don. Distribution by the Other Cinema, 79 Wardour Street, London W1 ЗТН. 01-734 8508/9.
Unlike Atomic Cafe this film is not trying to entertain neone. Instead. as one reviewer says it wants to scare the hell out of them'. And it certainly does lilal.
It is the most powerful anti-nuke •ersuasive documentary made.
first 45 minutes I come ne nece over ment and trade union activists unravelling the connections between big business and the Bomb.
Interviews with retired
NATO generals and senior diplomats lay Reagan's war drive.
The horror of the 'first VOICoware tionale stal lillg nuclear war.
lot of the US leaders think it is possible to win a prolonged but limited -limited to Europe that Is -nuclear war. the 10ed Pershing.
The next part of the film shows how the NavaOCCI criminally exploited to mine uranium, Decolnilig victims of cancer.
Bonanza Even the US GIs have been used as guinea pig and deliberatel CxDUsCu to radio-activity for testing We see •nOW nuclear stockpiling steadily theoretical journal Lonel.
Socialist League.
Marx centenary.
Marx's thought, Marx's practice are diso aiscusseu The supplement relevance class and the oppressed today.
and Valerie Coultas discussing Greenham Common. At 95p this 56 page double issue is a snip. polluting the USA as the arms factories kill off the people who live near their dumps. Against this horror there is no sateguara.
Joan Harvey makes the point that; 'Civil defence in the context of an all-out nuclear war is about as effective as re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic'. Powerful the heart of the matter as, in Julie Christie's words, it multinational corporadard Oil, General Motors, others sold good US effort in World War I made aircraft engines and stalls sold the Nazis poison gas which was used to exterminate the Jews In the Callies.
The war was a bonanza for the big who boosted their profits vcar. these same firms are riding the gravi train of the nuclear arms The Navajo Indians got cancer when mining uranium They are the roots of Reagan's America. In a world of economic reces• sion government spending on arms makes good sense the giant tionals.
In showing that war is about profit and exploita15 March tion - both of which are inherent in the system imperialism - - the film brings together the need for between the LOveLICH organised labour.
America Hitler to Mx puts the socialist case against war and nuclear wcapulls does it in a much more owerful way than: any iberal, pacifist arguments Make sure film does not suffer the same fate in the cinemas that the War Game did on TV.
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DAVE PACKER reviews the film America - from Hitler to MX by Joan Harvey, now showing at the Rio Cinema, Kingsland High Street, Dalston, Lon-