(Mon 7th / Doors open 7.30pm, film starts at 8pm / £3/4 though nobody turned away for lack of funds)

To mark International Workers' Day (1st May), the Bristol Local of the Solidarity Federation – International Workers' Association will be introducing this classic modern US feature film depicting a labour dispute in the small mining community of Matewan, West Virginia, in 1920. The significance of this film for International Workers' Day and for present day labour struggles lies in the solidarity built between the native and the migrant mineworkers in order to confront the real enemy; the boss.

"[Matewan's director John] Sayles is a perfectionist with a great ear and eye for historical detail, and Matewan is as rich in it as a film can be." James Kendrick (Q Network Film Desk)

http://www.solfed.org.uk
http://www.bristol.indymedia.org