1st International Antifascist Conference For The Sovereignty Of Peoples
11 May by Collective , Mireille Fanon-Mendès France , Fondation Frantz Fanon

Caption: In the centre of the photo, Mireille Fanon at the anti-fascist conference in Porto Alegre. Photo: CADTM, cc Eric Toussaint
CADTM is pleased to publish the paper presented by Mireille Fanon Mendes France at the plenary session entitled ‘Anti-racism, feminism and civil rights in the struggle against fascism’, held as part of the anti-fascist and anti-imperialist conference in Porto Alegre on 29 March 2026.
What does the succession of serious events that have been constantly shattering the balance
Balance
End of year statement of a company’s assets (what the company possesses) and liabilities (what it owes). In other words, the assets provide information about how the funds collected by the company have been used; and the liabilities, about the origins of those funds.
of international relations and, above all, dismantling all the peremptory norms of international law in recent months tell us ? Starting with the illegal kidnapping of President Maduro and the abduction of Congresswoman Cilia Flores, the Trump administration’s implementation of a state policy against migrants amounting to a declaration of war against the wretched, the United States’ decision to manage the security crisis in Haiti, following the failure of the Kenyan military force, by sending three ships—the USS Stockdale (DDG 106), USCGC Stone (WMSL 758), and USCGC Diligence (WMEC 616) (https://lelouverture.com/haiti-des-navires-americains-arrivent-a-port-au-prince-pour-renforcer-la-securite-et-la-stabilite/)—off Port-au-Prince, and then, after the appointment of the Prime Minister, by awarding the resolution of this crisis to the transnational firm Evergreen Trading
Market activities
trading
Buying and selling of financial instruments such as shares, futures, derivatives, options, and warrants conducted in the hope of making a short-term profit.
System Limited (https://evergreentradingsystems.com/), which puts the Haitian state under guardianship and obligated to pay the sum of $542 million in ten years, it does not matter that the socio-economic and political crisis that Haiti is going through is the result of policies imposed from the outside, including the illegal debt imposed by the former French colonizer in 1825.
Cuba, for its part, is declared an “extraordinary and direct unusual threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States” (https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/addressing-threats-to-the-united-states-by-the-government-of-cuba/) and is in fact under total blockade and any country that, out of solidarity, comes to its aid will be subject to the wrath of the tenant of the White House ; a peace council claims to take control of the UN with an entry price of 1 billion, this same tenant boasts about the “official” resumption of the Monroe Doctrine against the countries of South America; It is effectively waging a declared war against the right to self-determination and political sovereignty (Article 1-1, Charter of the United Nations), in short, against non-aggression and friendly international relations (Articles 1-2 and 1-3, Charter of the United Nations), against its own people and against other peoples. Meanwhile, Palestine remains under bombardment, the victim of endless genocide and ethnocide, its territory increasingly swallowed up by illegal settlements. We must not forget the aggression suffered for the past month by the Islamic Republic of Iran, which has never had its finger on the nuclear missile button, just as it has never been the first to attack the United States or the State of Israel.
This acceleration towards an uncertain world, and particularly since October 7, 2023, finds its justification in the talking points uttered by Marco Rubio in Munich: “(…) We are bound to one another by the deepest ties that can unite nations, forged by centuries of common history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices made by our ancestors for the common civilization of which we are the heirs” (ww.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/02/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-at-the-munich-security-conference).
These are elements echoed by tech proponents raised on the ideology of apartheid in South Africa, including racial cleansing, homogenization, and hierarchical structures.
What human disasters lie ahead with institutional racism no longer operating under a mask but with its head held high, and more necessary than ever to an authoritarian project demanding profit Profit The positive gain yielded from a company’s activity. Net profit is profit after tax. Distributable profit is the part of the net profit which can be distributed to the shareholders. for an elite and the imposition of colonial power over the marginalized, taken to far greater heights than it currently exists? We will have to move from a democracy—even though much could be said about this model haunted by profit, corruption, and power—where social movements could give meaning and substance to demands for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, to a hyper-hierarchical social body defending the values of white supremacy; the question of political and collective reparations will be even more pressing. They may eventually benefit from some visibility as long as they limit themselves to memorial and psychological aspects.
All this in the name of law and order, leading to a future where only the elite will be able to breathe. For the proponents of technofascism, this is the price humanity—or at least a portion of it—will have to pay to reach the future, transhumanism, where humankind will be freed from its chains, but only for the chosen few. For the rest of us, isn’t this both a return to the plantation system and a war of endless conflict against resisting populations ? The doctrine of discovery will be replaced by the hoarding of rare earth elements and natural resources in the name of a future of authoritarian and violent white supremacy, defended by the rights of the richest and strongest. What will become of Black bodies and other racialized people in such a project ?
If Black bodies once challenged white Eurocentric domination and were deprived of all rights, and since the abolitions were merely tolerated, today the bodies of racialized and marginalized people, if they demonstrate any willingness to hinder the mission of transnational corporations, will be perceived as infringing upon the fundamental rights and freedoms of tech and transnational companies. These companies, through the power of fascist ideology, suddenly find themselves endowed with humanity, while certain bodies, particularly those of racialized and marginalized people, revert to mere commodities Commodities The goods exchanged on the commodities market, traditionally raw materials such as metals and fuels, and cereals. and lose all rights. This is a far cry from the fascism that emerged in the 1930s.
