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	How fear of Corporatism sabotaged Socialism
		But since there were only Bevanites in the leadership, Tony Benn had no useful work of reform to do, so he applied his earnestness to an ideology that couldn't stand the strain.
		Tony Benn is not a Bevanite, because the hallmark of Bevanism is that it is not in earnest.
		One suspects that within each Bevanite there was a still small voice always telling him, no matter how thoroughly he appeared to be immersed in the rhetoric, that the world wasn't really like that at all.
	members.aol.com /BevinSoc/L6Corp.htm (3263 words)

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		Vituperation and abuse of the Bevanites was to be expected from the Tory press, but the Manchester Guardian, the so-called bastion of liberalism, hated him, pursued him relentlessly, and then wept crocodile tears when he died.
		In support of their leadership and control of the party, they were willing to sacrifice democracy, freedom of speech, and much of the liberalism which is supposed to distinguish social democracy from communism.
		And it was not only that Nye and the Bevanites sent its circulation soaring up; it was most of all those frequent attacks from the NEC and the union leaders, those frequent attempts to muzzle it and close it down.
	www.univ-tours.fr /capaganglais/Pduff7476.htm (775 words)

	Aneurin Bevan - Youth, Government, Backbenches
		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.
		For the next five years Bevan was the leader of the left-wing of the Labour Party, who became known as Bevanites.
		When the first British Hydrogen bomb was exploded in 1955, Bevan led a revolt of 57 Labour MPs and abstained on a key vote.
	encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com /pages/1392/Aneurin-Bevan.html (1151 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: The Scarborough Conference
		To meet the Bevanite challenge, Attlee's main strength lay in his Trade Union support and in the high prestige he had gained from leadership of the Labor delegation to China.
		The Bevanites, speaking against the resolution, raised the spectre of an armed Germany turning East to precipitate another war.
		The defeat of the Bevanites and the labor agreement in principle to a rearmed Germany has given the present government an added strength in making military commitments to the French.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=208747 (646 words)

	Ted Grant - Socialism and German Rearmament
		The original Allied programme was that of draconic punishment of the Germans, of the limitation of Germany's industrial capacity, of a long term occupation by the four powers, and the visiting of the sins of Hitler and the SS on the German people.
		At the annual Labour Party conference the NEC with their 'compromise' resolution outflanked the Bevanites and thus the latter's position on the question was rejected by a small majority.
		The laments of the Bevanites that it is a question of 'negotiation or fight' are beside the point.
	tedgrant.org /archive/grant/1953/germany.htm (7578 words)

	Politics \| Blair's cold war
		Years later, the Bevanite Ian Mikardo wrote: "We could see [foreign secretary] Ernie Bevin's negative, sterile anti-communism, with the wholehearted approval of the Tories, turning our Foreign Office into a subsidiary of the State Department." The language of master and servant is remarkably contemporary.
		His opponents, with the exception of Cook, are not of the calibre of the Bevanites.
		It should be remembered, however, that the Bevanites never numbered as many in parliament as the Labour MPs who voted against the war in March.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4723421-107979,00.html (841 words)

	CalendarHome.com - Labour Party (UK) - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Whereas the "Bevanite" left, led by Anuerin Bevan wanted the party to adopt a more radical socialist position.
		The trade union block vote, which generally voted with the leadership, ensured that the bevanites were eventually defeated.
		The three key divisive issues that were to split the Labour party in successive decades emerged first during this period; nuclear disarmament, the famous Clause IV of the party's constitution, which called for the ultimate nationalisation of all means of production in the British economy, and Britain's entry into the European Economic Community (EEC).
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=UK_Labour_Party (7972 words)

	Some Reflections on the Socialist Labour League
		Considerable attention was paid to the political side of our work with the result that when the Pabloite revisionist disruption got under way during August and September 1953, the organization quickly retaliated and expelled from membership those who had broken the discipline of the organization.
		The gradual decline of the Bevanites and their retreat after Morecambe 1952, again served to isolate the Marxists.
		The struggle against Pablo had to be fought out more or less in the open and as soon as the right wing realised that the revisionist group of Lawrence was defeated, they took steps to ban the Socialist Outlook.
	www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Healy/Sll.html (2074 words)

	NOTM: The British Elections (Summer 1955)
		The American press has noted, with glee, that the Bevanites came off no better in the election than their right-wing opponents in the Labor Party (in fact, they tried to make it appear that the Bevanites came off worse).
		Since the policies in the campaign, and the policies of a possible Labor Government reflected or would have reflected the politics of the right wing, it is not surprising that the morale of the Bevanites and their supporters failed to reach heights of enthusiasm.
		The inconclusive and floundering manner in which the Bevanite leadership has conducted its struggle may induce an effort on the part of many more of these militants to think through the problems of their movement in a more thorough and systematic manner than they have found necessary in the past.
	www.marxists.org /history/etol/newspape/ni/vol21/no02/notm-haskell.htm (2073 words)

