Portside

Pragmatism is required to build a social democratic New York. The key to radical reform, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani clearly understands, is to be pragmatic as all hell.

Finding the way to power

As a reader of Portside, you know it’s been a rollercoaster year. While many economic, legal and academic elites rushed to capitulate to a wannabe dictator, millions of people resisted the lawless grab for absolute power in a myriad of ways.

Last week Italy’s metal workers secured a major victory as the unions Fim, Fiom and Uilm, all affiliated to IndustriALL Global Union, signed the renewed National Collective Labour Agreement (NCLA)

The latest book by the Poor People’s Campaign co-chair shows how racial division keeps both Black and white communities poor—and lays out a real vision to defeat it.

Zohran Mamdani’s mayoralty will be a fight for what’s winnable right now. Our job is to let that fight expand, not narrow, our horizon — and to keep alive the goal of socialism in our time.

Why don’t we have more affordable housing? It’s the power of developers, stupid.

A coalition of attorneys general and governors filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration's new conditions and cuts to a Department of Housing and Urban Development permanent housing program.

“So glad there are some Senate Dems willing to fight back,” said one progressive strategist.

Edgar Wright’s dystopian satire, The Running Man, tries to play it safe and ends up pleasing no one.