May Day International Workers’ Day
The 1904 International Socialist Conference in Amsterdam, the Sixth Conference of the Second International, called on “all Social Democratic Party organisations and trade unions of all countries to demonstrate energetically on the First of May for the legal establishment of the 8-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat, and for universal peace”. Today, the majority of countries around the world celebrate a workers’ day on May 1. These photographs celebrate workers in struggle over the past three decades.
RMT banner from London. Liverpool 2017.
Save Our NHS, Liverpool 2017.
Tower Hamlets protest against Le Pen 1991.
Trump protest, Liverpool 2017.
Protester at anti nuclear rally. Brighton sea front early 1980s.
Protest against education cuts, Whitechapel East London 2007.
Battle of Cable street anniversary 2016.
Women protesters against racist murderers. Newham, East London 1980s.
Port protest against poor working conditions, Liverpool 2017.
Anti Poll Tax demo. Trafalgar Square 1990.
Protester against cuts in adult education, East London 2010.
Liverpool Docker on strike in the 1990s.
Junior Doctors on strike. Liverpool 2016.
Women in support of the miners, London 1984.
Marie Harrison, secretary of the of the Merseyside Pensioners Association protesting against DWP sanctions outside a Job Centre. Liverpool 2017.
East London women in support of the miners, Kent 1984.
A protester against budget cuts outside the Town Hall. Liverpool 2017.
March against government cuts in jobs, services and pensions. London November 2011.
Health workers protest. London Hospital c. 1986.
Trade Union banner 2016. Banner at the 80th anniversary commemoration of the Battle Of Cable Street.
Nurse demonstrating against NHS cuts outside the London Hospital, 09/03/2011.
RMT banner from Doncaster. Liverpool 2017.
Banner at the 80th anniversary commemoration of the Battle Of Cable Street 2016.
Tax the rich. TUC demonstration, March 2010.
No Trident. March against the privatisation of the NHS. London 2017.
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