(Source. Guy Aldred Collection, The Mitchell Reference Library )
Guy Aldred was an anarchist-communist who believed that socialism was a fundamentally libertarian phenomenon. Although English by birth he moved to Glasgow in 1912 and established the Glasgow Anarchist's grouping, which in 1921 joined forces with the Glasgow Communist Group to form the APCR (Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation).
Politically, Aldred engaged in such diverse causes as that of Indian independence, the distribution of birth control literature and anti-war and anti-conscription agitation during both World War's.
Aldred set up the anarchist publishing house, 'The Bakunin Press' and at various points between 1910 until his death in 1963, Guy Aldred edited five Glasgow based anarchist periodicals - "The Herald of Revolt", "The Spur", "The Commune", "The Council", and "The Word".
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