1972: Dockworkers Strike
Submitted by Reddebrek on Feb 26 2020 12:15
Documentary film made by Cinema Action on the picket lines during the dockworkers strike of 1972 to safe guard jobs and oppose economic restructuring, lay-offs and increased monopolisation of the industry and growing government involvement in industrial disputes.
It's Not Working: Steeltown USA and Worker Ownership
In the late 1970s American manufacturing was in extreme difficulty. The Carter administration turned to a series of radical (for the American government) new inititatives including letting workers buy their workplaces when the owners wanted to pull out.
1936: Report On The Revolutionary Movement In Barcelona
Submitted by Reddebrek on Sep 21 2019 07:36
Documentary film made by the CNT/FAI showing the first days of the Spanish revolution in Barcelona. Spanish Audio with English subtitles.
El Salvador, Another Vietnam?
Submitted by Reddebrek on Apr 23 2019 20:45
A documentary made during the US backed civil war in El Salvador, documenting the social conditions of the country and many of the atrocities.
The French Army Mutinies of 1917
Submitted by Reddebrek on Feb 10 2019 19:42
In the Spring of 1917, many French army units mutinied after enduring years of slaughter and appalling conditions during World War One. Much of the French army on the Western Front was affected. Hear first-hand accounts of the mutiny from the BBC archive.
Strikers in Saris - The Grunwick Strike
In 1976 South Asian women workers who had made Britain their home, led a strike against poor working conditions in a British factory. Lakshmi Patel was one of the South Asian women who picketed the Grunwick film-processing factory in north London for two years
1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Submitted by Reddebrek on Dec 31 2018 08:40
An interview with a former Soviet army veteran and a member of the Soviet News Agency's Afghan news desk about the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. Covers some disturbing subjects, CW: discussion of suicide.
1831 The Jamaica Slave Rebellion
Submitted by Reddebrek on Dec 7 2018 23:48
A short account of the Baptist War, the revolt by Jamaican slaves in 1831 that forced the British Empire to abolish slavery within its borders in the aftermath.
Letters of Insurgents - Audiobook
An unabridged reading of Fredy Perlman's novel Letters of Insurgents by the group Audio Anarchy.
The Peterloo Massacre - BBC Discussion
Submitted by Reddebrek on Nov 20 2018 12:20
A Radio Four discussion by Melvyn Bragg and three historians about the Peterloo Massacre. The discussions attempts to show that bloody day in August 1819 in the context of growing social and political tension and resistance. As such it also covers other personalities and events both before and after Peterloo that are often overlooked.
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