1. Guy Alfred Aldred was a British anarcho-communist and a prominent member of the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation.
17 Facts About Guy Aldred
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Guy Aldred founded the Bakunin Press publishing house and edited five Glasgow-based anarchist periodicals: The Herald of Revolt, The Spur, The Commune, The Council, and The Word, where he worked closely with Ethel MacDonald and his later partner Jenny Patrick.
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Guy Aldred's father was a 22-year-old lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and his mother was Ada Caroline Holdsworth, a 19-year-old parasol maker.
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Guy Aldred was brought up in the home of Ada's father, Charles Holdsworth, a Victorian radical.
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Guy Aldred attended the Iron Infant's School in Farringdon Road, later moving to the Hugh Middleton Higher Grade School, where he was presented to the Prince of Wales because he was the youngest pupil.
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Guy Aldred became fascinated by the newspaper accounts of the Maharaja moving around with his "travelling god":.
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Guy Aldred found employment as an office boy with the National Press Agency in Whitefriars House, where he was promoted to sub-editor.
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Martin worked in London's worst slums, and Guy Aldred joined him in his work with London's poorest.
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Guy Aldred soon gave his last sermon from the pulpit and left the "Christian Social Mission".
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Guy Aldred became a speaker at the Institute of Theism, but soon felt it was time to set up his own organisation.
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Robson highlighted parts of TIS which Guy Aldred had himself written, particularly focussing on a passage which touched on the execution of Dhingra:.
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Guy Aldred remarked that the Sepoy Mutiny, or Indian Mutiny, would be described as The Indian War of Independence.
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Guy Aldred joined the Social Democratic Federation, but left in 1906.
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Guy Aldred was a political conscientious objector during the First World War and a founder of the Glasgow Anarchist Group.
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Guy Aldred initiated the Communist Propaganda Groups, in support of the October Revolution, which subsequently became a component of the Communist League in 1919.
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Guy Aldred worked closely with his partner Rose Witcop, a pioneer of birth control and sister of Milly Witkop.
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Guy Aldred's remains were cremated at the Maryhill Crematorium, Glasgow on 4 May 1964.