What is certain is that, from enslavement to technofascism, the Black question will once again be the structural adjustment
Structural Adjustment
Economic policies imposed by the IMF in exchange of new loans or the rescheduling of old loans.
Structural Adjustments policies were enforced in the early 1980 to qualify countries for new loans or for debt rescheduling by the IMF and the World Bank. The requested kind of adjustment aims at ensuring that the country can again service its external debt. Structural adjustment usually combines the following elements : devaluation of the national currency (in order to bring down the prices of exported goods and attract strong currencies), rise in interest rates (in order to attract international capital), reduction of public expenditure (’streamlining’ of public services staff, reduction of budgets devoted to education and the health sector, etc.), massive privatisations, reduction of public subsidies to some companies or products, freezing of salaries (to avoid inflation as a consequence of deflation). These SAPs have not only substantially contributed to higher and higher levels of indebtedness in the affected countries ; they have simultaneously led to higher prices (because of a high VAT rate and of the free market prices) and to a dramatic fall in the income of local populations (as a consequence of rising unemployment and of the dismantling of public services, among other factors).
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variable of this new future upon us. Therefore, it is essential that social movements not forget that fighting capitalism requires fighting institutional racism. There is no racism without capitalism, just as there is no capitalism without racism. This inherent alliance between racism and capitalism is too often overlooked in our movements, which has left Black bodies absent and invisible.
In Brazil, where 54% of the population is Afro-descendant and Indigenous, it took years for their voices to begin to be heard and accepted. And within our own movements, even though there have been changes, the battle is far from over; at the opening of this first conference on fascism, all the panelists were white. And this is still far too often the case. Resisting, inventing, fighting, and declaring solidarity are forms of struggle that must break with the internalized colonial model that has kept racialized people marginalized for far too long.
If this ideology specifies that the transformations to come are only aimed at improving the future, we must question this vision of the future which would be so desirable that it must be adopted as quickly as possible at the risk of losing the right to access a future where only those who ARE will survive in the light; for all the others, reduced to what they DO, they will be assigned shadow and darkness, is this the return to the hold of the ships that transported our ancestors ?
The decolonial understanding of what Non-Being means has never been more relevant. And this is what is foreshadowed by the genocide and ethnocide of the Palestinian people, aimed at the emergence of a new Middle East through a Peace Council that violates all the norms of international relations and a Mar-a-lago-style reconstruction of Gaza for a state that has proclaimed itself a start-up nation.
In this new world order, law and order are reinforced by the establishment of a private justice system administered by international arbitration tribunals, allowing multinational corporations to sue states when public policies run counter to their interests. This system of justice was conceived and implemented to guarantee transnational corporations the exploitation of natural resources in newly decolonized countries (https://youtu.be/9nMuK_U0uvA?is=91uR86ORul7nKzhf).
Hasn’t the right of predatory transnational corporations to block state public policies fostered collusion between some of these corporations, whose budgets far exceed those of many states and tech companies, in favor of a hegemonic, imperialist, racist, and fascist approach ?
All these questions we face compel us to implement radical processes that allow us to extricate ourselves from what has entrenched Eurocentric Modernity, embodying the ideal of the white liberal man. How can we conceive of the mutation of an illiberal, capitalist society that openly admitting to being racist and fascist? Is it possible to organize resistance by politicizing common objectives in struggles aimed at the autonomy and emancipation of oppressed communities, as advocated by Huey P. Newton when he spoke of intercommunalism as a means to better combat North American imperialism, which had “transformed all other nations into oppressed communities” (H.P. Newton; To Die for the People, 1972 -quoted by Norman Ajari, Technofascism: The New Dream of White Supremacy, Météores Publishing, 2025)?
In concrete terms, we should direct our political and economical commitments, our resistance, our rebellions against technofascism to the emergence of new institutions, since those we face have never met the needs of the people. This should begin, among other things, by supporting the people of Haiti being the echo of their voice demanding on the one hand, the end of the foreign control which decides its presidents and destroys both its self-determination and its sovereignty and on the other hand, the restitution of the illegal debt imposed by France; we should stand with Palestine, in a global campaign to demand the total and unconditional cessation of the genocide in Palestine with the application of UN resolutions and demand that the ICC sue the perpetrators of genocide and war criminals; we should demand an end to the illegal colonial military operation against the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Lebanese Republic, among other things by fighting for the liberation of these “oppressed communities” from a murderous imperialist system. For the damned, this must become, as Frantz Fanon put it, “an attitude of mind and a way of life, a struggle pursued with love, demonstrating a positive attitude, without abandoning one’s rage.” Love and rage being the expression of “Yes” and “No,” the primary expression of a decolonial attitude. This is a significant challenge, but it is at this price that a balance of power can eventually be built, aiming to overturn the will of an even more hegemonic and even more deadly power.
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