Program

Get ready for a dynamic program at the 2026 International Plenary of the African People’s Socialist Party.

Stay tuned for schedule information coming soon.

Program highlights include: 

• Building a dual and contending economy and creating liberated territory. Presentations on the “Black Power Blueprint” in St. Louis where the Uhuru Movement has acquired scores of dilapidated properties, building a community farm, bakery cafe, community center, farmers market, outdoor events venue and basketball court, with a women’s health center and radio station in the works.
• Using the electoral process to seize political terrain. Featuring candidates and former elected officials New York Assemblyman and NYC Councilman Charles Barron, St. Louis Alderman Jesse Todd, candidates Akile Anai, Jesse Nevel and more.
• Security and self-defense for the community and the movement. Know your rights when the FBI knocks or you get stopped in the street. With a special presentation from Union del Barrio, the Mexican liberation organization respected for its recent success in community mobilization and protection against ICE raids in southern California.
• Campaign to repeal the Foreign Agent and Conspiracy laws used for political repression. Initiated by the Hands Off Uhuru! Hands Off Africa! Campaign in 2025. Presentation of tactics and strategy to effect change in the law.
• Dred Scott Sanctuary City Resolution. How to expand traditional Sanctuary City protections to include non-cooperation with the spectrum of federal political raids in and against the Black and other colonized communities.
• Unifying the African Nation for total liberation. On-the-ground reports from the African Socialist International’s practical programs in South Africa, Sierra Leone and Europe. 
• Independent Black-owned media. How to get involved in The Burning Spear newspaper production and distribution, Black Power Radio FM stations and the APSP’s Living History Archiving Project to preserve Black history.
• Science, engineering, agriculture, education and healthcare in the service of African liberation. Organizers share expertise from their international work in Ebola prevention, disaster relief, rain water harvesting and free tele-med and education services during the COVID pandemic.
• African women are equal makers and shapers of history. Reports on work to stop “Child Protective Services” kidnapping of Black children, organizing the annual “Black Mothers March on the White House” and building a revolutionary home for African women.
• Unity through reparations. The APSP broke ground with its 1976 establishment of a constituent organization – the African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSP) – bound to its leadership, designed to provide a vehicle for white people to stand in accountable solidarity with African liberation. APSC Chairwoman Penny Hess and Uhuru Solidarity Movement Chair Jesse Nevel report on reparations work.