audience which engages with its situation. Apart from instituting the clubroom, they have programmed the films with the conscious perspective of re-examining This means not just the screening [giving them a place in history] but also the programming of bourgeois [dominant] "cinema in such a way as to illuminate social and political themes. The Other Cinema will not bypass popular cinema precisely because it is bureaucracy.
- why is this will be programmes Honest Men' which is running this month. This is a season on 'social banditry' as represented in Salvatore Giuliano, opinion at large HovenTures Robin Hood. It draws on the ideas of E.J. Hobsbawm, who will be present at the 4pm showing of Salvatore Giuliano on sunday to lead a aiscussion on cinema stresses the individual content of the phenomethe bandit as hero. By programming a season of films on organising Other Cinema is seeking to generate some understanding of the historical forces which produced this phenoOther Cinema is thus an venture, OnE which deserves the support of all tset is at 25 Thenham Ctreet Toff Charlotte Street] The evident isolation of the Shanghai group nas is roots in me cuntura Revolution, when Chiang Ching betrayed and brutally repressed those sections of her 'beloved' Red Guard movement who refused to toe the Maoist line. After purging huge numbers of older cadres in the early stages of the Cultural Revolution, and antagonising the conservative military establishment, the 'radicals' were forced to seek the aid of both these groups in the course of crushing Red Guard dissent and rebuilding the shattered In a desperate attempt to hold back the political tide that this wave of rehabilitations created, the radicals launched a selves ended up victims of a classic palace coup. Having expended their mass base, they had no forces to call on in their defence.
Does this therefore mean that the so-called moderates eniov real support it the country? Many of the issues that they raise, in particular their stress on the need for a partial and limited liberalisation of certain aspects of national political life, are capable or evoking a powerru res ponse among the masses. In this sense, the present political upheaval represents a at the level of the bureaucracy and in the cynical interests of its major section - of the events in TienAn-Men square analysed previously in these pages.