CONTENTS
µNEW Preparing for NUT Conference 2010, Bill calls for a
"Unified, strategic approach against the ruling class offensive"
µNEW Derby campaign for The People's Charter
µAlways NEW Bill Blogs
µNEW Book Review - "The Education Revolution" - Cuba's alternative to neoliberalism
The General Election - A Statement for Education?
The People's Charter & an Education Charter?
The People's Charter - origins and directions
- an introduction to a discussion with Derby Fabians
photographs from the Union delegation to Cuba and many others
Deputy General Secretary & Vice President
Unity - an absolute necessity!
The Commodification of Education
contributions at political party suppers, round table discussions and seminars
Bill's report from revolutionary Venezuela
and his photographs from Venezuela
Defending Education: learning lessons
International crisis and our trade unions
Bill's President's Speech to NUT Conference, March 2008
"Organising for Education, Professionalism & Solidarity"
BBC TV Bill's introduction to Academy issues
Speech to New South Wales teachers - a decade of Blairism
Letter to the press on the conflict in Gaza
...and another letter following the Gaza ceasefire
Bill's photographs of the Gaza demonstration, London
The pay campaign - learning the lessons,
continuing the campaign in new conditions
Sinfin Community School fights academisation
Sinfin Community School Derby -
Seminar on the commodification of education October 2008
President's Address to Divisional Secretaries Briefing October 2008
Bill's speech to TUC September 2008 in defence of public services
Press article published during TUC week
Speech at the Burston Strike School rally Sept 2008
Video interview on Academy Schools & local protests
powerpoint on Trusts, Academies & LEPs
Our 'National Challenge' to Government...
Ed Balls should be ashamed of his 'National Challenge' attack on children from the most disadvantaged bacgrounds,
their teachers and their schools...
Zimbabwe - Bill's TUC Congress speech
Zimbabwe is very much in the news - this is the text of Bill's contribution to the debate on behalf of the Union at the 2007 TUC Congress
"Value Children, Value Their Teachers" - what are the pay cuts really all about?
The Daily Telegraph on "Now's The Time To Crush The NUT"
...and Bill's Letter To The Editor
Radio 4 "Last Word" - Christine & Alan Johnson
Phil Katz - Steve's close friend and comrade - writes his tribute to Steve
µNEW all the time NUTv - click here for NUT YouTube
Radio 4 "Talking Politics" argues for the full-blown privatisation of education 12th April 2008...
... and Bill's response to "Feedback"
Organising in the Union - a reply to an email from a new member
Bill has produced this powerpoint to use at Association meetings where he's been invited to speak on Trusts and Academies
All dressed up & nowhere to go..
why the NUT withdrew from the Oxford Union Society debate on Grammar Schools
The link between social class and educational achievement
Hot news... or just stating the bleeding obvious?
Article for NUT's Education Review and the radical education journal Education For Tomorrow
"Equality in Education? It's a question of Class!"
Speech at Education for Tomorrow meeting
Class and education bringing down the barriers for children from the toughest backgrounds
Bhagat Singh Celebrating the life of a great anti-imperialist
The public sector pay campaign
What do you think of the European Union Constitutional Treaty?
Just a bit of "tidying up" or another step to the neoliberal superstate based on privatisation & the rule of "market forces"?
Blair's decade - education & the neoliberal agenda
Bill's keynote speech to the Australian New South Wales Teachers Federation Conference - July 2007
"Get Organised" - the Organising Culture and the Union
Thinking about some of the things that came out of Conference 2007
"Britishness" - culture, ideas, values and class
The NUT Organising Culture - The Role of School Reps
A powerpoint that Bill has produced illustrating the external pressures on the union, and our own policy and organisational priorities that, he argues, require a major commitment to the support and development of School Reps.
Save Our School' & 'Save Our Community Schools' - do they always mean the same thing?
EMAG Mugged! A successful Derby NUT meeting taking up EMAG members' concerns
Public Services - a touch of class the NUT/TUC rally "Speaking Up For Public Services"
How do we develop equalities issues at the heart of our work without sectionalising the Union?
Please download, adapt, improve and use any of the following PowerPoints...
µThe context of the Education Act µThe Workload Campaign
Selected published articles by Bill - "A people's coalition for a comprehensive future" and a foreword to a recently published pamphlet "Education For The People"
CRE Race Convention "Sleepwalking to Segregation or Strength Through Diversity?"
Faith schools - a trade union discussion & views from Leicester City
NUT Race Advisory Committee - Jarvis Tyner, veteran US black activist
Fighting the Education Bill, reducing teacher workload... a good local school for every child
Solidarity with Cuba and Venezuela!
"Recruiting to NUT, competition & professional unity"
"What will YOU do in the fight for education?"
What really lies behind the war in the Middle East? What can the Union do?
2005-6... The Union year in focus
Bill's view of NUT's international work including Cuba and Meeting with Venezuelan President Chavez
Report from international meeting on education privatisation
Bill "in his own write" The "unreconstructed old bolshevik" prepares to bore his grandchildren with his reminiscences and philosophy!
Bill's biographical details and election promises! A short pamphlet - produced during the National Officer elections -by Bill examining the issues facing education, what we need to achieve, and how to organise ourselves.
