Bevan - Beban (English spelling) Anearin Bevan

British labour activist and politician. Born into a family of miners in South Wales, he worked as a miner after graduating from primary school. He emerged as an activist in the miners' union and became a Labour MP in 1929. He was a member of the left wing of the party from the beginning, and in the 1930s he published the left wing newspaper Tribune with Cripps and others, and also participated in the Popular Front movement. During World War II, he continued to criticize the coalition government, which included the Labour Party, but when the Labour Party was formed in 1945, he became Minister of Health and demonstrated leadership in realizing a national health care system. He became Minister of Labour in 1951, but resigned three months later in opposition to the cuts to social security spending for rearmament. He continued to be a central figure in the left wing, but around 1956 he began to part ways with the left wing.

[Yoichi Kibata]

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イギリスの労働運動家、政治家。南ウェールズの炭坑労働者の家に生まれ、小学校卒業後、炭坑労働者として働いた。炭坑労働者組合の活動家として頭角を現し、1929年労働党下院議員となった。当初から党内左派に属し、1930年代にはクリップスなどと左派の新聞『トリビューン』を発刊、人民戦線運動も行った。第二次世界大戦中、労働党も参加した連立内閣の批判をやめなかったが、1945年労働党内閣が成立すると保健相に就任、国民医療制度の実現に指導力を発揮した。1951年労働相になったものの、3か月後、再軍備のための社会保障費削減に反対して辞任した。その後も左派の中心人物であったが、1956年ごろから左派とたもとを分かっていった。

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