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	New Direction
		Of all of the issues I've had time to consider in a political sense, probably the one on which I am willing to admit I have been least consistent is the issue of Britain's nuclear deterrent, which I have been for and against many times.
		For many on the left, the issue represents a litmus test, but I'm not sure Bevan would agree that the shibboleth it represents is such a key priority; and on a Bevanism scale of one to ten, I'm probably somewhere around 8.
		I'm not saying that the issue is unimportant, but I can see great arguments from all perspectives, with probably the biggest flaw of any being the cost of the things.
	newerlabour.blogspot.com (3206 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Behind the "Anti-Americanism" of Mr. Bevan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		...Bevan and his supporters to stress the need to help the backward countries, but they must know that (a) this is no substitute for a short-term defense policy, which remains essential on other grounds...
		...BEVAN Thus we are led to regard as the core of the whole Bevanite program in foreign affairs a claim to some special recipe for dragging the "backward" countries out of their misery, by a suitable marriage of American (capitalist) technology and British (socialist) policy...
		...Bevan on the Labor party executive, recently told a Fabian audience that it was a terrible thing for British Labor to be lined up with imperialist America against "the workingclass governments" of Russia and Eastern Europe...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V14I1P21-1.htm (3591 words)

	SI - readmsg.aspx msgid=21985748
		Bevan probably never had a chance of becoming prime minister, but with Churchill elevated to that office by Labour votes, and Labour's leadership part of the wartime coalition, he did become the unofficial leader of the opposition.
		Bevan's finest hour, in that last decade of retreat and defeat, was beyond doubt the stand he took, in the fall of 1956, against the Soviet invasion of Hungary and Sir Anthony Eden's doomed, pseudo-Churchillian attempt to retake the Suez Canal.
		Bevan would have disliked his piety and his obsessive spinmanship, but the better aspects of Blairism--his internationalism, from Sierra Leone to Iraq, and his belief in the civilizing power of a public sector--owe more to the old Welsh moralist than either might care to admit.
	www.siliconinvestor.com /readmsg.aspx?msgid=21985748 (1662 words)

	How fear of Corporatism sabotaged Socialism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He bore Bevan's carping with good humour, and in the end he made Bevan effective by giving him a plum Department of State to administer.
		Bevan was briefly transformed from a voluble political propagandist with a slender grasp of political reality into a very able administrator in the great reform enacted by the post-war government.
		Tony Benn is not a Bevanite, because the hallmark of Bevanism is that it is not in earnest.
	members.aol.com /BevinSoc/L6Corp.htm (3263 words)

	Politics \| Blair's cold war
		Bevanism was born when Aneurin Bevan quit the cabinet over the imposition of charges for false teeth and spectacles in the 1951 Budget.
		Labour's civil war only began to wind down when Bevan, who was then shadow foreign secretary, excommunicated himself from his own movement by denouncing unilateralism as an "emotional spasm" at the party's 1957 conference.
		Bevan and his followers were similarly convinced that the cold war could best be fought by non-military means.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4723421-107979,00.html (832 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Bevanism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bevanism was the ideological argument for the Bevanites, a movement on the centre left of the Labour Party in the late 1950s and led by Nye Bevan.
		State Control of the "commanding hights" of the economy, as opposed to wholesale nationalsation.
		John Reid, the current secratary of state for health[?], regards New Labour as the natural heir of Bevanism.
	encyclopedia.kids.net.au /page/be/Bevanism (92 words)

	David Bevan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bevan had to endure another year of unemployment and in February 1925, his much loved father died of pneumoconiosis.In 1926 he found work again, this time as a paid union official.
		Bevans remark that "I know the right kind of political Leader for the Labour Party is a kind of desiccated calculating machine" was assumed to refer to Gaitskell, although Bevan denied it.
		In Bevans metaphor, the nakedness comes from the lack of allies, not the lack of weapons)In 1959 despite suffering from terminal cancer, Bevan was elected as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.
	bookbuyingonline.com /189811_david-burgett_0672322196netebusinessarc... (1542 words)

	Aneurin Bevan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bevan was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire, the son of miner David Bevan.
		Bevan opposed the heavy censorship imposed on radio and newspapers and wartime Defence Regulation 18B, which gave the Home Secretary the powers to intern citizens without trial.
		Bevan was demoted to Minister of Labour in 1951 but soon resigned in protest at Hugh Gaitskell's introduction of prescription charges for dental care and spectacles -- created in order to meet the financial demands imposed on the budget by the Korean War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nye_Bevan (1749 words)

