboring Egypt and genocidal "Israel." Trump, the so-called leader of the peace board, has followed the US imperialist policy of unrelenting support for "Israel." Since Oct. 7, the US has delivered ninety thousand tons of arms and equipment on eight hundred transport planes and 140 ships. These weapons have been used to murder hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and destroy more than 80% of all infrastructure in Gaza and 95% of all agricultural land. The Trump administration's talk of "peace in the Middle East" is empty and distracting rhetoric. In practice, US support has been instrumental in allowing "Israel" to commit hundreds of violations since the so-called October 10th ceasefire went into effect. While the US completely ignores these violations, the State Department tirelessly publicizes false claims of ceasefire breaches by Palestinian resistance forces to justify a possible return to all-out war by "Israel." The US is not dedicated to peace. It is only committed to ensuring its own flow of profit through the domination of its proxy, "Israel," and its own multinational corporations. These players each want their own piece of lucrative reconstruction contracts, along with the the extraction profits of resources and trade, all fueled by genocidal displacement. In a presentation shown to the Trump administration by industry giants on the possible benefits of the reconstruction of Gaza, logos from Tesla, Amazon Web Services, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) appear alongside bullet points about the benefit "private industry investment” may have in Gaza in terms of building out "key infrastructure" like data centers and "gigafactories." Forced Surrender is not Peace The stabilization force is also mandated to oversee the complete demilitarization of Gaza, including the permanent decommissioning of weapons held by resistance forces. This authority is backed by a provision allowing the force to "use all necessary measures," effectively demanding the surrender of Palestinian armed resistance and self-defense. The Palestinian people, living under the gun of a brutal and ongoing Zionist occupation, have never conceded their fundamental right to resist their oppressors. Yet, the UN, under the direct command of the US, actively works to deny and nullify this right. This violates the very UN Charter which explicitly guarantees all occupied peoples the right to fight for their liberation by any means necessary. The resistance factions in Gaza have condemned the measure and reaffirmed their right to resist. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) stated: "We reject the clauses related to disarmament and condemn labeling the resistance as terrorism, as this empties our people’s legitimate right to self-defense and transforms the international force from one of protection and separation into an offensive force that grants the occupation cover to continue its policies." The UN's Historical Legacy in Palestine UN resolutions, proposed by imperialist powers at the head of the UN Security Council, namely the US, UK, and France, have constantly conspired against Palestinian self-determination in favor of "Israel." The Zionist colonial project was inaugurated by the UN itself with the 1947 Partition Plan (Resolution 181), which illegitimately partitioned Palestine, at the time under British colonial mandate, to create a settler-colonial state for the Zionist movement. This act sanctioned the systematic ethnic cleansing of Palestine, known as the Nakba. The 1948 Nakba Zionist militias, which would later form the "Israeli" army, conducted a campaign of terror and mass expulsion. This included the depopulation and destruction of over 500 Palestinian towns and villages, with massacres in already surrendered villages like Deir Yassin and Tantura used to terrorize the native population into flight. This deliberate policy displaced over 750,000 Palestinians, the majority of the indigenous population at the time. The imperialist framework continued after Israel's 1967 military occupation of the remaining Palestinian territories of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem during the Six-Day War, which displaced 300,000 Palestinians. While the UN passed Resolution 242 after the war, with a preamble that emphasized “the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war,” it was deliberately designed to be unenforceable. It also nullified Resolution 181 and removed the demand for "Israel" to give back the lands it seized past the UN partition plan, setting the precedence for UN vacillation and submission to blatant Zionist rejection and violation of international law. The core demand for "Israeli" withdrawal in Resolution 242 was deliberately weakened. Despite arguments from Arab states for a full retreat to the 1967 lines, the resolution's architects never intended this. The original language, which called for a withdrawal from "all the territories," was diluted after the "Israeli" administration persuaded the US