This is my truth : Aneurin Bevan in Tribune / Aneurin Bevan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bevan, Aneurin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor unions--Great Britain.

Labor unions.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff, Wales : University of Wales Press, [2023]

Summary:

This is My Truth is the first edited collection of Aneurin Bevan's writings in the socialist magazine Tribune. Showcasing Bevan's analysis of politics, society and the world, it provides readers with the opportunity to read Bevan in his own words.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Bevan and the search for truth

Bevan the writer

Bevan's truth

Chapter 1 Capitalism, Power and Politics

People Versus Property - 11 February 1938

Class War in Commons Committee 'A' - 25 March 1938

Highwaymen in The Upper House - 8 July 1938

Make the government act! - 17 March 1939

Blind Men are Leading Us! - 11 October 1940

The Tories' Prisoner - 18 October 1940

Next Steps to a New Society - 25 October 1940

Hope and new strength - 2 May 1941

The T.U.C.'s Two Voices - 13 October 1944

The Fatuity of Coalition - 13 June 1952

Can Parliament do it? - 26 November 1954

Automation: The Socialist Answer - 8 July 1955

Tory gamblers pour £1,500 million down the drain - 7 November 1958

Bevan on Parliament - 5 June 1959

Chapter 2 Labour and the Unions

Wanted - A New Drive For Wages - 22 July 1938

A job for the trade unions - 23 August 1940

M.P.s' tongues must be loosed - 21 March 1941

To any Labour Delegate - 11 June 1943

Coalition of the Left - 18 June 1943

Trade Unions and the Labour Party - 23 July 1943

Rubber stamp M.P.'s - 20 August 1943

All set for a new thrust forward - 26 September 1952

Why we lost West Derby - 3 December 1954

Aneurin Bevan gives his verdict - 3 June 1955

The Struggle for Socialism: Why I am standing for treasurer - 7 October 1955

Being very, very practical - 24 February 1956

How to avoid shipwreck - 11 December 1959

Chapter 3 Ideas, Values and Society

A swastika nailed to England's mast - 24 June 1938

This is How Fascism is Born - 1 July 1938

Freedom is not enough - 26 July 1940

Meaning of the Alliance - 18 July 1941

Wales - 20 October 1944

The Parties' Line-up in Parliament - 1 December 1944

July 5 and the Socialist Advance - 2 July 1948.

The People's Coming of Age - 3 February 1950

Do not dismiss our ideas of freedom - 3 September 1954

Freedom and Socialism - 5 November 1954

Why Winston Churchill has been gagged - 20 May 1955

Russia must take her share of the blame - 25 November 1955

This famous victory - 3 February 1956

At last the Socialist International wakes up! - 12 July 1957

Spectre over Europe - 19 July 1957

Why Russia wins the space race - 11 October 1957

Communism or suicide? That's not the real choice - 14 March 1958

Private enterprise v. public ownership: The moon and the £ - 9 January 1959

Chapter 4 War

Inside Teruel - 21 January 1938

The blackest page in Britain's history - 3 March 1939

Are you a traitor? - answer now - 24 May 1940

The way to win through - 31 May 1940

We and the Germans - 25 June 1943

What Eden cannot do - 14 April 1944

We asked for it - 18 September 1953

Aneurin Bevan attacks radioactive nonsense - 15 July 1955

The disarmament breakdown - 11 May 1956

Destroy the bombs before they destroy us! - 24 May 1957

The clash of the giants - 23 August 1957

Platitudes won't save mankind - 13 December 1957

Arms and the slump - 31 January 1958

Chapter 5 International Relations

Stop that nonsense now! - 20 December 1940

Why is Duff Cooper so bad? - 4 April 1941

Complacency will not win the war - 5 September 1941

Here is a real plan to put the war machine in reverse - 7 August 1953

Empire and the Tories - 18 December 1953

America must be told: 'you go it alone' - 16 April 1954

The second Cold War - 23 December 1955

It must be world control for all the commercial waterways - 3 August 1956

Give the United Nations a real job to do - 5 October 1956

Crisis time for United Nations - 1 February 1957

Warning to the wreckers - 28 June 1957.

Back to free markets - and the jungle - 30 August 1957

We must save India - or lose democracy's hope - 5 September 1958

Independence - then hard work: how to maintain the frontiers of liberty - 21 November 1958

Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781786839695