Five countries boycott Eurovision Song Contest protesting inclusion of Israel
It is highly likely that there will be further boycotts of next year’s contest, given that Israel is a global pariah.
Robert Stevens, Paul Mitchell•
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein: The latest film interpretation of Mary Shelley’s novel
Del Toro’s Frankenstein is a visually imaginative work to some extent with a number of urgent and disturbing sequences and an overall gravitas.
Joanne Laurier•
Legendary Stax Records guitarist Steve Cropper (1941-2025)
The death of Booker T. & the M.G.s’ guitarist Steve Cropper is something of an end of an era for soul and rock and roll.
James Brewer•
English folk singer and guitarist Martin Carthy: An appraisal of his six-decade career
Carthy has always seen folk as reflecting social life and conditions, so has never shied away from social and political issues.
Paul Bond•
Marc Wells•
Erik Schreiber•
David Walsh•
Stefan Steinberg•
Fred Mazelis•
Netflix takes over Warner Bros. Discovery in $82.7 billion deal
The acquisition poses a serious threat to entertainment workers, undermining creative labor and endangering art and cultural expression.
Marc Wells•
Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War
Their testimonies are first-hand accounts of war crimes perpetrated by the self-proclaimed “the most moral army in the world”, flatly contradicting the IDF’s insistence that it operates in accordance with international law and takes measures to minimise civilian harm in its genocidal assault on Gaza.
Jean Shaoul•
Apocalypse in the Tropics: A limited analysis of religion and politics in Brazil
The documentary has attracted an audience seeking to understand the rise of Bolsonaro in Brazil, but it ignores the role played by the Workers Party (PT) of President Lula.
Eduardo Parati, Guilherme Ferreira•
Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel condemns Trump in return monologue watched by millions
The right-wing campaign leading to Kimmel’s suspension was launched in the wake of his comments on September 15.
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
Hong Jian, David Walsh•
Marc Wells•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein: The latest film interpretation of Mary Shelley’s novel
Del Toro’s Frankenstein is a visually imaginative work to some extent with a number of urgent and disturbing sequences and an overall gravitas.
Joanne Laurier•
Nuremberg: Where does fascist barbarism come from?
The film gives a largely accurate account of the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-46, but it seeks the cause of the Nazis’ crimes in their individual psychology.
Sandy English•
American authoritarianism in Anniversary: It does happen here
The film is among a number of recent works that address—or attempt to address—the burning question of mass state repression and fascism.
David Walsh•
Bugonia: The latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos—“All that’s been done to us … We’re setting that right again”
Two cousins, in an act of revenge, kidnap a successful, powerful corporate executive and hold her captive in their basement.
David Walsh•
Jean Shaoul•
Stefan Steinberg, Peter Schwarz•
Erik Schreiber•
David Walsh•
Tom Peters•
Five countries boycott Eurovision Song Contest protesting inclusion of Israel
It is highly likely that there will be further boycotts of next year’s contest, given that Israel is a global pariah.
Robert Stevens, Paul Mitchell•
Legendary Stax Records guitarist Steve Cropper (1941-2025)
The death of Booker T. & the M.G.s’ guitarist Steve Cropper is something of an end of an era for soul and rock and roll.
James Brewer•
English folk singer and guitarist Martin Carthy: An appraisal of his six-decade career
Carthy has always seen folk as reflecting social life and conditions, so has never shied away from social and political issues.
Paul Bond•
As part of anti-Russian hysteria, Dutch venue cancels scheduled concert by renowned pianist Elisabeth Leonskaya
Officials have become entangled in the campaign to justify war against Russia and a new imperialist slaughter.
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
Fred Mazelis•
Erik Schreiber•
Kevin Reed•
Fred Mazelis•
A lawyer’s account of his struggle on behalf of a victim of the “war on terror”
Through the Gates of Hell: American Injustice at Guantanamo Bay
Jaber Mohammed, only one among hundreds of prisoners who faced a similar fate, lost five years of his life to a regime of abuse and torture, part of the imperialist reaction to the 9/11 attacks.
Fred Mazelis•
Peter Oborne’s Complicit: Britain’s role in the destruction of Gaza
While Oborne offer a biting and passionate critique of the UK’s support for Israel and complicity in its genocidal war against the Palestinians in Gaza, his disgust and moral outrage is no substitute for explaining its causes.
Jean Shaoul•
Interview with 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”
Goldstone’s book documents the lives of five families trapped by low-wage work and homelessness in Atlanta.
James McDonald•
Marxism in the academic’s imagination
Two new books on Marx and Marxism
What both books avoid is precisely what Marx insisted upon: that the liberation of humanity requires the political independence of the working class and the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism.
Tom Mackaman•
Clara Weiss•
Sandy English•
James McDonald•
Clara Weiss•
Tom Peters•
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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