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Economic, political and social crises are deeply affecting communities throughout the world. In the U.S. the long history of genocide of Indigenous peoples, enslavement of African peoples, the economic exploitation of working people including many immigrant communities, the inequality of women of these communities and classes, wars of conquest and expansion of the continental U.S., and ecocide have shaped the economic and political system of global capitalism in the United States for over five centuries. This system is rooted in white supremacy and gender oppression as part of the overarching domination of society and the state by the rich and powerful - by those who own the economic resources across the country and the globe and form today's global corporate class. These forms of injustice and inequality have been reproduced in every century since the late 1400s. In each century resistance and resilience have been a consistent part of daily life. Those communities and classes most adversely affected have organized and struggled against their oppression and exploitation, seeking freedom, liberation, justice, and equality. The work of our communities, organizations, and struggles exist within the objective realities of social history - the electronic revolution, the transformation of work, and destruction in every aspect of social life and the environment; a powerful global capitalism and its repressive and deadly neoliberal policies; and a violent U.S. empire spreading war, militarism, rape and violence against women, and abusive prison systems at home and abroad. In today's movement building moment, the United States Social Forum offered the space to grow our bottom-up justice and equality movement deeper and stronger, and to vision the world we are fighting for. We are using this process to build a movement worthy of uniting with our sisters and brothers in the Global South. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article argues that today's bottom-up movement needs its own southern strategy to challenge white supremacy at its core, with regards to the capitalist private property, and concerning male domination in the U.S. The ruling class in the U.S. has always controlled the citizens through a southern strategy rooted in superexploitation, white supremacy, male privilege, division, and brutal repression. The article raises several questions related to the use of southern strategy by Democrats and Republicans in the past and its implications for a bottom-up southern strategy.

This is a powerful and challenging historical moment: the deepest economic crisis and meltdown of global capitalism since the Great Depression; election of Barak Obama, the first Black US President; ongoing social destruction of huge proportions; an ecological crisis that threatens survival of the planet; all while war, militarism, and repression intensify at home and abroad. Working class women and children, indigenous peoples, peoples of color, and immigrants are, as always, most adversely affected. This is also a moment of broadening social struggles on all fronts and rising social movements that are questioning the viability of global capitalism and looking for alternatives in socialism for the 21st century.Teaching and learning and the struggle for social justice and transformation in every space and context are essential in this moment. For those of us who are scholar and student activists, it is especially important to bring this home to our classrooms - our students and colleagues - and the larger communities we are part of. Schools and universities are not themselves revolutionary institutions (they tend to reproduce the social relations of society and the ideological hegemony of the ruling class). Nevertheless, they can be sites of consciousness raising and struggle given the intentionality of professors and students to create critical classrooms and connect to today's rising social movement and the world social forum process. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We locate DuBois--his intellectual work and his political activism and their interrelationship--within the social history of the last 100 years. We identify the economic, political, racial and social forces that shaped DuBois' scholar activist project over the course of his life, focusing on THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK as well as the changes during his life and after. Finally, we derive lessons learned from his life's work and activism and their relationship to his times to our reality today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]