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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The interest in the series is a sympathetic response to an unusually humane treatment of social life as a whole in the US.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bresnan’s film sets out the sordid details of this far-right maneuver in all its repulsive transparency.
Both avoid serious examination of the complex lives of these great artists of the 20th century.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Frank Dikötter’s new book is a fundamentally flawed work that makes little pretence of academic objectivity or intellectual honesty.
The WSWS spoke to Brian Goldstone in 2025 about homelessness in America and about his book.
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.
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
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.
“I strongly denounce state-sponsored witch-hunt and prosecution against artists and activists who have come forward against Israel’s genocide.”
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.”
