For The Rich By The Rich
According to Tory spin doctors working families were given ‘jam’ this week in the Autumn statement. In reality Tory chancellor Hammond has chosen tax cuts for corporations and the rich, rather than putting money in the pockets of ordinary workers. Low-income families are going to be much worse off by the end of the decade. Most of the cuts planned by Osborne are going ahead as planned through freezing in-work benefits, rolling out universal credit and slashing disability payments. According to the parliamentary register of interests the former chancellor has been earning up to £81,000 a time addressing US banks and other financial institutions. In one month alone Osborne made more than £300,000 from speeches. A government of AUSTERITY FOR THE RICH BY THE RICH.
Here are some images of people fighting back in the past and this year.
Workers on strike, East London c.1988
March against government cuts in jobs, services and pensions. London November 2011
Poll Tax Protesters, Chicksand Estate, London 1990
March against government cuts in jobs, services and pensions. London November 2011
Housing protest, Canary Wharf early 1990s
March against government cuts in jobs, services and pensions. London November 2011
Housing protest, Stepney early 1980s
Protest against education cuts, Whitechapel 2008
Protesting against the sale of Council Housing in Tower Hamlets, 1980s
Liverpool NHS Rally 2016
Demonstration against NHS cuts. London 1987
Liverpool 2016
You can support the feature length film about the fight against Austerity here: ‘Austerity Fight’
Patterns Around The World
A frosted log in Mile End Park, London 2009
A motorway in the UK, 2010
Grass patterns, Kerry Ireland 2002
Pattern face on a poster. Brick Lane London 2006
Cloud patterns near Barcelona. Spain 2005
Patterns in a building. County Hall London 2015
Flag patterns Liverpool Pride 2016
Leaf patterns , New York 2005
Metal patterns. Berlin Wall, 2013
Wall patterns in India, c.1992
Wall with patterns, stencils and paint, Paris 2004
Chimney Tops
Spitalfields roof tops, chimneys and spire, c. 1987
Christchurch Spitalfields, rooftops & chimneys 1999
Chimneys on The Highway, Shadwell London 1982
Chimneys in Spitalfields, 1998
Christchurch spire with chimneys, Spitalfields 1991
Truman brewery chimney, Brick Lane. London 2002
The Anglican Cathedral (& chimneys) in Liverpool c.1977
Chimneys in Spitalfields, 1998
Truman brewery chimney, Brick Lane 2007
Empty homes with chimneys, Liverpool 8, 1981
Boat on a river (with chimneys). Bangladesh 1996
Buriganga river with a few boats & distant chimneys. Bangladesh 1992
Around St Pauls Cathedral
Below is the distant view I had from my flat in Whitechapel of St Pauls Cathedral in 1987. The dome has now vanished from the landscape following the building, in subsequent years of office blocks in and around the City of London.
The City with St Pauls viewed from Spitalfields, 1987
View from Whitechapel 2006
Looking West from Whitechapel 2014
St Pauls 2002
St Pauls 2002
St Pauls 2002
St Pauls 2002
Capitalism in Crisis protest, St Pauls Cathedral 2011.
St Pauls 2002
St Pauls underground station, 2007
Planet for sale. Capitalism is Crisis protest, St Pauls Cathedral 2011.
Rain near St Pauls. London 2006
Food In East London
Mother and son at the Sclater Street market, 1998
Mother and son at the Sclater Street market, 1998
In 2003 the Burger bar (above) moved its venue to across the road; the ‘Purveyors of fine food’ lettering has been removed. Still six years later no one appears to be buying a burger and the man with the trolley (below) is walking away from the bar. When I visited the Slater Street market a couple of weeks ago I noticed that the burger bar has disappeared. The land on which the original burger bar rested has now been covered with ‘luxury flats’. Slater Street market is being squeezed out of existence by gentrification that has no regard for history, culture or people on low incomes.
Man with trolley walking away from burger bar, Sclater Street market 2003
Woman resting in a fast food restaurant, Bishopsgate 1989
Hanbury Street 2013
Sclater Street food stall 1986
Young woman passes burger advertisement, Whitechapel Road 2002
Two old fashioned hand carts flank a young man eating his lunch, Whitechapel 1984
One Customer at Rossi’s. Hanbury Street, London 2009.
Woman eating a plate of chips, Cheshire Street London c.1984
Tea, solar pulses, teaspoon and toast at Rossi’s. Hanbury Street, London 2009.
