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'''<big>Welcome to AnarchyinAction.org!</big>'''
'''<big>Welcome to AnarchyinAction.org!</big>'''


A work-in-progress, AnarchyinAction.org will be a resource for anyone to research and write about how and when societies, communities, institutions, rebellions, movements and other social phenomena can 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. We have collected hundreds of examples of anarchy in practice, many of them from the following works:
[[File:Spreadanarchy.png]]


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[[An Anarchist FAQ]] (excerpt)
[[File:Abolishthepolice.jpg|thumb|[https://www.anarchistagency.com/commentary/this-is-anarchy-eight-ways-the-black-lives-matter-and-justice-for-george-floyd-uprisings-reflect-anarchist-ideas-in-action/]]]


[[Anarchy in Action]] by Colin Ward


[[Anarchy Works]] by Peter Gelderloos
AnarchyinAction.org is a resource for anyone to research and write about how and when anarchy can work. '''''Anarchy''''', coming from the Greek words ''an'' (without) and ''archos'' (ruler) refers to a situation without domination, without coercive hierarchy. Here are many examples of anarchy in practice. By looking for anarchy well beyond the self-proclaimed anarchist movements (although we're interested in those too!), we respond, for example, to Maia Ramnath's call in ''Decolonizing Anarchism'' to "locate the Western anarchist tradition as one contextually specific manifestation among a larger-indeed global-tradition of antiauthoritarian, egal­itarian thought/praxis".<ref>Maia Ramnath, ''Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle'' (AK Press, 2011), 6.</ref> We take our name from Colin Ward's 1973 book ''[[Anarchy in Action]]''.


[[Cartography of Revolutionary Anarchism]] by Michael Schmidt
This wiki is done entirely by volunteers, and we encourage you to check our work and help us to constantly improve it. If you see misinformation, please contact us right away so that we can either fix it or assist you in setting up an account so you can edit the page directly. See the [[About]] page for more information. Additionally, if you are a member of an organization or another group described on this website, please feel free to send us information on current campaigns, and we will include it so that our readers will know how to get involved or participate in solidarity efforts.


[[Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution]] by Peter Kropotkin
[[File:Nofreedom.webp|thumb|Anarchist banners at World Conference Against Racism, Durban, 2001.[https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/ways-of-life-3-indigenous-anarchism/]]]


[[People_Without_Government:_An_Anthropology_of_Anarchy|People Without Government: An Anthropology rf Anarchy]] by Harold Barclay
[[File:Fifthsacredthing.webp|thumb|"Fifth Sacred Thing" by Jessica Perlstein, portraying [[San Francisco (The Fifth Sacred Thing)]].]]


[[The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism]] by Janet Biehl with Murray Bookchin (excerpt)
[[File:Clifford-harper-alternative-dream.png|thumb|Clifford Harper portrays an anarchist commune in ''Radical Technology'']]


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[[File:Apple Harvest by Camille Pissarro.jpg|thumb|Les chataigniers a Osny (1888) by anarchist painter Camille Pissarro.]]


We sort these examples into four 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. Third, a '''''participatory''''' category includes examples such as ancient Athens where anarchy is extended to many but not to all or even necessarily to most of society. Participatory politics encompasses anti-authoritarianism, which encompasses anarchism. Finally, the '''''autonomous''''' category refers to self-governed communities that shift power relations in a decentralized direction, including examples like the Paris Commune, which fell short of participatory governance.
[[File:Weiße Dame Brandberg.JPG|thumb|ancient [[San]] artwork]]


In addition to the examples of anarchy in action, we created two additional categories, more or less for fun. In a nod to the naturalist Peter Kropotkin who saw cooperative activity as a factor of evolution, we add ''nonhuman anarchy'' to explore power relations in animal and ecological communities. Second, we add the category of ''fictional anarchy'', which would include the planet Annares from Ursula K. LeGuin's novel ''The Dispossessed''.
[[File:Whoever.jpg|thumb|[https://www.anarchistagency.com/critical-voices/david-damato-what-is-anarchism/]]]


We do not claim to have conclusive evidence that anarchy is possible in all situations. Nor do we deny humans' innate potential for hierarchy and indeed for extreme cruelty. We present this resource as an attempt for curious and open-minded people to collaboratively explore the question of whether a horizontally-run world is possible and what this world might look like.


