Anarchy

An Anarchist FAQ (excerpt)

Anarchy in Action by Colin Ward

Anarchy Works by Peter Gelderloos

Cartography of Revolutionary Anarchism by Michael Schmidt

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin

People Without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy by Harold Barclay

Examples from An Anarchist FAQ

Paris Commune

The Haymarket Martyrs

Building the Syndicalist Unions

Anarchists in the Russian Revolution

Anarchists in the Italian Factory Occupations

Anarchism and the Spanish Revolution

The May-June Revolt in France, 1968

Examples from Anarchy in Action

Squatters' Protection Society

Woodstock Festival

Pioneer Health Centre

Little Commonwealth

Vienna Psychoanalytic Society's child guidance service

Prague Spring

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

Cuban Revolution

Spanish Revolution

Examples from Anarchy Works

(93 examples)

Really Really Free Market

Semai people

Mbuti people

Grassroots Hurricane Katrina relief

FIERCE!

Providence Plantations

Pocasset

Igbo

Haudennosaunne

Faslane Peace Camp

Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp

Life and Labor Commune

Catholic Worker movement

Imazighen

Anabaptists

German Peasants' War

Alter-globalization movement

Dissent! Network

Hill People of Southeast Asia

Korean Anarchist Communist Federation

Spanish Revolution

(-Barcelona's Medical Syndicate

-Health Worker's Union

-Escuela Moderna

-Peasant Federation of the Levant

-Catalan Economic Council

-CNT

-Peasant Banks, Labor Banks, Councils of Credit and Exchange

-Mas de las Matas

-Durruti Column

-Mujeres Libres)

Landless Workers' Movement

Oaxaca rebellion

(-Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca

-Zaachila

-March of Pots and Pans

-People's Guelaguetza)

Kibbutzim

Nubians

Hopi

Argentina horizontalidad

(-Zanon ceramics factory

-El Tigre supermarket

-barter network

-piquetero movement)

Mondragon

Gore Associates

Christiana

Boston Area Liberation Medic Squad

Bay Area Radical Health Collective

US Modern schools

Albany Free School

Quechua Farmers School

Universidad Transhumante

1969 Alcatraz occupation

Bonnot

New Guinea highlands

Open Source

Wikipedia

Free Stores

Freecycle Network

Taita Hills

Village Alternatif, Anticapitalist et AntiGuerres

Free Republic of Wendland

Stonehenge

shantytowns

(-Ghana shantytown)

El Alto

(-FEJUVE)

Mjondolo

Symphony Way

Parisian urban gardeners

Cuban agriculture decentralization

Maori

Global Ecovillage Network

(-Old Bassaisa

-Ecotop

-Earthhaven

-Tehuantepec)

Minnehaha Free State

Bilston Glen

Anti-Shell resistance

Tonga

Seattle 1919

Exarchia

Rotuman

Wapole inmates

Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

Zapotec

Inuit

Navajo

Critical Resistance

Take Back the Night

Philly's Pissed

Philly Stands Up

Makhnovist territories

Red Cloud's War

2007 Lakota declaration of independence

Mohawk road blockade, 1990

Bolivia water protests

Albania

Hamburg 1986-7

Copenhagen 1986

Can Masdeu

Gwangiu

Hungarian Revolution

Zapatistas

Tsimihety

Basque autonomous villages

(-Lakabe

-Aritzkuren

-Rala

-Uli)

La Solana autonomous villages

Longo Mai

Mas de Granier

(-Transkarpaty)

Anarchist Black Cross

RAWA

No Border Network

!Kung

Whiteway Colony

Examples from Cartography of Revolutionary Anarchism

First Wave, 1868-1894

International

International Brotherhood

International Alliance of Socialist Democracy

International Working Person's Association

Anti-Authoritarian International

Spain

Spanish Regional Federation (FRE)

Spanish Regional Labour Federation (FTRE)

Spanish Regional Anarchist Organisation (OARE)

Pact of Union & Solidarity (PUS)

