Max Elbaum

Oct 18, 2024 | znetwork.org | Max Elbaum

Preventing the US presidency from being captured by a racist authoritarian whose inner circle includes outright fascists depends on the “margin of effort” in the next 20 days.  Gaining the strength to translate an electoral win into a new progressive cycle in US politics requires that our all-out effort—from now through Election Day and long beyond —includes immediate action to embed internationalism into the entire social justice movement’s vision and practice.

Oct 18, 2024 | progressivehub.net | Max Elbaum

It’s crunch time for staving off MAGA and stepping up protests against Israel’s genocidal war, which is escalating daily with US government backing. We must do both. By Max Elbaum, ConvergenceBiden passing the torch to Kamala Harris energized the anti-MAGA coalition, but the laws of political gravity have since made themselves felt. The billionaires who aim to shape a second Trump administration have financed a powerful organizing and fear-mongering apparatus.

Sep 20, 2024 | portside.org | Max Elbaum

2024 Choices and Profiles in Political Cowardice Published September 20, 2024 Fighting effectively for social transformation is hard. Socialists and revolutionaries don’t square off against our class enemies on any kind of level playing field. The country’s political structures are formidable barriers to radical change. We don’t have the luxury of determining the terrain on which we fight or the timetable on which battles will be waged.

Sep 20, 2024 | africafocus.substack.com | Max Elbaum |Jake Johnson |William Minter

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Sep 16, 2024 | links.org.au | Max Elbaum

First published at Convergence. Eighty percent of Democrats support a permanent ceasefire and somewhere around 63% support conditioning weapons aid to Israel. But the Biden administration is still sending the bombs that Israel uses to kill children. The Lancet, one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals in the world, estimates that the death toll from Israel’s assault on Gaza as of June 2024 would approach 186,000, 7–9% of Gaza’s total population.