Read our feature article on Zohran Mamdani’s election here.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office January 1 promising a break from the status quo; as expected, his leadership has been the continuation of Democratic gangsterism dressed in the rhetoric of fake socialism.
On January 6, Mamdani appeared alongside NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch and Governor Kathy Hochul at One Police Plaza for a public safety briefing. Tisch, a billionaire heiress and fanatical Zionist, boasted of escalated arrests and “an unprecedented number of cops on the streets”.
Mamdani praised NYPD leadership and reaffirmed his decision to retain Tisch, remarking that it was “a privilege” to stand at One Police Plaza “surrounded by so many committed public servants here in the NYPD.”
Hochul used the same briefing to promote “enhanced crime-fighting strategies” and new legislation to “protect places of worship,” thanking Mamdani for his “wisdom” in keeping Tisch at the helm.
In the weeks that followed, two City Council bills proposed 100-foot protest “buffer zones” around schools and houses of worship aimed at repressing Palestine solidarity demonstrations that have gained significant traction, including the student-dominated Palestine solidarity movement and demonstrations against the illegal sale of Palestinian land hosted at synagogues.
Such protests have been routinely condemned by Mamdani for their unequivocal support of Palestinian resistance, while the genocidal and expansionist aims of their targets are treated as an afterthought, if acknowledged at all.
On January 26, Mamdani glossed over an NYPD murder after police shot 22-year-old Jabez Chakraborty in Queens, whose family had called 911 seeking medical assistance. While Chakraborty’s family reported being interrogated, threatened, and barred from seeing their critically injured loved one, Mamdani thanked police for “keeping our communities safe.”
On January 27, more than 60 protesters were arrested at an anti-ICE demonstration by the NYPD’s notoriously violent Strategic Response Group (SRG)—which Mamdani had previously promised to disband. Mamdani responded from both sides of his mouth, at once praising demonstrators for exercising their First Amendment rights and the NYPD for “ensuring that no one was injured” and that the protest was “calmly brought to an end.”
Despite claiming to “reject austerity politics”, Mamdani has already begun laying the groundwork for cuts. Facing a $12.6 billion budget shortfall, he appointed Chief Savings Officers across city agencies to increase “efficiency”—a well-worn euphemism for layoffs, service cuts, and privatization. Meager proposed taxes on the rich require state approval, which Governor Hochul has repeatedly refused. Mamdani has since endorsed Hochul for reelection anyway, a hated Democrat thug with a long anti-worker record.
Mamdani has given the genocidal Democratic mafia exactly what it needs to claw back its relevancy after the dual humiliation of Biden and Harris in 2024 and record disapproval. He is a velvet glove embroidered with the rose of the opportunist and Democrat-lackey DSA, stretched neatly over the same iron fist. The only conquests the people have won over the past few months in the city—such as successfully shutting down Zionist land sales and forcing ICE to retreat from its raids—have been won through organized and militant confrontations.
Photo: Screenshot of joint press briefing with Mamdani, Tisch, and Hochul.
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