National Confederation of Labor (CNT)

Spanish Regional Workers' Federation (FORE)

Cantonalist Revolt of 1873-1874

Mexico

Proletarian Circle (CP)

Grand Circle of Mexican Workers (GCO)

Uruguay

Regional Federation of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay (FRROU)

Worker's Federation (FO)

Cuba

Artisan's Central Council (JCA)

Labourer's Circle (CT)

Cuban Labour Confederation (CTC)

United States

Central Labor Union (CLU)

Russia

Northern Worker's Union (NWU)

Second Wave, 1895-1923

International

Federation of Labour Exchanges (FBT)

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

1903 Macedonian Revolt

1907 International Anarchist Congress

1913 Syndicalist Conference in London

Insurgent Committee of Revolutionary Partisans

Industrial Workers' Association (IWA)

Netherlands

National Labour Secretariat (NAS)

Federation of Freedom-loving Communists (FVC)

France

General Confederation of Labour (CGT)

Anarchist Communist Alliance

Anarchist Federation

Co-ordination of Anarchist Groups

Libertarian Communist Organization

Libertarian Alternative

Committee for the Defence of Revolutionary Syndicalism (CDSR, member of IWA)

Russia

1905-1907 Russian Revolt

Trans-Siberian Railway

Anarchist Federation of the Altai (AFA)

Siberian Industrial Workers of the World (IWW-Siberia)

Autonomous Industrial Commune

All-Russian Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists (ARKAS)

Bleikhman's Petrograd Anarchist Communist Federation (PACF)

Union of Anarcho-Syndicalist Propaganda (MFAG)

Black Guards

United States

Industrial Workers of the World-US (IWW-US)

China

Teahouse Labour Union

Guangzhou commune

Confederation of Labour Associations (GLH)

Hunan Workers' Association

Black Societies

Korea

Black Societies

Wonsan General Trade Union

Free Trade Union

Argentina

Argentine Regional Workers' Federation (FORA)

Argentine Regional Workers' Confederation (CORA)

Argentine Regional Workers' Federation of the 5th Congress (FORA-V)

Argentine Regional Workers' Federation of the 9th Congress (FORA-IX)

Argentine Libertarian Alliance (ALA)

Anarcho-Communist Port-workers' Group (ACAOP)

Resistance Society of the Port-workers of the Capital (SROPC)

Uruguay

Uruguay Regional Workers' Organisation (FORU)

Brazil

Brazilian Labour Confederation (COB)

Chile

Chilean Labourers Federation (FTCh)

Industrial Workers of the World- Chile (IWW-Chile)

Paraguay

Paraguayan Regional Workers' Organisation (FORPa)

Paraguayan Regional Workers' Centre (CORP)

National Revolutionary Alliance (ANR)

Workers' Trade Union Reorganisation Council (CORS)

Cuba

Havana Labour Federation (FOH)

Cuban Workers' Confederation (CTC)

Cuban National Labour Confederation (CNOC)

Mexico

House of the World Worker (COM)

Mexican Regional Workers' Organization (FORM)

General Confederation of Labour (CGT)

Peru

Peruvian Regional Workers' Federation (FORPe)

Local Workers' Federation of Lima (FOL)

Columbia

Columbian Workers' Federation (FOC)

Bolivia

Local Workers' Federation (FOL)

Feminine Workers' Federation

Bolivian Regional Workers' Confederation

Ecuador

Guayas Workers' Regional Federation (FORG)

Ecuadoran Regional Federation of Labor (FTRE)

Spain

National Confederation of Labour (CNT)

National Workers' Union (UON)

(renamed General Confederation of Labour (CGT))

Portugal

National Workers' Union (UON)

General Confederation of Labour (CGT, member of IWA)

Mexico

Mexican Revolution of 1910

Mexican Industrial Workers of the World (IWW-Mexico)

Mexican Liberal Party (PLM)

Industrial Union of North and South America (UIANS)

