Re: What NACLA used to read like

["Michael Hoover" <HooverM@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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This morning I went down to the NY Public Library to make a copy of a pamphlet from 1975 that is not available in the Columbia Library--something of an anomaly. Titled "Argentina in the Hour of the Furnaces", and written by a group of radical scholars under the NACLA imprint (North American Congress on Latin America), it contains figures on multinational penetration of Argentine capital.
Louis Proyect
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re. title of above article...

Argentinian "guerrilla" filmmakers Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino coined the term "Third Cinema" to give identity to their clandestine 1968 documentary La Hora de los Hornos (Hour of the Furnaces), the production of which indicated cracks in the "system" as well as resistance to it.    The two were part of a collective (Grupo Cine Liberación) committed to militant politics and experimental film.  Hour of the Furnaces' more than four hours running time was divided into three segments - a radical history of Argentina, an assessment of Juan Perón and Peronism, and consideration of the role and meaning of violence in political struggle.  Each section of the movie was shown independently of the others in non-theater settings conducive to the collective's desire to periodically stop the projector and facilitate audience discussion.

michael hoover