Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1944) Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1944) The Revolutionary Communist Party was a British Trotskyist group, formed in 1944 and active until 1949, which published the newspaper "Socialist Appeal" and a theoretical journal, "Workers International News". The party was founded as the official section of the Fourth International in Britain after the Revolutionary Socialist League collapsed. Moreover, the RSL had not adopted the positions of the Fourth International with regard to the Second World War and was polemicising against the Workers International League (WIL), declaring it to be following politics which it characterised as social patriotic. The positions of the WIL corresponded
Visit to Picasso Visit to Picasso Visit to Picasso ("Bezoek aan Picasso") is a Belgian documentary film from 1949 about painter Pablo Picasso, directed by Belgian filmmaker Paul Haesaerts. In an effort to capture the nature of Picasso's creative process, Paul Haesaerts asked the Spanish painter to apply his magical brushstrokes to large glass plates as Haesaerts filmed from the other side. This actually predates the more famous art film "The Mystery of Picasso" (1956) by Henri-Georges Clouzot in which Picasso also paints to large transparent canvases as the director films from the other side. The filming took place in Picasso's studio in