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The November 4 election gave us a huge boost. But for the 2026 midterms, success requires both electoral majorities and preparations for…
Max Elbaum
Max Elbaum (he/him), active in peace, anti-racist and radical movements since joining Students for Democratic Society in the 1960s, is a member of the Convergence Magazine editorial board and the author of Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che (Verso Books, Third Edition, 2018), a history of the 1970s-‘80s ‘New Communist Movement’ in which he was an active participant. He is also a co-editor, with Linda Burnham and María Poblet, of Power Concedes Nothing: How Grassroots Organizing Wins Elections (OR Books, 2022).
I welcome Tom Goodkind’s article, DSA’s 2025 Convention: Can We Meet the Moment? It offers an insightful analysis of the damage being done…
(The original version of this column was published by Convergence in mid-August; this updated version was prepared for publication in the journal…
In my previous article, A Path to Pushing MAGA Out of Power, I offered a set of ideas about what is needed to…
We have a treacherous road to travel before we can push MAGA out of political power. But even as we prioritize resistance…
“History…would be of a very mystical nature if ‘accidents’ played no part in it…. including the ‘accident’ of the character of those…
Global Battlefields: Memoir of a Legendary Public Intellectual from the Global South, by Walden Bello. (Clarity Press, 2025) For starters, Walden Bello’s…
MAGA’s fast-moving coup is upending the longstanding arrangements that have undergirded domestic politics and the US role in the world. What does…
Advocates of Palestinian rights need to quickly adjust to a political landscape changed by the ceasefire agreement and Donald Trump’s ascent to…
The bulk of US progressives and radicals went into the 2024 presidential race clear-eyed about how catastrophic a second Trump term could…