Maura Deluca, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City public advocate, campaigning at the West Indian American Day Carnival in Brooklyn, New York, September 7. Deluca was joined in campaigning at the event by Socialist Workers Party candidates Dan Fein, who is running for mayor of New York, and Tom Baumann for Manhattan borough president. The SWP 2009 candidates were well received by thousands of workers attending the parade. Many, like the group of workers Deluca spoke with pictured above, responded favorably to the need to strengthen the unions and the candidates’ demands for U.S. troops out of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan and for legalization of all undocumented workers.

—WILLIE COTTON