AnarchyinAction.org is a project of [http://www.capitalismvsclimate.org Capitalism vs. the Climate] and of our friends at [https://getlibre.org/ Get Libre] and elsewhere. If you would like to get involved, please email dfischer@riseup.net.
=Societies=


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''"Once we leave Europe, in fact, we discover that statelessness and the desire for self-government are not eternally receding utopias, but are principles that for millennia have structured communities in every part of the world."'' -Silvia Federici<ref> Silvia Federici, "Global Anarchism: Provocations" in ''No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms'', ed. Barry Maxwell and Raymond Crib, (Oakland: PM Press, 2015), 350-351.</ref>


''"[T]here are also concepts such as anti-authoritarian or egalitarian forms of organizing. Although this differs in degrees from one Indigenous nation to another, it is, overall, a fairly strong part of our traditional culture (with some exceptions)."'' -Gord Hill<ref>"Gord Hill, Indigenous Artist and Anarchist," ''Crimethinc'', 1 August 2017, https://crimethinc.com/2017/08/01/an-interview-with-gord-hill.</ref>


''"Egalitarian cities, even regional confederacies, are historically quite commonplace."''-David Graeber and David Wengrow<ref>David Graeber and David Wengrow, "How to change the course of human history,'' ''Eurozine'', 2 March 2018, https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/.</ref>


=Societies=


==Anarchist==
==Anarchist==
[[File:Makhno group.jpg|thumbnail| Nestor Makhno with members of the anarchist [[Revolutionary Ukraine|Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine]]]]
[[File:Korea001.jpg|thumbnail|[[Shinmin Prefecture]]]]
[[File:S-d-jpeg-12.jpeg|thumbnail|Collectivized textile factory in Barcelona, [[Revolutionary Spain|Spain]]. From Sam Dolgoff's ''The Anarchist Collectives''.]]
[[Revolutionary Spain]], 1936-9, 3.2 million people
[[Revolutionary Spain]], 1936-9, 3.2 million people


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[[Shinmin Prefecture]], 1929-1931, 2 million people
[[Shinmin Prefecture]], 1929-1931, 2 million people


==Anti-Authoritarian==
==Anti-Authoritarian==
[[Anuak]]


[[Argentinian horizontalidad]]
[[File:IMG_0497.JPG|thumbnail| [[Zapatista-run Chiapas]]]]
 
[[File:Rojava_Sewing_Cooperative.jpg|thumbnail|[[Kurdistan democratic confederalists]]]]


[[Mbuti]]
[[File:Abahlali baseMjondolo Logo.jpg|thumb|[[Abahlali baseMjondolo]]]]


[[Kurdish democratic confederalists]]
[[File:Baka dancers June 2006.jpg|thumb|[[Bayaka]]]]


[[San]]
[[File:Great Andamanese - two men - 1875.jpg|thumbnail|[[Andamanese]]]]


[[Zapatista-run Chiapas]], 1994-present, 120,000-300,000 people
[[File:Keluarga suku Bateq 167.jpg|thumb|[[Batek]]]]


==Participatory==
[[File:MUFT - Catal Höyük Modell.jpg|thumb|[[Çatalhöyük]]]]


[[Aboriginal Australians]]
[[File:Blood squaws in war dress (HS85-10-18744).jpg|thumbnail|[[Niitsitapi]]]]


[[Athenian polis]], 594-431, 404-403 BCE, 40,000 male citizens
[[File:Mbuti woman with mushrooms1.jpg|thumbnail|[[Mbuti]]]]


[[Medieval commune]]
[[File:Flag_of_the_Iroquois_Confederacy.svg.png|thumbnail|[[Haudenosaunee]]]]


New England town meetings
[[File:Iroquoian Village, Ontario, Canada36.JPG|thumb|[[Wendat]]]]


[[Kibbutzim]], 1919-present, 120,000 members
[[File:Çayonu.jpg|thumb|[[Cayonu]]]]


Parisian sections
[[File:Bolivia - Marcha Juventudes Antifacistas.jpg|thumb|[[El Alto neighborhood councils]]]]


==Autonomous==
[[File:Talianki (Trypillian city).jpg|thumb|[[Cucuteni–Trypillia civilization]]]]


==Unsorted==
[[File:Malaipantaram map.gif|thumb|[[Malaipantaram]]]]


Anuak
[[File:North carolina algonkin-dorf.jpg|thumb|[[Croatan]]]]


El Alto
[[File:Hadza montage.png|thumb| [[Hadza]]]]


Global Ecovillage Network
[[File:Knossos - North Portico 02.jpg|thumb|[[Minoan Crete]]]]


Basque autonomous villages
[[File:Mohenjo-daro.jpg|thumb|[[Indus Valley Civilization]]]]


Plateau Tonga
[[File:Cherán.jpeg|thumb|[[Cherán]]]]


Samek or Lapps
[[File:Seated figure grom Mali, 13th century, Djenné peoples, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981.218.JPG|thumb|[[Jenne-jeno]]]]


Santals
[[File:BushmenSan.jpg|thumbnail|[[San]] peoples]]


Semai people
[[File:Sioux social structure council fires.jpg|thumb|[[Oceti Sakowin]] (Sioux)]]


South American Indians
[[File:1280px-Oraibi1.jpg|thumbnail|[[Hopi]]]]


Tiv people
[[File:Paliyan women.jpg|thumb|[[Paliyan]]]]


Konkomba people
[[File:PeiligangCulture-RedPotWithTwoEars-ShanghaiMuseum-May27-08.jpg|thumb|[[Peiligang culture]]]]


Land Dayaks
[[File:Talempong - Sumatra Barat.jpg|thumb|[[Minangkabau]]]]


