United States ikukumana ndi vuto la Socialist pompano. Kuthamanga kumeneko kunafika Chicago usiku watha, pomwe asosholisti a demokalase adapambana kwambiri mugawo lachiwiri, lomaliza la zisankho zamatauni.
Mamembala atatu a Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) adapambana makhonsolo a mzinda akupikisana nawo pa chisankho chobwerezabwereza Lachiwiri: Byron Sigcho-Lopez wa 25, Jeanette Taylor wa 20 ndi Andre Vasquez wa 40. Woyimira wachinayi, Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez, watsekeredwa mu mpikisano mu ward 33 yomwe ili pafupi kwambiri kuti asayinidwe ndipo adikirira kuwerengedwa kwa mavoti omwe amavotera, koma adakwera ndi mavoti 64 mavoti onse atangowerengedwa.
Adzalumikizana ndi asosholisti ena awiri omwe adapambana zisankho mu February: Carlos Rosa, yemwe adakhalapo mu ward 35, ndi Daniel La Spata, yemwe adagonjetsa wadi yoyamba.
Onjezani ndipo muli ndi anthu osachepera asanu, mwina asanu ndi limodzi a demokalase omwe adzakhala pa 50-membala Chicago city council. Mizinda ikuluikulu yochepa ya ku America yawonapo ngakhale phungu mmodzi wa sosholisti mโmibadwo; mzinda wachitatu waukulu kwambiri ku US posachedwa ukhoza kukhala ndi theka la khumi ndi awiri. Ndiko kupambana kwakukulu pamasankho mu mbiri yamakono ya America.
Ma socialists adapambana pochita kampeni yolimba, yolunjika pazovuta za ogwira ntchito. Mwachitsanzo, Rosa, adapanga mpikisano wake kukhala referendum ya nyumba zotsika mtengo m'dera lotukuka mwachangu, akujambula omanga nyumba zazikulu ngati adani komanso akufuna kuwongolera lendi mumzinda.
Taylor, yemwe wakhala akukhala moyandikana kwa nthawi yayitali komanso wolimbikitsa maphunziro ku South Side ya mzindawu, adafuna kuti laibulale yomwe ikubwera ya Purezidenti wa Barack Obama m'chigawo chake iphatikizepo mgwirizano wamapindu olimbana ndi kusamuka kwa anthu ogwira ntchito. Mu 2015, adagwira nawo ntchito yanjala ya masiku 34 pofuna kutseguliranso sukulu ya sekondale ya Walter H Dyett; tsamba lake loyambira amawerenga: "Tumizani kugwa kwa njala ku Dyet kuholo ya mzindawo."
Ndipo Rodriguez adachita kampeni yokhudzana ndi mbiri yomenyera ufulu wokhala ndi nyumba zotsika mtengo komanso ufulu wa anthu othawa kwawo m'dera la anthu osamukira kumayiko ena, ogwira ntchito komanso otsutsana ndi kukhazikitsidwa kwa ntchito zaboma komanso kukulitsa mphamvu za apolisi mumzinda.
Mwa kuyankhula kwina, asosholisti a demokalasewa adathamanga ngati omenyera nkhondo mopanda manyazi polimbana ndi umbombo wamakampani ndi kudziletsa komanso kwa ogwira ntchito a mzindawo.
Oyang'anira ndale ndi okonzekera akuyenera kuona kupambana kumeneku monga phunziro: ovota adapeza kuti uthenga wotsalira ndi wosangalatsa - ndipo sanachite mantha ndi omwe amadzitcha kuti "socialist".
Socialism ikufalikira ku US, monga tikuwonera kutchuka kwa senator wa Vermont Bernie Sanders ndi woimira New York Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, ndi kugunda kwakukulu kwa umembala wa DSA, kuwonjezeka kasanu ndi kawiri mpaka 60,000 m'zaka zitatu zapitazi. Koma chomwe chimasiyanitsa Chicago ndi mizinda ina yambiri ku America - ndipo idatenga gawo lofunikira kwambiri pazigonjetso zamasosholisti usiku watha - ndikuti phiko lakumanzere la gulu la ogwira ntchito mumzindawu silinachite mantha kuyanjana ndi anthu ofuna demokalase.
Kuyambira pamenepo 2012 kumenya, bungwe la Chicago Teachers Union lakhala ngati nangula wa ntchito yotsala ya mzindawu. CTU, pamodzi ndi magulu a anthu ndi mabungwe ena opita patsogolo monga SEIU Healthcare Illinois ndi Indiana, adapanga bungwe la ndale lotchedwa United Working Families (UWF) mu 2015. Atsogoleri ambiri a mgwirizanowu, ku Chicago ndi kwina kulikonse, akukangana za kuthandizira poyera anthu ofuna kusankha Socialist.
UWF ikuwoneka kuti siilipo, kuvomereza ambiri mwa omwe akufuna ku khonsolo ya mzinda wa DSA (ndipo nthawi zambiri adagwiritsa ntchito zofunikira pa iwo). Gulu lina lachisankho lomwe likupita patsogolo, Reclaim Chicago, linali wothandizira wamkulu wa mamembala awiri opambana a DSA, Vasquez ndi La Spata.
Mgwirizano wa mabungwe otsalira ndi magulu ammudzi udzakhala wofunikira m'zaka zikubwerazi. Usiku watha adawonanso chisankho cha meya woyamba wakuda waku Chicago, komanso meya wake woyamba wachiwerewere, Lori Lightfoot, yemwe kale anali woimira boma pamilandu komanso loya wakampani.
Lightfoot adanena kuti akupita patsogolo, koma mbiri yake yakhala ikuchitika kufufuzidwa by omenyera ufulu wa milandu ndi CTU (omwe adathandizira mdani wa Lightfoot, Purezidenti wa board County Toni Preckwinkle); adatenga chopereka chachikulu kuchokera kwa wakuda gulu la "ndalama zakuda". zomwe zimagwiritsa ntchito mawu osamveka bwino ovomerezeka komanso chithandizo chochokera kwa loya wa Emanuel. Gulu la ogwira ntchito mumzindawu ndi kumanzere mwina adzipeza kuti akugwirizana kuti amenyane ndi Lightfoot mu ofesi.
Kupambana kwa Socialist ku Chicago usiku watha sikunali kopanda pake. Mโdziko lonselo, anthu atopa ndi malipiro ochepa, kukwera mtengo kwa nyumba, kugulitsa katundu wa boma, kuchepetsa bajeti ndi kupereka ndalama za boma. Iwo ayesera austerity ndipo amaona kuti n'zomvetsa chisoni.
Ngati zisankho zaku Chicago ndizoziwonetsa, mwina ndi okonzeka kuyesa socialism.
Micah Uetricht ndi mkonzi wamkulu wa magazini ya Jacobin. Ndi mlembi wa Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity (Verso, 2014) komanso membala wa Chicago Democratic Socialists of America.
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