to remove the key word "all." This omission, acknowledged by US Ambassador Arthur Goldberg, proves that the resolution was specifically designed not to force Israel to relinquish all the land it captured in 1967. As with countless subsequent resolutions, the imperialist architects ensured there would be no consequences, allowing Israel to formally annex the entirety of Jerusalem in 1980. From Haiti to Palestine: Foreign intervention disguised as peace forces The recent plan for Palestine, approved by the UN Security Council, takes inspiration from imperialist intervention other nations plagued by US intervention, exemplified by the so-called "Gang Suppression Force" (GSF) in Haiti. Just as the GSF empowers foreign troops to suppress the Haitian people under the pretext of fighting gangs, the new resolution for Gaza paves the way for a parallel structure of foreign military administration, aimed at crushing the legitimate Palestinian resistance and securing the interests of the Zionist entity and US monopoly capital. Similar to the GSF which was granted power to arrest and kill Haitian citizens at will, this new international "peace keeping force" in Gaza would be allowed to act with force to suppress any challenge to the zionist entity. As the primary sponsor of this decree, the US justifies the creation of the GSF on the gang violence that has afflicted the Haitian people for decades. While it is true that over 6,000 Haitians have been killed by paramilitary death squads aligned with sectors of Haiti’s elite, while over one million people have been driven from their homes, the political hand of the US is directly backing these gangs. The vast majority of the high-powered weapons used by these death squads have been smuggled in from the US. The US goal is to maintain a pro-US government in power that will sell off Haiti’s mineral resources, open up the country to more foreign investment and garment sweatshops, and help solidify US control over the Caribbean. The appointment of a foreign “Force Commander” for the GSF makes clear its function as a colonial occupation army, serving as a counter-insurgency force, designed to suppress the people’s movement for liberation and keep the country destabilized so the imperialists can continue to exploit it. The histories of Haiti and Palestine are marked by prolonged foreign subjugation. Refusing both nations their fundamental right to self-determination will never lead to stability. Lasting peace is impossible without confronting the root cause of war: the imperialist plunder of resources and the military occupation of their lands. True justice demands the recognition of self-determination, sovereign control over economic and food systems, and the right of besieged peoples to resist aggressive and violent oppression. Fighting for a People's Justice International institutions continue to abet the genocide, but the people are organizing for genuine justice. The "Right to Resist" International People's Tribunal, convened by the International League of People’s Struggles (ILPS) and a broad coalition of over 200 endorsing organizations, in Barcelona on November 22 - 23, was a bold action of solidarity with the Palestinian people's right to resist occupation and to struggle for the right to return. The Tribunal provided a space where true justice could actually be asserted. Political obstruction and structural limitations have rendered official international bodies like the ICC and UN ineffective, a catastrophic two-year period of mass violence, genocide, and environmental ruin has gone legally unchallenged. It is for this precise reason that this people's tribunal was formed to document events, outline the applicable legal principles, and demand accountability where it has otherwise been absent. While the US uses the imperialist-controlled United Nations to wield international law as a weapon to repress all forms of peoples' movements, even as it ignores it through its own actions, true peace and justice can only come through the actions and struggle of the people themselves. The Resist US-Led War Movement stands in solidarity with the peoples of Palestine, Haiti, and all oppressed nations against continued foreign occupation, often disguised as "peace missions." Peace-loving people across the globe must continue to take to the streets, organize protests and popular tribunals, and engage in direct action to strengthen international solidarity with these nations. 11/25/2025 Week of Action mobilizations in 50 cities demanding NO war with Venezuela! 