Wednesday | January 12, 2000 9:00 pm

Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal

Screening on Film

Directed by Robert Kramer and Philip Spinelli.
US/Portugal, 1977, 16mm, color and b&w, 85 min.

Combining newsreel footage, still photographs, interviews, and analytical narration, this documentary focuses on the anti-fascist, anti-imperialist efforts of labor groups, peasants, and working-class soldiers to liberate Portugal from the control of the Salazar government. Shot from April 1974 to November 1976, it relates the conflicts in Portugal to parallel liberation movements in the United States and South Africa.