Friday, August 26, 2011

The Free Voice of Labour

Time for something completely different. This delightful documentary, from 1980, about the American Yiddish Anarchist newspaper, Fraye Arbeter Shtime, is a brilliant piece of social and labour history. It lasts around an hour, but watching it will be time well spent.

"You have to be idealistic or you might as well take a gun and blow your brains out"


Thanks to the commenter here

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Brilliant

Thanks for making me aware of its existence

levi9909 said...

wonderful! so now at least two more people know of it. i should have mentioned sooner but i first saw it at a this Jewdas event at the Rio in Stoke Newington.