The Sudanese Communist Party : Ideology and Party Politics

This book presents a comprehensive history of the Sudanese Communist Party. It discusses its rise, its involvement in the struggle for Sudanese independence, its development over time, its attitude on key issues and its continuing legacy. As demands for democracy, national independence and an end to corruption grow in the Arab world, the principles which the Sudanese Communist Party represented are again highly relevant.

This book serves as a case study of the Sudanese Communist Party and its impact as a grassroots movement that championed the Sudanese people. It accomplishes this by providing a rich narrative that details the SCP''s inception, main players, important milestones and values of the Party. In this narrative, the author not only delivers a comprehensive examination of the party components, he guides readers through their connections to one another, but also associates them, and the party, to Sudanese society at large. Using original party documents and interviews with leading figures, this book is the first time this subject has been detailed so extensively in one publication. It is also the only up-to-date work available on the subject and includes analysis of the most recent party congress and the division of the Sudan and creation of the newly independent Republic of South Sudan.