	Showdown -- Monday, Nov. 03, 1952 -- Page 1 -- TIME
		Fears of a party split that would jeopardize Labor's chances in the next British election hung heavy in the air, but to Clement Attlee, back from a squally powwow with Europe's splintery Socialists, the time seemed ripe for a showdown.
		By 188 votes to 51 (with 53 Laborites absent or abstaining), the Parliamentary Labor Party endorsed Attlee's ultimatum.
		The Bevanites would probably disband as a group, but this would hardly stop them from getting together informal-like, and thinking and talking alike.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,806526,00.html (381 words)

	John McDonnell and Questions for the Left \| ukwatch.net
		Once Labour was in opposition, the Bevanites developed into a mass movement fighting for the party leadership.
		Pressure from the left pushed the leadership to adopt some of their demands and thereby helped the party to keep up a connection with Labour’s working class base.
		And the great moments of hope at the height of the Bevanite and Bennite movements helped to draw into the party fresh generations of activists bringing new energy and talent.
	www.ukwatch.net /article/john_mcdonnell_and_questions_for_the_left (821 words)

	New Statesman - The hinges of history
		In the 13 succeeding Tory years, tension between old Bevanites such as Michael Foot, Richard Crossman or Barbara Castle and Gaitskellites such as Roy Jenkins, Douglas Jay or Anthony Crosland created a fault line in the party.
		Tredegar's class warrior had become a hero of new Labour, while the revisionist Gaitskell was out of favour as an elitist anti-European.
		To quote A J P Taylor (a sort of Bevanite), here was truly one of history's "curious twists".
	www.newstatesman.com /200002280023 (3770 words)

	BBC - History - Aneurin Bevan (1897 - 1960)
		Shortly afterwards he resigned from the government in protest at the introduction of prescription charges for dental care and spectacles.
		Bevan led the left wing of the Labour Party, known as the 'Bevanites', for the next five years.
		In 1955 he stood as one of the candidates for party leader but was defeated by Hugh Gaitskell.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/bevan_aneurin.shtml (318 words)

	Gerry Healy - Chapter 3
		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.
		At this time the Bevanites were also being courted by the Communist Party, which was attempting – not unsuccessfully – to draw the Labour left into a cross-class ‘peace’ campaign.
		It was in co-operation with the Bevanites’ paper that Healy carried out his intervention in the ‘Blue Union’ struggle of 1954-55.
	www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Healy/Chap3.html (6415 words)

	Marxism and the British Labour Party
		The fact that only about 220 have been expelled to date is a testimony to our tenacity and superior tactics, as well as the basic democratic traditions of the labour movement.
		Nevertheless, as in the 1950s with its struggle against the Bevanites, the bureaucracy has carried out suspensions of MPs, councillors, and Constituency Labour Parties, as well as the exclusion of potential members.
		We explained at the beginning of the year, in British Perspectives 1991: "As the leadership and its hangers-on move to the right, witch-hunts against class fighters are inevitable.
	www.marxist.net /openturn/main/3-3-2.htm (2682 words)

	How Labour's right wing has been challenged in past\|3Aug02\|Socialist Worker
		The Bevanite left went on the offensive against the leadership.
		The Bevanites were banned from meeting together in 1952.
		Three years later Bevan was again on the verge of expulsion when he and 63 other MPs voted against the party's nuclear policy.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php?article_id=5148 (902 words)

	BBC News \| Special report \| Aneurin Bevan - Labour's lost leader
		But Campbell asserts the resignation was "preventable" if only the prime minister had managed his ministers better and had Bevan been able to manage his temper.
		John Campbell charts the consequences of the Bevanite - Gaitskellite split
		It was the most dramatic resignation in post-war history, and it split the Labour party for over a generation.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/events/nhs_at_50/special_report/120208.stm (1063 words)

	www.liberalhistory.org.uk - Biography of Jenkins
		In 1950, the seat disappeared in an electoral redistribution and Jenkins became the MP for Birmingham Stechford; his political base for more than a quarter of a century.
		In Labours internal struggles between Bevanites and revisionists, Jenkins enlisted with the latter camp.
		His book Pursuit of Progress, published in 1953, was one of the first attempts to develop a revisionist case.
	www.liberalhistory.org.uk /item_single.php?item_id=49&item=biography (2003 words)

	Labourhome » Labour's History: the Attlee Government - a Critical Assessment
		At that time [the early years of the Attlee government - my remark], the British people were ready to accept the peaceful socialist revolution; and if what it got was merely welfare capitalism, the fault lay with the politicians and not with the public.
		Thus, though not all nationalisations can be said to have been undertaken in the fullest consensus, they remain, together with the set of new institutions which were conceived by the post-war government, the fundamental legacy of the Labour's years in power following the 1945 election victory.
		The second, much more important, division faced by the Labour Cabinet was caused by the decision of the newly appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Gaitskell, who replaced the far more left-leaning, though sometimes criticised for his austere economic programme, Cripps, to introduce specific charges on a number of services provided by the NHS.
	www.labourhome.org /story/2007/4/17/173259/297 (2875 words)

