BBC Lefties 1of3 A Lot of Balls xvid mp3 avi

BBC : Lefties (2007) Episode 1 of 3

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BBC 4 documentary from October 2007 -

In this three-part series, Vanessa Engle revisits the turbulent era when the extreme Left was a serious and significant political force that believed it could change the world for the better.

Weaving together interviews and archive footage, each film relives a different aspect of the Left in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. ;; ;; ;; ;;


Part 1. A LOT OF BALLS  ---> http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/lefties3.shtml

The story of the News on Sunday, an attempt by a group from the far left to launch a left-wing, mass-market Sunday tabloid.    

News on Sunday was a left-wing tabloid that launched to great fanfare in 1987 and went bankrupt just eight weeks later. It was one of the boldest business ventures ever attempted by the far left and it was a disaster.

A group who met through a tiny left-wing faction called Big Flame were convinced it was possible to market a left-wing mass-circulation newspaper. They were led by ex-Ford worker Alan Hayling (now head of BBC Documentaries) under the editorial leadership of John Pilger, who walked out before the paper had even launched.

The News on Sunday share issue raised an impressive £6.5 million from Labour local authority pension funds and trade unions. Keith Sutton, who had formerly edited The Wapping Post, became the editor. In the first of a series of ill-fated decisions, the paper based itself not in Fleet Street but in Manchester. News on Sunday also gave a controlling interest to a collective of workers - including some of Hayling's colleagues from the shop floor at Ford.

Original Broadcast : BBC Two: Monday 24 July 7pm-8pm


Part 2. PROPERTY IS THEFT ---> http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/lefties1.shtml

Fascinating story of a squatted street in the 1970s, where the residents lived by the unconformist ideals of the time.    


The story of Villa Road, a squatted street, during the heyday of squatting in the late 1970s, when all over the country people lived together in politicised communities. These squatters were on the left, and were part of a generation whose views were underwritten by Marxist ideology. They believed that the revolution was coming and the state would be overthrown.

Villa Road in south London brought together an extraordinary community of over 200 people.

Anarchists mixed with hippies and feminists, and homeless single mothers rubbed shoulders with marxist revolutionaries. The core group in Villa Road were white middle-class graduates. These politicised intellectuals with allegiances to various left-wing groups led the Villa Roaders in all their anti-capitalist campaigns.

Original Broadcast : BBC Two: Monday 10 July 7pm-8pm


Part 3. ANGRY WIMMIN ---> http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/lefties2.shtml

The rise and fall of an extreme strain of feminism, that called on women to become 'political lesbians'.

In the late 1970s in Leeds, a group of women called the Revolutionary Feminists splintered away from mainstream feminism. Unlike the socialists, who pictured a revolution where the ruling class and the working class would be on opposite sides, Revolutionary Feminists declared war on men. Their leading activist was academic Sheila Jeffreys.

The Revolutionary Feminists' first move was to publish an inflammatory document called 'Political Lesbianism - the Case Against Heterosexuality'. It stated that in order to achieve liberation, women should stop having sexual relations with men. They rejected beauty practices, turning their backs on high-heeled shoes, make-up and uncomfortable clothes. They strove to eliminate men from their language, inventing new ways to spell 'wimmin'. They espoused separatism as a way of life and some even abandoned their sons.

The Revs were deeply affected by the Yorkshire Ripper, who for them represented the threat of male violence.

Original Broadcast : BBC Two: Monday 17 July 7pm-8pm


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