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The Night Shift

RPM Publications is delighed to announce that we will be publishing in October 2005 the latest works of Ian Newton, author of 'Dustbingate' and 'Pizza Wars.'

The Night Shift is a 6 part comedy series which will have you rocking with laughter.

Orders in advance are £5, post free from our PO Box.

What reviewers have already said:

David Douglass - NUM

Extremely well observed, well represented, hilarious portrayal of workplace characters , dialogue and events. Workers of all descriptions in all kinds of workplaces will readily identify with this series. It will doubtless spark a flurry of their own memories of mates and situations and be the cornerstone to popular pub and canteen crack . This could become a classic sitcom, though doubtless it will raise a few middle class PC eyebrows on the way, particularly among those who have no comprehension of how working folk on the shop floor and industry manage their diversity with spirited humour and pragmatic solidarity.

Peter Boden, Yorkshire TV producer for the classic ‘Rising Damp’

“real gritty stuff which made me rock with hysterical laughter just reading them.”

Oscar winning producer Ruth Kenley-Letts

“One of the best writers of Northern gritty comedy dialogue. I was on a train and found myself unable to contain myself and was laughing out loud as I read.”

Matthew Chaplin, script editor Tiger Aspect Films

“I almost wet myself as I read one of the scripts.”

Mick Gosling ­ NUJ NEC member and former TGWU branch secretary at Fords in
Dagenham.

“Irvine Welsh meets Mike Leigh in the real Full Monty. Guaranteed to piss of every politically correct poseur from left, right and centre who has never worked a nightshift, realised the madness of the jobs we do and had their humour faculty lobotomised.”

OUT NOW!

Radical and Revolting

The English Working Class

Our task must to be rescue the words of the Diggers and Levellers from obscurity and to locate them quite firmly in the context of working-class history and struggle; to seek inspiration from their words and actions; to ensure that all of these disparate voices are united under the common theme of working class resistance to poverty and oppression.

“I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest he, and therefore truly, sir, I think it is clear to every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent to put himself under that government.” 
Leveller Colonel Thomas Rainborough

“The rich and the great will never act to alleviate the distress and remove the poverty felt by the working people of England. What then is to be done? Why, the labouring classes must do it themselves, or it will for ever be left undone.”
George Loveless, Tolpuddle Martyr

“We renounce, repudiate, and condemn all hereditary inequalities and distinctions of caste; we declare that the earth with all its natural productions is the common property of all.‘’ 
Julian Harney 

Articles on:

The Levellers  - Luddites - Tolpuddle Martyrs - Chartists
- Suffragettes - Burston School Strike - Cable Street
- Miners Strike - The 2003 anti-war demo

Available from RPM Publications, BCM Box 3328, London WC1N 3XX at £2.50 plus 46 pence postage, bulk orders welcome, review copies available

Details on 07967 886257

New Section!

Political and industrial news from Spain, featuring reports on the current situation, translations of articles by Spanish activists and a picture archive. Click here to find out more.

The 2nd edition of

Who Killed Patrick Quinn?
The Framing of Malcolm Kennedy

is out on April 26th 2004 from RPM Publications

- Includes all the additional evidence which has been uncovered in the last few years

ISBN 0-9543014-4-7

- Review copies available for magazines and newspapers
(ring 0845 345 3958)

Patrick Quinn, from Donegal in Ireland, was killed in Hammersmith Police Station in the early hours of Christmas Eve 1990. The police charged Malcolm Kennedy with his murder. Kennedy maintains he saw police officers assault Quinn. After an 11 week second re-trial, Kennedy was eventually convicted of manslaughter in May 1994.

Kennedy was released from prison in 1996, and has continued to deny any involvement in Quinn’s death. Kennedy claims to have suffered persistent and continuous harassment from ‘persons unknown’ within the police and security services, which has been a major factor in him restarting the campaign to prove his innocence.

In recent years new witnesses have revealed that Patrick Quinn had had a history of conflict with Hammersmith Police before his death in their custody in December 1990.

It has also been established that Joseph Fallon, a good friend of Quinn’s, also died in the custody of Hammersmith Police in 1987 and that at least one officer on duty on the night of Quinn’s death must have been aware of this as he contacted a man who knew both of them very well.

In 1998 three police officers from Hammersmith, with the support of the Police Federation successfully sued ‘World in Action’, forcing Granada TV to pay out over £1.5 million in costs and damages. One of those, ex-PC Paul Giles, has subsequently appeared in the newspapers appealing for help in meeting Patrick Quinn’s family.

Meanwhile in 2002-03 a record 104 people died while in police custody or in accidents involving police cars. Of these 40 died in custody or soon after being released. As 2003 ended; police officers were in court trying to have overturned the inquest verdict of ‘unlawful killing’ in the case of Roger Sylvester from Tottenham in north London.

£5 plus 50 pence postage and packing from RPM Publications

THE RISE OF THE BNP AND HOW TO COUNTER IT

Not since the 1970s has there been such a large growth in support for fascism in Britain. With nearly 20 local councillors, increased membership and positive media publicity the BNP are set to win seats at the 2004 European Elections. Amongst some people there is a real fear that they can do little to stop the BNP growing. In this short pamphlet, intended as a discussion document and not ‘a tablet of stone’ the author tries to set out a strategy for countering the BNP and its anti-working class politics.

Out now! £1.00 plus 44p postage (see BOOKLETS section for details)

Click here to read this pamphlet