In 2025, dozens of activists and academics gathered at the 53rd European Group Conference in Malmö to speak, debate, learn and, ultimately, breathe collectively around a question with infinite ramifications: abolitionist practice. The meeting sought to break with the dichotomy between theory and practice, the street and the university, in order to address in a horizontal and committed way the dismantling of oppressive and punitive structures. It was not an abstract debate but a thoughtful reflection of something shaking the world, from Los Angeles to Gaza, from Buenos Aires to Johannesburg: the need and desire to abolish the repressive institutions that generate multiple forms of oppression and exploitation.

A group of militants and academics from Euskal Herria has taken up the task of organising the next edition of this event, which will take place in Vitoria-Gasteiz from 1 to 4 September 2026 (among others Salhaketa Nafarroa, Salhaketa Araba, Fear and Looting in the Periphery EG, WG). We share the abolitionist and transformative spirit that inspired the 2025 event. We inhabit a world in flames, undergoing an accelerated process of fascistisation, intensifying policing and environmental devastation. Today, more than ever, it is essential to abolish the conditions that make this destruction possible. We believe it is necessary to keep moving forward. For this reason, we want to invite you to collectively think about, imagine and activate alternatives. Collective alternatives to practices of domination such as the police, prisons, migrant centres and mass surveillance. Alternatives to the infrastructural systems of control and resource management that submit us to a way of life that is as infamous as it is unviable. Alternatives for the construction of an extensive, community-managed network of care. Alternatives, in short, to the punitive-security culture that permeates and contaminates our societies and our relationships.

Submission are now closed, please register to the conference until may 30th here: 54th European Group Conference registration form – Fill out form

+info: egconference2026@protonmail.com.

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