The Labor Establishment Lost Because It Stopped Organizing
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Jack Lundquist works on rental assistance policy in the Department of Housing Preservation & Development and is a delegate in Local 375 of District Council 37, the Civil Service Technical Guild. He is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
It has been a topsy-turvy summer in electoral politics for the labor-left in New York City.
New York City’s Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) won big. Of the nine insurgent candidates for state office that the chapter endorsed, eight won.
Even more impressive, two DSA-endorsed candidates won their primaries for U.S. Congress: Claire Valdez in NY-7 and Darializa Avila Chevalier in NY-…