In Place of Fear

{{Short description|British book about socialism}}

{{Infobox book

| author = Aneurin Bevan

| isbn =

| language = English

| country = United Kingdom

| subject = Politics, Socialism

| release_date = 1952

| publisher = William Heinemann Ltd

}}

In Place of Fear is a book written by Aneurin Bevan, founder of the National Health Service. The book was influential among the Labour Left and the Labour movement as a whole but was overshadowed by Anthony Crosland's The Future of Socialism, although Crosland referred to In Place of Fear as "the most widely read socialist book" of the period.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/futureofsocialis0000cros|last=Crosland|first=Anthony|author-link=Anthony Crosland|title=The Future of Socialism|publisher=Cape|year=1956|isbn=9780224018883|page=52}}

Serving as a semi-autobiographical textThorpe, Andrew, A History of the British Labour Party, Red Globe Press, 2015, p. 144 Bevan brings to great attention his life growing up in the mining towns of south Wales.

{{blockquote|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.{{cite book |title=In Place of Fear |page=1 |last=Bevan |first=Aneurin |date=13 March 1952}}|Aneurin Bevan|In Place of Fear, p. 1}}

Considered highly quotable{{cite book |title=This is My Truth: Aneurin Bevan in Tribune |page=10 |last=Davies |first=Nye|date=2021}} and is a central source for the beliefs of the pre-Benn Labour left.