Mayor Mamdani’s Year One Begins Now
Mayor Zohran Mamdani takes office in New York City today. The Left now has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build a socialist movement that could stretch across not only the city and the country but the world.
Today Mayor Zohran Mamdani takes office in New York City. What’s at stake is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to build power not only in New York but for the socialist movement across the world. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)
After vying for power for a decade, today marks an important new chapter in the American socialist project as Mayor Zohran Mamdani takes office in New York City.
For the Jacobin podcast The Dig, Daniel Denvir interviewed writer and organizer Sumaya Awad, Sumathy Kumar, the managing director of the New York State Tenant Bloc, and Nathan Gusdorf, the executive director of the Fiscal Policy Institute, on what it means for the Mamdani administration to govern New York City, the headquarters of global capital.
Daniel Denvir
Let’s start by talking about how to conceptualize the relationship between organized socialists and the Zohran administration. I think it’s worth reminding [ourselves] that what we’re trying to do here is advance a hegemonic socialist project against — but sometimes inevitably with — establishment Democrats in the face of ascendant, authoritarian fascism in a generalized legitimacy crisis.
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