Landless Workers' Movement
[[File:Sarvodaya-296x300.png|thumb|[[Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement]]]]


Lugbara people
[[File:Taborites.png|thumbnail|[[Taborite communes]]]]


Maori
[[File:Mosuo girls.jpg|thumb|[[Mosuo]]]]


New Guinea indigenous peoples
[[File:Anishinaabe-Anishinini Distribution Map.svg|thumb| [[Nishnaabeg]] ]]


Northwest coast indigenous peoples
[[File:GENERAL-Massif 2May2010.jpg|thumb|[[Zomia]]]]


Nubian people
[[File:Panama-Kuna 0605a.jpg|thumb|[[Kuna people]]]]


Nuer
[[File:Catholic Worker.jpg|thumb|[[Catholic Worker]]]]


Imazighen
[[File:Myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria (1916) (14801964123).jpg|thumb|
[[Early Uruk]]]]


Inuit
[[File:Cherokee beadwork sampler 1840 ohs.jpg|thumb|[[Cherokee]]]]


Haudennosaunne
[[File:Black-sem-detail-1st-war.jpg|thumbnail|[[Seminole people]]]]


Hopi people
[[File:Image taken from page 14 of 'Report of an expedition down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers by Captain L. Sitgreaves (11042155095) (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[Zuni]]]]


Hill People of Southeast Asia
[[File:Semai man1.jpg|thumb|[[Semai people]]]]


Ifugao
[[Abahlali baseMjondolo]], 115,000 members as of 2022


Igbo
[[Andamanese]]


Dinka people
[[Anuak]]


La Solana autonomous villages
[[Argentinian horizontalidad]]


[[Batek]]


=Movements and Rebellions=
[[Bayaka]]


[[Oaxaca rebellion]]
[[Çatalhöyük]]


The Haymarket Martyrs
[[Catholic Worker]]


Building the Syndicalist Unions
[[Cherán]]


Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
[[Croatan]]


Anarchists in the Italian Factory Occupations
[[El Alto neighborhood councils]], 2000s CE


The May-June Revolt in France, 1968
[[Cayonu]], 7200 to ca. 4200 BCE


[[Prague Spring]]
[[Cherokee]]
[[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]]


[[Anarchism in the Cuban Revolution]]
[[Southeast Matriarchies|Chickasaw]]


[[Anarchy in the American Revolution]]
[[Southeast Matriarchies|Choctaw]]


[[Sexual revolution]]
Crianza Mutua (Colombia)


1960 student revolts
Crianza Mutua (Mexico)


[[Catholic Worker movement]]
[[Cucuteni–Trypillia civilization]], 1 million people, 4800 to 3000 BCE


[[Imazighen]]
[[Diné]]


[[Anabaptists]]
[[Early Uruk]], 4000-3200 BCE


[[German Peasants' War]]
[[Early Neolithic Southern Levant]], 10,500 to 6000 BCE


[[Alter-globalization movement]]
[[Global Ecovillage Network]]


Parisian urban gardeners
[[Hadza]]


Cuban agriculture decentralization
[[Haudenosaunee]]


Anti-Shell resistence
[[Hopi]]


Seattle 1919
[[Indus Valley Civilization]]


[[Red Cloud's War]]
[[Inuit]]


2007 Lakota declaration of independence
[[Itoiz villages]]


Mohawk road blockade, 1990
[[Jenne-jeno]], 250 BCE-1400 CE, 11,000 people


Bolivia water protests
[[Konkomba]]


[[First Intifada]]
[[Kuna people]]


[[Really Really Free Market]]
[[La Solana villages]]


[[Grassroots Hurricane Katrina relief]]
[[Late Taosi]]


Work democracy
[[Longo Maï]]


[[Anusilan Samiti]]
[[Malaipantaram]]


[[Mapuche]], 1 million people in sixteenth century


=Communities=
[[Mbuti]]


==Anarchist==
[[Minangkabau]]


Guangzhou commune
[[Minoan Crete]], 3000 BCE-1100 BCE


==Anti-Autoritarian==
[[Southeast Matriarchies|Muscogee]]


[[Christiania]], 1971-present, 900 people
[[Oceti Sakowin]] (Sioux)


[[Faslane Peace Camp]], 1982-present
[[Nayaka people]]


[[Free Republic of Wendland]], 1980, 5,000 people
[[Niitsitapi]] (Blackfoot)


[[Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp]], 1981-200
[[Nishnaabeg]]


[[Life and Labor Commune]], 1921-1930, nearly 1,000 people
[[Piaroa]]


[[Village Alternatif, Anticapitalist et AntiGuerres]], 2003, thousands of people
[[Peiligang culture]], 7000-5000 BCE


==Participatory==
[[Kurdistan democratic confederalists|Rojava]], 2012-present, 2.5 million people


==Autonomous==
[[San]] (including !Kung)


[[Pocasset]]
[[Santals]]


[[Paris Commune]]
[[Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement]]


==Unsorted==
[[Semai people]]


