Vol. 77/No. 30      August 19, 2013

Supporters of the Socialist Workers Party collected 7,524 signatures by Aug. 7 to put the party’s citywide candidates — Dan Fein for mayor, John Studer for comptroller and Deborah Liatos for public advocate — on the New York City ballot for the November elections. Petitioners fanned out across all five boroughs, gathering more than twice the signatures required. Talking to workers on street corners, at shopping centers and door to door in working-class neighborhoods, campaign supporters also sold a couple of hundred copies of the Militant.

—JOHN STUDER