Zohran’s win is the most exciting moment for American socialists in generations. The 60th issue of Jacobin examines the history of municipal socialism as the Left prepares to occupy executive office in one of the world’s biggest cities. From “Red Vienna” to Milwaukee’s sewer

If the late Dick Cheney’s Never-Trump rehabilitation is any indication, Larry Summers’s public-facing career is far from over — despite not just his Jeffrey Epstein ties but his principal role in laying waste to America’s working class.

France Insoumise legislator Emma Fourreau was recently scheduled to speak about the Gaza aid flotillas at Die Linke’s Berlin headquarters, but her talk was canceled. She writes in Jacobin about why speaking up for Palestine is a duty for the Left.

In the early years of the AIDS crisis, the US government left people with HIV to fend for themselves. Desperate, they turned to a new and little-understood financial instrument: selling their life insurance policies to investors for quick cash.

Tech company RealPage was hit with class-action lawsuits alleging that its software has facilitated a price-fixing cartel among landlords. It is now suing to overturn a New York law that prohibits such schemes.

.@NYCDSA cochair Grace Mausser: “We have a model for winning mass campaigns; we have a model for true co-governance with legislators; now we will bring our experience to city hall.”

In the name of “stability” and “diversification,” Ottawa is aligning itself with the United Arab Emirates, a security-state monarchy that thrives on surveillance and fossil power.

Larry Summers has been forced to relinquish some prestigious appointments after the release of the Epstein emails. But his exile from public life isn’t likely to last, with New York Times writers already hard at work rehabilitating his reputation.

.@emma_frr is a @FranceInsoumise legislator who was illegally detained by Israel for her role in the aid flotilla to Gaza. Yet when she was scheduled to speak about it in Berlin, fellow left-wingers canceled the event, capitulating to pro-Israel pressure groups.

At the height of the AIDS crisis, patients sold their life insurance policies to survive. Predatory investors weren’t singularly to blame — they profited off the hollowing out of the welfare state that had left millions to fend for themselves.

A lawsuit filed by RealPage asks a federal court to overturn New York’s landmark state law aiming to halt algorithmic rent-fixing by artificial intelligence software. The company is arguing that the law violates its free speech rights: https://t.co/kdeV2Rfuj4

Grace Mausser, @nycdsa cochair: “Establishment campaigns want us to believe they have inimitable skills. NYC-DSA believes that everyday New Yorkers can run our own political operation, and Zohran Mamdani’s campaign put that belief into action.” 📰: https://t.co/a6212KbIki

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Swedish Social Democracy is often idealized as a reformist force that delivered welfare to the grateful masses. Yet the Swedish social model was the product of conflict — and a working-class radicalism that the Social Democrats have now turned against. https://t.co/cAiP6PKTZI

Mark Carney’s Liberal government is selling its new partnership with the UAE as prudent statecraft. But the trade push will lock Ottawa into fossil fuel expansion, lax rights protections in its trade agreements, and closer ties to a petrostate autocracy: https://t.co/bPkm7peKUO

Asking Jeffrey Epstein for advice on extramarital sex has proven temporarily disqualifying for Larry Summers, but his suspension from polite society isn’t likely to last: https://t.co/aakLZbLx1M

Opposing Israel’s destruction of Palestine is a fundamental moral test of our time. By canceling a meeting about the aid flotilla to Gaza, Germany’s Die Linke failed that test: https://t.co/RZR8cpjAIY

The AIDS crisis was not a series of individual tragedies but a systematic failure on the part of government to protect its citizens. Amid Donald Trump’s cuts to welfare, we must remember its lesson: markets should not decide who lives and who dies. 📰: https://t.co/TGjvYSaLdX

Tech giant RealPage filed a federal lawsuit asserting that AI companies have a free speech right to help landlords collude to raise rents, part of a broader trend of corporations advancing new interpretations of the First Amendment to protect their power.

Socialists’ path to supporting Mayor Zohran Mamdani will build on the strategy that socialists there have developed over the past decade, writes NYC Democratic Socialists of America cochair Grace Mausser.

Canadian prime minister Mark Carney is touting a trade deal with the UAE. Behind the talk of investment and partnership lies a trade agenda that weakens rights protections, boosts natural gas, and reinforces one of the world’s most repressive states.