By Grigory Leyba
November 6, 2025
The program theses of Zokhran Mamdani, who won the mayoral election of New York, are consonant with the positions of the CPRF. This opinion was expressed in an interview with “Ъ” by the Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee of the party, Head of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs Leonid Kalashnikov.
The collective assessment of the figure of the new head of New York in the CPRF has not yet been formulated, Mr. Kalashnikov misspoke: “We need to understand how he will show himself in real life after his election.” However, the American’s election theses were “consonant with ours”, the deputy said.
Mr. Mamdani’s program – “this is what we proposed in the State Duma a week ago: not to impose (taxes on the small and the poor. – “Ъ”), but large capital,” explained the Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee: “Let’s take 1-2% from them, we said. He also says: let’s take it from the financiers… What’s not the approach? Good approach, justice.”
“He is indeed partly a communist, although they are called “Democratic Socialists of America,” Leonid Kalashnikov said. This organization, like the CPRF, “was disappointed in the Social Democrats of Europe” and left the Socialist International, but joined the Left Forces Forum in São Paulo, the deputy added: “He is our partner”.