The chapter is based on an ethnography of “common spaces” (squares between and within residential blocks) in Deim, a popular neighbourhood of Khartoum, carried out over the last decade and, more intensively, after December Revolution (2019–2023). This grid of about 120 “common places”, following the morphology of a planned working-class area established in colonial times, has embodied everyday practices of sharing, commoning and resistance against undemocratic central powers since the foundation of the neighbourhood, whose socio-spatial marginalization is linked to its labelling as a “rebel quarter”. After illustrating the place-grounded politics “from below” of such common places, the chapter describes their transformation dynamics linked to the revolutionary process which reshaped the existing spaces or created new ones, by connecting memory of injustice and promise of a fairer future. It finally suggests the possibility of identifying, behind the embeddedness of values and practices stemming from the revolutionary ethos, some contradictions within the same process, as the underlying inequalities in a neighbourhood, whose identity is displayed as unique, popular, and inspired by solidarity, but is facing the violence of gentrification parallel to political violence.