Has progressives eyeing New York City House seats.
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.
While elite institutions capitulate, resistance to Trump’s neo-fascist agenda is building among large segments of the population. On “No Kings Day”, October 18, close to seven million people rallied in more than a thousand towns and cities.
Despite the frantic tone of mainstream media coverage (and the revolutionary overtones of the phrase “democratic socialist”) most of Mamdani’s agenda could be accomplished at minimal cost to the city. The only exception is free universal childcare.
This book appeared in September. How the world around Mamdani has changed since then! This book lays out how it all happened, who was Zohran Mamdani, how he became an activist, how he was drawn to Bernie Sanders and DSA, how Zohran became Zohran...
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
Monday night at a campaign rally, Zohran Mamdani addressed his supporters: “For too long, we have tried not to lose. Now, it is time that we win...We are an existential threat to billionaires who think their money can buy our democracy."
Realists (Mamdani, AOC) seek immersion in mass politics; fundamentalists oppose it.
A world away from their parents’ Iron Curtain upbringings, young New Yorkers with roots from Poland to Turkmenistan are helping power the Democratic mayoral nominee’s sunny socialist campaign.
The Minnesota state senator won Minneapolis’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party endorsement for mayor—but the state-level party revoked it.
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