Alcatraz occupation
[[Seminole people]]


Taita Hills
[[Taborite communes]], 15th century


Ghana shantytown
Vikalp Sangam (India)


Minnehaha Free State
[[Wendat]]


Mexican ''colonial proletarias''
[[Zapatista-run Chiapas]], 1994-present, 120,000-300,000 people


Peruvian 'barriadas''
[[Zomia]], present, 100 million people


Tunisian ''gourbivilles''
[[Zuni]]


Indian ''bus tees''
==Autonomous==


Turkish ''gecekondu''
[[File:Teotihuacán-5973.JPG|thumb|[[Teotihuacan]]]]


Venezuelan ''ranchos''
[[File:Mst conabNove2004.jpg|thumb|[[Landless Workers' Movement]]]]


[[King Hill hostel squat]]
[[File:024.Jacob Wrestles with the Angel.jpg|thumb|[[Early Israelites]]]]


[[File:280px-San Gimignano (1).jpg|thumbnail|[[Medieval commune]]]]


=Organizations and Institutions=
[[File:Familienleben.jpg|thumb|[[Canela people]]]]


[[Squatters' Protection Society]]
[[Aboriginal Australians]]


[[Dissent! Network]]
[[Canela people]]


[[Mondragon]]
[[Early Christians]]


Boston Area Liberation Medic Squad
[[Early Israelites]]


Bay Area Radical Health Collective
[[Early Uruk]]


US Modern schools
[[Highland Madagascar]]


Albany Free School
[[Igbo]]


Quechua Farmers School
[[Landless Workers' Movement]]


Universidad Transhumante
[[Lugbara]]


Free Stores
[[Mashkan-shapir]]


Freecycle Network
[[Medieval commune]]


Critical Resistance
[[Palmares]]


Take Back the Night
[[Parisian sections]]


Philly's Pissed
[[Pequot]]


Philly Stands Up
[[Sea Peoples]]


No Border Network
[[Syrian Revolution|Revolutionary Syria]]


[[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]]
[[Sami]]


[[Fraternity of the Red Flag]]
[[Teotihuacan]]


[[Shamrik Mukti Dal]]
[[File:QumranLivingQuarters.jpg|thumbnail|[[Essenes]]]]


[[Libertarian Socialist Institute]]
[[Castile confederation]]


[[Jugoremedija]]
[[Essenes]], 4,000 people


[[Freedom Fight]]
[[Paris Commune]], 1871, 2 million people


International Brotherhood
[[Black Reconstruction|South Carolina Commune]]


International Alliance of Socialist Democracy
[[Maluku archipelago]]


International Working Person's Association
[[Quinnipiac]]


Anti-Authoritarian International
[[Swiss confederal leagues]]


Spanish Regional Federation (FRE)
[[Therapeutae]]


Spanish Regional Labour Federation (FTRE)
[[Tiv]]


Spanish Regional Anarchist Organisation (OARE)
[[Tlaxcala (Postclassic)]]


Pact of Union & Solidarity (PUS)
[[Venezuelan communes]]


National Confederation of Labor (CNT)
==Limited==


Spanish Regional Workers' Federation (FORE)
[[File:Pnyx-berg2.png|thumbnail|Pnyx Hill, the meeting place of the ecclesia in the [[Athenian polis]].]]


Cantonalist Revolt of 1873-1874
[[Athenian polis]], 594-431, 404-403 BCE, 40,000 male citizens


Proletarian Circle (CP)
[[Kibbutzim]], 1919-present, 120,000 members in 2011


Grand Circle of Mexican Workers (GCO)
[[New England town meetings]]


Regional Federation of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay (FRROU)
[[Tribal Arabia]]


Worker's Federation (FO)
[[Tonga people]]


Artisan's Central Council (JCA)


Labourer's Circle (CT)


Cuban Labour Confederation (CTC)
==Unsorted==


Central Labor Union (CLU)
[[South American Indians]]


Northern Worker's Union (NWU)
Land Dayaks


Federation of Labour Exchanges (FBT)
[[La Paz Zapotec]], nearly 2,000 people


Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Maori


1903 Macedonian Revolt
New Guinea indigenous peoples


1907 International Anarchist Congress
Northwest coast indigenous peoples


1913 Syndicalist Conference in London
[[Nubian people]]


Insurgent Committee of Revolutionary Partisans
Nuer


Industrial Workers' Association (IWA)
Imazighen


National Labour Secretariat (NAS)
Ifugao


Federation of Freedom-loving Communists (FVC)
Dinka people


General Confederation of Labour (CGT)
=Communities=


Anarchist Communist Alliance
''"The primary aspiration of all history is a genuine community of human beings -- genuine because it is'' community all through''."'' - Martin Buber<ref>''Paths in Utopia'' (Boston: Beacon Press, 1958), ch. 10.</ref>


Anarchist Federation
''"Strong communities make police obsolete."'' -police-abolitionist slogan


Co-ordination of Anarchist Groups


Libertarian Communist Organization
==Anarchist==


Libertarian Alternative
[[Guangzhou commune]], 1921-1923


Committee for the Defence of Revolutionary Syndicalism (CDSR, member of IWA)
==Anti-Autoritarian==
[[File:Entrée de Christiania.jpg|thumbnail|Entrance to [[Christiania]]]]


1905-1907 Russian Revolt
[[File:Faslane.jpg|thumbnail|Police dismantling a blockade of protesters at [[Faslane Peace Camp]].]]


