What Mamdani Needs To Do To Succeed As NYC Mayor

Mamdani has one more big hurdle to overcome–a general election in November. Pulling together a successful electoral coalition is difficult, but forging a governing coalition to run the city is even harder. As mayor, Mamdani will face major challenges

Republicans’ Draconian Budget Bill Is Now A Reality

The Republican budget will gut Medicaid, slash food aid for families, and shutter rural hospitals—just to give tax breaks that will go overwhelmingly to the wealthy. It is a staggering upward redistribution of income.

Trump’s Sneak Attack on Medicare

For the first time, required pre-authorizations are coming to traditional Medicare. The Trump administration proposes to extend pre-authorizations to traditional Medicare, just like Medicare Advantage. This maneuver has gotten little attention.

My Favorite 'Anti-Semite' - Archbishop Desmond Tutu

In honor of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and all those who refuse to be silenced on Israeli apartheid and genocide by bogus claims that denouncing those abuses amounts to hatred of Jews. Written in 2007, re-posted by the author this past week.

Reader Comments & Tidbits, July 3, 2025

Readers Comments: Bill of Death in House; Big Beautiful BS; Trump and Uber-Rich Usurp Country's Independence and Constitution; Mamdani and Lander Combined Two Strands; NYC Labor Unites Behind Mamdani; Resource: How Bad Is It?; Announcements; Cartoons

When the Helping Hand Holds a Machine Gun

Israeli troops were ordered to kill starving, unarmed civilians who were trying to get food for their families.

Trump May Try to Strip Mamdani of US Citizenship

Move comes after rightwing Republican accuses New York City mayoral candidate of concealing support for ‘terrorism’

Alligator Alcatraz is Asking Us: Who Are We, Really?

The most dangerous thing about Alligator Alcatraz isn’t the alligators. It’s the message...

They Didn’t Have To Do This

By passing Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, congressional Republicans have talked themselves into an incomprehensibly reckless plan.

Global Left Midweek – July 2, 2025

The old world is dying. Can the new world be born?
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Culture

books

“World Without End” Unveils a World With Hope (Still)

Toby LeBlanc Southern Review of Books
"This book is needed," writes reviewer LeBlanc. "Instead of sharing hard-and-fast edicts, the kind desired by those with a fundamentalist frame of mind, Park advocates for courage and conversation."

film

28 Years Later and the Social Life of Catastrophe

Eileen Jones Jacobin
The latest installment of the 28 Days Later franchise returns with more than zombies — it explores the strange new norms that follow collapse. It’s a vision of survival horror that focuses not just on the infected but on the ways humanity adapts.

food

The Secret Life of Government Cheese

Colleen Hamilton Ambrook Research
The U.S. government encouraged producers to produce cheese and the USDA began stockpiling the surplus. Some of the same companies that benefited from USDA dairy surplus purchases now rent space in the very caverns once used to house that surplus.

poetry

Jerusalem Revisited

Mary Mackey
In "Jerusalem," William Blake vowed to fight the 'dark Satanic Mills' of early capitalism. Answering Blake, poet Mary Mackey recognizes contemporary capitalism's failures, but vows to embrace what's still good in life, not just belabor what's awful.

film

Materialists Tries To Update the Rom-Com for the Tinder Generation

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Writer-director Celine Song’s Materialists follows a professional NYC matchmaker split between two charming suitors. It’s yet another attempt to update the Jane Austen formula, but without the poignancy and beauty of Song’s acclaimed Past Lives.

Labor

labor

Abundance That Works for Workers—and American Democracy

Kate Andrias and Alexander Hertel-Fernandez Roosevelt Institute
In order to be effective, abundance policy must benefit and build power for working- and middle-class Americans—rather than enriching and empowering concentrated economic interests and generating populist backlash that undermines democracy.

labor

Emma Tenayuca Championed Class Struggle and Migrant Rights

Alex Birnel Jacobin
Almost a century ago, labor activist Emma Tenayuca led Mexican American women in San Antonio’s legendary pecan shellers’ strike, facing down bosses, police, and the Klan. Today amid renewed nativist hate, we can learn from her example.

labor

NYC Labor and Zohran Mamdani’s Victory

Duncan Freeman The Chief
Photo of a large group of UAW members with Zohran. Most of the city unions endorsed the former governor, but a few believed in Mamdani. “It means that for the first time our members will really have a mayor who supports workers,” said Brandon Mancilla, Director of UAW Region 9A.

Friday nite video

video

The Story of Woody Guthrie’s Fight with Trump

Woody Guthrie hated "Old Man Trump." The story of Woody's fight against the racist housing practices of Guthrie’s landlord, Donald's father, with full lyrics and a play along,

video

Sly & The Family Stone | Everyday People

In his 1968 hit song Everyday People, recorded  with his band Sly and The Family Stone, Sly Stone (March 15, 1943 – June 9, 2025) confronted a world beset by chaos, war and hatred with a message of profound brotherhood and compassion