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In addition to the main conferences, the event will also include space for self-managed activities, allowing activists, social movements, collectives, organizations, and participants in general to organize their own activities, discussions, workshops, launches, dialogue circles, or educational experiences. For self-managed activities, the organizing committee does not guarantee simultaneous translation, as is provided in the main … Continued

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Program

The 1st International Anti-Fascist Conference for the Sovereignty of Peoples brings together a program that engages directly with the main political, social, and economic challenges of our time, articulating analyses about the rise of the far right, the advance of imperialism, climate change, and the multiple forms of resistance and solidarity among the peoples of the world, including feminist, anti-racist, pro-Palestine, and workers’ struggles. The debates will feature speakers from various countries across all continents, reflecting the international dimension of the struggles addressed.

Confirmed presence

Mireille Fanon Mendes France

Is a founder and co-president of the Frantz Fanon Foundation, as well as a member of the International Council of Social Forums. She has worked in the areas of communication, literature, education, human rights, and international law. As an activist, she works on issues related to racist and liberal capitalism, political reparations, and the coloniality of the power, the knowledge, and the existence She also dedicates herself to the analysis of permanent wars against peoples—in Palestine, Haiti, Mapuche territories and community territories, both in Colombia and Brazil, and in the colonised territories of the French Republic. She was a UN expert on issues concerning of African descent communities.

Silvia Saravia

National leader of Libres del Sur, she is a teacher in public secondary schools in the Greater Buenos Aires. A popular educator, she works in the design of national public policies and coordinates social research teams with focus on gender, public health, education, and culture. She is the founder of Mujeres de Pie and Mujeres de la Matria Latinoamericana (Mumala).

Sergio García

Sergio García is a leader of the MST and a member of the National Board of the Frente de Izquierda - Unidad in Argentina. He is also a leader of the ISL (International Socialist League), a political journalist, and director of the digital newspaper periodismodeizquierda.com.

Luciana Genro

State Representative for PSOL-RS. President of the Lauro Campos and Marielle Franco Foundation (FLCMF). Lawyer and Master in Philosophy of Law from USP (University of São Paulo)

Fernanda Melchionna

Socialist and feminist militant and activist. A mother, she believes in mobilization as a path to transformation. A librarian graduated from UFRGS and a bank worker on leave from Banrisul, she served as a city councilor in Porto Alegre for 10 years. Congress Representative for PSOL-RS, she is currently in her second term, reelected in 2022 with nearly 200,000 votes. She is the author of “Is All This Feminism?” and coordinates the commission on femicides in Rio Grande do Sul.

Luana Alves

She is a Black feminist and a healthcare worker. She is 32 years old, born in Santos, on the coast of the state of São Paulo, and is a psychologist, graduated from the University of São Paulo (USP), where she specialized in Collective Health and Primary Care, working in Basic Health Units in the West Zone of São Paulo. At the university, Luana was an active part of the struggle that achieved the adoption of ethnic-racial and social quotas at USP. Luana is active in Rede Emancipa, a national popular education social movement that, in the outskirts of São Paulo, organizes dozens of free pre-university preparatory courses that enable thousands of public school students to access university. She accepted the challenge of being a spokesperson for the anti-racist, feminist, antifascist struggles, for the peripheries, for LGBTQIA+ people, and in defense of public education and the Unified Health System (SUS), which is comprehensive, free, and universal. She was elected city councilor by PSOL in São Paulo in 2020 with 37,550 votes and re-elected in 2024 with 83,262 votes.

Sâmia Bomfim

Congress Representative for the PSOL party from São Paulo, currently in her second term. A mother, feminist, and public servant on leave from USP, she began her political trajectory in the student movement. Her main areas of work include the rights and protection of women, children, and adolescents; ecosocialism; the defense of quality public education, healthcare, and public services; the struggle of workers; confronting the far right; and guaranteeing human rights.

