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TUC LESE supports - Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival 2020
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Event details
Date
Fri, 17 Jul 2020 - 09:00 to
Sun, 19 Jul 2020 - 18:00
Location

Tolpuddle
Dorset
DT2 7EH
United Kingdom

Cost
FREE ADMISSION
Overview

Tolpuddle Radical Film Online Festival - Friday 17 to Sunday 19 July 2020

Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival 2020 will be taking place online 5.30pm on Friday 17 July 2020 running through to 10.00pm on Sunday 19 July 2020.

Nine full-length documentaries and feature films, short films, plus Zoom online discussions with activists and film-makers and the unique Small Axe Short Film Awards.

Full Festival programme HERE 
 

Sunday 19 July 2020 @ 1.45pm  

Premiere screening: Wapping – The Workers’ Story

Wapping – the workers’ story, a film about the momentous year-long industrial dispute which began in 1986 when Rupert Murdoch plotted to move production of his papers overnight from central London’s Fleet Street to a secretly equipped and heavily guarded plant at Wapping, a docklands district in east London.

5,500 men and women lost their jobs and centuries of tradition in one of London’s last manufacturing industries came to an end.
Military-style police tactics, the use of new laws which shackled the unions’ hard won freedoms and strike-breaking organised by the electricians union led to a Murdoch victory. The dispute had international ramifications for his expanding press and broadcasting empire in the United States and around the world.

It took place as the Thatcher government broke with the post-war consensus and embraced monetarism – deregulating finance, privatising key industries and undermining local democracy.

Following on from Festival the film will be made available for streaming and DVD.  

For further information please contact Platform Films:HERE

The Tolpuddle Martyrs were a group of six agricultural labourers in the village of Tolpuddle in Dorset, England, who were convicted of swearing a secret oath as members of the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers in 1834.

tolpuddle@tuc.org.uk

TUC London, East and South East (LESE) annually support this historic Festival.   

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