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What conditions have fostered the radical transformation from the libertarian tradition of Aneurin Bevan to the hot-eyed radicalism of Benn and Scargill? Some believe that Britain's freewheeling, free-spending years under a succession of Labor governments raised illusory expectations for the young. Others think the party became devoid of serious ideas. "There was an ideological vacuum in the Labor Party," says Peter Shipley, a conservative expert on British revolutionaries. "Labor had come to a full stop. The extreme left claimed to have the answers and started to fill the vacuum." Says Alfred Sherman, director of Britain...
Bevan (no relation to postwar left-wing Laborite Aneurin Bevan) says his activism was partly inherited from a grandfather, who was a union official, and his father, who was an active Laborite. As a schoolboy, he learned that during economic slumps Wales seemed to be "the dumping ground of British capitalism." He says he simply "questioned" the way society was organized" and found an alternative in socialism...
When Laborite Aneurin Bevan set up Britain's "womb-to-tomb" National Health Service a generation ago, he responded to doctors' opposition by declaring, "I shall stop their mouths with money." Their criticisms have never really ceased, however, and in recent months NHS doctors have been objecting with increasing vehemence to a government plan that could severely curtail the lucrative private practices many of the senior specialists maintain on the side. Last week their resentment finally erupted into action. In the first nationwide strike since NHS was founded, the 15,000 junior physicians who provide much...
...libel actions against a newspaper-Fleet Street calls them "gagging writs"-all discussion of the case is normally suspended, at least until the suits are adjudicated. Editors who have complained at being muzzled have found little sympathy from officials. "You cannot muzzle a sheep," the late Labor Party firebrand Aneurin Bevan once cracked...
...skillful backbencher from the left wing of the party and regarded by many as a brilliant choice to keep the labor unions in line. One of the finest orators in the House of Commons, he is a prolific journalist and has written a well-regarded biography of the late Aneurin Bevan (TIME...