Can Zohran Mamdani Fix New York’s Public Education?
Zohran Mamdani’s potential election as New York City mayor could be transformational for the city’s underfunded public K–12 schools and higher education system.
11 Articles by: Nivedita Majumdar
Nivedita Majumdar is a professor of English at John Jay College, CUNY. She is cochair of the John Jay chapter of Professional Staff Congress, the CUNY faculty and staff union.
We Won’t Forget What the Bernie Sanders Campaigns Accomplished
As Bernie Sanders listened to tired and dejected working people across the country, he said he wanted them to “feel less alone.” We are indeed not alone. United behind a common program, with full knowledge of our friends and enemies, we must keep forging on.
Labor and Love Under Capital
The real path to liberation isn’t the call to “abolish the family.” It’s through radically transforming traditional family life with reforms that challenge capitalism’s corrosive logic.
The Socialist Case for Gun Control
We have a moral obligation to challenge a gun lobby callously destroying the lives of ordinary people.
Is Socialism Eurocentric?
Both capitalist exploitation and workers’ resistance look fundamentally similar all over the world. Within the West and outside of it, socialism speaks to those experiences.
CUNY’s Last Lifeline
This spring’s contract struggle brought students and faculty together to stem attacks on public higher education in New York.
Is Socialism a Western Concept?
Socialism is not Eurocentric because the logic of capital is universal — and so is resistance against it.
Bernie and His Critics
Whether he wins tonight’s Iowa caucuses, Bernie Sanders has provided an opening that we can’t squander.
Greece: Against Defeatism
As strange as it may sound, there are reasons to be cheerful in Greece and across Europe.
Why We’re Marxists
Marxism lives because we have not gone beyond the circumstances that created it.
Reading Jhumpa Lahiri Politically
Jhumpa Lahiri’s failure in The Lowland is not one of style, but of sensibility. She has little investment in the spirit of the Naxalite movement she chooses to depict.