by Jonathan Rosenblum | Nov 4, 2026 | AI, Billionaires, British Columbia, Canada, City Council, data centers, education, elections, Evictions, housing, Op-Ed, real estate developers, rent, Socialism, Vancouver, Working Class
Vancouver, British Columbia, is the next battleground for municipal socialism in North America. On October 17, Vancouver voters decisively evicted their right-wing mayor, replacing him with the Green Party’s candidate. But more consequentially, they also tossed nearly all of the pro-corporate incumbents from all three municipal legislative bodies — city council, the school board…
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by Jesse Hagopian | Nov 10, 2025 | Donald Trump, labor, Labor Unions, Op-Ed, Strikes, Unions, Wall Street, Working Class, Zohran Mamdani
If you had told me in September 2001, when I was a new teacher in Washington, D.C. — the smoke from the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon still visible from my classroom window — that one day a Muslim socialist would be elected mayor of New York City, I might have thought you cruel for raising my hopes. I remember the tanks rolling down the street by my house, the flags unfurled from every porch…
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