(Woman #1) 'In a word, the bourgeoisie creates a world in its image.
'Comrades, we must destroy that image.'
(Machines whir, squeal)
(Man #1) 'A spectre is haunting Britain, the spectre of communism.
'All the forces of the old and new imperialism
'have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre:
'British Petroleum and pop music,
'the Eurodollar and anti-trade union laws,
'Elizabeth the dunce and Wilson the traitor.'
(Metal clanks)
(Hammering)
'The bourgeoisie have destroyed all human relationships,
'except those of naked self-interest
'and the callousness of cash on the line on the never-never.'
(Laughter, indistinct conversations)
(Machine hisses, whirs)
'Masses of labourers herded into factories and offices
'are organised like soldiers.
'As privates of the industrial army,
'they are put under the command of a hierarchy of sergeants and officers.
'Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class
'and the bourgeois state,
'they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the overseer
'and, above all, by the individual bourgeois manufacturer
'and his representatives.
'The more openly this despotism proclaims gain to be its end and aim,
'the more petty, the more hateful and the more embittering it is.'
(Machines whir, squeal)
(Hammering)
'But does wage labour create any property for the labourer?
'Of course not. It creates capital.
'That is, that kind of property which exploits wage labour
'and which cannot increase,
'except upon condition of obtaining a new supply of wage labour
'for fresh exploitation.
'In bourgeois society
'human labour is but a means to increase accumulated labour.
'In communist society
'accumulated labour is but one means
'to widen, enrich and promote the existence of the worker.
'In bourgeois society the past dominates the present.
'In communist society the present dominates the past.
'For the worker
'labour and the expression of the power of his labour
'is his own vital energy, his way of making his life meaningful to himself.
'And this, his vital energy, is sold to a stranger
'in order to obtain his necessary means of subsistence.
'Hence, his vital energy is transformed into no more than a means to exist.
'He labours in order to live.
'Work is not part of his life, it is a sacrifice of his life.
'It is merchandise sold to the highest bidder.
'This is why what he produces is not the aim of his labour.
'What he produces for himself is not the car he assembles,
'the oil he extracts from a well, nor the luxury hotel he builds.
'What he produces for himself is the wage,
'whilst the MG, black gold and the Hilton
'dwindle to a precise quantity of essentials,
'whether a bicycle, two gallons of petrol, ten cigarettes
'or a room in a council flat.
'To claim that the worker has an interest in the speedy growth of capital
'only means that the more the worker
'rapidly increases the riches of the capitalist,
'the more substantial the leftover he receives.
'The more workers one engages
'and makes them reproduce,
'the more one multiplies the mass of slaves under the yoke of capitalism.'
(Air tools and machines whir)
'Hence, as the satisfaction of work decreases
'and loathing for work increases,
'competition between workers grows and wages fall.
'Workers try to maintain their relative wage
'either by working longer hours or by increasing the rate of productivity.
'Driven by fear they multiply the disastrous effects
'of the division of labour.
'The result is the more one works, the less one receives,
'for the simple reason that, by competing against his workmates,
'the worker turns them into competitors
'who will sell themselves into conditions equally as onerous as his own.
'For when all is said and done, he, as a member of the working class,
'is only competing against himself.'
(Cheering)
(Indistinct conversations)
(Man #2) 'In 1368...'
(Boy) 'In 1368...'
(Man #2) '...peasants led by Tyler...'
(Boy) '...peasants led by Tyler...'
(Man #2) '...and Ball...' (Boy) '...and Ball...'
(Man #2) '...rose against feudal oppression.'
(Boy) '...rose against feudal oppression.'
(Man #2) 'In 1648...'
(Boy) 'In 1648...'
(Man #2) '...peasant soldiers...' (Boy) '...peasant soldiers...'
(Man #2) '...called Levellers...' (Boy) '...called Levellers...'
(Man #2) '...fought for the new cooperative...'
(Boy) '...fought for the new cooperative...'
(Man #2) '...cooperative commonwealth.'
(Boy whispering) '...cooperative commonwealth.'
(Hammering)
(Man #1) 'Workers must understand that existing society,
'with all the misery it heaps upon them,
'also gives rise to the material conditions and social forms
'necessary to its economic transformation.
'They must replace the conservative slogan,
'"A fair day's wage for a fair day's work,"
'with the revolutionary slogan, "Abolition of the wage system."'
(Man #2) 'In 1791...'
(Boy) 'In 1791...'
(Man #2) '...artisans...' (Boy) '...artisans...'
(Man #2) '...formed a free association...
'...formed a free association...
'...to forward the ideas of the French Revolution.'
(Machines whir, squeal)
(Indistinct conversations)
(Whistling)
(Cheering)
(Man #2) 'In 1844...'
