Film
Bristol Radical Film Festival 2018: The Big Flame + discussion
- Director
- Ken Loach
- Running Time
- 85 mins
Condemned as “…a blueprint for the communist takeover of the docks” by Mary Whitehouse (remember her?), Ken Loach‘s lesser-known BBC Play for Today from 1969 follows 10,000 Liverpudlian dock workers as they stage a ‘work-in’ – turning up to work one day to take over their workplace. At the time, rising unemployment was putting increasing pressure on British workers, and the government had just announced a ban on ‘unofficial strikes’. This ‘unofficial’ revolutionary action was considered so radical that Loach and writer writer Jim Allen were accused by some of being ‘stooges’, for going against trade union as well as capitalist bosses. This Bristol Radical Film Festival screening will be followed by a panel discussion. Go here for tickets.
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