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AIDC/ WWMP - "False Profits: the global economic crisis and its impact on South African working class and responses?"

Produced and directed by: Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) and Workers World Media WWMP, 48mins, 2011

• What caused the global economic crisis that started in 2008 and how did government, labour and business respond?
• What was the impact of the crisis on the economy and working class people?
• What are the lessons of the experience for us?
• Are there alternatives to Global Capitalism?

This documentary film focuses on the global economic crisis - its impact on the working class and the responses by trade unions, government and big business in South Africa. It includes interviews with leading trade unionists, workers, community members, NGO workers and academics. The film is decidedly left-wing and critical in its approach and attempts to explain the crisis in Marxist terms.
It also poses serious questions about the dominant responses to the crisis that constantly impacts negatively on the working class and the world's poor.
In doing so ·numerous interviewees who are sympathetic to the plight of working class people, put forward their proposals for alternatives to addressing the economic crisis. This variety of progressive, people-centred alternatives are hardly ever given
a voice in the mainstream media.
This film is ideal for progressive film festivals, public and community TV broadcasters and educational institutions to assist us all in discussing and responding to the greatest threat to humanity now and in future, the global crisis of capitalism.