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Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s election has emboldened members of a new offshoot of the Communist Party in the Big Apple — as its members push Hizzoner to bolt the Democratic Party to jumpstart a radical alternative.
The Revolutionary Communists of America held more than a dozen events in and around New York City the past month, but its leaders told The Post the fledgling mayor needs to focus on overthrowing capitalism by launching a new workers party.
“Building a mass workers’ party would be an important step toward forming a workers’ government,” said a spokesperson for the group, whose manifesto calls on the younger generation to “step forward and fight for the overthrow of capitalism.”
” A workers’ government would bring free universal healthcare, free public transit, quality housing with rent capped at 10% of income, and free education,” the group stated. It would provide full employment and a shorter workweek, with no loss in pay,” the group said.
“Let us unite all communists and class-conscious workers in the party of the American socialist revolution and bury capitalism once and for all.”
NYC Communists, a local branch of the RCA, lobbied for members in a recent, fiery Instagram post.
“If you are tired of the Epstein Class and their wars, if you are sick of working job after job to stay above water, or if you have questions about why the world seems like its on fire and what our class can do about it—the RCA is for you,” the post stated.
A patron at Emblem bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, told The Post he was shocked to see members show up with posters and hold a meeting there — a challenge to Mamdani’s Democratic Socialists of America in their own backyard.
“How can the democratic socialists I held dear to my heart stay silent while communists organize in our backyard?” the source, a Democrat, said. “That’s not representation—that’s complicity.”
Other meetings were held at venues including in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Astoria and Park Slope.
The Post reached out to the group to ask about Mamdani — among the most prominent democratic socialists alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
“The election of Zohran Mamdani showed that hundreds of thousands of people across New York City are open to the ideas of socialism. We see this political shift in the population as a very positive thing,” RCA said.
The group backs Mamdani’s agenda: hiking taxes on the rich, providing publicly-funded universal childcare, and free bus service.
“However, we do not think Mamdani will be able to achieve major reforms and a fundamental change in the lives of the working-class majority unless he starts a campaign to unite the working class of New York City with workers throughout the state and across the country,” RCA said.
“He should fight for these reforms and universal healthcare, not just for New York City, but for workers across the nation,” a spokesman added. “This battle would represent a challenge to both political parties. A powerful movement on this basis could win real reforms and help build towards a fight for a socialist society.”
But RCA said Mamdani is not radical enough because he works within the Democratic Party and the current major two-party capitalist structure — which the communists said must be abandoned in favor of a communist-socialist workers’ party.
“We believe that the working class needs its own party, separate from the capitalist parties, the Democrats and Republicans,” the group said. “We do not support capitalist political parties, but call on the labor movement to break with them and put forward truly independent working-class candidates, as a step toward building a workers’ party.
“Had Mamdani run independently of the two parties, we would have critically supported his campaign. His volunteer base could have been the beginning of a workers’ party. We did not advocate voting for him as a Democrat.”
RCA claims to have boosted membership 83% since July 24, with support growing for communism and socialism among disillusioned younger voters
“The decline of American capitalism, and the growing instability and difficulty of life for ordinary workers, has pushed many people toward socialist and communist ideas,” the group said. “We are confident that the hatred of the US population towards the Epstein class, which includes both the Democrats and the Republicans, will continue to fuel our growth.”
The group pointed to a March 2025 poll by the Cato Institute/You Gov that found 34% of young people in the US and 14% of the population as a whole have a favorable view of communism.
In written answers to Post questions, RCA declined to say who leads its New York City branches.
“The work of the RCA is directed by an elected Central Committee,” said RCA, noting it has 43 branches across the US.
While they share ideals, the communist group’s push in the city is leaving some members of the DSA speechless in what could be a brewing turf war of liberal political factions.
One DSA activist emphasized that there is no relationship between DSA and the communist group.
“I never think about them,” the activist said.
Mamdani’s team had no immediate comment.