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…
The recent burst of Supreme Court rulings and January 6 Committee revelations have put the MAGA agenda and its plans to seize…
The first step toward defeating the MAGA bloc in 2022 and 2024 is setting our sights on it. And then keeping our eyes on the prize until it is done
The extensive preparations underway for 2022 and 2024 by the host of progressive and left groups that threw down to beat Trump in 2020 are the reasons we can succeed
The more we contribute to beating the MAGA Faction in this round of voting, the better positioned we are to push further toward the multiracial democracy, transformed economy, and changed relationship with the planet and all the people on it that is so desperately needed
Social justice movements and the Left have grown by orders of magnitude in size and political sophistication since 2015
The outcome of electoral battle will determine whether the country descends into dictatorship or takes a path toward multiracial democracy and economic transformation
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