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Red Star cinema was established in 1979 to provide coverage of demonstrations and activities supported by the Labour movement and Trade unions in Central Scotland. Short newsreels were made and shown alongside full length feature films hired from the Other Cinema such as Battleship Potemkin and Battle of Algiers. Red Star went on to make short documentaries on the history of workers cinema and in support of CND and the Sandinista Movement in Nicaragua.

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Industrial action at Birmingham’s BRMB local commercial radio station. The NUJ were demonstrating against a reduction in local news content and its replacement with a national news feed.

BRMB Strike

The Red Star Archive

A Red Star film of the Edinburgh Latin American Solidarity Committee demonstration up to the US Consultate where Leith MP Ron Brown MP hands in a petition. The film is accompanied by an interview on Radio Forth with one of …

El Salvador Demonstration

The Red Star Archive

Red Star’s film of a march in Glasgow protesting at the treatment of political prisoners on hunger strike at Armagh Prison’s H-Block.

So this is christmas … 1980

The Red Star Archive

Protesting against Trident and NATO Red Star’s short film set to music-of-the-day covers a large anti-nuclear demonstration in Glasgow. Red Star Cinema was set up by artists, printers and friends involved with Rock against Racism and School Press. Red Star’s …

Victory V Theatre : March for the Future

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