Sudan’s War and the Counter-Revolution: Neighborhood Resistance Committees Explained

In this interview, which was conducted in March 2024, Marwan Osman, a former member of Sudan’s Communist Party and Neighborhood Resistance Committees (NRCs) in Khartoum, argues that Sudan’s current war is not simply SAF versus RSF; rather, it is a counter-revolution aimed at crushing the country’s radical democratic current. Backed by imperial powers and Gulf monarchies, the counter-revolution seeks to sideline the NRCs and re-entrench a mi