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SUDAN

Confront Empire Together

an online course & community engagement

Facilitators: Suad Abdel aziz & Eleanor Hancock

Cosponsors: Rise UP for Sudan, Muslim Students Association & Adalah Justice Project

This course is a partnership between Comrades Education & Decolonize Sudan.

“After the failure of all previous experiments by the governments that came on the heels of wars or revolutions, the authority of the people is the only guarantee for building a just state that can permanently eradicate the roots of those crises and wars. The people’s authority ensures fair representation and distribution of power and wealth and acts as the guardian of the country’s resources.”

- Ra-ad Sahaba, spokesperson for the Revolutionary Charter for Establishing People’s Power (Hammer & Hope, 2024)

What is happening in Sudan is not simply a “humanitarian crisis.” It is a crisis of capitalism, white supremacy, imperial violence and neocolonialism. It is a counter-revolutionary attack on the people’s revolution of 2018-2019, meant to destroy the popular political will for self governance and an equitable distribution of resources.

The root cause of this crisis is not tribalism or rivalry but the violent scramble for Sudan’s resources by foreign powers.

Education and research are tools of resistance, and knowing the forces behind this violence is critical to building solidarity and action.

Sudan: Confront Empire Together is a six session online course and community of engagement hosted by Comrades Education in partnership with Decolonize Sudan.

Working with guest teachers from a wide variety of disciplines and experiences, educating ourselves through a connection to Sudanese reporting from the ground, and building our understanding and analysis through six distinct units of study, participants will build our capacity to advocate for and take action in solidarity with Sudan as part of a broader, global struggle.

From ICE raids & US concentration camps to the Epstein files, from climate change and to the genocides in Gaza, Sudan and across the world, the global elite appear to be at war with life itself.

Acting in solidarity with the people of Sudan, and their monumental struggle for survival and self determination, is not simply an altruistic task. All of our struggles are connected, and we have much to learn from our Sudanese siblings in what is so clearly an international fight. 

The goal of this course is not simply to understand or bring attention to a dramatically under-reported genocide. It is to help us confront Empire together so that, ultimately, all of us can survive & thrive together. 

    1. Situate Sudan within a global landscape of genocide, neocolonialism, and resistance

    2. Make strategic connections between Sudan and the Palestine solidarity movement

    3. understand and be able to articulate how genocide emerges not as a breakdown of the system, but as one of its functions.

    4. Reframe how we talk about Sudan in order to shed light on the power structures behind the genocide and empower ourselves others to act

    5. Center the role of Sudanese women’s struggle in the face of gendered violence and leadership in the context of revolution, resistance and community survival

    6. Understand how national borders are weapons of war, and connect our fight against the Trump administration’s assault on immigrants to solidarity with Sudanese refugees

    7. Reflect critically on the role of diasporic populations, and make room for a critique of internal political struggle without playing into externally orchestrated destabilization of an entire country by imperial forces

    8. Engage in collective reflection, political processing, and movement strategy in order to take sustained action for Sudan as part of our larger struggle for a liberated world

Photo credit: Faiz Abubakr

Course Details

Six live sessions:

April 5, 12, 26 and May 3, 17, 24

4-6:30pm eastern / 1-3:30pm pacific

Live attendance is not mandatory.

Sessions will be recorded. 

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Suggested registration fee: $175-375

No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

*Sudanese youth are encouraged to register at a discounted/scholarship rate. See registration form for instructions!

Comrades Education is a US-based organization. We love having folks join us from outside the US, but you may need to do some translating between the work of this course and its application to your location. For information about participant expectations, please see our ground rules document for the course.

Guest Teacher

Ricardo Vaz

is a journalist, political analyst, and editor for Venezuelanalysis, based in Caracas, Venezuela. Growing up in Mozambique with a strong anti-imperialist, pro-Chavismo perspective, he focuses on covering Venezuelan politics, popular power organizations, the impact of sanctions, and critical analysis of corporate media coverage.

Course facilitators

Eleanor Hancock

built Comrades Education (formerly White Awake) from a small website to an organization of national significance. As founder and director of the organization, Eleanor holds a strong vision for Comrades Education’s work, and has built a supportive team of leadership to guide it. Her leadership grows out of years of experience as an activist, academic, artist, educator, and mother of a multiracial young woman. For more on how Eleanor frames her work, you can listen to this interview on Upstream Podcast.

Juliana Barnet

is an anti-colonial anthropologist, activist & writer focused on activist culture and representation in fiction. She lived for two decades in Mexico, participating in the popular education movement there and engaging in solidarity action for revolutionary movements in South & Central America.

Juilana has been a supporter of the Bolivarian Revolution for many years. She participated in the 2019 DC-based “Embassy Protection Collective”; had an immersive experience in the Venezuelan Commune System as part of the 2023 Kevin Zeese Solidarity Brigade; was an international election observer in 2025, and recently launched a grassroots story-telling project with members of the Cinco Fortalezas de la Revolución Bolivariana commune. You can learn more about Juliana’s work here.

What participants have said about our courses

  • “I am so grateful for the language, the love, the empowerment, and the honest respect shown by the facilitators for everyone's experience. This is the kind of work I've been looking for. You have helped me feel so much less alone.”

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  • “This course helped me to feel more motivated to work in community and at a community level - that there could actually be meaningful change that comes from that kind of action."

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  • "Many of the activist spaces I have been in used shame tactics to bring people into the movement, and it was really meaningful (and healing!) for me to be in a space that instead focused on what we can do starting now and what our individual and collective capabilities are."

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This course is actively supported by our Advisory Council Members:

Katrina Messenger

Betty Burkes

Bonnie Duran

"Why do you charge for your work?"

We believe the work that we do is significant, and we want to do it well. To this end, we charge a modest fee for our online programs, and solicit donations from participants and supporters, in order to meet our financial needs. This allows Comrades Education staff and instructors to focus their time and energy on the educational work this project promotes, for the benefit of all.

Comrades Education and our instructors support a transition away from capitalism, imperialism and white supremacy; we support reparations to historically targeted groups, communities and Peoples; and we make our work available to all regardless of financial means.

If you have further questions, please contact: info@comrades.education