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PRESS RELEASE: Activists Mobilize across the Americas to Demand "Hands Off Venezuela," End to Military Escalation and US policy of Hybrid Warfare and Intervention November 16 – The US military has extrajudicially killed 80 people in 20 strikes that have destroyed 21 boats, in aerial strikes off the coast of Venezuela. With outrage in response to these murders and significant U.S. military buildup near Venezuela, an urgent and coordinated week of action for Venezuela from November 15-23 started yesterday, with over 50 actions across the US and a growing international response. The demonstrations, organized by over 35 organizations forming a rapid response network, are demanding no war on Venezuela, the withdrawal of the U.S. military from the Caribbean, and the establishment of a "Zone of Peace" across the hemisphere. These actions come as the U.S. deploys an aircraft carrier battle group, including destroyers, jet fighters, and nuclear submarines, to the Caribbean. The Trump administration has openly called for the military overthrow of Venezuela's President Maduro and the replacement of Colombia's President Petro, constituting a blatant violation of international law and the sovereignty of nations. The Trump administration has propagandized ‘narcoterrorism operations’ drawing together the deadly US “war on terror” framework with the devastating US “war on drugs”, both mechanisms to assert the US military agenda over working class and oppressed communities within the US and in its “spheres of influence” abroad. Activists condemn the US government's justification for the escalation. In reality, “this is a build-up to another endless U.S. war – a war to militarize the whole Western Hemisphere and reassert the Monroe Doctrine,” said Tom Burke of the Anti-War Action Network. “The strategy is a textbook example of escalating hybrid warfare. It blends military, economic, and informational tools to destabilize the adversary.” said Rhonda Ramiro of the Resist US-led War Movement. A stringent sanctions regime continues to target Venezuela’s oil industry, its primary revenue source. Recent license adjustments explicitly restrict cash payments to the Maduro government, tightening the financial noose. The economic coercion is compounded by a symbolic $50 million bounty on President Maduro, personalizing the pressure campaign. It reflects a greater crisis of US militarization of the Caribbean, as well. The reactivation of the Roosevelt Roads base in Puerto Rico as a staging ground, despite local protests, provides the strategic footprint for these operations, echoing historical uses of US territories for interventionism. US military aggression, framed as targeting Venezuela, threatens the entire Caribbean's sovereignty and stability. This pretext masks the true economic motives behind the aggression. “This move towards all-out war has nothing to do with drug trafficking, cartels or the wellbeing of Americans facing a drug crisis,” stated Joe Lombardo, Co-Coordinator of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC). He continued, “Venezuela possesses the greatest known oil reserves in the world. The Venezuelan government refuses to be dominated by the U.S. and is determined to use its own oil, gas, and mineral resources for the benefit of its own people, not for US corporations.” For their stand for their self-determination, the Venezuelan people and nation are being targeted by extreme US military pressure operating in tandem with a sustained economic war. US domestic repression and militarization goes hand in hand with the extreme military aggression in the Caribbean. “We draw a direct line between militarism abroad and repression in the U.S., highlighting the contradiction of increased defense spending while critical domestic programs that impact the working class like SNAP benefits and healthcare face draconian cuts,” stated Ajamu Baraka from the Black Alliance for Peace. Meanwhile, the use of Federal troops and thousands of ICE agents in raids and mass arrests, along with massive increases in health costs and cuts to government services, are an attack on all working people in the US. Migrants from Venezuela, who have been subject to a tirade of fascist attacks, mass deportation and detention since arriving in the US, are driven to leave the country in the first place due to US sanctions and economic warfare. A full blown military conflict in the Caribbean would multiply the number of migrants arriving to the US and the economic and political crisis they are facing. Veterans who have served in America’s wars add their solidarity to the fight. "Hundreds of thousands of US veterans deeply regret having fought in illegal wars that were based on lies like the ones now being told about Venezuela," said Gerry Condon of Veterans For Peace. "We remind today's active duty GI's that they have the right and responsibility to refuse to participate in illegal wars and war crimes." The message from the growing movement is clear: it is time for the public to take to the streets to resist these government and corporate attacks on the people of Latin America and the Caribbean, and to stop the simultaneous militarization and repression of people within the United States. About the rapid response network for Venezuela: This week of coordinated mobilization is supported by over 35 organizations: United National Antiwar Coalition, Venezuela Solidarity Network, US Peace Council, All-African People’s