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Daniel Whittall is a teacher and National Education Union Workplace Rep.
This summer marks 180 years since the general strike of 1842, when hundreds of thousands of workers walked out calling for higher pay, a shorter day, and democratic reform – demands that remain just as relevant today.
Ofsted has spent its thirty years inflicting surveillance and stress on teachers and judging working-class schools more harshly than their wealthy counterparts – it must be replaced.