Jones is one of Amnesty International's longest-term supporters,[1] having assisted Peter Benenson and his father, Elwyn Jones, to help launch Amnesty in 1961 which at the time they believed to be an ambitious one-year campaign.
Jones has produced paintings, murals, political posters and banners for trade unions and local causes,[4][5] as well as illustrating two books of nursery rhymes, Inky, Pinky, Ponky[6] and Mother Goose comes to Cable Street.
[7] Many of his paintings and murals depict East End life and capture much of the social and political history of the area over the last 50 years.
Jones's subjects include political demonstrations from East End history up to the present, from the Poplar Rates Rebellion of 1921, the Blair Peach funeral march in 1979, to the anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street in 1996.
[8] Jones instigated the creation of the Cable Street Mural, whilst Secretary of the Tower Hamlets Trades Council.