(Boy) 'In 1844,
'cotton workers seized and held their town...'
(Man #2) 'That's correct.'
(Shouting, whooping)
(Machine whirs)
(Man #1) 'The relation of man to man
'is imparted through the relationship between man and woman.'
(Woman #1) 'There is a science of the image.
'Let's begin to build it.
'Here are some pointers.
- 'Materialism.' - (Man #1) 'Dialectics.'
(Woman #1) 'Documentary.' (Man #1) 'Fiction.'
(Woman #1) 'War of national liberation.' (Man #1) 'People's war.'
(Woman #2) '...less likely to be unionised.'
'The present setup of the family puts great strains on us.
'Either we're struggling to combine badly paid work
'with bringing up a family
'or unable to do work for which we've been trained.'
(Man #1) 'Ideology and beauty.'
(Woman #2) 'The area of taboo on our sexuality is much more extensive
'and the double standard is still pervasive.
'Some women still never experience orgasm.'
(Man #1) 'Hitler and Hollywood.' (Woman #2) 'When we complain,
'it's about little things. We want to drive buses. Play football.
'We don't want to be brought with bottles or expensive wines.'
(Man #1) 'Exploitation of women.'
(Woman #2) 'We don't want to be wrapped up in cellophane
'or sent off to make tea or shuffled into the social committee.
'When you complain about the little things,
'you get stuck in the little things.
'It's difficult to get out of them.
- 'It's difficult to get beyond them.' - (Man #1) 'The jungle of sex.'
(Woman #2) 'They can be dismissed because people say,
'"Well, you're just trying to be as men."
'But it's the little things which happen to you all the time
'every day, wherever you go, all your life,
'which make revolutions.
'Revolutions are about little things.
'It's here that the subordinated relates to the dominated.'
(Man #1) 'The problem of women. The problem of the farm labourers.
(Woman #2) 'Here the experience is felt, is expressed,
'articulated, resisted through the particular.'
(Man #1) 'Man. City. Woman. Country.'
(Woman #2) 'The particular pummels you gently into passivity,
'so that you can't even see beyond the little things, beyond the particular.
'We don't how to find one another or ourselves.'
(Man #1) 'Freudian revolution.'
(Woman #2) 'We are divided like oppressed groups..'
(Man #1) 'Marxist sexuality.' (Woman #2) 'divided by real situations
'and in our understanding and consciousness of our condition.
'We're in different classes, as we devour and use one another.
'Emancipation is often only the struggle of the privileged
'to improve and consolidate its superiority.
'The women of the working class remain the exploited of the exploited,
'oppressed as workers and oppressed as women.
'We're divided, too.
'Sometimes we're with families and sometimes we're without them.'
(Man #1) 'In 1919, Lenin refused four days of rest
'to women workers during their periods.'
(Woman #2) '...is suspicious of the women with no ties.
'She sees her as a threat, a potential threat to her territorial security.
'And the single woman feels the married woman is being subtly critical of her
'because she's not fulfilling her role as homemaker,
'her function as child bearer.
'She feels that she's being accused of being unable to be a woman.
'They tell us what we should be.'
(Man #1) 'Marxist-Leninist analysis of the most natural position to fuck.'
(Woman #2) '...we're under intensive pressure to be acceptable,
'not to put ourselves outside the safety net of marriage.
'We're taught from small girls that failure means not being selected by men.'
(Man #1) 'Sexuality and surplus value.'
(Woman #2) 'The sign of intelligence and subtlety
'is being able to secure the contractual bargain,
'handing over your virginity for a marriage document.
'Orgasm is a matter of merchandise. They don't like us to be too clever.
'Remember, you might go to university, but men want someone who can cook.
'The emphasis in our education tends to be much more on integration.
'The encouragement of active criticism, of intellectual aggression, is very rare.
'It's the cautious virtues which predominate.
'This is difficult when you find yourself in an intellectual confrontation with men
'because there's a double bind...'
(Man #1) 'Proletarian eroticism, for a family to love a woman profoundly.
'Bourgeois eroticism, to sleep with as many women as possible.'
(Woman #2) 'It's very difficult to stray from the definition of what they want
'because there's a danger of being rejected in a double sense.
'You're not only rejected as a rebel,
'but you're rejected for a moral reason too.
'It's much more difficult to cope with the moral thing.
'There's still the whole dirty frightened patronising world
'behind slut, tart, old slag, nymphomaniac,
'dolly, bird, chick, bit of stuff, bit of crumpet,
'old bag, silly cow, bluestocking.
'These words have got no male equivalents
'because there are no male equivalents.'
(Man #2) 'In 1841...'
(Boy) 'In 1841...'
