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Issue 13, April 2008

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1: Iraq: Speaking out Against The War (Reel News) 23:48
On the 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, 1.2 million people are dead and millions have been made refugees. Ex-SAS man Ben Griffin reveals British collusion in torture (before he was gagged by the MOD), plus ex-Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg and Salaam Ismael from Doctors for Iraq.
2: Save Our Schools! (Reel News) 22:55
City academies mean privatisation of education. Leading campaigners expose the true agenda, with action from the campaigns in Stoke and Pimlico and news from the Anti-Academies Conference. ***PLAY***
3: The Stoned Master: Performance Poetry (Reel News) 10:05
Brilliant, abrasive, hilarious poems from The Stoned Master at his monthly residency in Brixton.
4: No Third Runway! (Reel News/Plane Stupid) 22:00
The No Third Runway campaign take us on a tour around the villages affected by Heathrow expansion, Plane Stupid mount an audacious protest fro the roof of Parliament, and a flash mob descends on Heathrw for the opening of Terminal 5.
5: Coastguards Strike! (Reel News) 7:39
PCS members in the fourth emergency service take strike action for the first time in their 150 year history over pay scales starting at £11,000 a year – barely minimum wage. ***PLAY***
6: On The Verge: The anti-war Film The Police Want to Ban! (extract) (Schmovies) 11:52
An extract from the feature film of the Smash EDO bomb factory campaign in Brighton – out now. When Schmovies took the film on tour, the police tried to stop it from being shown in a number of places – surely not because of how stupid they are made to look by defending the indefensible?!
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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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