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The 'New American Movement (NAM)' was founded in 1971 by a group of leaders of opposition to the Vietnam War to serve as a forum for discussing where and how to redirect their activities. The call to convene was issued by Michael Lerner. Lerner became distant from the organization shortly after it was founded and went on to start the magazine ''Tikkun''.
In its early years, NAM shared much of the political framework of the New Communist Movement, but rejected the strategy of building a "vanguard party", a position prominent NAM members held in a debate in the pages of the ''National Guardian''. By the early 1980s, after a great change in the American political climate and the departure of some of its more radical members, NAM had moved away from these positions and adopted a more traditionally social democratic outlook, culminating in a merger with the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee in 1982 to form the Democratic Socialists of America. pp. 118-20 At this time NAM claimed 2,500 members[1].
Richard Healey had been a leader of NAM since its founding in 1971. After his mother Dorothy Healey resigned from the Communist Party USA in 1973http://www.progressivela.org/history/fifties.htm he worked on recruiting her to NAM, which she joined in 1974. In 1975 she joined Richard on NAM's national interim committee, and later became a vice chair of DSA in 1982.[2] Barbara Ehrenreich was also a prominent NAM member . The journal ''Socialist Review'' and the newspaper In These Times were associated with NAM.
1. Prisoners of the American dream : politics and economy in the history of the U.S. working class, , Mike, Davis, Verso, 1986, ISBN 0-86091-131-4
2. Dorothy Healey and Maurice Isserman, ''Dorothy Healey Remembers: A Life in the American Communist Party'' (Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. 245-249.
In its early years, NAM shared much of the political framework of the New Communist Movement, but rejected the strategy of building a "vanguard party", a position prominent NAM members held in a debate in the pages of the ''National Guardian''. By the early 1980s, after a great change in the American political climate and the departure of some of its more radical members, NAM had moved away from these positions and adopted a more traditionally social democratic outlook, culminating in a merger with the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee in 1982 to form the Democratic Socialists of America. pp. 118-20 At this time NAM claimed 2,500 members[1].
Richard Healey had been a leader of NAM since its founding in 1971. After his mother Dorothy Healey resigned from the Communist Party USA in 1973http://www.progressivela.org/history/fifties.htm he worked on recruiting her to NAM, which she joined in 1974. In 1975 she joined Richard on NAM's national interim committee, and later became a vice chair of DSA in 1982.[2] Barbara Ehrenreich was also a prominent NAM member . The journal ''Socialist Review'' and the newspaper In These Times were associated with NAM.
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1. Prisoners of the American dream : politics and economy in the history of the U.S. working class, , Mike, Davis, Verso, 1986, ISBN 0-86091-131-4
2. Dorothy Healey and Maurice Isserman, ''Dorothy Healey Remembers: A Life in the American Communist Party'' (Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. 245-249.
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