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Category Archives: Film
Tales of working class heros: Salt of the earth
… from libcom.org: This drama film is one of the first pictures to advance the feminist social and political point of view. Its plot centres on a long and difficult strike, based on the 1951 strike against the Empire Zinc … Continue reading
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Witnessing our times: Film from Gezi
I’m an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it. I free myself for today and forever from human immobility. I’m in constant movement. I approach and pull away from … Continue reading
Nuit et Brouillard: For Alain Resnais
In memory of Alain Resnais who died this last March the 3rd … In 1933, Walter Benjamin could write of the technology of war unleashed upon those who fought during WWI, that it destroyed human experience, the very thing which … Continue reading
Future Suspended
From the crisis-scape research collective and the film maker Ross Domoney of Aletheia Photos comes a striking film study of Athens and Greece under the reign of crisis. From the appropriation of public land for private accumulation, to terror against … Continue reading
The violence of capitalism … and the resistance to it: Stories from spain
Video, No Job Land, by Olmo Calvo, Eva Filgeira and Gabriel Pecot …
South Africa: The apartheid of capitalism
From John Pilger, the documentary film Apartheid Did Not Die (1998) … In 1994 South Africa inspired the world as millions of people cued patiently to vote in the country’s first democratic elections. It was the end of apartheid, the … Continue reading
The Free Voice of Labor/Freie Arbeiter Stimme: The Jewish Anarchists
“The Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists” traces the history of a Yiddish anarchist newspaper (Fraye Arbeter Shtime – The Free Voice of Labor) publishing its final issue after 87 years. Narrated by anarchist historian Paul Avrich, the story … Continue reading
Mapping the state of exception: greece
Sharing the interventions of the collective The City at the time of Crisis … Landscapes of Emergency is a brief glance over the undeclared state of emergency that casts its shadow over the functions and the phenomena of public space … Continue reading
Gezi/Taksim: So that memories are not erased, and the future is not closed
Video that gathers the lived experience of the occupations of Gezi Park/Taksim square, and beyond …
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The Assault
Neoliberalism: the transfer of social wealth to private hand, enforced by the State. The lie of an expansion of free markets and free human economic activity is belied by State enforced appropriations of commons, created over generations, for private gain … Continue reading →