Party-GC, All-African People’s Party, Alliance for Global Justice, Code Pink, Chicago ALBA Solidarity, Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, Peace and Solidarity Commission of the Communist Party USA, School of the Americas Watch, Task Force on the Americas, Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Minnesota Solidarity Network of the Americas, Sanctions Kill Campaign, Workers World Party, Periodismo de Verdad, Resist U.S. Led War, Honduras Solidarity Network, Cross Border Network, National Network on Cuba, Black Alliance for Peace, Anti War Action Network, Women Against Military Madness, Kawsachun News, Popular Resistance, International Action Center, Casa Baltimore Limay, Friends of Latin America. Veterans For Peace, Orinoco Tribune, Los Ronderos de las Redes, Diáspora Pa’lante Collective, Peoples Power Assembly, Rochester Committee on Latin America (ROCLA), Green Renaissance-Sovereign Rights Movement, Struggle for Socialism Party, Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice Español COMUNICADO A LA PRENSA: Activistas se movilizan en las Americas para exigir «Manos fuera de Venezuela», el fin de la escalada militar y la política estadounidense de guerra híbrida e intervención. 16 de noviembre - El ejército estadounidense ha asesinado extrajudicialmente a 80 personas en 20 ataques que han destruido 21 barcos, en ataques aéreos frente a las costas de Venezuela. En respuesta a estos asesinatos y al masivo aumento de la presencia militar estadounidense cerca de Venezuela, ayer comenzó una semana de acción urgente y coordinada por Venezuela, del 15 al 23 de noviembre, con más de 50 acciones en todo Estados Unidos y una creciente respuesta internacional. Las manifestaciones, organizadas por más de 35 organizaciones que forman una red de respuesta rápida, exigen que no haya guerra contra Venezuela, la retirada del ejército estadounidense del Caribe y el establecimiento de una «zona de paz» en todo el hemisferio. Estas acciones se pretenden en un momento en que Estados Unidos despliega un grupo de combate de portaaviones, que incluye destructores, aviones de combate y submarinos nucleares, en el Caribe. La administración Trump ha pedido abiertamente el derrocamiento militar del presidente Maduro de Venezuela y la sustitución del presidente Petro de Colombia, lo que constituye una violación flagrante del derecho internacional y la soberanía de las naciones. La administración Trump ha propagado «operaciones contra el narcoterrorismo» que combinan el mortífero marco de la «guerra contra el terrorismo» de Estados Unidos con la devastadora «guerra contra las drogas», ambos mecanismos para imponer la agenda militar estadounidense sobre la clase trabajadora y las comunidades oprimidas dentro de Estados Unidos y en sus «esferas de influencia» en el extranjero. Los activistas condenan la justificación del gobierno estadounidense para la escalada. En realidad, «se trata de la preparación para otra guerra interminable de Estados Unidos, una guerra para militarizar todo el hemisferio occidental y reafirmar la Doctrina Monroe», afirmó Tom Burke, de la Anti War Action Network. «La estrategia es un ejemplo clásico de escalada de la guerra híbrida. Combina herramientas militares, económicas e informativas para desestabilizar al adversario», afirmó Rhonda Ramiro, del Resist US-Led War Movement. Un régimen de sanciones estrictas sigue afectando a la industria petrolera de Venezuela, su principal fuente de ingresos. Los recientes ajustes en las licencias restringen explícitamente los pagos en efectivo al Gobierno de Maduro, lo que estrecha el cerco financiero. La coacción económica se ve agravada por una recompensa simbólica de 50 millones de dólares por la captura del presidente Maduro, lo que personaliza la campaña de presión. Esto refleja también una crisis más grave de militarización estadounidense en el Caribe. La reactivación de la base Roosevelt Roads en Puerto Rico como punto de partida, a pesar de las protestas locales, proporciona la huella estratégica para estas operaciones, haciéndose eco de los usos históricos de los territorios estadounidenses para el intervencionismo. La agresión militar estadounidense, enmarcada como dirigida contra Venezuela, amenaza la soberanía y la estabilidad de todo el Caribe. Este pretexto enmascara los verdaderos motivos económicos que se esconden tras la agresión. «Este avance hacia una guerra total no tiene nada que ver con el tráfico de drogas, los cárteles o el bienestar de los estadounidenses que se enfrentan a una crisis de drogas», afirmó Joe Lombardo, coordinador adjunto de la United National Anti-war Coalition (UNAC). Y añadió: «Venezuela posee las mayores reservas de petróleo conocidas en el mundo. El Gobierno venezolano se niega a ser dominado por Estados Unidos y está decidido a utilizar sus propios recursos petrolíferos, gasísticos y minerales en beneficio de su propio pueblo, no de las empresas estadounidenses». Por defender su autodeterminación, el pueblo y la nación venezolanos están siendo objeto