The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
In praise of... leftiesWhat do Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo have in common with, say, Nye Bevan and Fred Astaire? They were all, like one in 10 of us, left-handed. Yet despite its frequency, to be left-handed is to be treated with suspicion. In almost every known language and culture, it has always been a metaphor for the sinister, clumsy, weak, evil or simply unlucky. Right, conversely,...
SOCIALIST UNITY (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Wow! Andy…. what a powerful tribute from Mumia… In 1958 Paul Robeson came to the Valley’s in Wales on the Invite of Nye Bevan… My mom was a teenager there in the Rhonda recovering from an unsucessful brain tumour operation with a prognosis of probable death within 6 months. She never got to see Robeson… but she remembers the excitement in the air, the enthusiasm with which the miners and there...
icWales (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
... NHS was founded on July 5, 1948 by the then Health Secretary, the Labour MP for Ebbw Vale, Aneurin Bevan.Mr Morgan said: “The creation of the NHS, providing free healthcare for all, is arguably the greatest achievement of any government of the 20th century.“We all owe Nye Bevan a huge debt of gratitude for having the remarkable foresight and courage to introduce the NHS in 1948.“The...
The LEFT Alternative (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
Torchlight March and Street Party, Assemble 5 pm, Friday 31st October, Nye Bevan Statue, Queen Street. Called by the Cardiff Chartists - Supporters of the People before Profit Charter. "Show me a capitalist and I'll show you a bloodsucker!" - Malcolm X The free market is crumbling, yet the ghosts of the past are desperate to prop up the system. Billions of pounds of our money has been diverted...
