{"id":1173801,"date":"2023-08-07T15:25:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T15:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacobin.com\/2023\/08\/eric-adams-new-york-city-left-challenger-austerity-working-class\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T15:25:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T15:25:30","slug":"let-the-primary-against-eric-adams-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/07\/let-the-primary-against-eric-adams-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Let the Primary Against Eric Adams Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n\n\n\n

New York City has seen increasing chaos and immiseration under Mayor Eric Adams. It\u2019s time for the city\u2019s leftists and progressives to unite behind a challenger who can win.<\/h3>\n\n\n
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\n New York City mayor Eric Adams speaks during a press conference in New York City on June 26, 2023. (Michael M. Santiago \/ Getty Images)\n <\/figcaption> \n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n \n

Recently, some in New York City labor and left circles have begun discussing the possibility of backing a primary challenge against incumbent mayor Eric Adams, previously off the record but now made public<\/a> by the New York Times<\/i>. This is an idea whose time has come.<\/p>\n

Though he billed himself as a mayor for the \u201cworking class,\u201d Adams has been a disaster for workers. His approach to every serious problem the city faces is more austerity and bureaucratic ineptitude. His administration is a solutions desert.<\/p>\n

Faced with thousands of migrants in need of temporary shelter, Adams\u2019s solution<\/a> has been nothing short of barbaric, seeking a court order to repeal New York City\u2019s obligation to provide shelter<\/a> for those in need, a humane law that has been on the books since 1979. Rather than offer respite for this group of living, breathing human beings in dire straits, he has repeatedly demonized and rejected them.<\/p>\n

Migrants are now camping out on the city\u2019s sidewalks. The Daily Beast<\/i> recently reported<\/a> that hundreds were sleeping on cardboard boxes outside the Roosevelt Hotel, not far from the Yale Club and some of the city\u2019s most profitable finance firms.<\/p>\n

Speaking of that right to shelter, migrants aren\u2019t the only people Adams is failing to house. Homelessness has become impossible to ignore in any New York City neighborhood or on any subway line. People are sleeping on the street everywhere. Mothers are begging with their small children on trains. These feel like scenes from a country suffering a serious depression or economic collapse. But that\u2019s not what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n