PDF of October 21 issue

Download the PDF. STRIKETOBER! ALSO: Philly solidarity with Puerto Rican workers Wage increases & the unemployed On the picket line Historic victory in Boston Netflix: Stop promoting transphobia Editorial: Tip of a rotten iceberg. World: Nicaragua challenges U.S. domination. Tear down the walls: Cosmetic changes can’t disguise Texas prison brutality . . .

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Nicaragua, with free health care and education, challenges U.S. domination 

Managua, Nicaragua The writer was a member of a U.S. delegation that visited Nicaragua Oct. 3-10.  Outside of Óscar Danilo Rosales Hospital in Leon, Nicaragua with members of medical staff and U.S. delegation, Oct. 5.  Rosales, a surgeon and  Sandinista hero, was killed in 1967 by the U.S.-backed Somoza regime. (WW . . .

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Protests demand Luma out!

Philadelphia Activists protesting the privatization of Puerto Rico’s electric utility company and the devastating power outages affecting the island’s most vulnerable communities, rallied at Fairhill Square Park in Philadelphia’s Puerto Rican community Oct. 15.  The event was called by Philly Boricuas. Philadelphia activists stand in solidarity with Puerto Rican workers . . .

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Rightist militia fires on demonstrators in Lebanon

Demonstrators at an unarmed march in southern Beirut Oct. 14 were fired on by snipers from the Lebanese Forces, a Maronite Christian party whose militia was notorious for its brutality during the 1975-90 civil war.  Iranian oil tankers greeted in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, Sept. 16. According to Johnny Achi, founder . . .

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Arab Americans for Syria activist says: U.S. applied ‘divide and conquer’ strategy to Lebanon, Iraq

Following the armed attack by the Lebanese Forces militia on Hezbollah and its allies at a demonstration in Beirut Oct. 14 and the subsequent firefight, Workers World correspondent Ted Kelly interviewed Johnny Achi, coordinator of Arab Americans for Syria. Below are excerpts from Achi’s remarks. Johnny Achi voting in 2021 . . .

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