Zohran ran his Democratic Party primary election campaign for mayor of the city of New York, in the most creative transnational way possible, reflecting of the global melting pot the Big Apple is. A city of capitalism is also a city which attracts the world for work, and the world arrived at Staten Island or JFK airport to chase the American dream. Zohran, a recent naturalised American citizen is of Gujarati Ugandan and Indian Punjabi heritage. A former rapper, he utilised his Bollywood roots to good use to record campaign reels in Hindi-Urdu and Bangla with Shahana Hanif. His Spanish and Mandarin Chinese campaigns are on point as well.
A template for global city working class politics, as Sadiq Khan in London had shown the way. Their politics might not be compatible with global capitalism, but capitalism needs the very workers that vote for Zohran, the taxi drivers and public housing residents for instance need the social protection and welfare under the precarious neoliberal conditions they serve in.
The November election will be interesting to follow.
Change Thinker 