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Moving and inspiringParticularly gratifying is the portrayal of Mark Ashton, acted with great integrity by Ben Schnetzer. Mark was one of the key motivating forces behind LGSM and also a comrade of mine in the CPGB’s youth organisation, the Young Communist League. He was its general secretary from 1985 - effectively the last before the organisation’s liquidation. Indeed, Mark is the beating heart at the centre of the film in much the same way he was in LGSM - and as he unsuccessfully tried to be in the YCL subsequently. The film captures some of comrade Ashton’s boundless energy, his élan and charismatic leadership style, qualities that attracted and activated people around him - or, as one LGSM activist puts it in the film, “Whatever Mark says, we do it - don’t ask me why!” Mark Fischer Full review: http://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1027/moving-and-inspiring/ Mark is a third generation Welsh communist who knows the story inside out. Everyone I know who's seen it thought the film was great. Andrew Coates > From: marxism-requ...@lists.csbs.utah.edu > Subject: Marxism Digest, Vol 131, Issue 34 > Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 12:00:22 -0600 > To: pab...@hotmail.com > > Send Marxism mailing list submissions to > marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo/marxism > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > marxism-requ...@lists.csbs.utah.edu > > You can reach the person managing the list at > marxism-ow...@lists.csbs.utah.edu > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Marxism digest..." > > > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Fwd: Pride | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist > (Louis Proyect) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 13:14:22 -0400 > From: Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> > To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition > <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu>, Progressive Economics > <pe...@lists.csuchico.edu> > Subject: [Marxism] Fwd: Pride | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist > Message-ID: <5426f06e.7080...@panix.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed > > Opening yesterday at three multiplex theaters in New York rather than in > the art house circuit, ?Pride? is calculated to appeal to a broader > audience than one might expect given its theme: the alliance between a > gay liberation group and the coal miners on strike against Margaret > Thatcher in 1983. > > This makes perfect sense since the art house venue would be the classic > case of preaching to the choir. > > As I sat through the press screening on Thursday night, I was impressed > with director Matthew Warchus and screenwriter Stephen Beresford?s > popular culture instincts. Basically, they put together a kind of > musical comedy along the lines of ?Footloose? in which a transgressive > outsider from the big city breaks down the prejudices of a backward > rural village. ?Footloose?, made in 1984 when British gays and strikers > were bonding with each other, is about the uphill battle a teenage boy > has in overturning a local preacher?s ban on rock music and dancing. In > ?Pride?, the struggle is to gain acceptance from the miners and their > families even when the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) have > raised more money than any other support group. > > full: http://louisproyect.org/2014/09/27/pride/ > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Marxism mailing list > Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo/marxism > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Marxism Digest, Vol 131, Issue 34 > **************************************** ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
