Martin Flannery

Martin Henry Flannery (* 2. March 1918 in Hillsborough , Sheffield ; † 16th October 2006 ) was a British politician and long-time lower house deputy of the Labor Party .

biography

Flannery, whose parents both Irish were origin, began after the visit of the Sacred Heart School of Hillsborough and the De La Salle School in Sheffield a teaching degree at Sheffield College of Education and at the Sheffield Teacher's Training College. After completing his studies, he worked as a teacher for a while before joining the British Army as a volunteer at the beginning of the Second World War , where he was a soldier in the 1st Battalion of the Royal Scots . In 1942 he was first in India and later in Burma , where he was wounded in 1945 and was therefore dismissed from the army with the rank of warrant officer .

On his return to England he took in 1946 his work as a teacher at a primary school ( Primary School ) in Sheffield back to where it against the physical punishment of students began. During this time he also joined the Communist Party of Great Britain , but left it after the Red Army put down the Hungarian uprising in 1956 and became a strong critic of Stalinism . He later joined the Labor Party, but also represented extreme leftist opinions there. He was also a representative of anti-Zionism and at the same time a supporter of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) . Because of his Irish ancestry, he also advocated the ideas of the Irish Republic , but rejected acts of violence by the IRA . His wife remained a member of the Communist Party until it dissolved itself in 1991.

In 1969 he became principal of the Crookesmoor Junior School Sheffield and the following year a member of the National Executive of the Teachers Union (National Union of Teachers), in which he represented predominantly left-wing opinions until 1974.

In the elections on February 28, 1974 he was elected a member of the House of Commons , where he represented the constituency of Sheffield Hillsborough until 1992. Between 1980 and 1981 he was chairman of the left-wing group of Labor MPs known as the Tribune Group. In 1982 he was one of 32 Labor MPs who voted against the Falklands War . The following year he ran for the left wing of the Labor Party for the office of Parliamentary Director ( Chief Whip ) of the Labor Group in the lower house, but was defeated by Michael Cocks . As a member of parliament, he was only just able to defend his constituency in the general election of 1983 and 1987 against the strong Liberal Party . In 1985 there was also an internal party opposition candidacy from the left-wing Clive Bett.

Even after he left the House of Commons, he took part in political debates. After a visit to Northern Ireland in 1994, he defended the presence of British troops to protect the Catholics living there from acts of violence. He was also an opponent of the European Community , the New Labor founded by Tony Blair , and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq .

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personal data
SURNAME	Flannery, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Flannery, Martin Henry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British Labor Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH	March 2, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hillsborough (Sheffield) , Sheffield
DATE OF DEATH	October 16, 2006