Liberation Army of the South (ELS)

National Agrarian Party (PNA)

Ireland

Industrial Syndicalist Education League (ITGWU)

Bulgaria

Federation of Anarchist-Communists of Bulgaria (FAKB)

Vlassovden Confederation

Anarcho-Syndicalist National Confederation of Labour (ASNKR)

Ukraine

Ukranian Revolution

Revolutionary Insurgent Army of the Ukraine (RPAU)

Italy

Italian Syndicalist Union (USI, member of IWA)

Italian Workers' Party (POI)

Revolutionary Anarchist Socialist Party (PSAR)

Union of Communist Anarchists (UCAI)

Italian Anarchist Union (UAI)

Germany

Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD)

Free Association of German Trade Unions (FvDG)

German Anarchist Federation (AFD)

Federation of Communist Anarchists of German (FKAD)

German Workers' Union of Germany (AAUD)

General Labour Union--Unity Organisation (AAU-E)

Third Wave, 1924-1949

International

Federation of Anarchist-communist Groups of Poland and Lithuania (FAGPL)

East Asian Anarchist Federation (EAAF)

American Continental Workingmen's Association (ACAT)

North African Libertarian Movement (MLNA)

Anarchist International Relations Commission (CRIA)

Continental Commission of Anarchist Relations (CCRA)

Poland

Anarchist Federation of Poland (AFP)

General Workers' Federation (GFP)

Union of Trade Unions (ZZZ, member of IWA)

Polish Syndicalist Union (ZSP)

Korea and Manchuria

Korean Anarchist Federation's Chinese Exile Section (KAF-C)

Korean Youth Federation in South China (KYFSC)

Manchurian Revolution of 1929-31

--Shinmin Prefecture (General League of Koreans or HCH)

Korean Anarchist Federation (KAF)

Korean Anarchist Communist Federation (KACF)

Korean Anarchist Federation in Manchuria

Federation of Free Society Builders (FFSB)

Korean Revolutionary Federation (KRF)

Spain

Spanish Revolution

--CNT's 1936 Zargosa Congress

Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)

Libertarian Youth Federation of Iberia (FIJL)

Libertarian Youth (JJLL)

Durruti Column

Friends of Durruti (AD)

France

International Revolutionary Syndicalist Federation (FISR)

National Confederation of Labour (CNT)

Francophile Anarchist Federation (FAF)

Italy

Italian Anarchist Communists (FdCAI)

General Italian Workers' Federation (CGIL)

Britain

Anarchist Federation of Britain

Syndicalist Workers' Federation (SWF)

Japan

Japanese Anarchist Federation (JAF)

Federation of Free Labour Unions (FFLU)

Conference of Labour Unions (CLU)

Japanese Anarchist Club (JAC)

Anarchist Federation

Germany

Federation of Libertarian Socialists (FFS)

Netherlands

Independent League of Trade Unions (OVB)

Mexico

General Delegation of the CNT (CNT-DG)

Venezuela

Venezuelan Regional Workers' Federation (FORV)

Examples from Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

San people

Khoikhoi people

Aboriginal Australians

Paupan people

Inuit

Aleut people

Dayak people

Village community

Buryats

Kabyle people

Peoples of the Caucasus

Medieval commune

Medieval guild

Labor unions

Strikes

Worker cooperatives

Lifeboat Association

Cyclists' Alliance

Gymnasts' Societies

Alpine Clubs

Froebel Unions

pedagogical societies in Germany

religious charitable associations

scientific, literary, artistic, and educational societies

Mutual-Aid in slum-life

Examples from People Without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy

San people

Inuit

Mbuti people

Aboriginal Australians

Northwest coast indigenous peoples

Lugbara people

Konkomba people

Tiv

Plateau Tonga

Anuak

Ibo

New Guinea indigenous peoples

Ifugao

Land Dayaks

South American Indians

Nuer

Samek or Lapps

Imazighen

Santals

medieval free city

Anabaptists

Spanish Revolution