Fight To Save The NHS!
Thousands of demonstrators from across the UK marched through central London last Saturday calling for an end of the Tory butchering of the NHS. We must fight to save the NHS from destruction. The threat is real. It is happening now. Hospitals, GPs, mental health, ambulance and community services are on their knees.
Private companies are gaining an ever greater foothold within the NHS. Years of pay restraint has seen the value of NHS staff salaries reduce by 14% since 2010. The Government’s Sustainability and Transformation Plans are a smokescreen for a massive programme of hospital and community service closures, and are its latest instrument for privatisation.
The NHS is one of our greatest achievements. We cannot allow it to be undermined and ultimately destroyed. Here are some images from NHS campaigns in 2016/17.
NHS campaigner, Sam Semoff outlines the case for retaining the Liverpool Women’s hospital on its present site, 2016.
Humanitarian crisis. NHS demonstration. London 2017.
Sam Semoff an NHS campaigner outlines the case for retaining the Liverpool Women’s hospital on its present site, 2016.
NHS demonstration. London 2017.
NHS demonstration. London 2017.
Bad decisions. NHS demonstration. London 2017.
No Trident. March against the privatisation of the NHS. London 2017.
NHS is not for sale. Manchester, October 2017.
Save Our NHS, Liverpool 2017.
Save Our NHS demonstration, Liverpool 2017.
Best Of January 2018
Here are a few of my favourite images taken in January 2018.
Man in a hood. Picton Road. Liverpool, January 3rd 2018.
Window in Sandown Lane. Liverpool, January 3rd 2018.
Delivery man on Picton Road. Liverpool, January 3rd 2018.
Cyclist passing the Wellington Road Mission. Liverpool, January 4th 2018.
Pub window on Picton Road. Liverpool, January 5th 2018.
Outside The Clock pub on Picton Road. Liverpool, January 5th 2018.
Frosted leaf in Wavertree Park. Liverpool January 7th 2018.
Bus stop on Picton Road. Liverpool January 2018.
Windows in the Philharmonic bar. Liverpool, January 2018.
Lime Street. Liverpool January 2018.
Naples & Venice
Two boys seated on the street in Naples, Italy 1988.
Mannequin in a shop window. Venice, Italy 2006.
Woman selling newspapers on the street in Naples, Italy 1988.
Man sleeping. Naples 1986.
St Marks Square, Venice, Italy 2006.
Two on a motorcycle. Naples 1989.
Walking home. Venice 2006.
Posters on the wall. Naples 1988.
Statue of an angel on a church. Venice 2006.
Woman seated on a water bus. Venice 2006.
Liverpool Austerity Fight Screening
Thanks to everyone who supported the latest screening of Austerity Fight in Liverpool. It was a full house and a great atmosphere. Our hosts the Plaza cinema were amazing and the evening was kicked off brilliantly by the Liverpool Socialist Singers. The Q&A was chaired with gusto by Audrey White (who was recently nominated by the TUC as one of the most influential women of the last 100 years). Local MP Peter Dowd welcomed the shadow foreign secretary who gave an incisive speech at the end of the evening on why we need a Labour Government to get rid of austerity and its dreadful impact on millions of people. DVD’s of the film will be available for purchase online in March.
Co-director Hazuan Hashim outside the Plaza Community Cinema in Crosby. February 2nd 2018.
The Plaza Community Cinema in Crosby was saved and restored after a long campaign. February 2nd 2018.
Liverpool Socialist singers entertained the audience before the curtain was raised.February 2nd 2018.
The Plaza Community Cinema in Crosby. February 2nd 2018.
Chris Hopkins composed music for the film. He is seen here with Emily Thornberry and his partner Rachel.
Peter Dowd MP for Bootle constituency and shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
Emily Thornberry MP Shadow Foreign Secretary.
NHS campaigner Joel Christopher, who features in the film, selects a winning ticket in the raffle.
Holding the Austerity Fight banner.
Commercial Street In 2016
On the phone in Commercial Street. East London 2016.
Woman wearing headphones on Commercial Street. East London 2016.
Crane on Commercial Street. East London 2016.
Looking west from Commercial Street. East London 2016.
Cyclist on the pavement in Commercial Street. East London 2016.
View of the facade of the former fruit exchange. The rest of the building was destroyed. Viewed from Commercial Street. East London 2016.
Commercial Street. East London 2016.
Woman with her lunch in Commercial Street. East London 2016.
Man wearing a cap on Commercial Street. East London 2016.
