SF’s Free Anti-Fascist “Howard Zinn Book Fair” w/ 100 Publishers (2025)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

The Howard Zinn Book Fair is an annual celebration of The People’s History, past present and future. We bring together left authors, readers, organizers and community members to debate and discuss strategies for a better world. Founded in 2014, our volunteer-run event typically hosts 60 workshops and 100 publishers. Welcoming over 2500 attendees, the Fair has become a well loved institution.

In the midst of a rising authoritarian tide, millions of people around the world are taking a stand against tyranny.

This year’s theme, “Fight Supremacy: Actions Against Authoritarianism,” asks how we can build both a fierce response to fascism and a better world.

We celebrate the individuals and organizations who resist autocrats, oligarchs, and far-right regimes—and the fear and brutality they wield. The fair is inspired by the history from below tradition, which includes Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. These histories are part of the truth-telling project about our collective past. We organize this year to defend memory, people, and communities from erasure and genocide.

Fight Supremacy looks to the past for insight into how we can effectively organize today. We draw inspiration from abolitionists, Indigenous resistance movements, organized labor, the Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, and LGBTQ+ Rights Movements, Occupy Wall Street, and the countless groups and individuals who continue to take to the streets in defiance of autocracy.

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