Martin Powell-Davies - teacher, trade unionist and socialist

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Thursday, 22 July 2010

Hackney ballot wins significant workload gains

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NUT members at Morningside Primary School have secured some significant gains after a strong 17 to 1 ballot in favour of strike action helpe...
Thursday, 15 July 2010

July NUT Executive Report

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PREPARE FOR A MASS CAMPAIGN OF ACTION The July Meeting of the NUT National Executive met as most teachers were looking forward to a hard-ea...
Wednesday, 14 July 2010

Lobby Tells Lewisham Mayor to Fight the Cuts

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100 trade unionists and community campaigners gathered on the steps of Lewisham Town Hall on July 14th to join a lobby called by Lewisham NU...
Monday, 12 July 2010

NUT Education Conference - an international struggle

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Delegates at the NUT's National Education Conference at Stoke Rochford Hall discussed a whole range of pressures facing teachers and edu...
Sunday, 4 July 2010

Call for national action against Academies and Cuts

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JUST HOW POOR do they think our memories are? This Government wants the public to believe that it is the ‘excesses’ of overpaid public secto...
Monday, 28 June 2010

DFE releases lists of potential new Academy schools

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GOVERNMENT EDUCATION minister Michael Gove is determined to push through the Tory agenda of putting ‘rocket-boosters’ under the academies pr...
Monday, 21 June 2010

Lewisham NUT calls for national action

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Thanks to an invitation to make my views on the Budget known on the Jeremy Vine Show, I even had a chance to tell Radio 2 listeners that we ...
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Martin Powell-Davies

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* Brought up as a socialist by parents who hungered for what is right * One adopted grandfather left me a double-barrelled name, the other his name on a 1926 General Strike black-list * Given a comprehensive education at St.Andrew's, Leatherhead * First-class degree from King's College, Cambridge, for those who like that kind of thing * Secondary science teacher in London 1986-2015 * Lewisham NUT Secretary 1993-2015, organiser of many campaigns to defend teachers and education * Father of four who were all so well-supported by Sedgehill School, SE6. * Member of the NUT National Executive 2010-15 * NEU London Regional Secretary 2016 - 19 * Moved to Cumbria to return to teaching 2019 * Candidate for NEU DGS in 2021 * Proud to have been name-checked by Gove for saying that his 'reforms' could make teaching unbearable * Member of the CWI, following its global struggles via http://www.socialistworld.net * Exiled member of Penge CC, still a 'Middle Aged Man In Lycra' when I can be.
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