The questions left hanging by Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey
The theme of social crisis, a crisis of authority, compelling the conscious creation of new ways of living speaks across the centuries, even millennia.
Thomas Scripps•
ABC/Disney goes to court to stop FCC early review of broadcast licenses
The FCC action, effectively ordered by President Donald Trump and implemented by his fascistic operative FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, is a frontal attack on the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech and the press.
Barry Grey•
Australia: ABC program exposes cruelty of Labor’s aged care schemes
Hundreds of thousands of retired workers and their families are being denied adequate support packages or left waiting interminably for basic services.
Mike Head•
Directors Guild and IATSE more than happy to hand Hollywood over to the oligarchs
The Hollywood merger exposes the union bureaucracy’s collaboration with oligarchs, threatening jobs, democratic rights and artistic freedom on a global scale.
Marc Wells•
Verena Nees•
Fred Mazelis•
David Walsh•
Erik Schreiber•
Philip Guelpa•
German political satire show Die Anstalt bows to censorship in its 100th edition
The censorship by ZDF management of a song by Danger Dan and Igor Levit calling for resistance against the AfD provoked no storm of outrage from the programme's hosts.
Peter Schwarz•
The brainchild of Barack Obama: Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America
Comedian-writer Larry David has even less insight into the past than the present.
Ed Hightower•
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•
Isabel Roy, David Walsh•
Isabel Roy•
Paul Bond•
Isabel Roy•
Luke Galvin•
The questions left hanging by Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey
The theme of social crisis, a crisis of authority, compelling the conscious creation of new ways of living speaks across the centuries, even millennia.
Thomas Scripps•
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey: A social and cultural phenomenon
Tens of millions of people worldwide have already seen the new film, and sales of Homer’s epic in book form are brisk as well.
David Walsh•
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•
Erik Schreiber•
Andrea Peters•
David Walsh, Joanne Laurier•
David Walsh, Joanne Laurier•
John Conrad•
After Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center
National Symphony Orchestra faces calamity in Washington D.C.
Playing to largely empty halls, NSO's ticket revenues have fallen as much as 50 percent for some concerts.
Fred Mazelis•
“The Fall of the American Orchestra” documented
The performance of some of the greatest music of the past and present is vital to the general cultural, intellectual and moral life of a country.
David Walsh•
Australian court upholds censorship of acclaimed pianist for comments about Gaza genocide
Pianist Jayson Gillham has shown himself to be not only an acclaimed artist but also a principled one, willing to take a stand against imperialist barbarism and official censorship.
Oscar Grenfell•
“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•
Kevin Reed•
Louis Girard•
Fred Mazelis, Clare Hurley•
Kevin Reed•
Jesse Thomas, John Andrews•
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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