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A work-in-progress, AnarchyinAction.org will be a resource for anyone to research and write about how and when societies, rebellions, institutions and other social phenomena can sustainably function in the absence of coercive hierarchies--and how and when they can not. '''''Anarchy''''', coming from the Greek words ''an'' (without) and ''archos'' (ruler) refers to a situation without rulers, without domination.


Around the world, people are questioning and even rising up against global capitalism, a system of wage labor and private property that has always been reliant on the theft (often called "privatization" today) of commonly-owned land and resources. Robbed of these traditional means of survival, the majority of the world's people are compelled to work for out-of-touch managers and thus forgo the creativity, comradery and luxury that self-management makes possible. Outside of the workplace, people find their communal spaces and creative outlets constantly being uprooted by a homogenized culture based on passive consumption.
It gets worse. Capitalism presents its constituents with a stark ''grow-or-die'' imperative; in other words, each firm must keep expanding its output or else risk losing market share to larger competitors who can rapidly upgrade their technology, produce goods in bulk to reduce costs, and use advertising to create desires for their new products. The imperative to keep growing provides enormous incentives for military conquest and ecologically devastating forms of industrialism, as well as widening economic inequality between those who grow and those who don't. With the current spread of weapons of mass destruction, ecological crises such as climate change, and the ruling class's unprecedented power over governments, capitalism now poses a very serious threat to humanity's survival.
It is our experience that many radicals and anarchists, while strongly opposing capitalism, do not have a clear vision of what system should come next. We contend that without a clear vision, it is not possible to have clear goals or a clear strategy to build another system. Furthermore, radicals without a clear vision will have a hard time convincing many people to join them. Because we believe that a sound vision is informed by the lessons of history and current events, we have collected information about hundreds of examples of anarchy in practice.
Many of our examples of anarchy in action come from the following works, which we have uploaded onto the site for anyone to read.
<blockquote>
[[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|People Without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy]] by Harold Barclay
[[The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism]] by Janet Biehl with Murray Bookchin (excerpt)
</blockquote>
We have sorted these examples into three main categories. '''''Anarchism''''' refers to a political theory and practice that arose in the 19th century, aimed at abolishing coercive hierarchy and establishing a libertarian socialist society in its place. '''''Anti-authoritarianism''''' refers to a broader category of politics including groups such as the Wobblies and Zapatistas that oppose coercive hierarchy but do not call themselves anarchists. Finally, the '''''participatory''''' category includes examples such as ancient Athens where a condition of anarchy is extended to many people, but not to all or even necessarily to most of society. Participatory politics encompasses anti-authoritarianism, which encompasses anarchism.
For the examples of entire societies, we aim to provide specific information on how the society approaches the following issues, based on the chapters of Gelderloos's ''Anarchy Works'': ''Culture'', ''Decisions'', ''Economy'', ''Environment'', ''Crime'', ''Revolution'' and ''Neighbouring Societies''.
Eventually, people will also create pages for specific theories and tendencies and sort the examples of anarchy in action into those (overlapping) categories, such as, ''anarchist communism'', ''autonomous Marxism'' and the ''broad anarchist tradition''. In addition to the examples of anarchy in action, we create two additional categories. In a nod to the naturalist Peter Kropotkin, who saw cooperative activity as a factor of evolution in animal species, we add ''nonhuman anarchy'', with the perhaps far-fetched notion that radicals may get ideas about remaking human society from studying nonhuman nature. Finally, we add the category of ''fictional anarchy'', which would include, for example, the planet of Annares from Ursula K. LeGuin's ''The Dispossessed''.
We do not present this resource as evidence that anarchy is possible in all situations, or to deny humans' innate potentialities for hierarchy and indeed of extreme cruelty. Instead, we present this as an attempt for curious and open-minded people to collaboratively explore the question of whether another world is possible and what this world might look like. The only limit is that we will not allow anyone to use this website to promote authoritarianism, or to purposely publish false information.
AnarchyinAction.org is a project of Capitalism vs. the Climate, a climate justice group based in Connecticut, and of our friends and comrades such as Get Libre. If you would like to get involved, please email dfischer@riseup.net.
--[[User:DFischer|DFischer]] ([[User talk:DFischer|talk]]) 16:57, 25 August 2014 (EDT)
=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
[[Spanish Revolution|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]]
[[Anarchism in the Cuban Revolution]]
[[Spanish Revolution]]
[[Horizontal organization in British architecture]]
Work democracy
[[Tiv people]]
[[Dinka people]]
[[Human brain]]
[[Global postal service]]
[[International railways]]
Swiss confederation
[[Spies for Peace]]
[[Swiss city planning]]
Medieval communes
[[Anarchy in the American Revolution]]
New England Town Meetings
Mexican ''colonial proletarias''
Peruvian 'barriadas''
Tunisian ''gourbivilles''
Indian ''bus tees''
Turkish ''gecekondu''
Venezuelan ''ranchos''
[[King Hill hostel squat]]
=Examples  from [[Anarchy Works]]=
(94 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]]
[[Landless Workers' Movement]]
[[Oaxaca rebellion]]
[[Kibbutzim]]
[[Nubian people]]
[[Hopi people]]
Italian factory occupations
[[Argentinian horizontalidad]]
[[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, South China, 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 people]]
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]]
=Examples from [[The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism]]=
[[Athenian polis]]
Medieval Commune
New England Town Meetings
Parisian Sections
Swiss confederal leagues

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