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•
German Publishers and Booksellers Association awards its annual “Peace Prize” to US war hawk Anne Applebaum
Applebaum is closely linked to the US military-intelligence apparatus. She currently plays a leading role in churning out propaganda justifying the escalation of the US-NATO war against Russia.
Stefan Steinberg•
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•
IATSE announces tentative agreement: film and television workers need to prepare to oppose betrayal
According to IATSE, talks were stalled mainly due to disagreements over wages and artificial Intelligence. Workers have every right to be intensely suspicious of this process and its results.
Hong Jian•
David Walsh•
Harvey Thompson•
David Walsh•
Chris Marsden•
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•
British dramatist Trevor Griffiths (4 April 1935 – 29 March 2024): “I didn’t invent myself. The world invented me”
Trevor Griffiths, who died last week aged 88, was one of the outstanding radical dramatists of the last 50 years.
Paul Bond•
Paul Bond•
Ed Hightower•
Fred Mazelis•
David Walsh•
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•
Richard Linklater’s Hit Man: A light touch, a dark problem
Gary Johnson poses as a hired killer, using various disguises and personae, and helps prosecute dozens of people who seek out his services over the course of a number of years.
David Walsh•
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•
Emily the Criminal with Aubrey Plaza: Feeling the economic pinch, a woman embraces illegality
A woman in Los Angeles, saddled with debt, becomes involved in a credit card fraud scheme, with serious consequences.
David Walsh•
Tom Mackaman•
David Walsh•
Penny Smith, James Martin•
Cordell Gascoigne•
Clare Hurley, Matthew Brennan•
Roger Waters, Yusuf/Cat Stevens and Lowkey perform in London: “Tonight is for Palestine”
These are important, socially committed artists, determined to take a stand against the mass murder and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.
Chris Marsden•
Disney+ The Beach Boys documentary promotes California dream myth, covers little new ground
The film falls flat, presenting a largely sanitized vision of the band and the times when the group and its members came of age. Any serious examination of the music and its evolution is also lacking.
Kate Randall•
Four Tops singer Alexander Morris files racial discrimination suit against Detroit area hospital
The lawsuit contends Morris was profiled, straitjacketed, racially abused, denied medical treatment and humiliated.
James Brewer•
Biden administration files antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster
Having allowed Live Nation to grow to elephantine proportions, US authorities are now criticizing the company for engaging in the monopolistic practices that such growth encourages.
Erik Schreiber•
David Walsh•
Erik Schreiber•
Robert Stevens•
Nick Barrickman•
Linda Rios•
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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