Peter Gelb of the Met Opera continues his campaign for the proxy war in Ukraine
Gelb has been in the forefront of the anti-Russian campaign ever since 2022.
Fred Mazelis•
Anger over actors’ dire conditions erupts in SAG-AFTRA
Actors have gone public about a situation that was once considered embarrassing to acknowledge: not being able to meet the union threshold.
David Walsh•
Calgary Opera fires principal singer for displaying Palestinian flag at opening night of Tosca
Sanchez-Ortega, an emerging artist in his first year of the McPhee Artist Development Program, was replaced in the role of Angelotti, the escaped political prisoner in Giacomo Puccini's popular opera.
Lee Parsons•
NBC News’ Filmed in Gaza: Images of the Israeli-produced horror, but with “context”
The 51-minute documentary Filmed in Gaza is a modest contribution to the world’s knowledge about the murderous assault.
Joanne Laurier•
Paul Mitchell•
Tom Mackaman•
Paul Mitchell•
Fred Mazelis•
Paul Bond•
Britain’s Gaza Secrets Exposed: Governments buried war crimes to protect Israel and the arms trade
Channel 4’s Dispatches investigation represents a rare break with the silence and evasions that have characterised the British media’s coverage of Gaza
Paul Mitchell•
My Brilliant Career: Netflix’s caricature of a classic Australian novel
The new series bears only a limited resemblance to Miles Franklin’s portrait of the harsh realities facing small farmers and their families in the late nineteenth century.
Kaye Tucker, Richard Phillips•
German political satire show Die Anstalt bows to censorship in its 100th edition
The censorship by ZDF management of a song by Danger Dan and Igor Levit calling for resistance against the AfD provoked no storm of outrage from the programme's hosts.
Peter Schwarz•
The brainchild of Barack Obama: Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America
Comedian-writer Larry David has even less insight into the past than the present.
Ed Hightower•
Paul Bond•
Matthew Brennan•
Isabel Roy, David Walsh•
Isabel Roy•
Paul Bond•
UK release of Naza: “A marriage between investigative journalism and cinema” exposing Israel’s crimes in Gaza
During a panel discussion at the film’s London launch, Paul Lewis exposed the incoherence of the Netanyahu regime’s response to Naza. On the one hand, the government claims the film is “false”, “misrepresentative”, and full of lies. On the other hand, Netanyahu argues that those appearing in it should be prosecuted for revealing state secrets.
Paul Mitchell•
Manhunt: A dark tale of violence that provides little illumination
The film focuses on two teenagers without presenting the social context that could explain why they are drawn to the far right.
Erik Schreiber•
Veteran Sri Lankan director Prasanna Vithanage’s Children of the Sun and Flowers of the Sky now screening on Australian television
Vithanage’s films are distinguished by their sensitivity to the social and class relations in Sri Lanka, past and present.
Richard Phillips•
Fatherland: A moving film about Thomas Mann’s trip to Germany in 1949
In 1949, Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter, the actress, author, and cabaret artist Erika (Sandra Hüller), set out on a journey from Frankfurt am Main in the American occupation zone to Soviet-controlled Weimar.
Verena Nees•
Saman Gunadasa•
Stefan Steinberg•
Thomas Scripps•
David Walsh•
Andrea Peters•
Peter Gelb of the Met Opera continues his campaign for the proxy war in Ukraine
Gelb has been in the forefront of the anti-Russian campaign ever since 2022.
Fred Mazelis•
American soprano Martina Arroyo has died at the age of 90
The singer came from a Puerto Rican working-class background and was known not only for her beautiful voice but also for the warmth of her personality.
Fred Mazelis•
Oracle comes to the “rescue” of the Nashville Symphony
The company has come up with $10 million, the equivalent of pocket change for its multibillionaire owner, to ensure that the coming season of the symphony goes ahead.
Fred Mazelis•
“Music City” without an orchestra as Nashville Symphony suspends its season in face of financial crisis
The highly regarded Nashville Symphony is suspending the rest of its 2026-27 season due to lack of funding.
Shannon Jones•
Shannon Jones•
Marc Wells•
Erik Schreiber•
James Brewer•
James Brewer•
The 2 Elizabeth Gurley Flynns: A new biography of the “Rebel Girl”
Mary Anne Trasciatti’s valuable biography documents Flynn’s passage from IWW militancy to Stalinism but leaves the roots of that transformation unexplained.
Tom Mackaman•
Video of Frankfurt book presentation: “The Ukraine War and the Fight for Socialism: The Case of Bogdan Syrotiuk”
The discussion between Mehring Verlag representative Katja Rippert and the book’s editor, Johannes Stern, editor-in-chief of the German-language edition of the World Socialist Web Site, is now available on video.
Katja Rippert, Johannes Stern•
From the Front Line, 1941-45
Vasily Grossman’s reporting on the Nazi-Soviet war
Although best-known for his major novels, Vasily Grossman's powerful social realism was rooted in his active involvement in the Red Army’s struggle against Nazism. His war-time writings are now presented in the most complete English edition to date.
Clara Weiss•
My Brilliant Career: Netflix’s caricature of a classic Australian novel
The new series bears only a limited resemblance to Miles Franklin’s portrait of the harsh realities facing small farmers and their families in the late nineteenth century.
Kaye Tucker, Richard Phillips•
Clara Weiss•
Tom Peters•
Ioan Petrescu•
Peter Symonds•
James McDonald•
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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