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Lessons From Chicago’s Left, Two Years in Power

Alex Han, Asha Ransby-Sporn, Jeanette Taylor, Daniel Denvir Jacobin
With Zohran Mamdani on the cusp of victory in New York City, the Left should learn from the ups and downs of embattled Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson.

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The Movement and the Mayor

Jesse Sharkey Hammer & Hope
What does it mean to have Brandon Johnson, a Chicago Teachers Union organizer, in office?

The Movement and the Mayor

Jesse Sharkey Hammer & Hope
We have gone from the dynamic of opposition to the dynamic of a campaign and now to the dynamic of working with our comrade in office, all within a few short months.

Organizing Pays Off: Brandon Johnson’s Chicago Win

Barbara Ransby The Nation
Movement organizers claimed a hard-won collective victory with Brandon Johnson's election. Now the Windy City’s first movement mayor faces a formidable array of challenges, testing him and the coalition that brought him into office.

Brandon Johnson: A Win for People Power in Chicago

Miles Kampf-Lassin Jacobin
In Chicago’s mayoral runoff Tuesday, Paul Vallas’s vision of budget cuts and law and order lost to Brandon Johnson’s promises to tax the rich and invest in social services.
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