(Man #2) '...the first mining unions...' (Boy) '...the first mining unions...'
(Man #2) '...is founded.' (Boy) '...is founded.'
(Woman #2) '...limited liberated areas.
'You give up struggling on every front
'and you ease into a niche of acceptance.
'You become the educated housewife with your cooking recipes.
'Or the image of the suffragette, which is a distorted image,
'tweedy, sensibly struck by...'
The educated housewife with her recipes!
(Woman #2) '...advancing aggressively in a male world in the boardroom.
'The sexual oppression of this is to be treated...
'It's a profound distaste for the male.
'Emancipation becomes simply doing without men.
'Sexuality is another retreat.
'You haven't had the choice, the free choice, of what to do with your bodies,
'because they've been part of somebody else's belongings.
'You prove that you have got control, that you are liberated,
'simply by fucking.
'But if you can't extend the definition of your constraint beyond this,
'you're in an even worse hang-up
'because you're just caught, you're reacting.'
Well, she says that's not emancipated enough just to go around fucking.
(Woman #2) 'You're reacting not because you're trying to say,
'"I want to be something else." You're just reacting to...'
(Man #2) 'In 1911...'
(Boy) 'In 1911...'
(Man #2) '...Liverpool Town Hall...' (Boy) '...Liverpool Town Hall...'
(Man #2) '...is stormed by strikers...' (Boy) '...is stormed by strikers...'
(Man #2) '...and their wives.' (Boy) '...and their wives.'
(Woman #2) '...through your class.' (Man #1) 'Conceal your sex.'
'"Times," "Pravda," "Figaro."'
'Keep the existence of workers' councils a secret.
'BBC, Radio Moscow, France Inter.'
(Woman #2) '...when they talk about the subordination of women,
'that it's part of the total, mutual devouring process called capitalism.
'They've said that capitalism forces people to eat each other...'
(Man #1) 'Miniskirt and counterrevolution.'
(Woman #2) 'That the false relationships
'between men and men and women and men,
'are part of this process.
'But sometimes this has been twisted into a rather glib distinction.'
(Man #1) 'The revolutionary silence of lovers. Bureaucratic verbiage.'
(Woman #2) 'They've said, "Wait till we get the revolution,
'"then we'll deal equality."
'"We'll give you equal pay, and we'll give you nursery schools."
'Another thing they've said is that the way that women are subordinated
'is through the family...'
(Man #1) 'Solitary pleasure and fascism.'
(Woman #2) '...through a particular kind of historical process,
'which developed along with capitalism.
'And therefore they've said, '" When we abolish capitalism,
'"we can then go on to abolish the family."'
(Man #1) 'Sexual perversion and Stalinism.'
(Woman #2) '...so you can't do anything about it.
'And in a way you can't do anything
'about any of the situations of capitalism, ultimately.
'But in every other area,
'in the situation of the working class or in the situation of Negroes,
'where there's an idea of struggle...'
(Man #1) 'Neurosis and revolution.'
(Woman #2) 'You work firstly for reforms
'and then you put forward strategic demands.
'These are kinds of reforms which cannot be granted in the system,
'but they lead on to new kinds of possible alternatives.
'And it seems that it would be a good thing to apply this to women.
'That is by asking certain things, you not only get a better condition,
'but you expose the inadequacies and the contradictions within the system.'
(Woman #1) 'Sometimes the class struggle is also the struggle
'of one image against another image,
'of one sound against another sound.
'In a film, this struggle is between images and sounds.'
(Boy) '1926. General strike.'
Workers have come to expect too much.
High wages, short hours, the whole lot.
We've got to produce them cheaply.
That means keeping workers' wages down
until we, the employers who really run the country,
decide that higher wages can be afforded.
...bad industrial relations.
Productivity and trade are being sabotaged
by unofficial strikes, go-slows, work-to-rules.
...very bluntly to these wreckers and shirkers
that there's no place in this country any more for saboteurs
who are out to prevent their fellow workers from serving their employers.
From now on collective agreements between unions and employers
will become enforceable by law.
Those who refuse to play the game,
those who are intent on disrupting the economy,
will be dealt with by industrial courts
and will pay the price like any other common criminals.
(Man #3 whispers) 'Organise.'
The capacity of British business to hold its own in the world.
If families have to wait a few years before finding somewhere to live,
then they'll just have to wait.
And as for education...
...the nation's youth need to be trained to play their part in industry.
This is the age of the specialist, the technologist, germ-warfare expert,
graduate policeman and management in industry.
These people have to be trained.
Aren't they filling their heads with a lot of fancy ideas
that only give them an exaggerated idea
of their own importance?
They behave as if the world belonged to them,
as if the world owed them a living.
(Man #3 whispers) 'Organise.'
