This is My Truth - Aneurin Bevan in Tribune

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Y casgliad golygiedig cyntaf o erthyglau Aneurin Bevan yn y cylchgrawn sosialaidd Tribune . Mae'r cyfraniadau yn datgelu dawn Bevan i ddadansoddi gwleidyddiaeth, cymdeithas a'r byd, gan ddarparu cyfle i ddarllenwyr ddarllen syniadau Bevan yn ei eiriau ei hun.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

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.

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Cynnwys / Table of 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 5th 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 active 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

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Nye Davies lectures in politics at Cardiff University, with research focusing on the Labour Party, Welsh politics and political thought.