Kshama Sawant weighs her fellow democratic socialist’s triumph in the New York City mayoral primary and the obstacles to fulfilling his campaign promises he could face if he gets into office.
Many of these tactics have been pioneered or refined by Socialist City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant and the Socialist Alternative party in Seattle.
U.S. authorities and major news media are quick to condemn leaders of foreign nations when they unleash police to rough up and intimidate protesting citizens, but a different standard applies inside the United States, as Rev. Rich Lang discovered when…