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

The Howard Zinn Book Fair returns to San Francisco on Sunday, December 7, 2025, after a two-year hiatus. 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.

In this spirit of resistance, the Howard Zinn Book Fair will feature dozens of panel discussions and workshops with noted authors, as well as a big room filled with tables of books, posters, t-shirts, and more from small radical presses and community groups highlighting global struggles for liberation.

Join us on Sunday, December 7, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Mission Campus of City College (1125 Valencia Street) to be inspired, get organized, and share your visions for a better future.