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Issue 6, April 2007

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1: Stop Trident 1: Aldermaston (Reel News) 14:48
Easter weekend: activists gather at the nuclear base and succeed in shutting it down for the day. Includes interviews with women from the peace camp and veterans who remember the first demo in 1958.
2: Stop Trident 2: Faslane (Bristol activists) 10:24
Another nuclear facility shut down, this time as medical professionals from Bristol join the year of daily protests at Faslane in Scotland.
3: PCS dispute: MoD strike (Reel News) 9:46
Yet another military shut down for the day at Leconsfield near Hull, but this time by the workers themselves. PCS members strike over pay and privatisation in a brilliant display of militancy. ***PLAY***
4: Manchester: Fujitsu strike (Reel News) 9:08
Fujitsu workers have been striking over their conditions all year. We visit them as they approach the point of winning their dispute.
5: Fluffy against the war (No Budget Films) 1:42
Another poem from Fluffy Smiff.
6: Mayo: Policing the pollution (extract) (Oscar Beard) 18:20
Shell are building an oil refinery off the coast of Mayo in Ireland, which is contaminating the drinking water with deadly amounts of aluminium. The local people are mounting a brave rearguard action against them.
7: How Cuba survived peak oil (Community Solution) 20:04
This is a shortened version of the film showing what Cuba did when the Russian oil supply halved overnight as a result of the fall of the Stalinist states. An uplifting tale showing that life could be better without oil.
8: G8 2005: Gleneagles (Reel News) 10:51
As the build up to this year’s G8 protests starts, this is what happened at the G8 protests in Scotland in 2005 – featuring a great cameo from the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army.
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Issue 5, March 2007

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1: Oaxaca 1: Teachers’ History (Corrugated Films) 10:07

The teachers in Mexico have traditionally been the most militant group of workers – like the UK miners. This film charts their history from the start of the last century up to Oaxaca in 2006.

2: Oaxaca 2: Uprising! (Mexican activists/Reel News) 13:23

Started by the teachers and developing into an entire community declaring autonomy, seizing city hall and tv and radio stations. White hot footage from people’s assembly of Oaxaca and Indymedia Oaxaca.

3: Coca Cola in Kerala (Independent Media Society) 6:38

An extract from a film showing the threat Coca-Cola posed to people’s livelihoods and the water supply in Kerala.

4: ESOL students speak out (Reel News) 9:55

As plans to slash teaching of English as a Second Language are unveiled, students at Lambeth College explain how vital these courses are for them.

5: Voluntary Sector Under Threat (Reel News) 10:44

More cuts in Lambeth, as pensioners, health service users and day centre users storm a council meeting in fury at their services being slashed.

6: Save Whipps X Hospital (Reel News) 8:23

Whipps X Hospital in North London is under threat of closure. A powerful coalition of local people has built up to fight back.

7: Fluffy Smiff (No Budget Films) 1:52

Another poem from Fluffy.

8: Genova Libera (2001, various inc. Reel News) 33:26

The full story of the G8 protests in Italy – the most infamous European anti-capitalist protests ever. The Italian state, supported by Bush and Blair, resorts to heavy violence to shut down the anti-capitalist movement – and fails.

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Issue 3, December 2006

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1: Conference For Fighting Unions (Reel News) 18:26
Organised by RESPECT, this conference brought together militants from all the major current campaigns. Includes footage from the firefighters’ strike earlier in the year.
2: Justice For Cleaners: Victory! (Reel News) 13:14
Cleaners in the T&GWU conduct a serious of noise protests, culminating in an audacious occupation of Merrill Lynch’s foyer in pursuit of a living wage.
3: Venezuela Today, The World Tomorrow (extract) (CWU & Gateshead UNISON) 5:16
An extract from a film made during a trade union delegation visit to Venezuela.
4: Save Adult Education (Reel News) 18:48
A brilliant conference organised by Lambeth UCU, UNISON and NUS, plus the fight to save one of the few schools for students with hearing difficulties in Redhill from closing.
5: Palestine: Bethlehem (extract) (Ed Hill) 14:54
This is not the image of Bethlehem that Israel wants you to see at Xmas or any other time, as Ed concentrates on the apartheid wall that splits the city in half.
6: Fluffy Smiff: A Christmas Poem (No Budget Films) 3:03
Fluffy looks at Xmas in her own inimitable way.
7: Bolivia: Justice For Goni Now! (Reel News) 10:20
2003: The war against the sell off of the gas supply – an uprising of a quarter of the population brings down the government. Now they want ex-president Goni brought to justice for the massacres he sanctioned.
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Issue 2, November 2006

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1: Argentina – Zanon: A Victory For Workers’ Control (Reel News)
The Zanon ceramics factory in Neuquen, leading workplace in the recovered factories movement, has been under workers control since 2001. This is their incredible story.
2: Bolivia – Miners Fight For Their Lives (Reel News)
More workers control in Latin America, this time a tin mine and an airport in Bolivia.
3: Battle To Save The NHS (Reel News)
NHS Logistics workers strike to try and stop TNT taking over the service, while 10,000 march in Epsom against their local hospital closing.
4: Workington – Getting Agency Staff Unionised (Reel News)
Addecco agency workers in the PCS achieved an historic first in their ballot for union recognition – 100% turnout, 100% yes vote. This shows how they did it.
5: Cable St – 70 years of Fighting Fascism (Reel News)
Veterans of the great battle in the East End which spelt the end of Mosely’s British Union of Fascists gather to commemorate one of our class’s key victories.
6: Fluffy Smiff – Political Performance Poetry (No Budget Films)
Fluffy’s thoughts on the police.
7: No Sweat – The Case For Solidarity (Reel News/No Sweat)
A look at the work of the anti-sweat shop group which includes incredible footage of all the key anti-capitalist struggles across the world.
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