The progressive bloc lags well behind the other main political currents contending for power in the US today—MAGA and the centrist bloc anchored in the Biden wing of the Democratic Party.
Immigrants from across the Americas and Africa call Lynn, MA home—so constructing a working-class identity across differences has been essential to the New Lynn Coalition’s effort to build independent political power.
In a small city “at the easternmost tip of the Rust Belt,” labor and community groups have invested 10 years in building a vehicle for independent political power—and working-class identity.