West Lothian SSP are looking for Socialist musicians to play fundraiser.

 A new series of oil paintings examining the daily existence of people making a living in the worst working conditions in the global economy.

 Morale is at an all time high in ACE (17 west montgomery place, edinburgh) with the planned clothes swap / mid winter market this saturday. People have been mentally licking their lips at the thought of all the mulled wine, chai tea, ginger beer and other treats to be made available on the day. The same tatty looking people have been eagerly anticipating freshening up their wardrobes and getting the obligatory christmas prezzies done and dusted in one fell swoop at the food coop stall, the chiapas stall and the info shop stall.

SMASH CAPITALISM, GET YOUR PRESENTS IN ACE!

What should we make of a film has been accused by many critics of being childish, misogynistic, pornographic and some even going so far as to say it should be banned? It is a shocking film even for someone like me who has been desensitised by a lifetime watching horror films. It features grim sexual violence, and is deliberately provocative. I'm sure Trier will relish the heated criticisms from every reviewer that takes the bait.

The story is of a married couple, whose very young child climbs out of a window to his death, while they are passionately making love in the next room. The two are gravely upset by their loss, and the film focuses on how the trauma affects them. They take on very stereotypical male/female roles after the incident, the wife becoming hysterical, chaotic and lustfull, while the husband is supportive yet distant and intellectual, and becomes her therapist. The story takes them to a cabin in a forest, where events take a more disturbing turn.

Lars Von Trier has been repeatedly (and deservedly) accused of being a misogynist in his portrayal of women in his films. In Dogville, the character played by Nicole Kidman is gravely mistreated and raped. In Breaking the Waves, the devoutly religious protagonist played by Emily Watson is told by her impotent and disabled husband to have sex with lots of men, and tell him about it, a tale which ending in her brutal gang rape and death. This film is much worse than either of them.

 This Sunday, to coincide with the climate summit in Copenhagen the Edinburgh social centre ACE is hosting a green-o-nomics discussion event and film screening. The event is free and non ticketed 3pm sunday 6th december. ACE is located at 17 west montgomery place, near tescos on leith walk.

Details of Sunday Screenings and other December screenings are below...

6th The Age Of Stupid (2009)
Stars Pete Postlethwaite as an archivist in the devastated world of the future, asking the question: "Why didn't we stop climate change when we still had the chance?"
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Rocking The Foundations (1986) - An outstanding historical account of the Green Bans first introduced by the New South Wales Builders Labourers Federation in the 1970s in response to community demand to preserve inner- city parkland and historic buildings. One of the first women to be accepted as a builders labourer, filmmaker Pat Fiske traces the development of a quite singular union whose social and political activities challenged the notion of what a union should be.

13th Adam Curtis Season Pt 1
The Power Of Nightmares: The Rise Of The Politics Of Fear(2004)
Adam Curtis' first documentary series explores the tragicomic consequences of engineers', mathematicians', scientists', and bureaucrats' attempts to apply their specialized theories to a wide range of phenomenon, creating, each time, more problems than they solve (180)

20th - Anti Fascist Attitude
Why the fuck in a nation that lost millions to the Nazi scum in WW2 are they not just tolerated but are sometimes protected by or even recruited by the Russian police? Well balanced, well researched film gives an overview of the hardcore dangerous underground resistance in St Peteresburgh. (50 mins)
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Ross Kemp on Neo Nazis
Ex East Enders star Ross Kemp gets manhandled by Moscow's vicious Neo-Nazi gangs and discovers who is behind the recent racist attacks. He joins one Neo-Nazi group during their training and is forced through a series of tests (which include him being set on fire) Somehow watchable (50mins)

27th Adam Curtis Season Pt 2
Pandoras Box (1992)
Adam Curtis' first documentary series explores the tragicomic consequences of engineers', mathematicians', scientists', and bureaucrats' attempts to apply their specialized theories to a wide range of phenomenon, creating, each time, more problems than they solve (276 mins)

 Help, democracy in danger!

 In December 2008, we created an anti-fascist mural in Bochum, to commemorate those seven anti-fascist from different european countries, who had been killed by neo-nazis during the last years.

After we photographed the whole process of production, we brought those and several other materials together and made a documentary of it, about the mural and the background of the seven murdered antifas.

 Last years the Big Green Gathering was cancelled 'for safety reasons'. Compliance with the Security Industry Act meant all security staff had to be individually licensed. The costs of the event rocketed and meant organisers had to pan handle for donations from previous punters. Despite these setbacks this years event was set to go ahead until - two days before the start of this years festy that is. 'Worries' from the cuntish Somerset County Council about 'Public safety' have scandalously seen Somerset Pigs camped out on the site chasing away potential troublemakers / terrorists I mean ticketholders.
What are they (the authorities) doing? Why are they blatently targeting such an ostensibly innocuous event; an event where naked hippies ride bareback on Shire horses, where mud baths and magic hat saunas abound, where children frolic freely and safely, where cranks converge and swap dubious therapies????
The answer is obvious: the radical fringe. Well it's not so much a fringe it's an integral part of the event. Shnews are always there, Indymedia, Climate Camp ran a bar there a while back etc: there's lots of DIY stuff. In other words it was definitely a 'scene' event. Whats demonstrably dangerous for the authorities is the potential the event had for radicalising legions of middle class hippies.

Now lets have a look at what is allowed: the fucking 'Big Tent' festival in Fife. 'Kindly sponsored' by Fife council and a Range Rover full of other dubious corporate entities: Stagecoach, Forestry Commission, Tullis Russell, Forth One FM, Scottish Government, Carnegie UK Trust among them. Angus burger stalls everywhere, highly efficient uniform Field and Lawn rectangular tents that don't leak everywhere, interactive video presentations. Massive PR event basically. There was a tent for smaller rootsy stuff in it but you get the picture: Got money – space. Nae money – tiny space. Revolutionary stuff – beat it!

Big Tent Festival In fife this weekend 10.30 am to 11.00 pm 25 & 26 JULY