Reddest of the Reds
SO Davies, MP and miners’ leader
by Robert Griffiths
STEPHEN OWEN DAVIES was one of the 20th century’s great rebels. Robert Griffiths biography tells his story.
From working underground at the age of 12, he rose through the ranks of the South Wales Miners Federation and the Miners Federation of Great Britain. The police and intelligence services tried to disrupt his work with the Red International of Labour Unions and the League Against Imperialism.
As the Labour MP for Merthyr Tydfil and a comrade of Aneurin Bevan, he campaigned inside and outside parliament against the Poor Law and the Means Test, and for the rights of workers, women and the unemployed. During the Great Depression, his efforts helped prevent the abandonment of Merthyr Tydfil as a living, working community.
He went to Nazi Germany to demand the release from prison of Communists and trade unionists.
Labour leader Clement Attlee disowned him when he called for the US embassy and military bases to be closed following the ‘cold-blooded murder’ of the Rosenbergs. He led the charge against the alleged use of biological weapons in the Korean War.
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Contents
The battle for pedagogy
Dead facts or really powerful knowledge? Terry Wrigley
Building critical consciousness through dialogic reading in the primary classroom Phil Yeeles
Challenging neoliberal orthodoxy through creative pedagogy Jess Edwards
Michael Gove and the implications of ‘elitism’ in education Ken Jones
An inescapable concern: The Scottish and English curriculum through the prism of Paolo Freire James Douglas
Pedagogy, power and control in Welsh education reform Dave B Morgan
Measured intelligence: moonshine and shadow Patrick Yarker
No-one’s brain is pink Kiri Tunks
We need roses too: student voices in revolutionary Cuba Aretha Green
Mastery mathematics: but who is the slave? Julian Williams
What is happening to Early Years education? Lucy Coleman
In search of a radical pedagogy Gawain Little
Tony Farsky Martin Brown
