Name: “As Goes the South”: Building Multiracial Working-Class Solidarity in the South for a Socialist Future
Start: 2026-09-05T17:00:00-0500
End: 2026-09-05T18:30:00-0500

“As Goes the South”: Building Multiracial Working-Class Solidarity in the South for a Socialist Future

Saturday September 5, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT

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As W.E.B. DuBois said “As goes the South, so goes the nation.” Ruling class and authoritarian forces have always prioritized organizing the South as a way to hold power over the entire nation. If we are to defeat authoritarianism and win a socialist future, we must organize a multiracial working-class base in the South.

Speakers

Beth Howard

Beth Howard is the Cultural Strategist for Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), the largest national organization bringing white people into the fight for racial and economic justice. She grew up in a rural white working-class community in Eastern Kentucky and has organized in the... Read More →

Chris Kutalik

Chris Kutalik, a native Texan, is the former Democratic Socialists of America communications director, transit union officer, and editor/director of Labor Notes. He currently works as Showing Up for Racial Justice communications director and is (busy) father of four.

Jerome Scott

Jerome Scott was a labor organizer in the auto plants of Detroit in the 1960s-’70s, and a member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. As a community organizer, popular educator and author in the South since the 1970s, he was a founding member and former director of Project... Read More →

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SURJ

Saturday September 5, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
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Left Strategy

Socialism 2026

Beth Howard

Chris Kutalik

Jerome Scott

SURJ

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Socialism 2026

Beth Howard

Chris Kutalik

Jerome Scott

SURJ

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