Why the New York Times’ list of “definitive” movies about America is so unsatisfactory
An innovative list, but “innovation” in this case has not proved rewarding. The makers of older, more “traditional” lists had different inclinations.
David Walsh•
“Fascists are best when they’re under the ground”
Everything Is Great!: Carsie Blanton and the Burning Hell call for the overthrow of capitalism
A new musical collaboration gives voice to widespread anger at war, fascism, police terror and exploitation.
Erik Schreiber•
Trump calls FIFA chief to lift suspension on US player: Chauvinism and corruption permeate World Cup
The episode lays bare the subordination of the world’s most popular sports tournament to the US financial oligarchy and the Trump White House.
Andrea Lobo•
“Let them eat wedding cake”: The Swift-Kelce spectacle at Madison Square Garden
The preoccupation with fame and wealth and wall-to-wall media coverage of the Swift-Kelce wedding on Friday evening—overlapping with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence—is one way the ruling oligarchy is seeking to divert the attention of the public away from the terminal crisis of capitalism.
Kevin Reed•
Zac Corrigan•
Ulaş Sevinç•
Barış Demir•
Kevin Reed•
Daniel Woreck •
David Attenborough at 100, an appreciation
Attenborough continues to explore new scientific opportunities and discoveries in covering all aspects of the natural world. His series are distinguished by a systematic approach, to groups of organisms or specific eco-systems, grounded in the history of science.
Paul Bond•
Beef Season 2: “The people in charge have made it impossible for us”
Series creator, co-director and co-writer Lee Sung Jin makes the pressures of capitalism and class society a persistent theme and source of crises in the series.
Matthew Brennan•
The Pitt: The medical drama whose social realism and honesty have gripped millions
The interest in the series is a sympathetic response to an unusually humane treatment of social life as a whole in the US.
Isabel Roy, David Walsh•
ICE agents appear in The Pitt episode “5:00 P.M.”—“What can we do?”
It is another indication of the broad-based opposition to the Trump administration and its drive toward dictatorship, including its vicious anti-immigrant witch-hunt.
Isabel Roy•
Paul Bond•
Isabel Roy•
Luke Galvin•
David Walsh•
Marc Wells•
Olivier Assayas’ The Wizard of the Kremlin: Some bluntness, and a lot of evasion
The film serves up a very limited portrait of the rise of Putin, based on a book by an Italian cultural figure and bourgeois politician.
Andrea Peters•
Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers: A Portrait of the Artist as a Not Very Important Person
Artists of Soderbergh’s generation were cut off at the knees, so to speak, by the reactionary atmosphere of the 1980s and 1990s.
David Walsh•
Rich Flu: What happens when wealth becomes a plague?
In a darkly humorous and disturbing movie, a media executive approaches the high point of her career just as a mysterious illness begins to kill the world’s plutocrats.
Erik Schreiber•
Mr. Nobody Against Putin: A portrait of Russian working class life, but in the service of NATO
Under the cover of a generally humane portrayal of the impact of the Ukraine war on a beat-up working class Russian town, the film, at its core, promotes typical US-NATO anti-Putin politics.
Andrea Peters•
David Walsh, Joanne Laurier•
David Walsh, Joanne Laurier•
John Conrad•
Armando Cruz•
Fred Mazelis•
“Fascists are best when they’re under the ground”
Everything Is Great!: Carsie Blanton and the Burning Hell call for the overthrow of capitalism
A new musical collaboration gives voice to widespread anger at war, fascism, police terror and exploitation.
Erik Schreiber•
Peter Gabriel: From progressive rock to world music and beyond
Internationally acclaimed musician Peter Gabriel is developing a new album in 2026 entitled o/i (output/input) as a year-long series of track-at-a-time releases timed to arrive with each full moon cycle.
Kevin Reed•
The success and worldwide recognition of math-rock duo Angine de Poitrine
The comical costumes worn by the two conceal the identities of two very accomplished musicians who are masters of their instruments and equipment.
Louis Girard•
An opera and an art exhibition in New York focus on Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
Both avoid serious examination of the complex lives of these great artists of the 20th century.
Fred Mazelis, Clare Hurley•
Kevin Reed•
Jesse Thomas, John Andrews•
David Walsh•
John Andrews•
Erik Schreiber•
Alexander Rabinowitch’s The Bolsheviks Survive: Petrograd 1919
The fourth and final volume of Rabinowitch’s books on the October Revolution in Petrograd is a major contribution to the history of the civil war.
Clara Weiss•
New book questions official finding that fascist Brenton Tarrant acted alone in Christchurch massacre
The book is a scathing critique of the 2020 Royal Commission of Inquiry, which declared that fascist terrorist Brenton Tarrant acted alone and that his mass murder of 51 people could not have been prevented.
Tom Peters•
Gary Stevenson and the dead end of wealth-tax reformism
The capitalist state is not a neutral instrument that can be picked up and aimed at the wealthy by a sufficiently determined government. It is an organ of class rule.
Ioan Petrescu•
Red Dawn over China: An extended exercise in anti-communist propaganda
Frank Dikötter’s new book is a fundamentally flawed work that makes little pretence of academic objectivity or intellectual honesty.
Peter Symonds•
James McDonald•
Christoph Vandreier•
Nicoletta Montaner•
Paul Bond•
David North, Johannes Stern•
Film director Prasanna Vithanage discusses Paradise with the WSWS
The mass anti-government agitation in Sri Lanka “was the result of real class differences in our society, the divisions between the haves and the have nots” – Prasanna Vithanage
Richard Phillips•
Interview with Hany Abu-Assad, Palestinian filmmaker (Paradise Now, Omar): “Gaza is the Bastille of our day … a lot is going to change”
One of his most accomplished works is Omar, a 2013 film about a young Palestinian baker (Adam Bakri) who becomes involved in complex political and moral matters.
David Walsh•
Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage denounces Israeli genocide in Gaza
“I strongly denounce state-sponsored witch-hunt and prosecution against artists and activists who have come forward against Israel’s genocide.”
Wasantha Rupasinghe•
Roger Stahl discusses Theaters of War: How the Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood with WSWS
Department of Defense interventions into American entertainment media is to “get people acclimated to the presence of military personnel, military bases, military operations, and weapons… normalizing the presence of the military in almost every aspect of life.”
Richard Phillips•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
Vimukthi Vidarshana and Shree Haran•
Richard Phillips•
David Walsh•
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