PEOPLE´S POWER

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5. FREE SCREENING AT BOLIVAR HALL

54 GRAFTON WAY, LONDON (WARREN STREET TUBE STATION)

"People´s power", the third part of the the amazing documentary film The battle of Chile opens and gives name to a new series of screenings within the film season Venezuela: a revolution on film. This programme will focus on the creative and organising power of ordinary people .

This 1979 production analises the role that millions of ordinary people played on the revolutionary process that unfolded in Allende´s Chile.

On the filmaker´s own words "On the sidelines of the large-scale occurrences that narrate the previous films, other original phenomena -- sometimes ephemeral, incomplete -- are also taking place and are picked up by the third part. Many sectors of the population and in particular the social layers in support of Allende organize and start up a series of collective actions: communitarian stores, industrial cordons, farmers' committees, etc., with the intention of neutralizing the chaos and overcoming the crisis. These institutions, in the majority spontaneous, represent a ‘state' inside the State. "