Martin Powell-Davies - teacher, trade unionist and socialist

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Sunday, 26 September 2010

Greenwich ‘Free School’ Plan – a Trojan Horse to help privatise schools

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With Lewisham NUT’s energies focussed on persuading governors at Tidemill School in Deptford not to become an Academy, it was a shock to fin...
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Wednesday, 22 September 2010

Learn the lessons of Ireland - cuts ruin economies

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As the Con-Dems try to Con us that cuts are needed to save the economy, the report below from Cork's Irish Socialist Party Councillor, M...
Sunday, 19 September 2010

‘Neither necessary nor inevitable’ – Organise to fight the cuts !

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The Government are wielding their spending axe to chop our pensions, jobs and public services. Con-Dem ministers – along with many local cou...
Thursday, 16 September 2010

Cuts Cost Lives - Support London's Firefighters

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In an impressive show of strength, thousands of uniformed fire-fighters marched through the streets of London today to protest at the London...
Tuesday, 14 September 2010

Help build the London anti-cuts demonstration on October 23rd

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Tonight's meeting of the London Transport Regional Council of the RMT agreed to call a London anti-cuts demonstration on Saturday Octobe...

Ofsted blame teachers again

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I was pleased to get an opportunity on Radio 2's Jeremy Vine Show to respond to Ofsted's claims - rightly described as 'insultin...
Monday, 13 September 2010

TUC - we need action not just words

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A lively demonstration and packed rallies organised by the National Shop Stewards Network to lobby the TUC Congress in Manchester yesterday ...
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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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