100 years of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published 100 years ago. What accounts for its continuing popularity and resonance?
Sandy English•
Terence Stamp (1938-2025): A supremely intelligent actor
Stamp identified himself as part of “the first wave of the educated, real, working class.”
Paul Bond•
Festival censorship of Mary Wallopers over Gaza protest backfires
Midway through their opening song, as they led chants of “Free Palestine,” festival staff cut the band’s sound and tore down the flag. The crowd booed, chanting “Let them play.”
Jordan Hammond•
Artificial Intelligence in the entertainment industry and the necessary socialist response
A report issued in January 2024 suggested that in the next three years alone some 204,000 “creative jobs” would be “adversely affected in the United States” by artificial intelligence.
Hong Jian, David Walsh•
Fred Mazelis•
Peter Schwarz•
Stefan Steinberg•
Kaye Tucker•
Erik Schreiber•
Artificial Intelligence in the entertainment industry and the necessary socialist response
A report issued in January 2024 suggested that in the next three years alone some 204,000 “creative jobs” would be “adversely affected in the United States” by artificial intelligence.
Hong Jian, David Walsh•
CBS cancels The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Corporate mergers, political pressure and economic decline are reshaping American media.
Marc Wells•
US Senate votes to end funding of public broadcasting
By a vote of 51-48, the most august legislative political body in the US cast its support for the elimination of public broadcasting, first established in 1967 under Lyndon Johnson.
David Walsh•
Jesse Armstrong’s Mountainhead: A satire about technology billionaires: “Planet Earth’s like an all-you-can-eat buffet”
The storyline involves rivalries and conflicts that inevitably surface at Mountainhead among the four swollen economic interests and egos
David Walsh•
Jane Wise•
Francis Portocarrero•
Ed Hightower•
Isabel Roy•
Paul Bond•
Sinners: A racialist horror show
Ryan Coogler’s film combines monster-movie antics with a racialist interpretation of history.
Carlos Delgado•
75 years since Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard: The cruelty of the motion picture business
Billy Wilder’s 1950 film Sunset Boulevard was an unflattering portrayal of the film industry that provoked the ire of its upper echelons.
Joanne Laurier•
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud: “Profiteering and revenge overlap and amplify…”
Everyone in Cloud is either a fraudster, a cynic, an opportunist or a psychopath. How accurate is that as a view of life in Japan, or anywhere else?
David Walsh•
Mahdi Fleifel’s To a Land Unknown: Palestinian refugees search for the land of milk and honey
Fleifel’s fiction film follows two undocumented Palestinian refugees and cousins, Reda and Chatila, who find themselves in Athens and make desperate efforts to reach Germany.
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
Joanne Laurier•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
Richard Phillips•
Festival censorship of Mary Wallopers over Gaza protest backfires
Midway through their opening song, as they led chants of “Free Palestine,” festival staff cut the band’s sound and tore down the flag. The crowd booed, chanting “Let them play.”
Jordan Hammond•
Tom Lehrer, satirical singer-songwriter of the 1960s, is dead at 97
Lehrer, trained as a mathematician at Harvard, taught for many decades after his performing and songwriting career ended around 1970.
Fred Mazelis•
Wet Leg, Juan Wauters and Aesop Rock in their own separate worlds
Recent albums by artists of diverse styles point to broader problems of current popular music.
Erik Schreiber•
Roger Waters’ remarkable This is Not a Drill: Live from Prague concert film: A warning and call to action
The release of Roger Waters’ film of the performance in Prague on May 25, 2023 of the rock concert “This is Not a Drill” provides an opportunity for a wider global audience to experience in full a powerful expression of art and politics.
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Jordan•
David Walsh•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
David Walsh•
100 years of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published 100 years ago. What accounts for its continuing popularity and resonance?
Sandy English•
Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America: Working class families sliding gradually or dropping suddenly into homelessness
Goldstone constructs a damning brief. Though he limits his condemnation to the American housing system, the evidence he presents belies this limitation and makes an airtight case against capitalism itself.
James McDonald•
Mario Kessler's Socialists against Antisemitism and Leon Trotsky on Antisemitism
The Marxist movement and the fight against antisemitism and Zionism
Kessler's books provide irrefutable evidence that the most powerful and consistent critique of both antisemitism and Zionism emanated from the revolutionary internationalist wing in the workers’ movement.
Clara Weiss•
A Different Kind of Power whitewashes Jacinda Ardern’s right-wing, pro-imperialist government
The much-publicised memoir by New Zealand’s former prime minister uses empty platitudes about the importance of “kindness” and “empathy” to cover up the right-wing record of her Labour Party government from 2017 to 2023.
Tom Peters•
David Walsh•
Thomas Scripps•
Eric London•
James McDonald•
David Walsh•
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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