NEW YORK—Tom Baumann, Young Socialist member and Socialist Workers Party candidate for Manhattan borough president, speaks at a March 25 protest at Hunter College against budget cuts, tuition hikes, and transit-fare increases. More than 100 students and workers attended. Strikers from the Stella D’oro bakery, who have been on strike for more than seven months also spoke, along with students from several city colleges and others.

“My campaign opposes the budget cuts and any increase in tuition,” Baumann said. “Working people need our own party—one that starts with our own class interests. When elected, I will stop interest payments to the bondholders, and instead enact a public works program to put millions to work at union scale. I will shorten the workweek with no cut in pay to spread the available work around.”

The New York SWP campaign is also running Dan Fein for mayor and Maura DeLuca for public advocate.

—JANICE LYNN