Zohran Mamdani is somehow the leading candidate for New York city mayor.
The importance for me of international solidarity is that it takes me out of the American political landscape and reminds me just how tame some of the things are that I'm actually calling for. And it reminds me of the necessity of grounding ourselves in struggles as opposed to the fights around the struggles.
For anyone to care about these issues, we have to make them hyper-local. We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, that boot has been laced by the IDF.
We're in a country where those connections abound, especially in New York City, you have so many opportunities to make clear the ways in which that struggle over there is tied to capitalist interests over here.
Many of the internet commenters seemed to recognize what half of New York does not:
The guy who wants to globalize the communist struggle and abolish private property is on the verge of running New York City.
Good luck, Big Apple.
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