More politics please! lessons of Mamdani’s campaign

JVL Introduction

104,000 New Yorkers volunteered in Mamdani’s campaign to be New York City Mayor.  People are interested in politics when there is something positive possible, when their own needs and those of their neighbours are top priority and when a politician is clear that this means for everyone, with no-one from any community left out.  We need to learn from how Mamdani ran his campaign and note that he considers that the campaigning must continue even as the work of running City Hall has to be done.  The people must never be forgotten.  The only European Party that seems to have been taking a similar approach seems to be the Belgian Workers’ Party (English brochure) and main website, in french .

The stakes are high and the possibilities huge and the alternative to winning truly terrifying.

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This article was originally published by The Guardian on Sat 3 Jan 2026. Read the original here.