🇸🇩 Muzan Alneel, a Sudanese engineer, writer, and political activist who became one of the most clear-eyed analysts of Sudan’s revolutionary movement, passed away Wednesday — on the third anniversary of the outbreak of the war in Sudan. Alneel had argued that Sudan’s 2018-2019 popular uprising against Omar al-Bashir’s 30-year dictatorship was being hollowed out from above. When the military seized power in a 2021 coup, she warned that any deal sharing power between civilian politicians and generals would only preserve the same system that had crushed Sudanese people for decades. Real change, she wrote, required dismantling military control of the economy – the Sudanese armed forces own vast commercial enterprises – and building an industrialized, self-reliant state accountable to its people rather than to foreign creditors and arms suppliers. She co-founded ISTinaD, a Khartoum-based think tank focused on technology and people-centered development, and was among the first to bring attention to the neighborhood resistance committees that organized protests and provided basic services when the state would not. Her work appeared in Jacobin, Al Jazeera, African Arguments, and Novara Media. Her last repost on X was from Ryan Grim highlighting Drop Site’s reporting. “A brilliant revolutionary thinker, writer and organizer and a wonderful human,”  said researcher Nisrin Elamin.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​“One of the strongest Sudanese revolutionary voices, an incredible Marxist thinker and activist,” wrote colleague Shireen Akram-Boshar. “She had an unflagging commitment to the Sudanese people and their right to live in freedom and dignity,” said TIMEP’s Timothy Kaldas.