	Gerry Healy - Chapter 3 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But Pablo, ignoring Bevanism’s organisational amorphousness and unambiguously left-reformist character, greeted this development as the beginnings of a centrist tendency which could be won to a revolutionary programme.
		Bevan’s election to the NEC on a record vote, and the replacement of right wingers Dalton and Morrison by the Bevanites Harold Wilson and Richard Crossman, the front page editorial stated, was ‘the clearest indication’ that the rank and file wanted socialism.
		Bevan’s resignation from the shadow cabinet in April 1954, in protest at Attlee’s support for US warmongering in South East Asia, prompted a breathless eulogy from Healy.
	www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Healy/Chap3.html (6415 words)

	Books \| Charge of the Blair brigade
		Historical symmetry requires Clem Attlee's name to be mentioned in the title, for Bevan was neither prime minister nor party leader.
		But chronic Bevanism is one fault among the book's many virtues, not the least of which is the author's scrupulous fairness towards his hero's enemies.
		It is his skill at identifying the important issues, and analysing their causes and results with fearless clarity, that makes From Bevan to Blair serious - though always readable - history.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4781335-110738,00.html (1025 words)

	Harold Wilson
		Bevan was on a speaking engagement in East Anglia.
		However, the upshot was that Aneurin Bevan, Harold Wilson and John Freeman insisted on resigning from the Government.
		Then, as Bevan's star faded, he moved far enough towards the centre to be elected leader of the Labour Party when Gaitskell died in 1962.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRwilsonHa.htm (5677 words)

	Labour in cartoons 4: 1957 - Aneurin Bevan goes nuclear\|21Oct06\|Socialist Worker (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Left wing Labour MP Aneurin Bevan led the biggest rebellion in the history of the Labour Party in the early 1950s.
		Bevan moved to make peace with Gaitskell so that he could remain a leading figure within the party.
		Bevan won his place back in the Labour leadership, but it was the end of Bevanism.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php?article_id=9936 (475 words)

	British Socialism & The Glorious Revolution
		The establishment of the NHS and of National Assistance were the most fundamental alterations in the conditions of working class life ever enacted in Britain, and they were in both inspiration and substance a continuation of the Glorious Revolution.
		Nye Bevan was given the job of establishing the NHS, and he did it well.
		Bevan could not have established the political framework in which he became a highly competent administrator of reform.
	www.atholbooks.org /timecapsule/articles/britsoc.html (4224 words)

	Amazon.com: Bevanism: Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bevanism, Labour's High Tide: The Cold War and the Democratic Mass...
		Death of George VI Nationalist revolution in Egypt Rise of Bevanism British atomic bomb 1953 Coronation...
		Mark Jenkins, Bevanism: Labour's High Tide (London, 1979) was a pioneering study in...
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Bevanism&tag=httpexplaguid-20&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1 (827 words)

	Bevanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		State Control of the "commanding heights" (a phrase first used by Vladimir Lenin) of the economy, as opposed to wholesale nationalisation.
		John Reid, the current Home Secretary, regards New Labour as the natural heir of Bevanism.
		This page was last modified 17:15, 9 November 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bevanism (95 words)

	Al-Jazeera hires ex-Tribune editor (Mark Seddon, fmr ed. of London Tribune mag, Socialist weekly) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As well as Cripps and Strauss, the board comprised the Labour MPs Aneurin Bevan and Ellen Wilkinson, Harold Laski and Victor Gollancz of the Left Book Club, Harry Pollitt, general secretary of the CPGB, Fenner Brockway of the ILP and the veteran left-wing journalist and former-ILPer H. Brailsford.
		Just as important, in 1943 it hired George Orwell as literary editor, and for the next three years he wrote a series of columns, under the title "As I Please", that remain some of the greatest examples of their genre in the English language.
		Tribune remained critical of the Soviet Union, however: almost alone on the British left, it denounced Stalin on his death in 1953 and in 1956 opposed the Soviet suppression of the Hungarian Revolution as well as the British government's Suez adventure.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1401431/posts (2672 words)

	The Revolutionary Odyssey of John Lawrence (Site not responding. Last check: )
		If Bevanism needs to be seen in proportion, it was far from the insubstantial current it is sometimes depicted.
		In another he is asserting: "Bevan was still the dominant and most popular figure on the left regarded as representative of the socialist trend....
		Bevan died and the Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell was battling the unilateralist tide.
	www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Back/Wnext27/Lawrence2.html (20770 words)

	Aneurin Bevan Biography - Biography.com
		He became minister of labour in 1951, but resigned the same year over the National Health charges proposed in the Budget.
		From this period dated Bevanism, the left-wing movement to make the Labour Party more socialist and less ‘reformist’, which made him the centre of prolonged disputes with his party leaders.
		He ceased to be a Bevanite at the 1957 Brighton party conference, when he opposed a one-sided renunciation of the hydrogen bomb by Britain.
	www.biography.com /search/article.jsp?aid=9211491 (172 words)

