falling standards This graphically ilstrateeoy ment's Minimum Employment Plan (PEM).
People working on this scheme are supposed to work two or three days a week while looking for a full-time employment. For this they receive about £15 per month fact employers take full advantage of this opportunity to employ cheap labour.
Taxis second consequences is the increasing number of people who try to scrape a living through some sort ot street trading Morna Macleod notes: LIICSC l allac trom sweetsol esxi distes, ver harse drivers; ICVCl sce su lilaly lazis il. my life as in Santiago. was explained to me that one third were traditional taxi drivers, one third were secret police and the other third were workers who had been given redundancy money and had böugh old cars to use as taxis ... eyewitness report'.
clothes security forces, who kidnap people cars with no number plates sickening catalogue of torture and assassination are all recorded by Morna Macleod.
Rut her eye-witness report is also a record of continuie resistance.
Several trade union groups continue to exist, despite the repression, the largest being the National Trade end, submit to ty. child playing where the film ends.
Interesting was made.
but zloties on the side.
incriminating privileged skilled workers an expedition in the film really Polish society? An eyewitness report Front cover of 'Pinochet's' Chile - an Union Coordinating Com mittee (CNS) While sh was Chile, MOTR?
Macleod attended 800-strong womens con ference organised b! the CNS. Despite everything opposition continue: to develop "Pinochet's Pinoches re Cri is availat. from the Chile Committee fe' Human Rights 266 Pentor. ville Rd, London NI 9JY As a result, he loses his job. In the we see him washing windows and studying math in his spare time.
He has stayed pure by refusing to the existing system of bribery and corruption in Polish socieThroughout the film he ponders over 'fate' and 'chance' in the life of the individual. Was his father's climbing accident 'fate'? Was it 'fate' that, while Witold was washing windows the building collapsed and killed a underneath? This considerations. perhaps, in early 1980 when the film But unfortunately, after the spectacular events we've seen in Poland since 1980, it's difficult to get excited about Witold's outbursts of in. dignation as his boss accepts a tew And after a year of Solidarnosc, it's difficult to care about this morally sound, privileged skilled worker as he battles bravely against unscrupulous Incidentally, the only queue shown is the queue of people waiting to see a faith healer. Is this Socialist Challenge 15 October 1981 Page