de una presión militar extrema por parte de Estados Unidos, que actúa en tándem con una guerra económica sostenida. La represión y la militarización internas de Estados Unidos van de la mano con la agresión militar extrema en el Caribe. «Establecemos una relación directa entre el militarismo en el extranjero y la represión en Estados Unidos, destacando la contradicción del aumento del gasto en defensa, mientras que programas internos críticos que afectan a la clase trabajadora, como los beneficios del SNAP y la atención médica, se enfrentan a recortes draconianos», afirmó Ajamu Baraka, de la Black Alliance for Peace. Mientras tanto, el uso de tropas federales y miles de agentes del ICE en redadas y detenciones masivas, junto con el aumento masivo de precios de cuidado de salúd y los recortes en los servicios públicos, es en si misma un ataque a todos los trabajadores y trabajadoras de Estados Unidos. Los migrantes venzolanos, que han sido objeto de una serie de ataques fascistas, deportaciones masivas y detenciones desde su llegada a Estados Unidos, se huyen del país, en primer lugar, debido a las sanciones y la guerra económica de Estados Unidos. Un conflicto militar en toda región del Caribe multiplicaría el número de migrantes que llegan a Estados Unidos y su crisis económica y política que enfrentan. Los veteranos que han servido en las guerras de Estados Unidos se suman a la lucha en solidaridad. «Cientos de miles de veteranos estadounidenses lamentan profundamente haber luchado en guerras ilegales basadas en mentiras como las que ahora se cuentan sobre Venezuela», afirmó Gerry Condon, de Veteranos por la Paz. «Recordamos a los soldados en servicio activo de hoy en día que tienen el derecho y la responsabilidad de negarse a participar en guerras ilegales y crímenes de guerra». El mensaje de este movimiento en expansión es claro: es hora de que la ciudadanía salga a la calle para resistir estos ataques del Gobierno y las empresas contra los pueblos de América Latina y el Caribe, y para detener la militarización y la represión simultáneas de la población dentro de Estados Unidos. Acerca de la red de respuesta rápida por Venezuela: Esta semana de movilización coordinada cuenta con el apoyo de más de 35 organizaciones: United National Antiwar Coalition, Venezuela Solidarity Network, US Peace Council, All-African People’s Party-GC, All-African People’s Party, Alliance for Global Justice, Code Pink, Chicago ALBA Solidarity, Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, Peace and Solidarity Commission of the Communist Party USA, School of the Americas Watch, Task Force on the Americas, Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Minnesota Solidarity Network of the Americas, Sanctions Kill Campaign, Workers World Party, Periodismo de Verdad, Resist U.S. Led War, Honduras Solidarity Network, Cross Border Network, National Network on Cuba, Black Alliance for Peace, Anti War Action Network, Women Against Military Madness, Kawsachun News, Popular Resistance, International Action Center, Casa Baltimore Limay, Friends of Latin America. Veterans For Peace, Orinoco Tribune, Los Ronderos de las Redes, Diáspora Pa’lante Collective, Peoples Power Assembly, Rochester Committee on Latin America (ROCLA), Green Renaissance-Sovereign Rights Movement, Struggle for Socialism Party, Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice War Profiteers Carve Up Sudan, the People Call for Unity and Just Peace Sudan is being torn apart and over 150,000 Sudanese people have died as a result of conflict between warring factions backed by global powers who are carving up Sudan for their own profit. The Resist US-Led War Movement joins the people of Sudan and all peace loving people around the world calling for an end to the bloodshed and accountability for all war profiteers engineering genocide for the sake of their profit-making.
Contrary to its frequent depiction as an internal civil war, the devastating conflict in Sudan is more accurately understood as a proxy struggle, driven by a scramble for the nation's resources, land and strategic sea ports. External powers are propping up different reactionary armies led by rival factions of the same comprador class, agents working in favor of foreign organizations and countries engaged in investment, trade, economic and political exploitation of the Sudanese masses. This war pits the two main pillars of the former Omar al-Bashir regime, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), against each other in a brutal struggle for state power. While these forces formed a temporary alliance following the 2019 mass protests to overthrow al-Bashir's 30-year rule, their partnership would soon collapse. After establishing a joint military-civilian government, both the RSF and SAF orchestrated another coup in October 2021 to seize full control of the state. The fragile alliance rapidly degenerated following failed negotiations to integrate the RSF into the state army. Tensions escalated as foreign powers lined up to support