	Ted Grant - Problems of Entrism
		At the present time, with the capitulation of the Bevanites (apart from the ineffective Victory for Socialism group), the bureaucracy feels itself relatively secure.
		It is attempting to smother any opposition by calling for a rallying of the membership for a campaign to defeat the Tories in the coming general Election.
		As the result of the betrayals of the Bevanites, some of the Lefts have become discouraged and tend to drop out of the Party.
	www.tedgrant.org /archive/grant/1959/03/entrism.htm (4888 words)

	The New Left and May 1968
		Tribune was taken over from the Bevanites by the Bennites in the late 1970s.
		Bennery was an eccentric and demagogic leftwing development out of Wilsonism rather than a variant of New Leftism, but Benn's movement subsumed New Leftist elements and derived much of its energy from their virulent enthusiasms.
		It failed, but by forcing the Bevanites to become the Party Establishment, it ruined Tribune.
	members.aol.com /BevinSoc/L6May68.htm (5022 words)

	Ian Mikardo
		He drew the conclusion that at a time when communist policy was to infiltrate the Labour movement, the Bevanites were assisting them by their disruptive activities.
		On the suggestion of LAN Mikardo and on the precedent of the Keep Left group, it was agreed to elect a regular chairman - Harold Wilson was the first - and to meet at a regular time in the parliamentary week: 1.30 on Mondays.
		By January 1952 the new Bevanite arrangements were in full working order and the agenda was crowded.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUmikardo.htm (1057 words)

	Barbara Castle: Labour's fearless fighter Contemporary Review - Find Articles
		Her staying power and adaptability to new events and an almost indestructible faith and ability to bounce back after a set back is something that I both envy and admire in her and is the most essential quality for a successful politician.
		Barbara Castle's career spanned the fascinating post-war years of the Labour Party and saw the reforming administration of Clement Attlee, the battle of the Titans between the so-called Bevanites and Gaitskellites.
		In many ways she is over simplistic in her analyses so that for her those who voted to support Mr.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2242/is_n1532_v263/ai_14567854?lstpn=article_results&lstpc=search&lstpr=external&lstprs=other&lstwid=1&lstwn=search_results&lstwp=body_middle (907 words)

	Ted Grant - Socialism and German Rearmament
		The question that the NEC put to the Bevanites, to which they have never given a clear answer is, 'how is this policy to be carried out?'.
		Any attempt to treat the Germans as a pariah nation would be doomed to failure.
		They say that there should be some delay on this question, because it 'can give statesmen the opportunity to think again and devise an entirely fresh policy'.
	www.marxists.org /archive/grant/1953/germany.htm (7578 words)

	Tribune
		Using colourful and excited language, it aimed to stimulate, and became a credited nursery for rising young journalists.
		Foot gave the editorship to Robert Edwards in 1952, but returned as editor in 1955 - and by 1956 the NEC was full of Bevanites chosen by Party members.
		Despite the growing influence of right-wing union bosses such as Arthur Deakon, and their prodigies such as Gaitskell, Tribune succeeded in setting an agenda that has become increasingly recognised as that of the New Left.
	labhist.tripod.com /tribune.htm (519 words)

	Brown and Blair are doing their best to help Howard - Telegraph
		This, after all, was the committee whose chairman, Harold Laski, tried to stop Clement Attlee becoming Prime Minister in 1945.
		Herbert Morrison's ejection from the NEC by the Bevanites in 1952 was one of the defining moments of Labour's postwar history, and one of the main reasons why Morrison's grandson, Peter Mandelson, was so eager to be elected to the committee in 1997 (he failed).
		Mr Brown's allies say that he made extremely clear to the Prime Minister on three occasions that he wanted to join the committee, as part of his preparations for the next general election.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/11/09/do0904.xml (1293 words)

	Commentary - Our Archive
		IN THE summer of 1947, some Bedouins of the Wilderness of Judah (the arid eastern slope of the hill country of Judah that descends to the Dead Sea) chanced upon a grotto near a ruin by the...
		The "Bevanites" and Russia TO THE EDITOR OF COMMENTARY: Mr.
		George Lichtheim, writing in your March issue on "Will Soviet Anti-Semitism Teach the Lesson?" refers to my friend Aneurin Bevan and...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /cm/main/browseArchive.html?year=1953&month=July (672 words)

	It could be 30 years before Tories are first past the post - Telegraph
		I can rehearse in my sleep the standard arguments against PR, having trotted them out so often myself: it works in favour of messy coalitions and against decisive government; in the three Is - Ireland, Israel and Italy - it has sometimes forced governments to rely on small extremist parties to survive.
		But extremists within big parties in a first-past-the-post system can make life difficult too - remember the Bevanites, the Bennites and the Maastricht rebels.
		Last Thursday, for the first time in modern history, the abstainers outnumbered those who voted for the winning party.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/05/11/do1101.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2005/05/11/ixopinion.html (1268 words)

	Harold Wilson
		However, he soon became politically disassociated with Foot, Castle and Mikardo, preferring a front bench perspective.
		When Nye Bevan resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in 1954, Wilson replaced him, to the consternation of many Bevanites.
		In 1955, Harold Wilson both campaigned and voted for Hugh Gaitskell rather than Bevan.
	labhist.tripod.com /harold.htm (798 words)

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