It emerged as a pro-Chinese split, after internal division inside the Sudanese Communist Party in August 1964.[1][2][3] The split in the Sudanese Communist Party was provoked by the Sino-Soviet split.[4][5] Whilst the Sudanese Communist Party leadership supported participating in Central Council election under the regime of Ibrahim Abboud in 1963, the faction that created the Revolutionary Leadership rejected electoral politics and called for armed struggle.[6] Some of the founders of the new party had been expelled from the Sudanese Communist Party after accusing the party general secretary for misappropriation of funds provided by the Soviet embassy.