Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation

Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation
Abbreviation	APCF
Leader	Guy Aldred (1921–1933) Frank Leech (1933–1937) William McDougall (1937–1945)
Founded	January 1921 (1921-01)
Dissolved	1950s
Preceded by	Communist League
Succeeded by	United Socialist Movement (1934)
Headquarters	Glasgow, Scotland
Newspaper	The Commune (1923–1928) The Council (1931–1933) Solidarity (1938–1945)
Ideology	Council communism Anarcho-communism
Political position	Far-left
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Anarchist communism
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Organizational forms Insurrectionary anarchism Platformism Synthesis federations Anarcho-syndicalism
Theoretical works The Conquest of Bread Fields, Factories, and Workshops Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution Anarchism and Other Essays Now and After Post-Scarcity Anarchism
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Organizations Extant Communist Struggle Communist Workers' Organisation International Communist Current International Communist Party Internationalist Communist Party The Invisible Committee Defunct Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation Communist Bulletin Group Communist League Communist Workers' International Communist Workers' Party of Germany Forward Hunan Provincial Proletarian Revolutionary Great Alliance Committee International Socialists of Germany League for Proletarian Culture Left Communists Marxist Working Group Revolutionary Socialist Party Revolutionary Workers Ferment Socialism or Barbarism Solidarity Workers' Group Workers' Opposition Workers' Socialist Federation Workers' Truth Tiqqun
Related topics Autonomism Classical Marxism Impossibilism Industrial unionism Ultra-leftism Workerism
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The Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation (APCF) was a communist group in the United Kingdom. It was founded by the group around Guy Aldred's Spur newspaper – mostly former Communist League members – in 1921. They included John McGovern.