Tag: New York City
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No more 24!
Sign this letter in support of NYC home care workers as they struggle against hyper-exploitation, including a regime of 24-hour shifts for 13 hours’ pay.
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Mayor Mamdani’s program in peril?
Mel Bienenfeld evaluates the first 100+ days of Mayor Zohran Mamdani and argues that a strategy, different than the Mayor’s and based on actively building strong and independent institutions of political resistance, will be necessary both to win the promised reforms and take forward any socialist vision worthy of its name.
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Mamdani, the market, and the NYC housing crisis
Ben Rosenfield and Holden Taylor speak to Tempest to provide further context for their recently published Spectre article about the NYC housing crisis, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s policy, and the debates on the Left.
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Organizing for reform and socialism in the Mamdani era
In this response to Ashley Smith, Alan Maass argues in support of electoral socialist campaigns, including those that make use of the Democratic Party line.
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Mamdani’s mayoral control mishap
NYC educators Peter Allen-Lamphere and Chris O’Brien analyze and critique Mamdani’s support for mayoral control of the city’s schools.
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For a strategy of independence and mass struggle
Ashley Smith responds to Todd Chretien’s defense of Zohran Mamdani.
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Mamdani’s fight is our fight
Todd Chretien argues that socialists need to find “a useful role inside the Mamdani experiment” instead of issuing warnings from outside.
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After the surreal summit
Ashley Smith analyzes the surreal, chummy meeting between the authoritarian Trump and NYC Mayor Elect and self-described democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani and argues that building mass class and social struggle is the only way forward.
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The candidate, the billionaires, and the Democrats
Mel Bienenfeld explains the relationship of Zohran Mamdani to New York elites.
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The Mamdani campaign, left horizons, and the “defund the police” question
Keith Rosenthal discusses the New York City Mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani’s courting of the New York Police Department (NYPD), and cautions the socialist Left against abandoning racial justice demands.