In Place of Fear is a book written by Aneurin Bevan, founder of the National Health Service.
[1] Serving as a semi-autobiographical text[2] Bevan brings to great attention his life growing up in the mining towns of south Wales.
A young miner in a South Wales colliery, my concern was with one practical question, where does power lie in this particular state of Great Britain, and how can it be attained by the workers.
Bevan, throughout the book, is a strong advocate for Democratic socialism, the final chapter sharing the ideology's name.
[5] By extension of this he advocates for great levels of freedom of speech and expression, opposing concentration of newspaper ownership.