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Preventing the US presidency from being captured by a racist authoritarian whose inner circle includes outright fascists depends on the “margin of…
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).
Fighting effectively for social transformation is hard. Socialists and revolutionaries don’t square off against our class enemies on any kind of level…
Eighty percent of Democrats support a permanent ceasefire and somewhere around 63% support conditioning weapons aid to Israel. But the Biden administration is…
The Joe Biden-to-Kamala Harris handoff has produced a dramatic shift in mood among all opponents of MAGA’s white Christian Nationalist agenda. The…
“The white riot of January 6, 2021, at the US Capitol Building is impossible to understand without reference to earlier, yet strikingly…
A mass slaughter of genocidal proportions backed by the current administration is taking place in Gaza. A candidate espousing US-style fascism has energized his base and makes no secret of…
This installment of “It Is Happening Here” features Max Elbaum’s opening comments from a panel discussion on the state of the American…
This is the third installment of a new column by Convergence Editorial Board member Max Elbaum. “It Is Happening Here” will track the MAGA drive toward…
“For the first time since before the Civil War, a fascist party has taken control of the House of Representatives. (I define a…
Effective Left/progressive organizing helped block the “Red Wave.” This buys our movements a bit more time to build to the scale and…