After SAG-AFTRA delays 18 months, video game performers strike against major companies
The strike comes 18 months after the last contract expired and 10 months after workers voted for a strike by 98.32 percent.
Hong Jian•
Mahdi Fleifel’s To a Land Unknown: Palestinian refugees, escaped from “prison,” search for the land of milk and honey
The film follows two undocumented Palestinian refugees and cousins, who find themselves in Athens and make desperate efforts to reach Germany.
David Walsh•
An interview with Palestinian filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel, director of To a Land Unknown: “Do we want to actually respect and embrace our humanity?”
The WSWS spoke recently to filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel, the director of To a Land Unknown, in a video call.
David Walsh•
Only God Was Above Us: US band Vampire Weekend surveys a multifarious, crisis-ridden world
The band’s latest effort is marked by a sharp contradiction between musical verve and lyrical demoralization.
Erik Schreiber•
Kevin Reed•
Clare Hurley, Joanne Laurier•
Joanne Laurier•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
Reject IATSE sellout contract—Organize rank-and-file committees!
The two Memorandums of Agreement were released July 10 on IATSE websites, only four days before entertainment workers were scheduled to begin voting on the deals.
Hong Jian, David Walsh•
Bridgerton: Season 3 of the anti-history
The series offers not so much an alternative history, as an anti-history, aimed above all at an upper-middle class audience fixated on the politics of race and gender.
Clare Hurley•
Fallout: Amazon’s atomic disaster series falters badly
The Amazon Prime series based on the role-playing game of the same title, depicts—in a puerile and unserious manner—the conditions in the US 200 years after a nuclear war.
Cordell Gascoigne•
Ripley: A new series based on the Patricia Highsmith novel
The series is a slap in the face of contemporary cultural backwardness and degradation, and for that alone, writer/director Steven Zaillian deserves credit.
David Walsh•
Paul Bond•
Paul Bond•
Ed Hightower•
Fred Mazelis•
David Walsh•
Mahdi Fleifel’s To a Land Unknown: Palestinian refugees, escaped from “prison,” search for the land of milk and honey
The film follows two undocumented Palestinian refugees and cousins, who find themselves in Athens and make desperate efforts to reach Germany.
David Walsh•
New York Times attempts to keep the #MeToo pot simmering
Sorry/Not Sorry: The continuing campaign against comedian Louis C.K.
Through a new documentary, the New York Times seeks to keep the #MeToo pot simmering, divert the attention of as many people as possible from big social issues and prepare the ground for further attacks on democratic rights.
Erik Schreiber•
David Fincher’s The Killer: Why this film? Why now?
This is not a good film, it is misguided from beginning to end. Why should anyone care about the central character or most of the others?
David Walsh•
Bheed: The plight of India’s migrant workers during the COVID-19 lockdown
The film exposes the nightmarish difficulties suffered by the Indian masses after the Modi government imposed a COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020.
Yuan Darwin, Kranti Kumara•
David Walsh•
Cordell Gascoigne•
David Walsh•
Tom Mackaman•
David Walsh•
Only God Was Above Us: US band Vampire Weekend surveys a multifarious, crisis-ridden world
The band’s latest effort is marked by a sharp contradiction between musical verve and lyrical demoralization.
Erik Schreiber•
The Allan Holdsworth Solo Album Collection recently released
An appreciation of virtuoso guitarist Allan Holdsworth
The recent release on vinyl of the remastered solo recordings of the internationally acclaimed guitarist is an opportunity to review his creative legacy and significant influence.
Kevin Reed•
Conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen leaves the San Francisco Symphony: The profit system once again proves incompatible with serious art
Salonen came into conflict with the board over budget cuts and other cost-cutting measures, which he perceived as dangerous to the artistic health and well-being of the orchestra.
David Walsh•
Hanns Eisler, 20th century composer
Eisler’s life and career were closely bound up with the vicissitudes of the international class struggle in the first half of the 20th century.
Fred Mazelis•
Chris Marsden•
Kate Randall•
James Brewer•
Erik Schreiber•
David Walsh•
David North’s The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide addresses the disastrous consequences of nationalist political programs
The series of lectures on the historical development of Zionism exposes the bankruptcy of all politics based on nationalism and race—and points the way forward for all those who want to fight against genocide, war and dictatorship.
Tom Peters•
Nathan Thrall’s Pulitzer Prize-winning A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy–A case study in dehumanization
The bus accident proves to be a major news event with political implications. The accident exposes the fundamental injustices blighting Palestinian life in Israel.
James McDonald•
Interview with historian Dan Okrent on the centenary of the Immigration Act of 1924
Okrent’s book The Guarded Gate examines an episode of anti-immigration frenzy that resembles in many ways the current environment in bourgeois politics.
Eric London•
Ghassan Zeineddine’s Dearborn: Short stories about Arab-American life
Zeineddine’s stories concern immigrants who escaped the civil war in Lebanon (1975-90) and their children, who are negotiating their own escapes.
James McDonald•
James McDonald•
Mike Head•
Erik Schreiber•
James MacDonald, Sandy English•
Helen Halyard•
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•
An interview with Nadav Lapid, director of Ahed’s Knee: “One of the characteristics of sick societies … is that they don’t give you any good choices”
The WSWS recently spoke to filmmaker Nadav Lapid, director of Ahed’s Knee, on a video call.
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
Vimukthi Vidarshana and Shree Haran•
Richard Phillips•
David Walsh•
Frank Anderson•
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