Rocker & East End vid (in german)

Submitted by syndicalist on 20 August, 2008 - 15:24.

Comrades,

I posted this on another forum. September 19 will mark the 50th anniversary of Rocker's death. So thought this would be of timely interest to others.

In soldarity,
mitch (per. cap.)

There's a very interesting vid (in german) on youtube about Rocker & the East End.

What makes the vid striking is that much of the East End shots were taken on a gloomy day. As Burkkans pointed out, the vid makes clear how
'dreary [the] streets of Stepney and Whitechapel' actually are. And, I think, that this visual should help dispeal some romanticism about the grimy, packed and poverty stricken neighborhoods which were the bastions of the 'glory days' of East End (or NY's Lower East Side) anarchism.

The englishman giving the tour is Bill Fishman.

While the movment was lucky to have comrades like Rocker, it will always be the 'jimmy higgins' (the shit workers) who will make the movement whole and round.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-UXH-AgFrA

29 August, 2008 - 19:36

The vid is a copy of a TV Feature about Rudolf Rocker which was produces in 1988 by the SWR TV. The title is "Rudolf Rocker: Buchbinder und Anarchist".
On August 11th 2007 we had an big event about Rocker in the wine village Essenheim near Mainz, it was part of the "culture summer" in the State of Rheinland-Pfalz. The film was presented, we made a lecture (reading) about Rockers life and ideas and the choir "Rote Neustadt" sang old workers songs. It got a good response, a lot more than 200 visitors from the region took part and the SWR produced a 1/2 hour TV film about the event. In the discussion after the reading some old socialdemocrats asked us why we don't try together to rename an large alley in Mainz (which has the name of last german Kaiser until now) to Rudolf Rocker Alley wink.

I just saw that the SWR Radio will present a one hour Radio Feature in two weeks:

SWR2: Feature | Rudolf Rocker zum 50. Todestag - Begeisterung gegen die Zeit (enthusiasm against the time)

Samstag, 13.09.2008, 22.03 bis 23.00 Uhr

Der Anarchosyndikalist Rudolf Rocker und das andere Deutschland (The anarchosyndicalist Rudolf Rocker and the other Germany)