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Nae Pasaran – Clyde Community Hall

Thursday, 4 July, 2019

Glasgow South Branch of the Scottish Socialist Party are holding the inaugural “Socialist Film Club” event at 6.30pm on Thursday 4th July at the Clyde Community Hall, 41 Whitefield Rd, Cessnock, Glasgow G51 2YB.

With unprecedented access and research, NAE PASARAN reveals for the first time the incredible impact made by Scottish factory workers 40 years ago against one of the most repressive dictatorships of the 20th century. 40 years after their defiant stand in protest against Pinochet’s Air Force in Chile, Scottish pensioners discover the dramatic consequences of their solidarity. 1974, Scotland. Bob Fulton, a Rolls-Royce engine inspector, returns to his section, upset and anxious. He’s just told his colleagues that a Chilean Air Force jet engine has arrived in the factory for maintenance and he’s refusing to let it go through, in protest against the recent military coup of General Pinochet. He’s seen the images of people packed into football stadiums and the Chilean Air Force jets bombing Santiago, and now one of the engines from those very same planes is right there, waiting for inspection. He can see his supervisors approaching, he knows he’s about to be fired, yet he feels a responsibility…

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Screening of the acclaimed film, NAE PASARAN! with discussion centred on the political and historical background to the heroic stand taken by the organised workforce at Rolls Royce in solidarity with the people of Chile, and the relevance to the current situation in Venezuela.

Speakers include Cathy Pederson, long standing E.K activist and SSP member,

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