Abdel-Fattah’s removal from the literary festival is part of a coordinated drive by Labor governments—state and federal—and the rest of the political establishment to suppress all opposition to all imperialist war crimes.
”What is already clear is that through the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians ... the Zionist narrative is crumbling, even in Germany.”
The CPB’s dissolution was triggered by the “rescission package” passed by Congress and signed by Trump in July 2025, which clawed back $1.1 billion in funding.
The class and geostrategic interests are the questions which most need tackling, especially among an audience likely already very familiar with the material dealt with in the documentary.
Reiner has been a household name in the US since his days on the immensely popular situation comedy "All in the Family" in the 1970s.
The acquisition poses a serious threat to entertainment workers, undermining creative labor and endangering art and cultural expression.
Their testimonies are first-hand accounts of war crimes perpetrated by the self-proclaimed “the most moral army in the world”, flatly contradicting the IDF’s insistence that it operates in accordance with international law and takes measures to minimise civilian harm in its genocidal assault on Gaza.
The documentary has attracted an audience seeking to understand the rise of Bolsonaro in Brazil, but it ignores the role played by the Workers Party (PT) of President Lula.
It impresses the viewer primarily as a criticism of the self-involvement and self-delusion of a certain masculine type.
It was inevitable that new tensions should find expression in artists’ work and erupt as well as within existing industries and institutions
In this depiction of the end of Lorenz Hart’s career and his life, his legacy gets short-changed.
Trofimova’s documentary rejects the bogus narrative peddled by US imperialism and its Canadian and European allies about “Putin’s unprovoked war,” and gives voice to the ordinary Russian soldiers the Western media has systematically dehumanized.
The exodus of artists from the Kennedy Center began in February 2025, when Trump named himself chairman of the board of trustees.
Overall, musicians made their strongest statements outside the recording studio, reflecting the growing mass opposition within the world population.
“Participating in Eurovision allows Israel to maintain the illusion that it is a modern and exemplary Western democracy, and thus to more easily conceal its criminal actions”, said the collective of 170 Belgian artists and cultural figures.
The threatened lawsuit over a canceled Christmas Eve concert at the renamed "Trump Kennedy Center" exposes the authoritarian bid to intimidate artists and silence dissent.
Grant’s Enforcer is an important reminder that political reaction is not all-powerful.
The most serious artists in the 1920s and early 1930s anticipated or often even assumed that society was proceeding to a new and higher stage.
Jaber Mohammed, only one among hundreds of prisoners who faced a similar fate, lost five years of his life to a regime of abuse and torture, part of the imperialist reaction to the 9/11 attacks.
While Oborne offer a biting and passionate critique of the UK’s support for Israel and complicity in its genocidal war against the Palestinians in Gaza, his disgust and moral outrage is no substitute for explaining its causes.
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.”
