Grassroots worker organization and mobilization is essential to the success of any socialist electoral project. But socialists in executive office can’t neglect other elements, like maintaining wide popular support and alliances within the state.

With every passing day, it looks more likely that democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani will be New York City’s next mayor.

The prospect is thrilling for the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), of which I am a member and from whose ranks Mamdani rose, and for the US left broadly. Mamdani’s victory in the Democratic primary against former governor Andrew Cuomo and his gigantic AIPAC-funded war chest demonstrates the potential of an ambitious left-wing economic pitch and the waning influence of the pro-Israel lobby.

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