the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Nov 10, 2025
Voters in New York City have elected Zohran Mamdani to be their new mayor after he focused on correcting problems that workers and many young people are facing. His proposals include a freeze on rent prices and building more affordable housing in a city in which it is extremely expensive to live. He advocated free universal childcare for parents and free bus service in a city in which most people use public transportation.
All the things Mamdani proposed need doing, and much, much more.
And there is plenty of money to pay for these reforms. Taxing the wealthy and the corporations, who pay little or no taxes, is completely reasonable. So, it is no surprise that Mamdani was able to excite many people.
Because he dared to say he would tax the rich, and maybe also because he called himself a socialist, Mamdani was bitterly attacked by part of the capitalist power structure and its corporate media. But another section of so-called “progressive” wealthy people funded and supported him.
Perhaps the obscenely wealthy capitalist class which controls New York City will come off a little bit of money to pay for some of what Mamdani proposes. But the capitalist system is built on the exploitation of labor—ever increasing, ever transferring wealth to the billionaires, snatching every possible penny from the population.
Socialists know that this system has to be overthrown, to free the means of production from capitalism and put them in the hands of the organized working class.
That will take a fight of the masses. And that is one thing that Mamdani is neither saying, nor proposing.