Aneurin Bevan
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Aneurin "Nye" Bevan was a British
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 Labour Party
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 politician
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 who was the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1959 until his death in 1960. The son of a coal miner, Bevan was a lifelong champion of social justice
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 and the rights of working people. He was a long-time Member of Parliament
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 (MP), representing Ebbw Vale for 31 years, and became recognised as one of the leaders of the party’s left wing, and of left-wing British thought generally.
Quotations

The Labour Party should oppose the Government arms plan root and branch.

Tribune, 19 February 1937.

What argument have they to persuade the young men to fight except merely in another squalid attempt to defend themselves against a redistribution of the international swag?

Hansard, House of Commons 5th series, vol. 346, col. 2139.

Apparently some fire-eaters to-day have been saying "Never again must we allow ourselves to get into the same condition of military unprepardness, so we are going to build up a vast war machine in this country in order to surround defeated Germany with a sea of peaceful tranquillity..." It looks as though the consequences of defeat will be more desirable than those of victory.

Hansard, House of Commons 5th series, vol. 402, col. 1559.

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

Daily Herald, 25 May 1945

The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.

Labour Party Conference, Blackpool 1949

There is only one hope for mankind — and that is democratic Socialism.

Hansard, House of Commons, 5th series, vol. 487, col. 43.

 
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