one side over the other in a war they knew would be in their favor, a war which exploded in April 2023. Origins of the RSF The crisis in Sudan, escalating over the past five years from a popular uprising that ousted former President Omar al-Bashir in 2019 into a devastating full-scale proxy war in April 2023, has created one of the world's most severe humanitarian catastrophes. The war is being waged between the SAF and the RSF, whose relentless siege and urban warfare have claimed an estimated 150,000 lives. The recent RSF capture of El-Fasher in Darfur resulted in a massacre of at least 2,000 civilians, with summary executions, mass rape of women, and the murder of patients in hospitals who were recovering from wounds and diseases. This has driven 26,000 people to flee through checkpoints amid extortion and violence, adding to the over 14 million internally displaced, the largest displacement crisis globally. The nation now faces systemic collapse, with extreme shortages of food, water, medicine, and fuel; 25.6 million people face acute food insecurity, including 8.5 million at emergency levels. Nearly three-quarters of health facilities are inoperative, with diseases like cholera and measles spreading unchecked. RSF has its roots in the Janjaweed militias, which were used by the Sudanese Government in its attempts to fight the anti-government insurgency during the War in Darfur (2003-2006), a genocidal war that led to the deaths of approximately 200,000 civilians from national minorities like the Fur and Masalit. The RSF was officially formed in 2013, following a restructuring and reactivation of Janjaweed militias in order to combat rebel groups in the Darfur region, South Kordofan, and the Blue Nile states, following joint attacks by Sudanese Revolutionary Front, an alliance between Sudanese factions that was created in opposition to the government of President Omar al-Bashir, in North and South Kordofan in April 2013. In September 2013, the RSF was deployed against peaceful demonstrators who were protesting the Sudanese government’s removal of subsidies on basic commodities. More than 170 people were killed in September 2013, in incidents that unmasked the Sudanese regime’s dependence on the militia to quell political dissent and marked a new evolution in the role of the RSF. Starting in 2015 and 2016, convinced of the RSF’s effectiveness as a counterinsurgency force, the regime designated the RSF as Sudan’s primary force tasked with patrolling Sudanese borders to interdict migrants’ movement. The Sudanese government made this designation within the framework of its partnership with the EU for the control of migration Under the command of Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo "Hemedti," the RSF evolved into a vast, economic conglomerate controlling major gold mines, key trade routes and engaging in illicit mineral smuggling. WHO IS SUPPORTING WHOM The suffering of the Sudanese people is propped up by ever-changing alliances between the competing factions and international powers who are using the nation as a proxy battlefield to advance their own geopolitical and economic interests. The RSF's Backers The United Arab Emirates (UAE) serves as the RSF's primary international sponsor. It supplies the paramilitary force with weapons, drones, and financial support via airlifts from northern Chad. In return, the UAE secures access to Sudan's vast gold reserves from RSF mines, which are smuggled out through RSF-controlled territories, allowing the Gulf monarchy to bypass sanctions and secure its strategic resource interests. Further support comes from Chad, which provides a rear base and additional weaponry, and the Libyan National Army, which similarly offers support in exchange for lucrative smuggling rights. Recent investigations have shown that "Israeli" Mossad agents have even been advising RSF leaders at the request of the Zionist-friendly government of the UAE. The SAF's Backers The Sudanese Armed Forces are backed by a coalition countering the RSF's Gulf allies. Egypt provides the bulk of this support, supplying weapons, conducting airstrikes, and even deploying troops. Cairo's primary motive is to ensure a stable, friendly government in Sudan that will ensure steady trade through the Egypt-administered Suez Canal and support Egypt's claim and potential war efforts against Ethiopia over control of the headwaters of the Nile. Turkiye channels its own military support through Egypt, seeking to expand its influence in the Red Sea and Africa. Ukraine previously sent military trainers to the SAF as part of its NATO-backed war against Russia, (in retaliation for the RSF's use of Russian private military contractor firm, Wagner Group, mercenaries) but pulled its troops out after Russia switched sides in 2024 to gain access to a new port from the SAF. Regional destabilization efforts by US imperialists, leading to shifting proxy war alliances Several international backers of the factions reveal the purely opportunistic nature of the plunder