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He left school in 1910 and went underground the following year. By 1916 he chaired his miners' lodge, and from 1919 to 1921 he studied at the Central Labour College. He was working as a miners' agent in 1926, and in 1929 he was elected Labour member for Ebbw Vale, the seat he held for the rest of his life. In 1934 he married Jennie Lee. Early in 1939 the Labour Party expelled him for backing Stafford Cripps's campaign for a united front of the left, and it readmitted him that December.\n\nIn 1945 the new Labour government made him Minister of Health. His National Health Service Act of 1946 brought the hospitals into public ownership and paid for care out of national taxation, over resistance from the British Medical Association. The service opened on 5 July 1948. Bevan later called it \"a triumphant example of the superiority of collective action and public initiative applied to a segment of society where commercial principles are seen at their worst.\"\n\nThat sentence comes from In Place of Fear (1952), his book-length statement of belief. It describes politics as a contest among three forces, \"private property, poverty and democracy,\" and holds that the contest must be settled one way or the other: \"either poverty will use democracy to win the struggle against property, or property, in fear of poverty, will destroy democracy.\" For Bevan, parliamentary democracy was the instrument by which working people could take economic power, and the health service was the proof of what it could do.\n\nHe became Minister of Labour in January 1951 and resigned that April over the introduction of charges into the health service; Harold Wilson and John Freeman resigned with him. The Labour MPs who gathered around him became known as the Bevanites. He lost the 1955 contest for the party leadership to Hugh Gaitskell, was elected party treasurer in 1956, and at the 1957 conference in Brighton spoke against unilateral nuclear disarmament, which he said would send a future Labour foreign secretary \"naked into the Conference chamber.\" He became deputy leader in 1959 and died on 6 July 1960.",1897,1960,"British","politician","20th Century","\u002Fimages\u002Ffigures\u002Fwebp\u002Faneurin-bevan.webp",null,[115],{"archetype_slug":29,"strength":116,"description":117},9,"Some needs are too important to leave to the market, and a democracy that will not act on them hands power to property. You want care, security and the basics of a decent life provided collectively and paid for by all, the Democratic Socialist wager on public action.",[],[],[],[],[],[],{"cards":125,"influenced":126,"shapedBy":127,"outbound":128},[],[],[],0]