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What Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech shares with the Irish ward bosses and Jewish socialists who built the city’s first immigrant-powered coalitions.

Don’t be fooled by autocrats championing sovereignty. As a bloc of mostly authoritarian, eco-unfriendly, and socio-economically conservative countries, BRICS represents the multipolarism of fools.

Of all of Mamdani’s campaign commitments, free high-quality child care for every New Yorker from 6 weeks to 5 years old – while boosting child care workers’ wages to match that of the city’s public school teachers – could be the most transformative.

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I think it’s possible to be an optimist about the labor movement and not be rose-colored glasses about it.

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Though many wrote it off as a political stunt, it was clear the gathering was much more important than many realized, offering the clearest articulation yet of how the Trump administration thinks about and hopes to use military power.

Since dockworkers operate at a crucial “choke point” in the military supply chain to Israel, their boycotts are a powerful form of solidarity with Gaza.

Elections are the one opportunity we have to see what the people think. And what they think is clear: Trump sucks.

Volunteers and advocates said the best thing to do today is celebrate, rest—then keep organizing. Several organizations that helped elect Mamdani were already organizing for policy changes similar to his major planks