Events

Sunday 14th December, 2pm British Oak pub, Stirchley, 1364 Pershore Road, B30 2XS About every six weeks a group of mainly West Mids IWW members meet to discuss a text which interests us, in the spirit of worker self-education. The…

Thursday Dec 18th, 7:30pm, Birmingham Bike Foundry 1539 Pershore Road, B30 2JH This French drama film directed by Costa-Gavras, deals with ruthless ambition, power struggle, greed and deception in the international world of finance. It shows how power and the…

This documentary follows the lives for four people in the predominantly Kurdish Rojava area of northern Syria (West Kurdistan). There are two extraordinary aspects of their situation. Firstly the civil war, secondly the kurds’ experimental ‘democratic confederalism’, which is an…

This 40 page pamphlet published by the ‘spiritual leader’ of the PKK (Kurdish Workers’ Party) from confinement in a one-person prison by Turkey sets out the historical background of the Kurdish question and offers a strategy for its peaceful conclusion.…

  This excellent and original adaptation of the comics by Harvey Pekar deals with the author’s ordinary life as a file clerk in a hospital in Cleveland Ohio. By showing what is funny and tragic about the life of one…

Z A darkly comic political thriller about the assassination of a leftist Greek politician by the generals. This film by acclaimed and engaged director Costa-Gavras was a critical and commercial hit. This free screening will start at 7:30pm in the…