Trans-Siberian Railway
[[File:Levellers declaration and standard.gif|thumbnail| Woodcut from a [[Diggers]] document by William Everard]]


Anarchist Federation of the Altai (AFA)
[[Christiania]], 1971-present, 900 people


Siberian Industrial Workers of the World (IWW-Siberia)
[[Faslane Peace Camp]], 1982-present


Autonomous Industrial Commune
[[Free Republic of Wendland]], 1980, 5,000 people


All-Russian Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists (ARKAS)
[[Diggers|George's Hill (Diggers)]], 1649, 40 people


Bleikhman's Petrograd Anarchist Communist Federation (PACF)
[[Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp]], 1981-200


Union of Anarcho-Syndicalist Propaganda (MFAG)
[[Life and Labor Commune]], 1921-1930, nearly 1,000 people


Black Guards
[[Village Alternatif, Anticapitalist et AntiGuerres]], 2003, thousands of people


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


Teahouse Labour Union
Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Commune, 1922-1926


Guangzhou commune
[[Pocasset]], 200 families


Confederation of Labour Associations (GLH)
[[Huehuecoyotl]]


Hunan Workers' Association
==Unsorted==


Black Societies
Taita Hills


Black Societies
Ghana shantytown


Wonsan General Trade Union
Minnehaha Free State


Free Trade Union
Mexican ''colonial proletarias''


Argentine Regional Workers' Federation (FORA)
Peruvian 'barriadas''


Argentine Regional Workers' Confederation (CORA)
Tunisian ''gourbivilles''


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


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


Argentine Libertarian Alliance (ALA)
Venezuelan ''ranchos''


Anarcho-Communist Port-workers' Group (ACAOP)
[[King Hill hostel squat]]


Resistance Society of the Port-workers of the Capital (SROPC)
=Movements and Uprisings=


Uruguay Regional Workers' Organisation (FORU)
''"If we had surrendered, if we had sold ourselves, we would no longer have been poor, but others would have continued to be so."'' -Subcomandante Marcos<ref>Subcomandante Marcos, "Why We Chose the Weapon of Resistance" in ''Our Word is Our Weapon'' (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001), 160.</ref>


Brazilian Labour Confederation (COB)
''"People have done horizontal, or non-hierarchical, organization all their lives. It is already there in my culture and the way Palestinian activism has worked."'' -Beesan Ramadan<ref>Joshua Stephens, “Palestinian Anarchists in Conversation: Recalibrating anarchism in a colonized country,” ''Institute for Anarchist Studies'', 19 July 2013, https://anarchiststudies.org/palestinian-anarchists/.</ref>


Chilean Labourers Federation (FTCh)
''"We take inspiration from the Luddites, Levellers, Diggers, the Autonome squatter movement, ALF, the Zapatistas, and the little people -- those mischievous elves of lore."'' -[[Earth Liberation Front]]<ref>https://www.iiipublishing.com/politics/elf.htm.</ref>


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


Paraguayan Regional Workers' Organisation (FORPa)
[[File:ChicagoAnarchists.jpg|thumbnail|Chicago anarchists advanced the cause of the 8-hour day and started May Day. See [[The Haymarket Martyrs]].]]


Paraguayan Regional Workers' Centre (CORP)
[[File:Seattle black bloc.png|thumbnail|[[1999 Seattle WTO shutdown]]]]


National Revolutionary Alliance (ANR)
[[File:Magon.png|thumbnail|[[Anarchy in the Mexican Revolution]]]]


Workers' Trade Union Reorganisation Council (CORS)
[[File:Logo de la FAI.svg|thumb|[[Informal Anarchist Federation]]]]


Havana Labour Federation (FOH)
[[File:Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, Logo.jpg|thumb|[[Conspiracy of Cells of Fire]]]]


Cuban Workers' Confederation (CTC)
[[The Haymarket Martyrs]]


Cuban National Labour Confederation (CNOC)
[[Conspiracy of Cells of Fire]]


House of the World Worker (COM)
[[Informal Anarchist Federation]]


Mexican Regional Workers' Organization (FORM)
[[Anarchists in the Russian Revolution]]


General Confederation of Labour (CGT)
[[Anarchists in the Italian Factory Occupations]]


Peruvian Regional Workers' Federation (FORPe)
[[Revolutionary Spain|Anarchism and the Spanish Revolution]]


Local Workers' Federation of Lima (FOL)
[[Anarchy in the Mexican Revolution|Anarchism in the Mexican Revolution]]


Columbian Workers' Federation (FOC)
[[Shinmin_Prefecture|Manchurian Revolution]]


