The political and class issues in Mamdani's victory in New York City

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : In his victory speech, Mamdani invoked the name of the great American socialist Eugene V. Debs.
55% : In reality, the movement of broad sections of workers and youth is to the left, with growing hostility to capitalism and increasing support for socialism.
53% : The Socialist Equality Party calls for the building of rank-and-file committees in every workplace, neighborhood and school, connected through the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC).
51% : His proposals -- slight tax increases on millionaires, limited rent protections and modest expansions of public services -- amount to little more than a mild revival of the liberal reformism of an earlier period.
50% : As the World Socialist Web Site noted at the time of the June primaries, "The ramparts of Wall Street will not crumble beneath the pressure of electoral oratory."
48% : These committees must serve as the means for workers to organize, coordinate and escalate their struggles -- not to plead for reforms from the existing order but to articulate and fight for their own program: the defense of jobs, wages and living standards, opposition to war and dictatorship, and the fight for workers' power and the socialist transformation of society.
47% : These are not the words of a socialist but of a politician assuring the financial elite that their wealth, power and privileges will remain untouched.
47% : There is no doubt that many workers, having voted for a socialist, will see Mamdani's election as a signal to take action and advance their own demands.
43% : First of all, it must be said that while he presents himself as a "democratic socialist," Mamdani is not advancing a socialist program.
43% : We call on all those who are drawing revolutionary conclusions from these events to join the Socialist Equality Party and help build the leadership needed to transform the mounting social anger into a conscious struggle for socialism.
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41% : In Greece, the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza) came to power in 2015 promising to end austerity, only to impose the most brutal social cuts at the dictates of the banks and the European Union.
39% : The Socialist Equality Party will oppose these and all other attacks, including the likely deployment of National Guard or other military forces to New York City.
38% : On Wednesday, he announced a transition team composed of veteran Democrats from the administrations of the last three mayors: Michael Bloomberg, Bill de Blasio and Eric Adams. Mamdani's response to the threats from within the ruling class expresses the politics of the Democratic Socialists of America.

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