What about respect for their elders and betters?
All these young hooligans seem to think about is sex and drugs
and running wild in the streets.
(Man #3 whispers) 'Unite.'
We must call a halt to this so-called permissive society.
The students don't only want a bigger slice of the cake, they want the whole...
Most students are glad to be at university
and are willing to do some work
in return for the money the country pays them.
Many of them foreigners here at the taxpayers' expense
who are not at university to study,
but to disrupt and undermine British institutions.
These academic thugs, these window smashers, these policemen baiters,
we will deal with them very severely.
Those who attack our institutions, who destroy respect for authority,
who spread discontent and anarchy,
who claim that they should control the places of education,
they're lucky enough to attend,
as if these pipsqueaks could run anything,
all of these communist rabble must be swept out of the universities
and out of the headlines they love to hog so dearly.
Let's repress these long-haired sex perverts
and make room for decent, respectable, clean-living young people
who understand that politics and education
have nothing whatever to do with each other.
Send the offenders to labour camps.
They'd soon learn how to work there.
And as for the war in Vietnam they're always going on about...
(Man #3 whispers) 'Organise.'
...step by step as this war has gone on,
we've agreed with what the Americans have done.
(Man #3 whispers) 'Unite. Unite.'
A magnificent sacrifice of men and money
in the defence of our freedom.
They want a fight.
So let's give them one.
War's a nasty business. People are going to be killed.
But I believe we must take this risk.
In this kind of game it's necessary to shoot and bomb.
Sometimes it is necessary to burn women and children.
Sometimes to torture people.
Sometimes to slice their stomachs open and cut women's breasts off.
Let's not kid ourselves,
you fight wars to win them, by whatever means are necessary.
And we don't like coloured people and I'll tell you why.
(Man #3 whispers) 'Organise.'
...money and materials into their primitive homelands
because they simply can't handle their own affairs.
If the people of India breed too fast, it's no concern of ours.
We're supposed to feel sorry for them because they're starving.
Well, some of us don't feel sorry, we feel glad.
Let them starve. Let them die.
Let them starve at least or...
(Man #3 whispers) 'Strike. Strike.'
Built factories, sent them tanks and tractors,
helped them build and run their governments.
And in return we don't just take the raw materials we need,
we buy their shoddy clothes and trinkets too...
Perhaps in the house next to you,
with their laziness, promiscuity and sordid homes.
Now, we're not racialists,
but the way these people live is filthy, as you'd see
if you went to look at the backstreets of Wolverhampton today.
These people just don't accept our standards of civilisation.
They live in filth and squalor.
They breed like rabbits and they suck our social services dry.
Unless we put a stop to the influx of this horde,
our cities will soon be so full of aliens that we won't recognise them.
...seeing whole areas of our land transformed into alien territory.
(Man #3 whispers) 'Workers, strike! Strike!'
...people who very often don't even speak our language,
who are unable to adapt to our way of life,
who persist in maintaining their native customs...
The immigrants themselves suffer from the racial bitterness
that is created when they swamp our houses and our jobs.
In their interest, as much as ours, let's send them packing.
Let's sterilise them.
In fact, and this is really the simplest solution of them all,
let's exterminate them.
Let's kill these people, too, like the old-age pensioners,
like the Vietnamese,
like anybody who interferes with the democratic progress
of big business and capital.
Thank you and good night.
(Man #1) 'A political film must analyse what it has discovered,
'just as Lavoisier analysed oxygen, discovered by Priestley,
'and Marx analysed the theory of value, discovered by Ricardo.'
(Man #4) We had a system where, on the moving line...
...the quicker you worked, the more space you had in hand.
The more space you, you had in hand,
the more time you would have to do your job.
But if you got a bad job,
if you were doing a job where, we'd say, you had a cross-threaded nut,
it meant you were knocked straight back down.
In other words, you had a point where, if you went further than that,
it meant that you were in trouble then because you had to work twice as hard
to get back to the original position of where you started.
So, consequently, two bad jobs
would knock you right back down the line,
so it was constantly a question of advancing or retreating.
Er... the one dread you had was that if you did get a bad job,
you were going to be knocked back down the line...
(Boy) 'In 1650...'
(Woman #3) '...Cromwell announces...'
(Boy) '...Cromwell announces...'
(Woman #3) '...the new Enclosure Acts...'
(Boy) '...the new Enclosure Acts...'
(Woman #3) '...driving them off the land into poverty.'
(Boy) '...driving them off the land into poverty.'
(Man #5) Nobody else could do it at 30 an hour.
There wasn't a man made.
This bloke had grown up with the job and he could do it.
But there wasn't a man made who could, er...
...who could do this job at 30 an hour.
