Weekend Page #4

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They were a pack of dogs. Unfeeling.

Forgive me.

Where had I got to, my dear?

No, not there. You ought to know.

That's it.

Not bad.

Don't think I play well, I'm no good.

If you could have heard Schnabel.

He was my master. He's dead now.

He was a pianist, I'm just crap.

You must excuse me

playing like a pig.

If only you'd heard him...

...his extraordinary tone.

He rarely tackled Mozart,

because he used to say:

Mozart's too easy for beginners

and children, too hard for virtuosi.

Sh*t! It's this damn cigar

that's making me play wrong notes.

Now...

A WEEK OF 4 THURSDAYS

Straight ahead.

Good-bye. Thanks.

Your turn.

A FRIDAY FAR FROM

What's this lot doing?

They're the Italian actors

in the coproduction.

A FRIDAY FAR FROM ROBINSON

AND MANTES LA JOLIE

I've had it.

Come on.

Are you coming?

I've had enough.

Are you in a film or in reality?

- In a film.

- In a film? You lie too much.

Bastard!

We'll find the way in the end.

I've had enough,

I'm going to sleep or I'll die.

Die, then!

- Got a light?

- No.

- There's a chick over there.

- What of it?

Is she your chick?

No! Ouch!

Help!

Help!

Are you going towards Oinville?

Would you rather be screwed

by Mao or Johnson?

Johnson, of course.

Drive on, Jean. He's a Fascist.

Bloody hell!

To Oinville?

- Who struck first: Israel or Egypt?

- The bloody Egyptians!

Pathetic ignoramus.

Let's go.

Your turn.

1, 2, 3, 4,

5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

Your turn.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10...

- To Oinville?

- Yes, jump on.

- Sh*t!

- Careful! Out of the way.

Just one mouthful.

A little bit more.

That piece exactly corresponds

to the fraction of the USA Budget

given to the Congo.

Roland, help me.

Sir, I'm hungry.

Kiss me.

Kiss me!

Pack it up!

I'm applying the law that the big

oil companies apply to Algeria.

What law?

The law of a kiss

and a kick in the ass.

WORLD 3

No need to be nasty.

My black brother

will tell you my thoughts.

The optimism reigning today in Africa

is not inspired by natural forces

benefiting Africans.

Nor because the old oppressor

is behaving less inhumanely

and more benevolently.

The optimism is the direct result

of revolutionary action,

political and or military,

by the African masses.

Recently, a large section of humanity

was shaken to the core

by the outbreak of an ideology,

Nazism, bringing a resurgence

of torture and genocide

from the distant past.

The countries most immediately

threatened by Nazism

formed an alliance and pledged

to liberate occupied territory

and to break the back of Nazism:

to destroy the evil at its very source

and liquidate all such regimes.

Africans must remember

that they also suffered

a form of Nazism,

exploitation, physical

and spiritual liquidation

deliberately executed.

They must see its French, English,

South African manifestations...

...and be just as ready to confront it

throughout all of Africa.

We Africans declare

that for over a century,

two hundred million Africans' lives

have been held cheap,

denied, perpetually haunted by death.

We must not trust in the goodwill

of the imperialists.

We must arm ourselves

with resolution and militancy.

Material development of material

resources will not liberate Africa.

It is the African's hand and brain

which will set in motion

the dialectic

of the continent's liberation.

Given those conditions, we may

allow ourselves to be optimistic.

My Arab brother

will speak for me.

Now that our hour of liberation

is at hand, you scrape the barrel

hoping to find non-violent, pacific men,

men hardened by suffering,

yet willing to pardon the outrage.

That is not what I seek.

I say a black's freedom

is as valuable as a white's freedom.

I say that to gain his freedom,

a black has the right

to do everything that other men

have done to win their freedom.

I say that you and I

won't win our freedom

by non-violence, patience and love.

We won't win it

until we make everyone realize

that it is our right

to follow the example

of all who, to win their freedom,

sacrificed their lives

and took the life of others

and that we are ready

to follow their example.

We blacks are at war

with America and its friends.

But we can't actually fight them

because we haven't enough arms

or the knowledge to use them.

Furthermore, we are fewer in number.

We have chosen guerrilla

warfare perforce.

It is an advantageous tactic

and easy to conduct.

We work at strategic points:

factories, farms, homes of whites.

It is easy for us to sabotage and

destroy, often without firing a shot.

We can destroy telephone lines,

railways, airfields,

electric and electronic installations.

Western communities

depend on electronic systems.

They're paralyzed without them.

Town by town we will bring

the West to its knees,

ruin it economically.

We will also undertake

bloody acts of sabotage.

It is not by accident that Viet-Cong

guerrilla warfare impresses us.

Our black brothers fighting

in Vietnam for white America

are gaining priceless lessons

in modern guerrilla techniques.

They'll be useful

when they come back to our midst.

Not only as fearless soldiers,

but as guerrilla teachers.

Of course, weapons are essential

for bloody acts of sabotage.

But all blacks have at home

a rifle or a revolver at least,

and Molotov cocktails

are easy to make.

Anyway, we have the means

of acquiring weapons.

I'll say that,

but I'll give no details.

THE WES Civilization means belonging

to a class society,

a reality of contradictions.

The development of production

is linked to the exploitation

of man by man.

Slavery, serfdom, wage-earning:

these are the forms of servitude

characterizing civilization's epochs.

Engels observed the steps

leading to a class society

and inter-class relations

as beginning with the Greeks

and ending in industrial capitalism.

When the three elements,

private property,

monogamy and the state

were combined in one society,

it passed from barbarism to civilization

and from a classless society

to a class society

To be precise:
Morgan,

whom Engels drew upon,

said man moved from advanced

savagery to primitive barbarism

when dan developed into tribe.

Mankind advances

from primitive barbarism

when individual tribes

form a confederation of tribes.

It achieves the highest stage

of barbarism

moving from tribal federation

to military democracy.

In its heroic age

on the threshold of civilization,

of a class society,

mankind finds itseif organized

in a military democracy.

As with Greece of the heroes,

Rome of the Kings

was a military democracy which

had developed from the gentes,

phratries and tribes.

Even though the patrician nobility

had gained some ground,

even if the administrators

were slowly gaining privileges,

the fundamental constitutional

character was unchanged.

The Greeks passed from tribe,

to confederation,

to military democracy.

To understand this evolution,

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