genocide

Sudan has been witnessing a brutal war that has entered its second year, with millions of Sudanese displaced both internally and externally.

Millions are without homes or work to meet their most basic needs, and millions of children are without education. The calamities continue to afflict the vulnerable and simple people of Sudan.

Today, we strongly condemn the massacres committed by the Janjaweed militia against the innocent farmers in the Gezira State, which amounts to genocide.

Review of Michael Fischbach, The Movement and the Middle East; How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Divided the American Left

by Wayne Price

A major issue motivating the U.S. left at this time is the Israeli/Palestine war, specifically Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza. Even the environmental-climate justice movement has been eclipsed for the time. There are other disasters in the world, such as in Sudan or Haiti, but the U.S.—our government—is not directly and immediately supporting the aggressors in those cases, financially, politically, and militarily. It is in Gaza.