Every Acre, Every Factory: Ideas for a necessary revolution / film screening, Q & A with filmmakers
DoES Liverpool, 1st floor, The Tapestry, Liverpool, L3 8HL
Sunday 22nd November 2026 6:00PM
It is getting hot in our antechamber of barbarism, so much is clear. It's time to agree on a new political strategy. Time for a reconstitution of the communist project. ‘Every Acre, Every Factory’ is a documentary about how we can establish a sustainable mode of production and get rid of the current one.
Veteran worker activists from around the world recount memories of how the system was last challenged in the 1970s and how the state and capital managed to defeat the movement. Other comrades describe what the transition to a liberated society could look like. Workers who have been working in essential industries for decades explain what is harmful and pointless about their work and how it could be organised sensibly. From this thread of history, theoretical anticipation and everyday experience, we ask the question anew: What is to be done?
Johanna Schellhagen: "With this film, we are responding to a situation that we—like many others, presumably—perceive as a historic turning point. Climate change is intensifying and the economy is stagnating. Those in power can’t think of much else to do besides shifting the declining automotive industry toward arms production and escalating global bloc confrontation. New technologies are being deployed for combat drones and digital financial speculation, while the majority of workers are fobbed off with low-paying service jobs. For us, the old slogan “Socialism or Barbarism” has taken on new relevance; at the same time, we face the task of rethinking and discussing socialism. How can we organize social production consciously and collectively without becoming dependent on either bureaucratic planning bodies or arbitrary market trends?"
A film by Labournet TV and AngryWorkers
Duration: 1 hour 6 mins
Trailer: https://www.everyacre.org/en
Team:
Director, editor, producer: Johanna Schellhagen / Labournet TV
Idea, screenplay, research: Marco Bauer / AngryWorkers
Graphics: Zoff Berlin
Music: Steve Molchanski
Sound design and mixing: Studio Lärm
Color granding: Kim El Ouadi
Animation: Julien Bach
PR: mm-Filmpresse
Labournet TV is a collective of media activists who collect, produce, and screen films about workplace struggles. The website Labournet TV is an online archive of films from the labor movement—old and new—from all parts of the world. The focus is on the situation of wage workers and their self-organization in historical and current labor struggles. The collective regularly produces videos about strikes and important mobilizations in the workplace. Every few years, Labournet TV produces a feature-length documentary, most recently “Der laute Frühling” (The Loud Spring).
Veteran worker activists from around the world recount memories of how the system was last challenged in the 1970s and how the state and capital managed to defeat the movement. Other comrades describe what the transition to a liberated society could look like. Workers who have been working in essential industries for decades explain what is harmful and pointless about their work and how it could be organised sensibly. From this thread of history, theoretical anticipation and everyday experience, we ask the question anew: What is to be done?
Johanna Schellhagen: "With this film, we are responding to a situation that we—like many others, presumably—perceive as a historic turning point. Climate change is intensifying and the economy is stagnating. Those in power can’t think of much else to do besides shifting the declining automotive industry toward arms production and escalating global bloc confrontation. New technologies are being deployed for combat drones and digital financial speculation, while the majority of workers are fobbed off with low-paying service jobs. For us, the old slogan “Socialism or Barbarism” has taken on new relevance; at the same time, we face the task of rethinking and discussing socialism. How can we organize social production consciously and collectively without becoming dependent on either bureaucratic planning bodies or arbitrary market trends?"
A film by Labournet TV and AngryWorkers
Duration: 1 hour 6 mins
Trailer: https://www.everyacre.org/en
Team:
Director, editor, producer: Johanna Schellhagen / Labournet TV
Idea, screenplay, research: Marco Bauer / AngryWorkers
Graphics: Zoff Berlin
Music: Steve Molchanski
Sound design and mixing: Studio Lärm
Color granding: Kim El Ouadi
Animation: Julien Bach
PR: mm-Filmpresse
Labournet TV is a collective of media activists who collect, produce, and screen films about workplace struggles. The website Labournet TV is an online archive of films from the labor movement—old and new—from all parts of the world. The focus is on the situation of wage workers and their self-organization in historical and current labor struggles. The collective regularly produces videos about strikes and important mobilizations in the workplace. Every few years, Labournet TV produces a feature-length documentary, most recently “Der laute Frühling” (The Loud Spring).
Event Details
From 6:00PM to 8:00PM
