Mamdani’s socialist agenda draws European leftists to NYC seeking political lessons

European left-wing politicians are crossing the Atlantic to survey a run exemplary they spot arsenic a blueprint for revival — the run of New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist whose grassroots instrumentality has captured attraction acold beyond his Queens district.

According to a Politico Europe study connected Monday, far-left delegations from France, Germany and the U.K. visited New York this week to observe Mamdani’s cognition firsthand. Among them were the lawman person of the U.K. Green Party; a parliamentary serviceman for Germany’s Left (Die Linke) Party; arsenic good arsenic a French subordinate of the European Parliament, with the extremity of translating what they spot arsenic a palmy run into much victories for Europe’s hard-left parties.

Alan Mendoza, enforcement manager of the London-based Henry Jackson Society, told Fox News Digital, "Nobody would person thought New York would succumb to this 5 years ago. But determination are definite conditions — a problematic economy, cost-of-living issues, and anemic absorption — that marque it fertile ground. Those conditions surely beryllium successful galore European cities, truthful you tin spot an contiguous crossover."

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Zohran Mamdani, New York City mayoral candidate. (Deirdre Heavey/Fox News Digital)

Mendoza added, "It’s nary astonishment they’re coming to survey Mamdani’s campaign," helium said. "It looks similar it's going to beryllium a precise palmy one, and the information that idiosyncratic with his views and policies looks similar they’re astir to beryllium elected arsenic politician of 1 of the astir celebrated cities successful the satellite is simply a boon to each those who stock his authorities internationally."

Mendoza described Mamdani arsenic a "trailblazer" for hard-left movements that person often struggled to triumph large offices successful Western democracies. "He’s bringing triumph wherever determination has ever antecedently been decision for politicians of the acold left," helium said. "His tactics, his style, his pronouncements — his signifier of forging a governing coalition, are going to beryllium of keen involvement to akin hard leftists astir the world."

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In New York, Mamdani has built his basal done neighborhood-level activism, which European politicians spot arsenic a way to reenergize voters. The erstwhile person of the U.K.'s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, who present leads the upstart Your Party, said connected societal media that he and his squad phone banked for Mamdani.

Corbyn shared the phone-banking nexus which leads a website organized by the Democratic Socialists of America’s NYC section which is urging volunteers to mobilize voters for Mamdani.

Former Labour person Jeremy Corbyn, who present leads the upstart Your Party, said that he and his squad phone banked for Mamdani. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Mendoza warned that replicating Mamdani’s ideological level could deepen polarization. "Europe is already much statist and much left-wing arsenic a regularisation than America anyway," helium said. "So if helium tin triumph successful New York, wherefore can’t a hard leftist triumph successful Europe? The question is whether those policies would really enactment — and past shows they don’t."

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Zohran Mamdani, New York City mayoral candidate, rolls up his sleeves during a run lawsuit successful New York, U.S., connected Monday, June 23, 2025. (Adam Gray/Bloomberg)

Mendoza dismissed individuality arsenic a driving origin down Mamdani’s success, contempt debates implicit his migrant background. "It’s not an ethnicity question," helium said. "It’s a question of what his ideology is — and that tin beryllium shared by radical whether they’re calved successful a state oregon not."

Fox News' Emma Bussey contributed to this report.