Source: In These Times
by Luis Feliz Leon
“Zohran Kwame Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist and the Democratic nominee, will be New York City’s next mayor, after trouncing former Governor Andrew Cuomo in a primary and general election double whammy. ‘The working people of New York have been told by the wealthy and the well-connected that power does not belong in their hands,’ Mamdani told a roaring crowd at his victory party in Brooklyn. ‘Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor; palms calloused from delivery bike handlebars; knuckles scarred with kitchen burns — these are not hands that have been allowed to hold power. And yet, over the last 12 months, you have dared to reach for something greater. Tonight, against all odds, we have grasped it… We have toppled a political dynasty.’ But the fight is just beginning.” (11/05/25)