Suzi speaks with Jacobin writers Alex Press and Luke Savage about Zohran Mamdani’s insurgent — and successful — New York City mayoral campaign.
Alex Press takes us out after dark in Queens with the democratic socialist mayor-elect, meeting taxi drivers at LaGuardia, nurses and residents at Elmhurst Hospital, delivery workers on the night shift — the people who keep New York running while the city sleeps.
Luke Savage analyzes the bipartisan meltdown that Mamdani’s campaign provoked among billionaires, media moguls, and the Democratic Party establishment — all united to stop a democratic socialist from gaining power.
We talk about Mamdani’s agenda: free public transit and childcare, a $20 minimum wage, regulation of gig companies and labor rights for delivery drivers, freezing rents, and more. And we discuss why the working-class movement behind him has elites so terrified.
Read Alex’s report on Mamdani and late-night New York: <a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/11/mamdani-night-shift-nyc-mayoral-election" rel="nofollow">https://jacobin.com/2025/11/mamdani-night-shift-nyc-mayoral-election</a>
Read Luke’s report on the establishment meltdown: <a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/11/socialism-barbarism-mamdani-cuomo-trump" rel="nofollow">https://jacobin.com/2025/11/socialism-barbarism-mamdani-cuomo-trump</a>
Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman features conversations with leading thinkers and activists, with a focus on labor, the economy, and protest movements.

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