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Geburtsort | Tredegar, Monmouthshire, Wales |
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Beschreibung | Aneurin "Nye" Bevan PC (/əˈnaɪrɪn ˈbɛvən/; Welsh: [aˈnəɨ.rɪn]; 15 November 1897 – 6 July 1960) was a Welsh Labour Party politician, noted for tenure as Minister of Health in Clement Attlee's government in which he spearheaded the creation of the British National Health Service. He is also known for his wider contribution to the founding of the British welfare state. He was first elected as MP for Ebbw Vale in 1929, and used his Parliamentary platform to make a number of influential criticisms of Winston Churchill and his Conservative government during the Second World War. Before entering Parliament, Bevan was involved in miner's union politics and was a leading figure in the 1926 general strike. Bevan is widely regarded as one of the most influential left-wing politicians in British histo |
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
