almost as an after-thought. The roblems af the role of the trade w'ages, if facts alone will convince people 01. IDe need for alternative.
Nevertheless, it is vical that all nose An can oe won to Ene kind of demands indicated in the pamphlet are united in a fighrback against the Labour Government.
'The Cise Agains the Social Gresham Rood, Coveniry: Price TEN BLE BATIRE socialist Schlondorff 31These film Faced with the right-wing Axel Springer press on the one hand and the repressive West German state on the other, one can imagine — in one's more paranoid moments drawing conclusions about their all-powerful dominance. But in The Lost Honour of Katherina Blum Volker and Margarethe von Trotta paranoia on the audience for a tedious 106 minutes.
MEARISCEIACUED deal with the crucial questions of the strong siale, the guiter press and the way they combine to reintorce bourgeons sociely, But Inflict their what chey do is to simply reduce SUNCE conspiracy the chief prosecutor handing over documents to a repurter und vica-sersal, alongside completely ham-fisted asser. tions that the press is hypocritical and nasty and the State brutal, LUK TROUS HO STUDE The former is achieved by showing the • reporter, disguised as a hospital doctor, trying to get "din' out of Katherine's dying • WITH CTIMATE passes away. The latter is de monstrued by the brol feratin of tanks and armoured cars a the srrest of Kathering as
class for wate power. Ir is highly unasuni for a leadin IRIEIT ENTAME EH CHUOC AS theme the strugele uf the morking But this is what Robert Bolt has donein "State of Revolution' - an SOCIALISTCHALLENGE 9 Juna 1977