As Mayor Mamdani seeks to build solidarity with the Palestinian people he should look to the example set by another activist-turned-mayor, Marion Barry. The D.C. Mayor used his office to support the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa.
A living left will always contain different traditions and debates, but we must recognise the principal contradiction between labour and capital, between the vast majority who produce social wealth and the tiny minority who appropriate it.
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