Local Workers' Federation (FOL)
[[1999 Seattle WTO shutdown]]


Feminine Workers' Federation
Modern schools


Bolivian Regional Workers' Confederation
[[2008 Greek insurrection]]


Guayas Workers' Regional Federation (FORG)
[[US Galleanists]]


Ecuadoran Regional Federation of Labor (FTRE)
[[1911 Lima-Callao general strike]]


National Confederation of Labour (CNT)
[[1919 Peruvian general strike]]


National Workers' Union (UON)
==Anti-Authoritarian==


(renamed General Confederation of Labour (CGT))
[[File:Interfauna-raid-1990.jpg|thumb|[[Animal Liberation Front]]]]


National Workers' Union (UON)
[[File:Metropolitan Indians.jpg|thumbnail|[[Italian Autonomia]]]]


General Confederation of Labour (CGT, member of IWA)
[[File:Warner-creek-EF-96.jpg|thumbnail|[[Cascadia Free State]]]]


Mexican Revolution of 1910
[[File:Jean Froissart, Chroniques, 154v, 12148 btv1b8438605hf336, crop.jpg|thumb|[[English Peasants' Revolt of 1381]]]]


Mexican Industrial Workers of the World (IWW-Mexico)
[[File:Battle for Palm Tree Hill.jpg|thumbnail|[[Anarchy in the Haitian Revolution]]]]


Mexican Liberal Party (PLM)
[[File:Alcatraz Island 01 Prison sign.jpg|thumbnail|[[Alcatraz occupation]]]]


Industrial Union of North and South America (UIANS)
[[File:SOAS BDS demonstration 27 April 2017 12.jpg|thumbnail|[[BDS Movement]]]]


Liberation Army of the South (ELS)
[[File:ANG40InfantryDivisionLosAngelesRiot1992.jpg|thumbnail|National Guard deployed during the [[Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992]]]]


National Agrarian Party (PNA)
[[File:Flag of Koma Komalên Kurdistan.svg|thumbnail|Flag of the [[Kurdistan democratic confederalists|Group of Communities in Kurdistan]]]]


Industrial Syndicalist Education League (ITGWU)
[[File:"Happi" American Horse direct action against DAPL, August 2016 (cropped).png|thumb|[[Standing Rock Uprising]]]]


Federation of Anarchist-Communists of Bulgaria (FAKB)
[[File:Slavic Bogomil Cemetery in Chalkidona, Thessaloniki.jpg|thumb|[[Bogomils]]]]


Vlassovden Confederation
[[File:TaroAKL.jpg|thumbnail|[[Community taro patches]] run by indigenous and non-indigenous farmers across Hawaii]]


Anarcho-Syndicalist National Confederation of Labour (ASNKR)
[[File:John Brown by Levin Handy, 1890-1910.jpg|thumbnail|[[John Brown's raids]]]]


[[Revolutionary Ukraine|Ukranian Revolution]]
[[File:VD VD200710070509005AR.jpg|thumb|[[Earth Liberation Front]]]]


Revolutionary Insurgent Army of the Ukraine (RPAU)
[[File:Occupy Wall Street Crowd Size 2011 Shankbone.JPG|thumbnail|[[Occupy movement]]]]


Italian Syndicalist Union (USI, member of IWA)
[[File:Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (logo).png|thumbnail|[[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]]]]


Italian Workers' Party (POI)
[[File:Routes des châteaux cathares.svg|thumb|[[Cathars]]]]


Revolutionary Anarchist Socialist Party (PSAR)
[[File:Earthfirstmonkeywrench.png|thumbnail|[[Earth First!]]]]


Union of Communist Anarchists (UCAI)
[[File:Margarete Porete, fol. 38.jpg|thumbnail|[[Movement of the Free Spirit]]]]


Italian Anarchist Union (UAI)
[[File:Unist'ot'en camp.jpg|thumbnail|[[Unist'ot'en Camp]]]]


Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD)
[[File:Wattsriots-burningbuildings-loc.jpg|thumbnail|[[Watts Rebellion]] of 1965]]


Free Association of German Trade Unions (FvDG)
[[US anti-nuclear movement|Abalone Alliance]]


German Anarchist Federation (AFD)
[[Alcatraz occupation]]


Federation of Communist Anarchists of German (FKAD)
[[Taborite communes|Adamites]]


German Workers' Union of Germany (AAUD)
[[Alter-globalization movement]]


General Labour Union--Unity Organisation (AAU-E)
[[Anarchy in the German Revolution]]


Federation of Anarchist-communist Groups of Poland and Lithuania (FAGPL)
[[Anarchy in the Russian Revolution]]


East Asian Anarchist Federation (EAAF)
[[Anarchy in the Haitian Revolution]]


American Continental Workingmen's Association (ACAT)
[[Animal Liberation Front]]


North African Libertarian Movement (MLNA)
[[Anti-Shell actions]]


Anarchist International Relations Commission (CRIA)
[[Bogomils]]


Continental Commission of Anarchist Relations (CCRA)
[[BDS Movement]]


Anarchist Federation of Poland (AFP)
[[Cascadia Free State]], 1995-6


General Workers' Federation (GFP)
[[Cathars]], 11th to 14th centuries


Union of Trade Unions (ZZZ, member of IWA)
[[Catholic Worker movement]]


Polish Syndicalist Union (ZSP)
[[Community taro patches]]


Korean Anarchist Federation's Chinese Exile Section (KAF-C)
[[US anti-nuclear movement|Clamshell Alliance]]


Korean Youth Federation in South China (KYFSC)
[[Earth First!]]


