Jacobin Radio: Mamdani’s Win w/ Alex Press and Luke Savage

<p>Suzi speaks with <em>Jacobin</em> writers Alex Press and Luke Savage about Zohran Mamdani’s insurgent — and successful — New York City mayoral campaign.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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></p>

<p>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></p>

<p>Support for this episode comes from Revol Press: <a href="https://revolpress.com" rel="nofollow">revolpress.com</a></p>

<p><em>Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman</em> features conversations with leading thinkers and activists, with a focus on labor, the economy, and protest movements.</p>