project by certain foreign powers in Sudan, and the other national and regional interests pulled into the proxy war. Russia, which initially backed the RSF through the Wagner Group to secure gold mining concessions, has increasingly pursued a more pragmatic engagement with the SAF to secure strategic access to the Red Sea via a naval base at Port Sudan. This dynamic intensified with the UAE's robust logistical and financial backing of the RSF. The increasing support of the UAE to the RSF, in turn, prompted its regional rivals to support the opposing side. Most significantly, a shared opposition to UAE influence facilitated a military rapprochement between the SAF and Iran. This partnership marked a big reversal from Sudan's previous foreign policy. In 2016, the country had cut ties with Iran to align with Saudi Arabia and the UAE and had even begun normalizing relations with "Israel." The new military understanding led to Iran, looking to defend its national security against "Israel" and the US aligned gulf monarchies, to sell Mohajer and Shahed combat drones to the SAF which proved to be instrumental in breaking the RSF's siege of Omdurman in February 2024. While it may seem at first glance that all external actors are equally at fault for the war's atrocities, it must be remembered that the US-led war machine has worked for decades to keep the countries of North Africa and West Asia destabilized so that it could use the these power struggles in its favor. The Sudan crisis is the result of these years of schemes to ensure political chaos in the entire region while Washington, London, and Tel Aviv direct the chaos in their wider conflicts with rivals like Russia and Iran. The Military Industrial Complex Reaps Profits While the US and its European allies consistently condemn the humanitarian crisis in Sudan through official statements, their actions and investments reveal them to be direct participants in the war in Sudan. Their condemnations and targeted sanctions against the SAF and RSF ring hollow, as the very weapons they supply fuel the massacres conducted by these groups. This complicity is most evident in the supply chain leading to the RSF. The US acts as a principal arms source for the UAE, the paramilitary's main international patron. Billions of dollars in authorized sales, including a $1.2 billion package under Biden and a $1.4 billion deal under Trump, have proceeded despite the UAE systematically diverting this equipment to the RSF and bills in the US Congress condemning the sale of arms to the UAE on the basis of human rights violations. In the past month an investigation based on documents submitted to the UN Security Council confirmed that British military equipment, including small-arms target systems and engines for armored vehicles, has been recovered from RSF combat positions. The same applies to France whose military technology incorporated into armored personnel carriers made by the UAE is used on the battlefield in Sudan. As the war creates one of the world's largest humanitarian catastrophes, imperialist nations and their military industrial complex are directly implicated in arming the factions responsible for Sudan's devastation. Furthermore since 2013, the EU has allocated millions of euros in "aid" to Sudan. This financial support was in reality designated for technical resources and training programs aimed at curbing migration to Europe, a crisis that has its roots on the European colonization in Africa. The initiatives targeted migrants originating from Sudan itself, as well as those from nations like Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, and other sub-Saharan African countries who use Sudan as a transit route. These EU resources were directly channeled into strengthening the capabilities of the RSF, the unit identified as Sudan's principal border control authority. All of this proves that the US and its NATO allies support either side in a proxy war of their own engineering. As long as the fighting continues, profits will flow while they can act like the saviors calling for humanitarian aid while secretly keeping the conflict raging. The People of Sudan Continue Their Fight for liberation As global powers carve up Sudan for its gold, oil, and strategic ports, the people's resistance emerges from neighborhood committees, women-led unions, refugee relief efforts, and the radical youth organizations that toppled Omar al-Bashir six years ago. Today, the Sudanese people continue their march toward a just peace, a goal that is only attainable by breaking the foreign military and economic stronghold on their nation. It is the duty of all peace-loving people to stand with them. We must mobilize against external interference and expose the military-industrial complex fueling the war. Through education, propaganda, and mass direct action, let us build the international solidarity necessary to support the liberation of Sudan and challenge the destructive policies of Western aligned governments and all imperialist forces. |
