"I am a worker and the son of a worker. I am not ashamed of my class. It is the class that built the world's roads, ships and factories, its houses, libraries and schools. It has made everything that is good in the world, while all the robber class has done is hold up the job so it can collar the profits." Jim Edwards

James Edwards' book "Waiting For the Revolution" is being turned into a television drama to screen on TV One next year. It tells the story of the Unemployed Workers' Movement and the hunger marches and the 1932 Queen St riot. The producers need hundreds of volunteers to take part in the re-created marches and the riot. They need lean and hungry pakeha males, 18-60.

Anyone interested, contact Aileen O'Sullivan, seann (at) ihug.co.nz

James Edwards' father, Jim, was a prominent communist and activist in New Zealand, who was imprisoned because of his political beliefs several times. From the 1910s through to the 1940s he was involved in many struggles, such as opposing conscription during World War I, supporting Sacco and Vanzetti and other political prisoners in both New Zealand and abroad and the anti-eviction and unemployed movement. On April 14th 1932 15,000 angry workers and unemployed marched up Queen Street to attend a meeting in the Town Hall to discuss industrial action against continued pay cuts. When police forcibly refused demonstrators entry the crowd got very angry. Jim Edwards tried to calm down the crowd but was then batoned over the head by a policeman. This triggered a riot that saw 250 smashed shop windows, 200 people injured in clashes with the police and 'special constables' and 45 people arrested.