Roberto Robaina

58 years old, is a city councilor in Porto Alegre, serving his third term. He began his activism in 1982 in the students movement at Colégio Júlio de Castilhos. He was director of the Bank Workers' Union in the 1990s. In 2003, he left the PT (Workers' Party) and founded, alongside Luciana Genro, the PSOL (Socialism and Liberty Party). In the City Council, he is at the forefront of projects such as the Zero Fare initiative. With a degree in History and a PhD in Philosophy, he is the author of several articles and books. Robaina is a member of the organising comittee of the 1st International Anti-Fascist Conference.

Estrella Galán

Estrella Galán is a Member of the European Parliament for The Left (Spain) and a human rights defender, with extensive experience in migration, asylum, and refuge. She works in the management and leadership of non-profit organizations and in social intervention. A specialist in migration and development, co-development, and social services, she stands out for her proactive, creative approach and her commitment to high-quality results.

Muna Muhammad Odeh

2nd Vice President of the Planalto Regional of the National Association of Higher Education Teachers, ANDES. She is Palestinian and a Professor in the Department of Public Health at the University of Brasília. Her research areas include: Health, Coloniality and Gender; Coloniality and Mental Health; and Inter-professionalism in healthcare.

Fernando Luis Rojas

Graduated in Pedagogy, with a specialization in History and a master's degree in Didactics of the Humanities. He is an associate researcher, director of the Casa de las Américas Editorial Fund and coordinator of the Cuban chapter of the Network in Defense of Humanity. Has published, among others, the books "More Than an Island" (2015) and "Critical Route of Current Trade Unionism" (2019). Texts of his authorship appear in publications such as the journals "Temas e Ciências Sociais" (Cuba), "Rebelião", "Brecha", "Memória", "Ciência e Sociedade", among others. He is a member of the La Tizza editorial collective.

Pastora Filigrana García

Law graduate from the University of Seville in 2004, currently a practicing attorney and member of the Seville Bar Association. Specialist in Labor and Trade Union Law, and expert in Immigration Law. She holds a Master’s degree in Human Rights, Interculturality, and Development from Pablo de Olavide University of Seville. A human rights activist involved in various social movements, she is the author of the book The Roma People against the World-System: Reflections from a Feminist and Anti-Capitalist Militancy (Akal, 2020). She currently serves as director of the Association Action Against Hate.

Zarah Sultana

is a British activist and Member of Parliament for Coventry South since 2019. She was suspended from the Labour Party in July 2024 for her opposition to neoliberal austerity measures such as the removal of the cap on child benefit for two children. She is very active in the anti-fascist struggle and in solidarity with the Palestinian people's struggle. Former chair of the Socialist Campaign Group, she left the Labour Party in July 2025 and co-founded Your Party alongside Jeremy Corbyn with significant activist support in November 2025.

Éric Toussaint

Spokesperson for CADTM International – Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (formerly the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt, whose acronym CADTM has been retained), active in more than 30 countries on four continents. Éric has been a member of the International Council of the World Social Forum since its creation in 2001. He advised various governments and social movements in South America (Ecuador, Venezuela, Paraguay) in 2007-2009 on the creation of a Bank of the South and on debt auditing. In 2015, he coordinated the work of the Greek debt audit commission set up by the President of the Greek Parliament.

Zoe Konstantopoulou

is a Greek lawyer and politician. She presided over the Greek Parliament in 2015 when the radical left (Syriza) won the elections and she created the Greek debt audit commission, which aimed to obtain the cancellation of the debt. Zoe Konstantopoulou opposed the betrayal of the result of the 5 July 2015 referendum by the government of Alexis Tsipras. In 2016, she founded a new political organisation called Path of Freedom and is a member of the Greek Parliament. She is very active in defending the victims of privatisation policies and the rights of migrants against the far-right government.

Luc Mukendi

Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Lubumbashi (DRC), specialist in extractive industries and public debt, anti-globalisation activist, member of CADTM International, Democratic Republic of Congo

Manon Aubry

Member of the European Parliament for La France Insoumise, co-chair of the Left group in the European Parliament. Before being elected, she was a researcher and spokesperson at Oxfam, where she worked on inequality and the fight against tax evasion. In the European Parliament, she continues her fight to tax the richest and, as first vice-chair of the Parliament's Trade Committee, she campaigns against all free trade agreements and advocates for a relocation of agriculture that respects farmers and the land.

