Sudanese Communist Party condemns Egyptian airstrikes and calls for renewed mobilisation

In a statement issued following reported airstrikes on 10 October in the North Valley border area, the party's Central Committee Secretariat accused the Egyptian military of attacking civilian miners. According to the party's account, at least 72 people were killed and dozens injured. 

The SCP demanded an official Egyptian explanation, an independent and transparent investigation, and accountability for those responsible. It also called on Sudanese authorities to protect civilians in border regions, establish the fate of those killed or missing, and provide medical and humanitarian assistance to survivors and affected families.

The party linked the incident to the broader struggle over Sudan's natural resources, particularly gold, which has become an important economic and political issue amid the war. It called for measures to prevent the exploitation and smuggling of national resources and for greater public oversight of mining and gold exports. The SCP argued that relations between the Sudanese and Egyptian peoples should be based on solidarity and mutual respect for national sovereignty, rather than military intervention.

In a separate political intervention, the party's newspaper Al-Midan published an editorial on 16 October titled “Mass Action: Priorities of the Present.” The editorial argued that Sudan's deepening humanitarian crisis requires a stronger, organised popular movement rather than reliance on diplomatic initiatives alone.

The party called for closer coordination among neighbourhood kitchens, emergency committees, resistance committees, revolutionary forces and democratic trade unions. It maintained that struggles to secure food, livelihoods and basic public services must be connected to the wider political objective of ending the war and advancing the democratic aspirations of the December 2018 Revolution.

The editorial also called for international solidarity with Sudanese popular forces and for the documentation of alleged war crimes and human-rights violations committed by both sides in the conflict. It urged that verified evidence be submitted to relevant international mechanisms to support accountability.

The SCP criticised regional and international actors that it considers complicit in prolonging the conflict while presenting themselves as mediators. It argued that Sudan's population must play the central role in determining the country's future and that peaceful popular mobilisation is essential to establishing a civilian democratic state.