Election '74 No. 1
1/2 inch open-reel videotape Black & White Sound 1974 33:25
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Summary: Part one of black and white footage of a conversation in 1974 between a white member of the Socialist Workers Revolutionary party and a white member of the Liberal party, chaired by a young Black man.
Title number: 21161
LSA ID: LSA/27857
Description: The member of the Socialist Workers Revolutionary party is from Tower Hamlets but identifies as a candidate in Newham, whereas the Liberal party member is a candidate for the newly defined constituency of Bethnal Green and Bow. The Liberal party member wears a black suit with a badge on his blazer and smokes a cigarette. The Socialist member wears a thick jumper with a fur lined coat and trousers. The dialog is occasionally inaudible. The Socialist member discusses redistribution of wealth, nationalisation of food and land, identifying as a marxist and communist but not with the communist party, disillusionment with the labour party, and critiques the notion of fixed law. The Liberal member discusses national minimum wage, working class upbringing, slums in the east end, housing shortages and squatting. Both members debate the common market and the place of the middle class within the Workers Revolutionary party.
Credits: Maggie Pinhorn (Filmmaker)
Locations: East London
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