gallinello

Visited the ICA yesterday evening to see a screening of Ken Loach's banned documentary: WSAYO? A moving, committed piece of political cinema; it showed the brutality of Thatcher's well-paid, militarized, police force, the experiences of miners, their wives and families, and the songs and poems that the strike produced. The film was bookended by a talk, interview and discussion with the director himself, touching upon the history of the strike (how the Tories had been planning this conflict well in advance and had, in place, a well-thought out strategy); the nature of documentary film-making, then and now; current economic and political struggles; Iran, and the failure of the Left to unite and offer a credible, fighting alternative to the three parties of the Right. An inspiring, stimulating evening and the good news is that this documentary can be seen this Saturday (20/06) night on Channel 4. So Dulwichites can view and decide for themselves! Let the ranting commence........

callaghan

Sword

Lessing

triffid

robin

TLS, as ever, I knew you would not let me down! Hats off to you and your ill-thought out, contradictory belief system. You are a true enigma.

Tony.London Suburbs Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > TLS:I'm different. All my Father's 7 Brothers and > Sisters lived near each other in various parts of > Peckham and that applied to many families back in > THe 1950's/1960's. Also I lived on Council Estates > when I grew up and we all knew each other and, > generally, helped each other ( if a neighbour was > ick, the other Women would always do their > shopping etc). > > We were mostly in each other houses and shared a > similar Cultural bond and had everything in common > ( making allowances for individual tastes). So > having been brought up in that World and see the > great benefits that brings, I bemoan its loss. TLS, me ol' China! You truly are the one and only honest Communist on this site. Your descriptions of communities based on solidarity and mutual aid and co-operation bring a tear to the eye. But, unfortunately you and I both know that your next posting will contain some Maggie-loving, union-bashing/baiting, crypto-racist ( inspite of your relentless mentioning of the 'Black Jamaican Ladyfriend' and all your black friends!) torture-extolling rabid rant. Still for the time being, let us all savour 'nice Tony's' sympathetic, sentimental trip down Memory Lane.... God Bless Ya Mate!

Nosh

upper-class

Bob, trust me on this one, you will not be miserable after this. Has anybody else in ED seen this yet; I need some back-up here?!

robin

Communist

Charlie ( GI slang, Viet Cong/Minh etc )

Sky! ( pronounced skee )

monkey

Ernie

The Passion of the Western Mind - Richard Tarnas. Back to basics for this Dulwichite, in an attempt to make sense of the ideas that have shaped our weltschauung

Cantona!

pooper

bolic

Yes, Santerme, facts do have a nasty way of getting in the way of perceived events; especially the facts that you omit: In December the prisoners called off the hunger strike when the government appeared to concede their demands. However, the government immediately reverted to their previous stance, confident the prisoners would not start another strike. Bobby Sands, the Officer Commanding of the Provisional IRA prisoners, began a second action on 1 March, 1981. Outside the prison in a major publicity coup, Sands was nominated for Parliament and won the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election. But the British government was still resisting and on 5 May, after 66 days on hunger strike, Sands died. More than 100,000 people attended Bobby Sands' funeral in Belfast. Another nine hunger strikers (members of both the IRA and the INLA) died by the end of August before the hunger strike was called off in October. Maggie Thatcher, best recruiting sargeant PIRA and Sinn Fein could ever dreamt of. ?Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope? Maggie, Maggie, Maggie...

hunter

EDOldie, are you serious about the milk-snatcher business ? i believe you're being deliberately provocative. I loved that free, calcium and mineral packed milk, and so did millions of my little schoolmates, and their often hard-up parents ( it was the seventies, remember.) And, as for deferential, working-class voters (the ones who kept her and her chums at the helm) time to return to the wise words of a man whose thoughts and writings are making a well-deserved come-back in these days of capitalist crisis: The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. Karl Marx

me (?)