A collection of good films and sometimes rare footage about key events in working-class history as well as footage of more recent workers' actions and events. Please view, think, comment and suggest other films and links. e-mail:workersfilm@hotmail.co.uk
Thursday, 24 February 2011
Mahalla Strike
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-egypt-labor-20110224,0,3181466.story
Important Link
http://www.egyptworkersolidarity.org/
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Monday, 21 February 2011
Middle East Workers' Solidarity Campaign
Middle East Workers' Solidarity
A website for activists in Britain supporting workers' organisations in the Middle East, North Africa, and Iran
email: meworkers@gmail.com
http://middle-east-workers.blogspot.com/
Sunday, 20 February 2011
Saturday, 19 February 2011
Workers' Film and Video
Photo from Egypt
Wis. Teachers Shut Down Schools, Threaten Strikes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OifjuxKXrk
Class Anger Erupts In Wisconsin, USA
http://infantile-disorder.blogspot.com/2011/02/class-anger-erupts-in-wisconsin-usa.html
Wednesday, 16 February 2011
Egypt: Inside the Revolution | Documentary by John Rees | Islam Channel
A chronicle of the Egyptian revolution using different sources and filmmakers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9L0rkjDIGA&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9L0rkjDIGA&feature=player_embedded
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Thursday, 10 February 2011
Striking Egyptian Workers
Striking Egyptian Workers Fuel the Uprising After 10 Years of Labor Organizing. 1 of 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A6_pncLULY
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AELuYTkFWvE&feature=related
Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AELuYTkFWvE&feature=related
More on Egyptian workers' actions
http://libcom.org/library/egypt-tipping-point-joel-beinin
Meeting to establish an Egyptian workers solidarity campaign, 17 February
Submitted on 11 February, 2011 - 14:32
Start: 17 Feb 2011 - 6:30pm
End: 17 Feb 2011 - 8:30pm
Location:
Unite headquarters, 128 Theobald's Road, London WC2 (Holborn tube)
Description:
The huge strike wave, and the launch of a new independent union federation, in Egypt are facts of enormous significance. They may herald a reawakening of workers' struggle across North Africa and the Middle East.
Our sisters and brothers in Egypt need solidarity. Please come and join the discussion on setting up a campaign to support them.
Called by Middle East Workers' Solidarity and activists from a variety of unions.
For more information email markosborn61@gmail.com
http://middle-east-workers.blogspot.com.
LabourStart Egypt
http://www.labourstart.org/egypt/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A6_pncLULY
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AELuYTkFWvE&feature=related
Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AELuYTkFWvE&feature=related
More on Egyptian workers' actions
http://libcom.org/library/egypt-tipping-point-joel-beinin
Meeting to establish an Egyptian workers solidarity campaign, 17 February
Submitted on 11 February, 2011 - 14:32
Start: 17 Feb 2011 - 6:30pm
End: 17 Feb 2011 - 8:30pm
Location:
Unite headquarters, 128 Theobald's Road, London WC2 (Holborn tube)
Description:
The huge strike wave, and the launch of a new independent union federation, in Egypt are facts of enormous significance. They may herald a reawakening of workers' struggle across North Africa and the Middle East.
Our sisters and brothers in Egypt need solidarity. Please come and join the discussion on setting up a campaign to support them.
Called by Middle East Workers' Solidarity and activists from a variety of unions.
For more information email markosborn61@gmail.com
http://middle-east-workers.blogspot.com.
LabourStart Egypt
http://www.labourstart.org/egypt/
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
U.S.
Labor Unrest in Coal During WW2 and After
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9WryLrVvFo
Labor Strike (1955)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CoIe9k7rGk&NR=1
Howard Zinn on the Ludlow Massacre
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6kuvBnNNUs&feature=related
A People's History of American Empire by Howard Zinn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arn3lF5XSUg&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9WryLrVvFo
Labor Strike (1955)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CoIe9k7rGk&NR=1
Howard Zinn on the Ludlow Massacre
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6kuvBnNNUs&feature=related
A People's History of American Empire by Howard Zinn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arn3lF5XSUg&NR=1
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
A Marxist View of the 20th Century
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OijRPt1YAiI&NR=1
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giWQ7hD1u3k&NR=1
Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkYZmUT7Dl0&NR=1
Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bokCB10QGms&NR=1
Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yklnm49wZJg&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OijRPt1YAiI&NR=1
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giWQ7hD1u3k&NR=1
Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkYZmUT7Dl0&NR=1
Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bokCB10QGms&NR=1
Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yklnm49wZJg&NR=1
Visteon
Visteon Factory Worker Occupations Britain 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUXFyoLgmRE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAhJICyrl-k&feature=related
Visteon occupation ends.
(Compare the role of the officials here in ending this occupation and its subsequent defeat with the victory of the Flint workers' sit-in further on in the site in the face of soldiers with bayonets)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26hx0EZ-J7E&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUXFyoLgmRE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAhJICyrl-k&feature=related
Visteon occupation ends.
(Compare the role of the officials here in ending this occupation and its subsequent defeat with the victory of the Flint workers' sit-in further on in the site in the face of soldiers with bayonets)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26hx0EZ-J7E&feature=related
Sunday, 6 February 2011
TROTSKY (docum. TV avec Pierre Brouè)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkRcb-nSjcI&feature=related
Trotskys' Funeral
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84_FnYLE1tQ
(It would be nice to know what the singer is singing)?
Trotskys' Funeral
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84_FnYLE1tQ
(It would be nice to know what the singer is singing)?
Saturday, 5 February 2011
Amber Online
Amber is a film & photography collective based in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North of England. Amber Films, Side Gallery and Cinema are all part of it. This website brings together a full sense of the activity, history and collections for the first time...
http://www.amber-online.com/
http://www.amber-online.com/
Friday, 4 February 2011
The Real News
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6211
Many Wounded but spirits remain high
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6212
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Egyptian protests -films
Police surrounded 29th Jan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2VLEsKisQQ&NR=1
Bridge Taken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLWWFi5LiAQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1IA4zQrzSs&feature=related
In Pictures: Egypt in turmoil
Egypt's ruling party headquarters on fire CNN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4sjxauPp6c&feature=related
BBC's Arabic Reporter beaten up by Police
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_LoXnX_1bI&feature=related
Prisoners escape Egypt prisons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_LoXnX_1bI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQfgjgg7OK0&feature=relmfu
Mohamed ElBaradei mobbed in Tahrir Square
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BRkPZzbg4w&feature=related
Taking of Bridge with Mel Gibsons' Wallace speech in Background
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXSl2GyMkiE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2VLEsKisQQ&NR=1
Bridge Taken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLWWFi5LiAQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1IA4zQrzSs&feature=related
In Pictures: Egypt in turmoil
Egypt's ruling party headquarters on fire CNN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4sjxauPp6c&feature=related
BBC's Arabic Reporter beaten up by Police
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_LoXnX_1bI&feature=related
Prisoners escape Egypt prisons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_LoXnX_1bI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQfgjgg7OK0&feature=relmfu
Mohamed ElBaradei mobbed in Tahrir Square
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BRkPZzbg4w&feature=related
Taking of Bridge with Mel Gibsons' Wallace speech in Background
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXSl2GyMkiE&feature=related
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