Revolutionary Struggles in the 21st Century and the U.S. Social Forum.

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 ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]