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Internationalism No. 82, December 2025 Page 7 From the series Elections in the USA According to a February 13 th press release from the 5BORO Institute , a New York research centre, 42% of New Yorkers cite housing as their main economic challenge, and 78% say that housing costs have worsened in recent years. Democrat Zohran Mamdani's success in the recent New York City mayoral election was helped by his programme to tackle the issue of housing in the American metropolis. Voter abstention prevailed In 2020, New York had 8.8 million inhabitants, 7 million of whom were over the age of 18. Since about 85% of them are American citizens, it can be estimated that about 6 million were eligible to vote. To vote in the State of New York, you have to register, and in November there were 5.3 million registered voters in the city, 3.5 million of whom were Democrats. In this last mayoral election, two million people voted – about 33% of the el...

Internationalism No. 78-79, August-September 2025 Page 16 Facts are stubborn things, they say, but reality is so intricate and multifaceted that facts can be used to prove anything. In the online world, there are anti-scientific ideas, which digital imbecility manages to spread and find an audience for. It is not true that facts speak for themselves. They must be connected and organised hierarchically by concepts and a scientific method, and only then do they become powerful tools for understanding reality and changing it. For us, this is the task of the science-party : to bring scientific order to our understanding of a chaotic world that appears to be an indecipherable Babel, and to guide those who want to fight as revolutionaries. Take the rearmament of Europe, about which rivers of ink are being spilled. How real is it? The Financial Times , perhaps precisely because ...