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Fanon at 100: Insights for Today's Anti-Colonial Struggles

Ndindi Kitonga, Ricado Jacobs, and Peter Hudis speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by International Marxist-Humanist Organization.

Frantz Fanon is renowned as one of the most important decolonial theorists of the twentieth century. As part of commemorating his 100th birthday, this panel will explore how his work speaks to today’s struggles against settler colonialism, racial domination, and efforts to create an alternative to capitalism-imperialism.

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Municipal Socialism in the US Midwest

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Socialist Politics in Tenant Organizing

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