Martin Powell-Davies - teacher, trade unionist and socialist

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Sunday, 21 July 2013

Solidarity with the South African mineworkers

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The international news from South Africa is focusing on the poor health of Nelson Mandela.  Regrettably, for the overwhelming majority of ...
Saturday, 13 July 2013

Does every child still matter ?

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A report from the 2013 National Education Conference This weekend, the NUT’s National Education Conference is meeting over a glorious ...
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Friday, 12 July 2013

Gove's policies widen the class divide in education

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I had an opportunity this morning to discuss how the widening divide between rich and poor in Britain - combined with the damaging effects o...
Thursday, 11 July 2013

NUT Executive Report - get ready for our ongoing calendar of action

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UPDATE: the calendar of ongoing action has now been released: a second phase of rolling national strike action in the week beginning 30 Se...

Lewisham Headteachers provoke dispute over performance-pay - action will follow

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Michael Gove is on a mission to deregulate teachers’ pay and conditions as part of a broader Government agenda to privatise public services ...
Monday, 8 July 2013

Greenwich teachers ask - 'when are we going on strike?'

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I was invited to speak as a National Executive member to Greenwich NUT tonight. One of the first questions I was asked as we gathered in the...

Supply Teachers - at the sharp end of privatisation

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On Saturday, a packed NUT Supply Teachers' Conference met at the National Union's HQ, Hamilton House, to discuss how to defend and o...
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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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