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Zohran Mamdani and wife Rama Duwaji celebrating his NYC mayoral election win at Brooklyn Paramount on November 4, 2025. (Bryce Lacy / Bay Area Current)
Card-carrying Democratic Socialist of America member Zohran Mamdani has won New York City’s mayoral election. His message: use the state to make life more affordable for the majority and fund it by taxing the top 1%. It’s fast and free mass transit, universal childcare, a freeze on rent costs, and municipal grocery stores with lower prices. Every person in the Bay Area deserves these things too. We need to bring NYC’s socialist insurgency to the shores of the Bay, and it can be done.
Former New York governor and loser mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo may seem to cut a particularly devilish figure different from the Bay’s political class. Take Cuomo and San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie as examples. Cuomo emulates an old-school Italian-American — a political nepo-baby that loves to LARP as an urban roughneck. Lurie, meanwhile, inhabits the kind of nerdy, do-gooderism that feels characteristic of the Bay Area’s “progressive” culture.
But Lurie and Cuomo have much in common. Behind their facades is a shared political DNA: a corporate, centrist Democrat interested in cutting deals with the billionaire elite. Trump and Cuomo have both stated that they work well together, with Cuomo describing them both as “Queens Boys.” Lurie, meanwhile, has been busy working out deals with Trump rather than fighting him. Both Lurie and Cuomo cozy up to a rich elite whose lavish living comes at the expense of the working class. This is how almost all of the supposedly “progressive” Democrats work here in the Bay — just like Cuomo.
Both Lurie and Cuomo cozy up to a rich elite whose lavish living comes at the expense of the working class.
Trump, following other right-wing villains, describes NYC’s newly minted mayor as a “communist.” They portray Mamdani’s win as a “socialist revolution.” This fearmongering reflects the right-wing’s anxiety about the popularity of socialist ideas. Who wouldn’t love to see the major monopolies that dominate our economy — Amazon, Walmart, UnitedHealth Group, among others — brought under democratic control? Who doesn’t want their do-nothing landlord off their back, or their AI-inflated mortgage note zeroed out?
These big changes are not yet on the table, but Mamdani’s win shows a step forward for the rest of the country. Imagine a Bay Area where your rent was frozen, your groceries were affordable, your buses were on time and free, and there was universal, quality childcare. These aren't mere dreams — the New York City socialist movement demonstrates that when thousands of everyday people link up and fight hard, they can win big.
Imagine a Bay Area where your rent was frozen, your groceries were affordable, your buses were on time and free, and there was universal, quality childcare. These aren't mere dreams — the New York City socialist movement demonstrates that when thousands of everyday people link up and fight hard, they can win big.
Mamdani’s win is a call to upend the Democrats' centrist status quo. Mamdani’s campaign was powered by a working class movement with New York City’s Democratic Socialists of America at the helm. NYC-DSA has built up a large member-organizing core, cultivated political talent, built meaningful relationships with immigrant communities, and most importantly organized workers and tenants across its city. The lesson: where we are organized, we are powerful.
These same efforts are happening here, across the many cities of the Bay. They eagerly await your arrival. Don’t be a loner. Join up, get organized. The fight for a better world needs you.
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