To this day they've got about three people doing this job,
which one man used to perform because they couldn't find another man.
They couldn't slow the line down to teach him.
They couldn't teach him at 30 an hour.
(Man #6) There's a perfect example in the mine itself,
where you've got a senior steward on nights
when he's called into the office to take up a case...
(Woman #3) 'In 1834...'
(Boy) 'In 1834...'
(Woman #3) '...workers from Dorchester...'
(Boy) '...workers from Dorchester...'
(Woman #3) '...are shipped into bondage...'
(Boy) '...are shipped into bondage...'
(Woman #3) '...for being members...' (Boy) '...for being members...'
(Woman #3) '...of a trade union.' (Boy) '...of a trade union.'
(Man #7) You can never overcome industrial problems
whilst they belong in the hands of the employing class.
The only way that you can ever overcome any industrial problems,
indeed, in this country,
is the question of the property relationship of the industries concerned.
(Man #8) I think that management realises the hardships
that night work puts on workers
because they're prepared to pay their own staff...
Their own staff gets eight pounds a week on nights...
(Woman #1) 'The fraternity of hostile classes,
'proclaimed in the speeches of industrial magnates,
'inscribed on the blackboards of grammar schools and universities
'and transmitted by television networks
'is based upon the exploitation of one class by the other.
'Its genuine, authentic and prosaic expression
'is civil war in its most hideous form, the war between capital and labour.'
And when they used to shake hands they used to stand about ten feet apart.
Their arms would stretch. This is an absolute fact!
And if you go in Morris Motors, what it is...
(Woman #3) 'In 1872...' (Boy) 'In 1872...'
(Woman #3) '...a dockers' strike...' (Boy) '...a dockers' strike...'
(Woman #3) '...broken by gunboats and troops.'
(Boy) '...broken by gunboats and troops.'
(Man #9) The atmosphere of depression
was absolutely awful.
My daughter said to my wife, she said, "Mum", she said, "is daddy dead?"
she says, "No, he just works at BMC."
(Laughter)
You can get the effect from a person actually working on the 1100.
He puts window... window winders on.
He has ten screws to put in each door.
He makes up 2,200 screws a night himself and puts them in.
He's got just... just over... over two minutes
to... to do one car.
And this, this... Every job, 2,200 screws a night.
That man goes home in the morning, straight to bed.
Even when gets up that's all he can think on. He can't do anything else.
He has to use his breaks...
(Woman #3) '1888...' (Boy) '1888...'
(Woman #3) '...Bloody Sunday in Hyde Park.'
(Boy) '...Bloody Sunday in Hyde Park.'
(Man #10) Ah, you're a lazy car worker!
(Man #11) I go off then to the pub, have a drink.
I don't even bother to change. I'm too tired for that.
- (Man #12) Your senses are dulled. - Just dulled, yeah.
(Woman #1) 'Street demonstrations lead to a tumult,
'which inevitably affects the most forlorn
'and timid sections of society.
'Many are the times we will be bludgeoned in the streets.
'Many are the times when the government will be the victor.
'But the more they triumph, the more certain their defeat.
'Victory today prepares their final defeat.'
(Man #13) The point about the psychological effect
of piecework on human beings,
I mean, can be seen very easily in the conflict between human beings
when they're on piecework.
I mean, I-I-I know of a case
where the mildest, most non-aggressive man
you'd ever meet in your life,
after having worked seven hours' piecework,
hit one of his mates over the head with a pump screwdriver
because he'd tripped over the air line.
This is the sort of thing that's continuous and the tension is enormous!
There's one point on the 1100 line where five men get into a car at once.
(Man #14) Yeah.
(Man #13) There's arms and legs everywhere...
(Woman #3) 'In 1901...' (Boy) 'In 1901...'
(Woman #3) '...the Taff Vale decision...' (Boy) '...the Taff Vale decision...'
(Woman #3) '...almost destroys...' (Boy) '...almost destroys...'
(Woman #3) '...the trade union movement.'
(Boy) '...the trade union movement.'
(Man #15)...whether they continue with this job or lose the job
because it's a reasonably high-paid job,
but it needs to be because of the effort that goes in.
(Man #2) 'In 1915...'
(Boy) 'In 1915...'
(Man #2) '...the first shop steward committees...'
(Boy) '...the first shop...'
(Man #2) '...shop steward committees...'
(Boy) '...steward committees...'
(Man #2) '...were set up.' (Boy) '...were set up.'
...this system of society of capitalism, where all wealth
is in the hands of a few individuals...
(Boy) 'In 1919,
'Luton Town Hall is burnt down by the workers.'
(Man #16) If the boss wants to automate it, the workers resist it
because it throws them out of a job.
