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3) To do this, mass campaigns for the demands Zohran has raised must be a launch point for independent class organization, which can only be done with a strong, democratic DSA that can build up labor and tenant power to fight for and defend these wins.

2) Zohran and the socialist and working-class movement in New York and beyond will continue to face stiff resistance from the ruling class. To win a rent freeze, universal childcare, fast and free buses and more will require us to embark on the road not of capitulation but of class struggle.

To do this, mass campaigns for the demands Zohran has raised must be a launch point for independent class organization, which can only be done with a strong, democratic DSA that can build up labor and tenant power to fight for and defend these wins.

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1) Zohran’s win in the face of immense red-baiting and racist hysteria has electrified the country. The capitalist media and political class have tried to attack him on precisely the issues that shape his mass appeal, from his open identity as a socialist to his opposition to the genocide in Gaza.

However, Zohran and the socialist and working-class movement in New York and beyond will continue to face stiff resistance from the ruling class. To win a rent freeze, universal childcare, fast and free buses and more will require us to embark on the road not of capitulation but of class struggle.

Of course the Bolsheviks fought against Economism, the effort to reduce the workers movement to bread and butter demands.

But the article shows how this critique was made not from the outside, but by those deeply involved in building up worker institutions in their own right.

In some sense the Russian revolutionaries carried out a “rank and file strategy”, with early intellectuals and college grads orientating to blue collar workplaces.

But this strategy was less about grads taking factory jobs, and more about recruiting organic worker leaders.

The authors explore how the Bolsheviks didn’t just write pamphlets; they embedded themselves in the core of the working class: training worker-leaders, running night schools, doing house-calls, building factory-committees.

Correction: it is Forrest E, not Forrest H!