Max Gordon (1 April 1910 – 10 May 1977) was a South African trade union leader and Trotskyist activist.
He studied at the University of Cape Town, and while there joined the Workers Party of South Africa, a Trotskyist organisation.
The union was nearly defunct, and although he was initially able to revive it, an unofficial strike the following year proved a major setback.
In 1940, he established the Joint Committee of African Trade Unions, whose affiliates had a total of around 20,000 members.
Instead, he moved to Port Elizabeth, where he founded six new trade unions, but the white labour movement refused to support him, and the South African government threatened him with further internment if he persisted.