	Marxist.org.uk (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Scottish Socialists did quite well, and will no doubt provide entertainment for a good few years to come, yet Scotland will still be governed by a “Lib-Lab” coalition, and Clydeside is not about to turn Red all of a sudden.
		Plaid Cymru did badly, but that was to be expected, given the difficulties in moving on from being a repository for protest votes to being taken seriously as a potential governing force, so it’s back to Rhodri Morgan and his diluted Bevanism for another four years.
		Those who do take part in the process, particularly where the middle-class and the middle-aged dominate the turnout, still tend to grant local Conservatives, as distinct from the national party, a certain grudging respect, as people who take local matters seriously, and are less preachy and profligate than local Labour or Liberal Democrat politicians.
	www.marxist.org.uk /htm_docs/comm13.htm (1953 words)

	Labour Party (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Attlee's government however became split over amongst things the amount of money Britain was on defence (which reached 10% of GDP 1950 due to the Korean War).
		Aneurin Bevan eventually quit the government this issue.
		Private Eye has started to refer to Labour "New" Labour and John Reid (currently Secretary of State for Health) regards it as a natural development Bevanism.
	www.freeglossary.com /Labour_Party_(UK) (2807 words)

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		Centrist schematism and “objectivism” can lead to both sectarian and opportunist conclusions within one and the same political grouping.
		It led, for example, to the Healy grouping accommodating to Bevanism in the early 1950s and to party-proclamation hysterics in the 1970s.
		Similarly the British Mandelites’ attitude to the Labour Party oscillated from “Let it Bleed” and threats to physically disrupt its election meetings in 1969 to abject grovelling before Benn in the early 1980s.
	www.fifthinternational.org /LFIfiles/reformismch3.html (1693 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The British Elections Herald a New Era (Site not responding. Last check: )
		...It is for this reason that about a quarter of Labor candidates are usually supporters of Aneurin Bevan, even though it is a reasonable guess (supported by public opinion polls) that a much smaller proportion of those who vote for the party at elections are Bevanite-inclined...
		...Constituencies that had had Bevanite candidates as sitting members at previous elections voted in very much the same way as the national average (apart from a rather surprising drop in the Labor turn-out in Bevan's own constituency of Ebbw Vale...
		...Bevan has so far given one principal explanation of the drop in the Labor vote in his constituency: it was due, he is reported to have said, to a small but badly timed shower of rain...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V20I1P27-1.htm (4332 words)

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		Idolatry does not usually flourish in back rooms, at least never in mine.
		So my respect for Aneurin Bevan was always this side of idolatry.
		He was neither a great innovator, nor, I think, a great thinker.
	www.univ-tours.fr /capaganglais/Pduff7476.htm (775 words)

	Reviews in History:
		The ideological conflict may be missing now, but it was not always so.
		Crosland's revisionism was not merely a contribution to general theoretical themes of planning and liberty, but belonged to a particular political struggle against Bevanism and the corporatist politics of the Attlee Government.
		It was part of a 'drama' in its way, which gave the ideas their energy to contemporaries.
	www.history.ac.uk /reviews/paper/footeGeof.html (3747 words)

	Social Attlee Booklet
		Michael Foot's biography of Aneurin Bevan, Philip Williams’ study of Gaitskell, Ben Pimlott's life of Dalton and Alan Bullock's three-volume biography of Bevin are all well-worth reading, although Foot's Bevan (Vol.2) is obviously of most direct relevance to this part of the course.
		2; Bevan, A., In Place of Fear.9(42082-085)Bev; Webster, C. (ed), Aneurin Bevan* on the National Health Service(FC); Webster, C., The Health Services since the War, Vol.1, (1988, H.M.S.O.), ch.4.; Eckstein, H. and Hill, C., The English Health Service: Its Origins, Structure and Achievement, ch.
		Examine his struggles with vested interests within the health service and the disagreements within the Attlee Government which led to his resignation from the Cabinet.
	www.esh.ed.ac.uk /attleesoc.htm (2264 words)

	The Subversion of Undesirable Governments excerpted from the book Intervention and Revolution The United States in the ...
		George Ball and I pressed him on this point, declaring there was a large difference between Bevan and the Sweezy group.
		[Jagan had said that he was a "Bevanite" and the President had "responded agreeably" to this.] Jagan finally said, "Well, Bevanism, Sweezyism, Hubermanism, Baranism-I really don't get those ideological subtleties." Kennedy observed later that this was the one time when his exposition rang false.
		The conversation gave the President the "feeling that in a couple of years he will find ways to suspend his constitutional provisions and will cut his opposition off at the knees....
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Insurgency_Revolution/Subversion_IAR.html (8725 words)

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