PHIL MAXWELL

Seasonal Snow

December 26, 2016

So far it’s not snowed so here are some seasonal ‘snow’ photographs.

Spitalfields c. 1984

Tower Hamlets cemetery, London 2002

Spitalfields c.1984

Looking west from Whitechapel 2002

Hanbury Street, London c.1984

Tower Hamlets cemetery, London 2002

Winter Trees. Spitalfields. London 2010

Winter Trees. Spitalfields, London 1999

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Xmas Campaign To Save Liverpool Women’s Hospital

December 25, 2016

Last Wednesday scores of NHS supporters gathered outside the Liverpool Women’s Hospital for a seasonal singalong designed to let the NHS privatisers know that they are carrying on with their campaign. Across the country people are fighting back for the NHS and for maternity care.

Fighting to keep the Liverpool Women’s Hospital open, 2016

Lots of anti-cuts campaigners supported the event. 2016

These two supporters of the campaign were both born in the Women’s Hospital, 2016.

Singing to save the Women’s Hospital, 2016.

The event was supported by the GMB Union, 2016.

Singing to save the Liverpool Women’s hospital, 2016.

Singing to save the Liverpool Women’s hospital, 2016.

Two supporters enjoying the music, 2016.

Singing to save the Liverpool Women’s hospital, 2016.

Two supporters before the music began, 2016.

A NHS campaigner outlines the case for retaining the hospital on its present site, 2016.

A NHS campaigner outlines the case for retaining the hospital on its present site, 2016.

Singing to save the Liverpool Women’s hospital, 2016.

Liverpool Women’s hospital, 2016.

The campaigns banner, 2016.

The Virgin health empire is said to be interested in the hospital, 2016.

Liverpool Women’s hospital, 2016.

You may also be interested in: Save Liverpool Women’s Hospital

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Deliveroo Delivers Inequality

December 24, 2016

It is now difficult to walk anywhere in London without seeing cyclists pedaling furiously to deliver take away food to customers. In Victorian times servants were kept downstairs to serve their employers; today they travel the streets exhausted without even receiving an hourly fee. If they are waiting to make a delivery they don’t get paid. Riders can be waiting for up to an hour for a delivery without getting paid a penny. Last month DELIVEROO food couriers gathered in London to discuss a plan to force the company to offer better workers’ rights. Workers in north London are demanding union recognition, inspired by the recent landmark employment tribunal ruling against private vehicle hire company Uber. In a test case brought by general union GMB, the tribunal panel invoked Shakespeare and Milton in a withering judgement last month, throwing out Uber’s claim that it was merely a technology company. It was ruled that Uber drivers were workers rather than self-employed contractors. The judgement could trigger sweeping changes across the so-called “gig economy.” Precarious workers could win access to the national minimum wage and holiday pay because of the ruling, which Uber is now appealing against.

Delivery cyclists in London have become a symbol of a city deeply divided between the rich and the poor.