Martin Powell-Davies

Teacher, trade unionist and socialist, now an editor for Mentmore Press.

[Martin Powell-Davies @MPDNUT]

If you know of an independent bookshop - or you are one! - interested in stocking the latest titles from Mentmore Press, please get in touch!

[Dave Nellist @davenellist]

𝗠𝗼𝗻, 𝟴𝘁𝗵 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲, 𝟭𝟴:𝟯𝟬 𝗼𝗻 𝗭𝗼𝗼𝗺
After the May elections - what now for working-class political representation? What role can trade union reps and activists play?
Tickets from: https://t.co/ZW8dHbwfpk

[Martin Powell-Davies @MPDNUT]

@EdmundGriffiths #Decisions are not for the likes of you, you might not make ones that are acceptable 😉. (Seriously, what a disgraceful slur on how a good labour movement branch meeting organises too!)

[Martin Powell-Davies @MPDNUT]

"Some corner of a foreign field".
Not in Flanders or even Gallipoli but here, hidden amongst some olives planted above a gully in the thorny hills of southern Skyros, lies the grave of Rupert Brooke. "A young Apollo ... magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life"

[Martin Powell-Davies @MPDNUT]

Youth will have to fight for the decent future that capitalism will not offer them - read more here: -https://t.co/2G50ve75Dl

[Martin Powell-Davies @MPDNUT]

A revolution in progress ... #Bolivia https://t.co/od7YffBY5k

[Martin Powell-Davies @MPDNUT]

Yes that's €2.13 or £1.85 a litre

[Martin Powell-Davies @MPDNUT]

Trade unionists must condemn the TUC's dangerous statement linking PIP to work - which will be used by a Labour government to support its efforts to cut spending on people with disabilities.
https://t.co/Zl41BWNDYp

[Martin Powell-Davies @MPDNUT]

Found a new stadium for #WestHam for their future fixtures ...

[Socialist Party @Socialist_party]

A working-class fight against Labour austerity can beat back Reform and the right

Issue 1367 with the Socialist Party's analysis of the elections is out now:
https://t.co/EcjNgyDne4

[Martin Powell-Davies @MPDNUT]

After the May elections - an analysis that needs to be read, discussed - and acted upon: https://t.co/8RYdJk0edV

[Socialist Party @Socialist_party]

*May elections: Capitalist politics in crisis, time for a workers' party*

2026 will be remembered as the year that Britain’s existing political order finally fell apart.

https://t.co/0u6qwcdWLh

[Martin Powell-Davies @MPDNUT]

@EdmundGriffiths A further factor is a long period of lack where trade unions have not taken national action - that makes it harder for TUSC's call for a union fightback to be understood. Hopefully the Left victories just announced in PCS - following that in Unite - can start to change that!

[Martin Powell-Davies @MPDNUT]

@EdmundGriffiths The factors in this set of results are largely objective ones arising from a particular set of circumstances. The idea that Socialist Party members don't know 'how' to win elections when factors are more in our favour is erroneous. For example: https://t.co/h6vxDdMCZS

[Martin Powell-Davies @MPDNUT]

@ChrisCorney1 Worth noting the low Reform vote in Bevois compared to the rest of the Southampton elections - disillusioned workers can be pulled to the Left away from the Right if a clear program is given. https://t.co/Vlcith1ZLU

[Martin Powell-Davies @MPDNUT]

@ChrisCorney1 And cutting across Reform

[Martin Powell-Davies @MPDNUT]

@EdmundGriffiths What's also worth analysing is the low Reform vote in Bevois compared to the rest of the Southampton elections - disillusioned workers can be pulled to the Left away from the Right if a clear program is given. https://t.co/Vlcith1ZLU

[Martin Powell-Davies @MPDNUT]

@EdmundGriffiths All are factors - & all expected in advance. The #TUSC vote was always going to be squeezed as 'protest votes' went to the nationally known 'protest parties'. Bevois shows where TUSC was seen as having a chance, it could do well. Just think what a proper YP stand could have done.

[Martin Powell-Davies @MPDNUT]

Good Luck to Penny standing for @TUSCoalition in #Plungingron today, demanding councils fight – instead of just passing on cuts as other parties do – by organising a mass campaign to win the funding needed for jobs and services from central government!
https://t.co/Ni8R2prOfx

[Martin Powell-Davies @MPDNUT]

Happy memories of #interrail back in 1983 - when Yugoslavia still existed and when you could still get to Greece by train ...

[Martin Powell-Davies @MPDNUT]

As I said when councillors were boasting about getting #Tdf2027 in Cumbria whilst also admitting a council cuts crisis ... Who pays for the new tarmac??
"Dutton said he was currently working with the local authorities to tackle potholes on the race route". https://t.co/EdcLlhzm0W