Camille Chalmers

University professor in Port-au-Prince, renowned economist specialising in the analysis of integration processes and the formulation of alternative public policies. Representative of the Platform for the Alternative Development of Haiti (PAPDA), member of the CADTM-AYNA and CADTM International networks and founding member of the Jubileu Sur/Americas network. He is a member of Alba Movimientos and the Caribbean Peoples' Assembly.

Ana Miranda

Member of the European Parliament and coordinator of international relations for the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) in Galicia. Third Vice-President of the EUROLAT Joint Parliamentary Assembly. Co-chair of the EUROLAT Civil Society Forum. Member of the European Parliament's Andean Delegation. Member of the European Parliament's Palestine Delegation. Defender of internationalism, anti-fascism and the struggle for self-determination of peoples. She has participated in numerous international forums, such as the World Social Forum and the São Paulo Forum.

David Otieno
David Otieno

is an agro-ecologist farmer and member of the Kenyan Peasants League (KPL), where he serves as general coordinator and political advisor. The KPL aims to transition to peasant agroecology for climate justice through food sovereignty and is a member of La Via Campesina and the CADTM network against debt.

Patricia Pol

academic, anti-globalisation activist involved in international cooperation, particularly in the fields of higher education and research, is ATTAC France's delegate to the International Council of the World Social Forum. ATTAC (Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions and Citizen Action) fights against the dictatorship of financial markets and for fiscal, social and ecological justice.

Brian Ashley

Editor-in-chief of Amandla!, a magazine and website that aims to promote discussion and debate around a new left-wing, anti-capitalist politics in South Africa and Southern Africa. Brian Ashley is coordinator of the Alternative Information Development Centre (AIDC) and has played a leading role in various civil society initiatives to combat persistent inequalities, including facilitating the launch and implementation of the South African Jubilee 2000 campaign for debt cancellation and the campaign for the right to work.

Leïla Chaibi

is a radical left-wing activist and has been a Member of the European Parliament for La France Insoumise since 2019. She is committed to the fight for the right to housing. In Parliament, she is a leading figure in negotiations on the directive to grant rights to platform workers. She has also contributed to the construction of an international network of GIG workers. Whether in her battles against Amazon or Uber, she brings together struggles on an international scale in order to build a counter-power and obtain rights for workers.

Omar Aziki

is an activist, secretary general of ATTAC-CADTM Morocco, member of the shared international secretariat of the CADTM network and the SIYADA Food Sovereignty network in the arab region. As trade union activist, he is particularly committed to supporting agricultural workers in agribusiness. He is also a political activist within the Al Mounadil movement in Morocco.

Solange Koné

is the founder of the Forum on Economic and Social Strategies of Côte d'Ivoire, a member of CADTM and a member of the World March of Women and other social movements. Solange Koné is also the founder of the National Federation of Health Organisations of Côte d'Ivoire. She is active in the World Social Forum.

Rafael Bernabe

has been a trade unionist, anti-colonialist and anti-capitalist activist in Puerto Rico for four decades. Spokesperson for the Socialist Front (1990-2008), president of the Puerto Rican Association of University Professors (1996-1999), candidate for governor for the Workers' Party (2012, 2016) and senator for the Citizen Victory Movement (2021-2024). Author of various books on Puerto Rican history, society and culture.

Fernanda Gadea

Nurse, founder and member of the Canary Islands Platform for Migrants' Rights. Very active in solidarity with Palestine and for the self-determination of the Sahrawi people, as well as in the ‘No to NATO’ platform. National coordinator of ATTAC in Spain.

Luis Bonilla-Molina

Venezuelan university professor, currently visiting professor at the Federal University of Sergipe (Brazil). He has been a member of the CLACSO Board of Directors and Chairman of the Board of Directors of IESALC UNESCO. He was Deputy Minister of Higher Education and President of the Miranda International Centre under the Chávez government. He is currently a member of the Latin American Campaign for the Right to Education, Director of Otras Voces en Educación and a member of the editorial board of some twenty journals.

