The Vast Majority: "Chicago's Socialist Surge" with Carlos Ramirez-Rosa
Chicago recently made international headlines for the victories of six — six!! — members of the Democratic Socialists of America running for city council. It’s an astonishing victory, the biggest socialist victory in any American city in probably a century.
These victories matter both for Chicago, which has seen growing working-class pushback to neoliberalism in recent years, but also for socialist organizers in cities around the country, who can learn from how Chicago won so many elections on a left platform.
One of the six victors in the April elections was Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, who…
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