The Working Class Goes to the Cinema

We've kicked off a series of films about work, non-work, slavery, shirking, sabotage, striking and more with two screenings, firstly of a film by Stewart Bird, Rene Lichtman and Peter Gessner produced in Association with the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Finally Got the News followed by a talk by former Ford Halewood worker Brian Ashton, secondly we screened Elio Petri's The Working Class Goes to Heaven and Harun Farocki's Workers Leaving the Factory. We'll be continuing with more films and discussion SUNDAY 19th OCTOBER 2008 and approximately monthly thereafter. Watch this space for news of the coming programme