Manchurian Revolution of 1929-31
[[Earth Liberation Front]]


--Shinmin Prefecture (General League of Koreans or HCH)
[[English food riots in eighteenth century]]


Korean Anarchist Federation (KAF)
[[English Peasants' Revolt of 1381]]


Korean Anarchist Communist Federation (KACF)
[[German Anti-Fascism]]


Korean Anarchist Federation in Manchuria
[[Italian Anti-Fascism]]


Federation of Free Society Builders (FFSB)
[[Italian Autonomia]]


Korean Revolutionary Federation (KRF)
[[John Brown's raids]]


Spanish Revolution
[[Kurdish democratic confederalists]]


--CNT's 1936 Zargosa Congress
[[Kronstadt rebellion]]


Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
[[Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992]]


Libertarian Youth Federation of Iberia (FIJL)
[[Mapuche|Mapuche Struggle]]


Libertarian Youth (JJLL)
[[Movement of the Free Spirit]]


Durruti Column
[[Oaxaca rebellion]]


Friends of Durruti (AD)
[[Occupy movement]]


International Revolutionary Syndicalist Federation (FISR)
[[Oka Crisis]]


National Confederation of Labour (CNT)
[[Unist'ot'en Camp]]


Francophile Anarchist Federation (FAF)
[[US anti-nuclear movement]]


Italian Anarchist Communists (FdCAI)
[[US Green movement]]


General Italian Workers' Federation (CGIL)
[[School of the Tillers]]


Anarchist Federation of Britain
[[Sexual revolution]]


Syndicalist Workers' Federation (SWF)
[[Standing Rock Uprising]]


Japanese Anarchist Federation (JAF)
[[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]]


Federation of Free Labour Unions (FFLU)
[[Texas KXL blockade]]


Conference of Labour Unions (CLU)
[[The May-June Revolt in France, 1968]]


Japanese Anarchist Club (JAC)
[[Watts Rebellion]]


Anarchist Federation
[[Yellow Turban Rebellion]]


Federation of Libertarian Socialists (FFS)
[[Zone to Defend (ZAD)]], 2012-present


Independent League of Trade Unions (OVB)
==Autonomous==


General Delegation of the CNT (CNT-DG)
[[File:La Vía Campesina logo.png|thumb|[[La Via Campesina]]]]


Venezuelan Regional Workers' Federation (FORV)
[[File:Flag of Edward England.svg|thumbnail|[[Pirate anarchy]]]]


Federation of Anarchist Groups of Cuba (FGAC)
[[File:Nat Turner woodcut.jpg|thumbnail|[[Nat Turner's rebellion]]]]


Cuban Libertarian Alliance (ALC)
[[File:Luddite.jpg|thumbnail|[[Luddites]]]]


General Confederation of Labor (CGT)
[[File:Mi'kmaq blockade.png|thumbnail|[[2013 Mi'kmaq anti-fracking struggle]]]]


Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
[[File:Seattle General Strike.jpg|thumbnail|[[1919 Seattle general strike]]]]


International of Anarchist Federations (IAF)
[[File:First int.jpg|thumbnail|Woman confronts soldiers during the [[First Intifada]].]]


Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
[[File:Red cloud and other souix.jpg|thumbnail|[[Red Cloud's War]]]]


North African Libertarian Movement (MLNA)
[[File:Boston Tea Party Currier colored.jpg|thumbnail|[[American Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


Libertarian Communist International (ICL)
[[File:1917petrogradsoviet assembly.jpg|thumbnail|[[Russian Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


Libertarian Communist Organisation (OCL)
[[File:Anarchist cuba.png|thumbnail|[[Cuban Revolution and Anarchism]]]]


Libertarian Alternative (AL)
[[File:Magon.png|thumbnail|[[Mexican Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


Second Escambray Front
[[File:Prise de la Bastille.jpg|thumbnail|[[French Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


Student Revolutionary Directorate (DRE)
[[File:Stroop Report - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 13.jpg|thumbnail|[[Jewish armed anti-Nazi resistance]]]]


Cuban Confederation (CTC)
[[1848 revolutions]]


Anarchists within the 26th of July Movement
[[1968 revolutions]]


Cuban Libertarina Movement in Exile)
[[1919 Seattle general strike]]


Swedish Workers' Central Organisation (SAC)
[[2007 Lakota declaration of independence]]


IWW Marine Transport Workers' Industrial Union (MTWIU)
[[2013 Mi'kmaq anti-fracking struggle]]


