A $1 billion evening for the art world
How is it that one individual can accumulate such an art collection and withhold it from the public?
David Walsh•
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•
Whitney Biennial 2026: Taking the pulse and finding it feeble
Through the biennial, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City maintains it is taking the pulse of the contemporary art scene in the US.
Clare Hurley•
India’s film certification board censors award-winning The Voice of Hind Rajab, citing “harm” to India-Israel relations
The banning of the docudrama reveals the depth of relationship now established between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-supremacist government and the murderous Zionist Netanyahu regime.
Kranti Kumara•
Paul Mitchell•
James McDonald•
Hong Jian, Marc Wells•
Erik Schreiber•
John Conrad•
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•
Say Nothing: Everything essential about the Northern Ireland conflict left unsaid
A serious artistic appraisal of the Troubles, and serious attempts to understand their effect at a personal level, would have to begin from a historical and political understanding both of British imperialism and the limitations of bourgeois nationalism.
Paul Bond•
The Pitt Season 2 and the challenges facing a serious television drama
The second season of The Pitt is being aired in the midst of historical events that have thrust healthcare workers into the spotlight in an unprecedented manner.
Isabel Roy•
Luke Galvin•
David Walsh•
Marc Wells•
Jean Shaoul•
Eduardo Parati, Guilherme Ferreira•
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•
90 years of Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times
Released under tumultuous social, political and economic circumstances, Chaplin’s movie retains the artistic, cultural, political and social significance it had in 1936.
John Conrad•
Chavín de Huántar: The Rescue of the Century: A film of reactionary propaganda for Peru’s military
The social and political issues are deliberately ignored in order to present the rescue operation as a binary struggle between the “heroic” army and a guerrilla force that is the enemy of the entire nation.
Armando Cruz•
In the midst of the Terror of 1937
Two Prosecutors: A stubborn young lawyer confronts the criminal methods of the Stalinist bureaucracy
Many thousands of devoted revolutionaries, including most of the leaders of the October 1917 Revolution, were put to death between 1936 and 1938 by the counterrevolutionary bureaucracy.
Fred Mazelis•
David Walsh•
Joanne Laurier•
Bernd Reinhardt, Stefan Steinberg •
David Walsh•
Lee Parsons•
Michael: An exercise in image control
An estate-approved film about Michael Jackson is an exploitation that leans heavily on his music and provides a superficial, selective view of his life.
Erik Schreiber•
1,100 artists call for boycott of Eurovision over Israel’s Gaza genocide
The letter is a moving assertion of opposition to the ongoing genocide and the cultural devastation that accompanies it.
Paul Bond•
Michael Tilson Thomas, acclaimed American conductor, has died at the age of 81
Like his mentor Leonard Bernstein, Tilson Thomas was known for his communication skills and his ability to attract new audiences to classical music.
Fred Mazelis•
Latest expression of crisis of culture in 21st century capitalism
Dismissal of Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Andris Nelsons provokes uproar
The capitalist crisis and the “donor class” are leading the BSO, the Metropolitan Opera, and other leading cultural institutions into the abyss.
Fred Mazelis•
Marc Wells•
James Brewer•
Paul Bond•
Kevin Reed•
Matthew Brennan•
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•
Book review: American Midnight: The Great War, a violent peace, and democracy's forgotten crisis
Adam Hochschild’s vivid, engaging account of the political subordination of the society to the needs of a ruling class waging an imperialist war deserves a wide readership.
Nicoletta Montaner•
Paul Bond•
David North, Johannes Stern•
Paul Bond•
Owen Howell•
Stefan Steinberg, Clara Weiss•
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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