Raina Lipsitz is a senior research associate at the Whirlwind Institute, a social change strategy center. She is the author of The Rise of a New Left: How Young Radicals Are Shaping the Future of American Politics.
Zohran Mamdani can take labor law enforcement beyond traditional mechanisms by empowering workers themselves to enforce the law on the job, building peer education and empowering shop-floor workplace rights monitors.
Brian Nowak, a former Bernie Sanders delegate, was recently elected to the top office of Cheektowaga, New York, a 90,000-person suburb of Buffalo. He’s faced continuous attacks but won by focusing on local issues that matter to working-class voters.