The boss on the one hand and the capitalism, this dilemma for the bosses,
if they bring in completely automated plants
that could release all us for more productive work
and to spend a better life,
what it means is that they haven't got any people to sell the cars to.
So you've all got to be stuck in the blasted places,
hammering on things and all you do is producing for profit.
I mean, you take 1960.
I mean, we were all put on three days
and in 1966 there were 1,300 sacked
and yet I wanted a car and dozens of other people wanted a car.
Yet because we didn't have the money to buy them and nobody could buy them,
everybody is sacked.
This is capitalism.
As far as I'm concerned, we've got to have a socialist world.
We've got have a world where the production is planned
for the benefit of all the people who live in the world.
(Man #17) Well, this is it.
"The Times" has produced figures, not so long ago,
of the idle rich and the profits that they're living on.
And just purely living off the interest.
They're going to the racecourses and that
while we're slogging our guts out in the factories.
It's about time that we had a distribution of the wealth in this country
and there's a fairer share for all.
It's not fair that we should be working our fingers to the bone
day in and day out
while these people are at the racecourses and elsewhere.
(Woman #1) 'The basic error of modern social democracy
'is to suppose that all one has to say
'is that there is a place to speak for that place to exist.
'Whereas the problem is to create the conditions for that speech.
'Speech as the expression of a power.
'Everyone may agree to allow the right to speak,
'but no one, no one, will allow it to be taken.'
(Man #18) So capitalism surely is much more even than this.
Capitalism is far more than just the inequality of wealth
within a capitalist nation state.
It's far more than this.
I mean, capitalism is that.
Capitalism to exist must have millionaires
and it must have people who are impoverished.
It must have this, but more than that, more than that,
it must internationally have sections of the world which are impoverished.
(Woman #1) 'My sympathy for the solitary terrorist
'halts where tactics begin.
'But where ten men gather together in the cause of creative violence,
'rather than of the painful agony of survival,
'their despair ends and tactics begin.'
(Man #18) The workers thought that they were putting into power
a socialist government that would implement...
(Overlapping chatter)
(Man #19) Yeah, I'd say they did!
(Man #18) Every man that voted Labour is suddenly awake, all of a sudden,
to realise that it is not a socialist government.
It is a capitalist government!
(Man #20) It's a better capitalist government!
(Woman #2) 'In 1916...' (Boy) 'In 1916...'
(Woman #2) '...the government threatens...'
(Boy) '...the government threatens...'
(Woman #2) '...to send striking workers to the front.'
(Boy) '...to send striking workers to the front.'
(Man #20) Ramsay MacDonald done it. He cut the dole in 1931.
You've got the Tory party that is swinging rapidly to the right,
which will be under the leadership of Enoch Powell,
which will be a right-wing racialist government
of the type that Hitler had in Germany.
So what's before the working class?
Do we carry on supporting these tired old traitors? No, we can't.
What is needed in this crisis is the building of a new political party
for the working class.
A political party that is committed to Marxism,
that is committed to communism,
that is prepared to lead the working class
in their struggles to overcome all these other parliamentarians.
(Woman #1) 'The Vietnamese people's struggle
'is the first wave in the tide of world revolution,
'the culminating point of the common struggle of all labouring men.'
(Man #21)...for 18 months.
And without any previous knowledge of what was going on,
I was tapped on the shoulder one day.
This, mark you, was after 18 months
and, as I say, having drawn out a mortgage on a £4,000 house,
they tapped me on the shoulder and said,
"Would you go to the office? Collect your cards.
"Take a week's notice... A week's pay in lieu of notice."
And I was out on the road, believe you me,
before you could say "Jack Robinson".
I didn't know what hit me, actually.
(Woman #1) 'To break with the Hollywood system
'induces a radical change of aesthetics.'
(Man #1) 'Is the Marxist concept of surplus value the best weapon
'with which to unmask the bourgeois concept of presentation?
'The first task of the anti-imperialist cinema is to answer that question.'
(♪ THE BEATLES: "Hello, Goodbye")
A word that goes with... High and low.
Something less specific.
- If you want to replace... - Stop the record.
(Music stops)
If you want to replace...
Look, if you want to replace...
The whole point of the song is I say "high" and you say "low".
It's two opposites.
So if you want to replace it, you've got to put it with something that is opposite.
(Man #22) What are you trying to change it round to anyway, exactly?
Well, from what it is to...
You can substitute some very nice things like "Ho Chi Minh" and "Castro"
and things at the end of the lines.
- Look, it's got to be a... - Has somebody got a fag?
It's got to be opposites all the way through. "You say US. I say Mao."
"You say..."
(Man #22) Uh-uh. I've got a feeling this is going to end up in tragedy.
"You say war..."
