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•
Lucy Worsley Investigates: The American Revolution: Is this all the BBC can offer on one of the most decisive events in world history?
Worsley’s narratives—whether on the Romanovs, the Peasants’ Revolt, or the English Civil War—consistently displace class antagonism, economic crisis, and mass political struggle, fixating on monarchs, courtiers, domestic interiors and historical cosplay.
Paul Mitchell•
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•
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•
P.T. Sampanthar•
Paul Bond•
John Braddock•
Patrick Martin•
Kevin Reed•
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•
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•
2026 San Francisco International Film Festival—Part 4
Enough is Enough: Catastrophe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The scramble for these resources has resulted in the decades of civil war, with various groups and armed bands seeking to gain control of territory.
David Walsh, Joanne Laurier•
2026 San Francisco International Film Festival—Part 3
First They Came for My College: Right-wing “human dust” mount takeover of New College of Florida
Bresnan’s film sets out the sordid details of this far-right maneuver in all its repulsive transparency.
David Walsh, Joanne Laurier•
John Conrad•
Armando Cruz•
Fred Mazelis•
David Walsh•
Joanne Laurier•
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•
Court rules that Trump’s name must be removed from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
A Washington DC federal district judge ruled that the president’s stacking of the board with his loyalists and placing the Trump name on the Kennedy Center was a “procedurally defective and substantively unlawful action.”
Kevin Reed•
“Saxophone Colossus” Sonny Rollins dies at 95
His death marks the physical and “biographical” end of an era that began with the founding of bebop in New York during the final years of World War II.
Jesse Thomas, John Andrews•
The “Great American State Fair” debacle: Trump’s megalomania and extreme isolation
One of the centerpieces of the anniversary is a mixed martial arts cage match scheduled to take place June 14 on the South Lawn of the White House.
David Walsh•
John Andrews•
Erik Schreiber•
Paul Bond•
Fred Mazelis•
Fred Mazelis•
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•
WSWS interviews Pulitzer Prize winner Brian Goldstone, author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America: “In America right now, a low-wage job … is homelessness waiting to happen”
The WSWS spoke to Brian Goldstone in 2025 about homelessness in America and about his book.
James McDonald•
Jörg Baberowski’s Bypassing the People: Fascism as a revitalisation of democracy
Jörg Baberowski’s latest treatise, Am Volk vorbei—Zur Krise der liberalen Demokratie (Bypassing the People—On the Crisis of Liberal Democracy), is being hailed and praised in countless media outlets. This can only be understood as a deliberate political campaign to secure the AfD a place in government.
Christoph Vandreier•
Nicoletta Montaner•
Paul Bond•
David North, Johannes Stern•
Paul Bond•
Owen Howell•
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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