Sudanese Communist Party
Far-left political party in Sudan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Sudanese Communist Party (abbr. SCP; Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي السوداني, romanized: Al-Hizb al-Shuyui al-Sudani) is a communist party in Sudan. Founded in 1946, it was a major force in Sudanese politics in the early post-independence years, and was one of the two most influential communist parties in the Arab world, the other being the Iraqi Communist Party.
Sudanese Communist Party الحزب الشيوعي السوداني | |
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General Secretary | Muhammad Mukhtar al-Khatib |
Founded | 1946; 78 years ago (1946) |
Headquarters | Khartoum |
Newspaper | Al-Midan |
Youth wing | Sudanese Youth Union |
Ideology | |
Political position | Far-left |
National affiliation |
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International affiliation | IMCWP |
Colours | Red |
Transitional Legislative Council | 0 / 300 |
Party flag | |
Website | |
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The party helped overthrow the military government of Ibrahim Abboud in the October 1964 Revolution and joined the subsequent transitional government. Anti-communists in the post-revolution government attempted to outlaw the party but were unsuccessful; the SCP contested two parliamentary elections in the 1960s.
In 1971, President Gaafar Nimeiry launched a wave of repression against the party after a failed coup implicated the involvement of a number of communist military officers. The party's most prominent figures – Abdel Khaliq Mahjub, Joseph Garang, Alshafi Ahmed Elshikh, Babkir Elnour and Hashem al Atta – were executed, and the party was officially banned. The party resurfaced after Nimeiry was overthrown in 1985.
The SCP opposed army colonel Omar al-Bashir's 1989 coup and his subsequent 25-year-long tenure as Sudan's head of state. The party is opposed to Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's Transitional Military Council and the measures enacted after the 2019 coup.