No, you can even say, "Say US. I say Mao."
Wait a minute. Let's think of an opposite.
"You say..." What?
- Let's make it meaningful. - US...
Yeah, you've got to say, "Look, I'm a fascist and you're a revolutionary.
"I'm a reactionary and you're a revolutionary."
So, "You say US, I say Mao.
"You say, you say war..."
I think, actually, that if I say "ho" instead of "no"...
"You say Vietnam and I say..." Something that compels.
Yeah, but it doesn't fit in because "stop" is a very short syllable.
You've got to have something...
(Man #22) We're not having xxx in it. The ruddy guy's a bureaucrat!
♪ I say Mao...
Hang on. No, "You say Nixon, I say Mao."
♪ You say Nixon, I say Mao You say...
No. No, that doesn't go.
♪ You say... ♪
"Say US."
"Say US when I say Mao."
(Boy) 'In 1947...'
(Woman #2) 'Labour government...' (Boy) '...Labour government...'
(Woman #2) '...end a dock strike.' (Boy) '...end a dock strike.'
(Woman #1) 'Television and films do not record moments of reality,
'but simply dialectics, areas of contradictions.
'Let us illuminate these areas with the blinding light of the class struggle.'
(Man #2) 'In 1947...'
(Boy) '...workers opt to go on strike...'
(Man #2) '...in protest...'
(Boy) '...in protest...'
(Man #2) '...against lack...'
(Boy) '...against lack...'
(Man #2) '...of housing.' (Boy) '...of housing.'
(Man #2) 'Good.'
(Man #1) 'Self-evident truths belong to bourgeois philosophy.
'There are neither self-evident images, nor images that speak for themselves
'in the way the Russian revisionist films
'and the mass-circulation magazines in the West pretend.
'There is only a fabric of contradictions, whose pat...
'There is only a fabric of contradictions
'whose pattern comprises the whole of society.
'To make a film is to penetrate this fabric by following the correct line.'
(Woman #2) 'In 1949...'
(Boy) '...the government decided to spend money...'
(Woman #2) '...on arms and not on housing.'
(Boy) '...on arms and not on housing.'
(Overlapping conversations)
(♪ THE BEATLES: "Revolution")
Yeah, so if you say,
"You say you want a revolution, well, we know...
"...you never want to change the world.
"You tell me... You say it's evolution.
"Well, you know..."
"Well, we know you don't want to change the world."
It's a good idea to stick "the constitution" in somewhere.
- Yeah, why don't we put...? - The constitution.
"You say you'd change the constitution."
It comes further down, actually.
We don't want a constitution.
Can we write beside it?
♪ (All) We're fucking up the institution... ♪
- Lovely! - That again!
(Woman #4) That... I really like that.
"We're fucking up the institution."
Can you play the guitar?
(Man #2) '1968.'
(Boy) '1968.'
(Man #2) 'Bill Locker...
'...and the trawler men.'
(Man #2) '1968.' (Boy) '1968.'
(Man #2) 'LSE.' (Boy) 'LSE.'
(Man #2) 'Hull.' (Boy) 'Hull.'
(Man #2) 'Hornsea.' (Boy) 'Hornsea.'
(Man #2) 'Guildford.' (Boy) 'Guildford.'
(Man #2) 'Cambridge.' (Boy) 'Cambridge.'
(Man #2) 'Essex.' (Boy) 'Essex.'
(Man #2) 'Bristol.' (Boy) 'Bristol.'
(Man #2) 'Good.'
(Man #1) 'Photography is not the reflection of reality.
'It is the reality of that reflection.
'Photography was not invented by chance,
'but on the day the bankers of reaction, financing railways and telegraphs,
'invented modern means of mass communication.
'That is, when the bourgeoisie found they needed,
'by other means than painting and the novel,
'to disguise reality to the masses.'
(Woman #2) '1968.' (Boy) '1968.'
(Woman #2) 'No job and still no job.'
(Boy) 'No job and still no job.'
(Woman #1) 'The party controls the gun.
'Production controls consumption and distribution.
'If a million prints are made of a Marxist-Leninist film,
'it becomes "Gone with the Wind".'
(Man #2) '1888.' (Boy) '1888.'
(Man #2) 'General strike.' (Boy) 'General strike.'
(Woman #1) 'During the projection of an imperialist film,
'the screen sells the voice of the boss to the viewer.
'The voice caresses and beats into submission.
'During the projection of a revisionist film,
'the screen is the loudspeaker for a voice delegated by the people,
'which is no longer the voice of the people.
'In silence people see their own disfigured face.
'During the projection of a militant film, the screen is no more than a blackboard,
'the wall of a school offering concrete analysis of a concrete situation.
