another new South African film.
A Soviet scientist recallea a visit to an experimental collecțive farm in the far north of Russia.
What I saw was much WOrS TM oejore.... Both the people and nature. It was horrible.
"Well, then, did. you do something?" one of his audience asked.
"I cried."
In 1977 Moscow's Progress Publishers issued a collection of essays by leading Soviet scientists entitled Society and the Environment: a Soviet View. argument was summed up Dr llya Novik and Acaaemiclan Yevgeny Fyodorov:
Soviet Union, as in mn une olner soclanst countries, prevenltion of environmental pollution an natural ehelone mollose naturally from the essence of the socauust systen. Disaster Although sceptics have Dome outa væoæ cę Soviet Union is one of the nations threatening existence of the whale through overfishing, of other information has made it airncult to quesuon mne soviel claim Boris Comarov's book change s all that Komarov is a high Soviet cose LOUCH Will scientific and political establishThe reveals that the Soviet Union is in the grip of ar ecoloone tentser.
Tenlt the entire habitable area tne Union 1.45m is now unusable kilometers bourgeois Europe nad treated its envirommten as we nave. wille Komarov, a éé aan e England Haland est wec Germany, Benelux countries would long Have rouna temase ves in a sterue desert.' NEXT Tuesday Man Alive on BBC2 will be showing 'South Africa Belongs To Us'. NICK ROBIN reviews this and Crossroads Selece camp, a 'shanty-town' outside Cape Town. is illegal because black women, MICl and children live together at Crossroads.
The leadership of the squatter camp committee.
Women S women are damisne tu the reserves •oUTA Africa so that the wages of male workers in the urban areas aulu munity organises its owll health, education ane of faseie nd its tem of justice остелсе acdisl soutn Atrican ponce The camp testimony to the tremendetermination, and creativity of the universal olack resistance lo doartheid rule.
Interviews witn une women Crossroads are included in two new baphuciwe Dispossessed) which expose the Nature of South Africa's racist capitalism both films the of black dicuness resistance forcefully conveyed by "the tecnnique of having black South Africans directly exocnence ine camero fects ot tni systematic oppression of the apartheid state come across experience of victims 'homeland the forced removal une oack •oouauon USIA milllon people TAr the cities and the countryside into the tiny fragmentec assigned by the su •oose•v noerar unes South Africa Belongs To on the strug of the black women of Winnie Mandela and predict violence white ringt nalou wulch me dide womai will have to play her part fully. armed strug glé' Both films are avanlaore for hire The Other Cinema. 79 Wal dour London 3TН. 01-734 8508 Abaphuciwe Soutn Africa Belongs To U £20 is ch. use memi *In Siberia, more fish are caught than the fish factories can oanle Comes uk fishermen to do so.