In response, Attlee and his cabinet did enact traditional socialist measures such as the nationalisation of steel, electricity, gas, coal and the railways. In fact, in total around 20 per cent of ...

And nationalization itself was the new grand strategy that, as Attlee put it, represented "the embodiment of our socialist principle of placing the welfare of the nation before any "section." ...

Prime Minister Clement Attlee told Parliament that “leftwing ... way to alter historical processes was by organization. As a Socialist, Bevin recognized the meaning of the satellite bloc Russia ...

And the response of those who, like Attlee, were appalled by poverty took ... and an embrace of the British brand of socialism. Much of this was articulated by the Fabians, launched in the late ...

EVERY time I go on social media I see Clement Attlee. The old Labour prime minister seems to be a common choice of avatar for socialist Twitter users. You could do a lot worse I suppose — I don’t seem ...

To this end, Labour was forced to make the most radical appeal in its history to the socialist aspirations ... disciplining the working class. 65. The Attlee government was forced to relinquish ...

Instead Labour leader Clement Attlee - Churchill's deputy PM in the wartime coalition government - was given the job of leading the country into the post-war future. His party's socialist programme of ...

In a series of blog articles surfacing surprising stories from the archives of the President's Medals, part of the RIBA Collections, historian Matthew Wells uncovers the work of the 'other' Attlee ...

In the north aisle of the nave of Westminster Abbey lie the ashes of Prime Minister Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, PC, OM, CH, FRS. The inscription on the Indian black marble slab reads: ...