Chloe and Emma discuss that meeting between NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Donald Trump. They talk about what the meeting and Mamdani's campaign reveal about the limitations of a strategy for social change that looks to the Democratic Party.
The line being spun by New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s team is that his abject display of bootlicking in the White House was a strategic masterstroke that has put Trump on the backfoot. Yet Mamdani achieved not a single concession, not a single win.
In this episode, Chloe and Emma explain the socialist theory of the trade unions. We talk about the trade union bureaucracy and the rank-and-file socialist strategy in the unions.
In many countries, there is evidence that the capitalist status quo and its far-right outgrowths can be challenged. Where the left has gotten its act together, it has tapped the well of discontent.
