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•
Why the Hollywood unions actually “didn’t put up a fight” this year and what that means for entertainment workers
The WGA and SAG-AFTRA contracts were not "historic victories" but a coordinated betrayal by union bureaucracies that must be fought through independent rank-and-file committees.
Marc Wells•
FIFA World Cup 2026: “The beautiful game” in grip of Trump and financial oligarchy
The tournament has been transformed into a platform for imperialist arrogance, militarism and anti-immigrant chauvinism by the Trump administration, without protest by FIFA and its co-hosts.
Andrea Lobo•
The NY Knicks championship and the social reality behind New York’s “impossible joy”
The reaction to the Knicks’ first NBA championship in 53 years is not simply about basketball. It expresses, in distorted form, immense social tensions for which workers and youth have been denied any progressive political outlet.
Jacob Crosse, Barry Grey•
Erik Schreiber•
Paul Mitchell•
Andrea Peters•
Fred Mazelis, Clare Hurley•
P.T. Sampanthar•
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•
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•
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•
David Walsh, Joanne Laurier•
John Conrad•
Armando Cruz•
Fred Mazelis•
David Walsh•
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•
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•
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•
Christoph Vandreier•
Nicoletta Montaner•
Paul Bond•
David North, Johannes Stern•
Paul Bond•
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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