'In front of that screen, the living soul of Marxism,
'the students criticise, struggle and transform.'
(Boy) '1911.'
(Woman #2) '...tanks and gunboats...'
(Boy) '...tanks and gunboats...'
(Woman #2) '...are used against women and children.'
(Boy) '...are used against women and children.'
♪ Fuck off, love
♪ You are making me crazy
♪ I'm in love but I'm lazy...
(Laughter)
(Man #22) 'The history of mankind
'is one of continuous development from...'
♪ My position is tragic
♪ Come and show me the magic...
(Man #22) '...to the realm of freedom.'
♪ You became a legend of the silver screen
♪ Now the thought of you
♪ Makes me weak in the knee
- ♪ Oh, honey pie... - Play the guitar.
♪ You are driving me frantic
♪ Sail across the Atlantic...
Well, it's a nice tune.
(Overlapping conversations)
(Music continues)
(Man #22) In a small way, I think it's very reactionary.
And, and...
In fact, they're putting over an ideology, putting over a capitalist ideology.
Actually, look.
I mean, just to show exactly that this song could be quite revolutionary,
we could, in fact, rewrite it probably,
and put over completely different ideas.
(Overlapping conversations)
It could be putting over a completely different ideology.
(Overlapping conversations)
...to the million-dollar songs.
♪ Honey pie, you are making me crazy...
You're not making me crazy.
"You're not even a money pie, you're just crazy."
No, you're not crazy... She's not making him crazy.
(Man #22) "Honey pie, your position is tragic.
"You've lost all the rest of the person you were.
"You've lost all the rest of the person you were."
♪ Of your Hollywood song... ♪
There isn't any magic in your...
Yeah, this is fucking awful.
(Man #1) 'Seizing the revolution with one hand and production with the other.
'What does that mean for militant filmmakers?
'It doesn't mean bringing films to the people,
'but making films from and through the people.'
(♪ Piano music)
(Woman #1) 'But there is only one way to eliminate war
'and that is to oppose war with war,
'to oppose counterrevolutionary war with revolutionary war,
'to oppose national counterrevolutionary war
'with national revolutionary war
'and to oppose counterrevolutionary class war with revolutionary class war.'
(♪ German music)
(Man #1) 'Wherever there is struggle, there is sacrifice
'and death is a common occurrence.'
(♪ Music plays)
'People all over the world are now discussing
'whether or not a world war will broke out.
'On this question, too, we must be mentally prepared
'and do some analysis.'
(♪ Music plays)
'Of course, the atom bomb is a weapon of mass slaughter,
'but the outcome of a war is decided by the people,
'not by one or two new types of weapons.'
(♪ Portuguese music)
(Woman #1) 'Ideological education is the key link
'to be grasped in uniting the whole party for great political struggles.
♪ Hitler ain't dead, no... ♪
'In any society in which classes exist, class struggle will never end.
'In classless society the struggle between the new and the old
'and between truth and falsehood will never end.'
(♪ Music plays)
(Man #1) 'The oppressed peoples and nations
'must not pin their hopes for liberation
'on the sensibleness of imperialism and its lackeys.
'They will only triumph by strengthening their unity
'and persevering in their struggle.'
(♪ German music)
(Woman #1) 'We have the Marxist-Leninist weapon
'of criticism and self-criticism.
'We can get rid of the bad style and keep the good.'
(♪ German music)
(Man #1) 'Fight, fail, fight again.
'Fail again, fight again till their victory.
'That is the logic of the people.
'The people's democratic dictatorship
'needs the leadership of the working class,
'for it is only the working class that is most far-sighted,
'most selfless and most thoroughly revolutionary.'
(Woman #1) 'The masses are the real heroes.
'The masses have boundless creative power.'
(Man #1 and Woman #1) 'Solidarity with the wildcat strikes
'of Ford's workers at Dagenham
'against the fascist laws of Barbara the Scab.
'Solidarity with the struggle of the revolutionary students and the teachers
'at the London School of Economics
'against the Gestapo of the humanist university.
'Solidarity with the artistic offensive launched by open films and agitprop
'in the factories, on building sites and in council flats.
'Solidarity with "The Workers New Daily,"
'"The Newsletter,"
'and the efforts of the printers and editors of "Keep Left"
'to provide news that is real news.
'Solidarity with the squatters' occupations of empty flats
'and houses in Ealing
'and the help given to them by the anarchist movement.
'Solidarity with the courage of our Maoist comrades in their determination
'to politicise every anti-imperialist street demonstration.
'Solidarity with the wages rises won by the dockers and railwaymen,
'which will aggravate the commercial deficit
'and make the arrogant jackals of the City howl with rage.'
♪ We want our revolution now
♪ We want our revolution
♪ Now ♪