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'''Aneurin Bevan''' (1897-1960) (commonly called '''Nye Bevan''') was a British left wing socialist politician and cabinet minister in the post-war Labour government of [[Clement Attlee]].
'''Aneurin Bevan''' (1897-1960) (commonly called '''Nye Bevan''') was a British left wing socialist politician and cabinet minister in the post-war Labour government of [[Clement Attlee]].
Bevan was born in Tredegar, [[Monmouthshire]], in south [[Wales]]; his father was a coal miner and Bevan himself started work in the pits at the age of 13. He became a trade union activist, and was converted to Marxism while on a scholarship to the union-supported Central Labour College in [[London]]. Returning to south Wales in 1921, he found himself blacklisted, and did not work again until 1924. In 1926 he became a full time miners' union official and in 1929 was elected to [[Parliament]] as Labour MP for [[Ebbw Vale]]. A spokesman for the left wing of the Labour Party, he was expelled for some months in 1939 for supporting a [[United Front]] of the [[Labour Party]] and [[Communist Party of Great Britain]].
Bevan was born in Tredegar, [[Monmouthshire]], in south [[Wales]]; his father was a coal miner and Bevan himself started work in the pits at the age of 13. He became a trade union activist, and was converted to Marxism while on a scholarship to the union-supported Central Labour College in [[London]]. Returning to south Wales in 1921, he found himself blacklisted, and did not work again until 1924. In 1926 he became a full-time miners' union official and in 1929 was elected to [[Parliament]] as Labour MP for [[Ebbw Vale]]. A spokesman for the left wing of the Labour Party, he was expelled for some months in 1939 for supporting a [[United Front]] of the [[Labour Party]] and [[Communist Party of Great Britain]].
During the war he agitated for the opening of a 'Second Front' in western Europe to relieve pressure on the [[Soviet Union]], and was described by [[Winston Churchill]] (whom Bevan had supported for the premiersjhip in 1940) as "a squalid nuisance."
During the war he agitated for the opening of a 'Second Front' in western Europe to relieve pressure on the [[Soviet Union]], and was described by [[Winston Churchill]] (whom Bevan had supported for the premiersjhip in 1940) as "a squalid nuisance."