Penelope Duggan

has been a political and feminist activist since the 1970s. Originally from the UK, she is now a member of the NPA-Anticapitaliste in France. She is a member of the Bureau of the Fourth International, editor of the online magazine International Viewpoint, and a contributor to the International Institute for Research and Education in Amsterdam, particularly in the areas of feminism, parties and social movements.

Sushovan Dhar

Political activist and trade unionist based in Calcutta, India. He is involved in the campaign for debt cancellation and is a member of the International Council of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) and the World Social Forum. He is also a member of the South Asian Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE) and vice-president of the Progressive Plantation Workers Union (PPWU). He edits the online magazine Alternative Viewpoint.

Jorgelina Matusevicius

Coordinator of Vientos del Pueblo – Front for Popular Power and the Marabunta Social and Political Current in Argentina. Activist committed to the struggle for socialism and transfeminism. She is a health worker and professor at the University of Buenos Aires, where she is a delegate for the University Teachers' Trade Union Association.

Julio Gambina

Professor of Political Economy at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Rosario (from 1985 to 2023), Argentina. Doctor of Social Sciences, President of the Foundation for Social and Political Research (FISYP) in Buenos Aires, member of the Board of ATTAC-Argentina and CADTM AYNA.

Yvonne Ngoyi Yakabwe

feminist and internationalist activist, president of the Union of Women for Human Dignity (UFDH) in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Member of the International Council of CADTM International. Expert in international cooperation and humanitarian aid, activist for women's and children's rights, public debt and climate issues. Worked in Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to help women victims of rape in war zones.

Aitor Murgia

Member of the Executive Committee and head of the Research, Social Policy and Environment Department of the ELA trade union (Euskal Herria - Basque Country). Trade union activist specialising in economic analysis, public policy, taxation, budgetary policy, housing and environmental policy. Former member of the European Economic and Social Committee (2020-2025). Still an anti-fascist.

Thomas Portes

Member of Parliament for France Insoumise in Seine-Saint-Denis and President of the Observatory of the Far Right, Thomas Portes, a former railway unionist, has been leading the fight against the far right, racism and police violence for years. Since 7 October 2023, he has been one of the leading French figures in the fight against genocide in Gaza and in defence of the Palestinian people. Deeply committed to the right of peoples to self-determination, he travelled to Rojava in January 2025 to lend his support to the Kurdish people as President of the Kurdish Study Group at the National Assembly.

Abel Prieto

is a Cuban writer, intellectual and politician known for his career as Cuba's Minister of Culture for several years and current president of the Casa de las Américas in Havana. He is distinguished by his defence of culture as a tool for emancipation and his critical view of globalisation and cultural colonisation, promoting the programme "Sembrar ideas, sembrar conciencia “ (Sowing ideas, sowing awareness). Deputy in the National Assembly of People's Power. At the forefront of the anti-fascist and anti-imperialist struggle. Member of the network of intellectuals, artists and social movements 'In Defence of Humanity”, an initiative he has been promoting since 2003.

Ilaria Salis

is an anti-fascist activist who, following her participation in an anti-Nazi demonstration in the Hungarian capital, was unjustly imprisoned in Budapest and denounced by Viktor Orban's far-right government. After 15 months in prison, she was released thanks to her election in June 2024 as a Member of the European Parliament on the unified list of the Alliance of the Greens and Left (AVS) in Italy. She is a member of The Left group in the European Parliament.

Self-managed activities

In addition to the main conferences, the event will also provide space for self-managed activities, allowing activists, social movements, collectives, organizations, and participants in general to propose and carry out their own discussions, workshops, launches, roundtables, or formative experiences. Submitted proposals will be reviewed by the Organizing Committee and, once approved, will become part of the event’s official program. These activities aim to broaden the plurality of voices, strengthen exchanges among different territories and struggles, and value grassroots-built initiatives.

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