Vanessa Redgrave premieres documentary on Bosnia labour rights
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STORY: British actress and activist Vanessa Redgrave premiered a documentary late on Friday (October 3) made together with her son about a workers' uprising in Bosnia earlier this year that typifies the pain of post-communist transition in eastern Europe.
"Bosnia Rising" centres around the fight to save a detergent factory in the northern Bosnian town of Tuzla, once a hub for the metals and chemicals industries of former Yugoslavia but now home to one in five of Bosnia's 27.5 percent registered unemployed.
The Dita factory, which before the Bosnian 1992-95 war made detergents used in households up and down the former socialist Yugoslavia, today stands idle after a failed privatisation by a local tycoon. The plant is guarded around the clock by its workers who fear the owner might sell off the machinery.
"Social justice is something people everywhere are crying for and rallying for it, organising for it, and are determined, if we
STORY: British actress and activist Vanessa Redgrave premiered a documentary late on Friday (October 3) made together with her son about a workers' uprising in Bosnia earlier this year that typifies the pain of post-communist transition in eastern Europe.
"Bosnia Rising" centres around the fight to save a detergent factory in the northern Bosnian town of Tuzla, once a hub for the metals and chemicals industries of former Yugoslavia but now home to one in five of Bosnia's 27.5 percent registered unemployed.
The Dita factory, which before the Bosnian 1992-95 war made detergents used in households up and down the former socialist Yugoslavia, today stands idle after a failed privatisation by a local tycoon. The plant is guarded around the clock by its workers who fear the owner might sell off the machinery.
"Social justice is something people everywhere are crying for and rallying for it, organising for it, and are determined, if we
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