Chilean IWW
[[American Revolution and Anarchy]]


General Confederation of Labour (CGT)
[[Anabaptists]]


National Workers' Unity Movement (MUNT)
[[Barcelona en Comú]]


Chilean Workers' Central (CUT)
[[Black Reconstruction]]


anarchist faction in Movement of hte Revolutionary Left (MIR)
[[Bolivia Water War]]


Anarcho-Communist Unification (CUAC) / Libertarian Communist Organisation (OLC)
[[Cuban Revolution and Anarchism]]


Ship-building Workers' Federation (FTB)
[[First Intifada]]


1951 syndicalist resistance
[[French Revolution and Anarchy]]


Yunan guerilla campaigns
[[German Peasants' War]]


Federation of the Provincial Proletariat (Shengwulian)
[[Jewish armed anti-Nazi resistance]]


Anarchist Federation
[[La Via Campesina]]


Bolivian Regional Workers' Confederation (CORB)
[[Luddites]]


Feminine Workers' Federation (FOB)
[[Mexican Revolution and Anarchy]]


Industrial and Commercial Union of Sourthen Rhodesia (ICU yase Rhodesia)
[[Nat Turner's rebellion]]


Uruguayan Anarchist Federation (FAU)
[[Pirate anarchy]]


Revolutionary Popular Organisation 33 (OPR-33)
[[Pueblo Revolt]]


Worker-Student Resistance (ROE)
[[Red Cloud's War]]


National Convention of Workers (CNT)
[[Seminole people|Seminole Wars]]


Autonomous Workers' League (AWL)
[[Syrian Revolution]]


Autonomous Village Movement (AVM)
==Limited==


Direct Action (AD)
[[Karaite Judaism]]


Libertarian Communist Federation (FCL)
[[Kharijites]]


Thought-Battle Organisation (OPB)
[[Mu'tazilites]]


Union of Libertarian Communist Workers (UTCL)
==Unsorted==


Alternative Libertaire
[[Massalians]]


Anarchist Revolutionary Organisation (ORA)
[[Prague Spring]]
[[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]]


Proletarian Action Anarchists Groups (GAAP)
1903 Macedonian revolt


Italian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
1905–1907 Russian Revolt


Federation of Communist Anarchists (FdCA)
1910 Mexican revolution


1968 revolt
1960 student revolts


Polish Anarchist Federation (FA)
[[Imazighen]]


Movement 2 June (M2J)
Parisian urban gardeners


Libertarian Resistance (RL)
Cantonalist Revolt of 1873-1874


Workers' Liberation Group (Shagila)
=[[Organizations|Organizations]]=


The Scream of the People (CHK)
''"[[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee|SNCC]] without knowing about anarchism as philosophy embodied the characteristics of anarchism."'' -Howard Zinn<ref>Howard Zinn, "Anarchism Shouldn't Be a Dirty Word," ''AlterNet'', 16 May, 2008, http://www.alternet.org/story/85427/howard_zinn%3A_anarchism_shouldn't_be_a_dirty_word.</ref>


Angry Brigade (AB)
''"The real question at issue is not organization versus non-organization, but rather, what kind of organization. What different kinds of anarchist organizations have in common is that they are developed organically from below, not engineered into existence from above."'' -Murray Bookchin<ref>Murray Bookchin, "Anarchy and Organization", ''Libcom.org'', http://libcom.org/library/anarchy-organization-murray-bookchin.</ref>


Direct Action (AD)


Interior Defense (DI)
==[[Organizations#Active|Active Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian]]==


First of May Group (GPM)
==[[Organizations#Historical|Historical Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian]]==


Iberian Liberation Movement (MIL-GAC)
==[[Organizations#Autonomous|Autonomous]]==


Groups of International Revolutionary Action (GARI)
==[[Organizations#Unsorted|Unsorted]]==


Anti-capitalist Autonomous Commandos (KAA)
=Everyday Anarchy=


Neutralist Tribune
''''I think we have to talk about educating the people for critical consciousness about what anarchy is. I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term."'' -bell hooks.<ref>bell hooks, "How Do You Practice Intersectionalism?", ''The Anarchist Library'', https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/randy-lowens-how-do-you-practice-intersectionalism.</ref>


Left Opposition (LO)
''"If there’s a line to get on a crowded bus, do you wait your turn and refrain from elbowing your way past others even in the absence of police? If you answered 'yes', then you are used to acting like an anarchist!"'' -David Graeber<ref>David Graeber, "Are You an Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!", ''The Anarchist Library'', http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-are-you-an-anarchist-the-answer-may-surprise-you.</ref>


Movement of Revolutionary Communards (MRC)
''"How would you feel if you discovered that the society in which you would really like to live was already here, apart from a few little local difficulties like exploitation, war, dictatorship and starvation?"'' -Colin Ward<ref>Colin Ward, [[Anarchy Works]].</ref>


Free General Workers' Union (SMOT)
[[File:McCallsJimmyBarry640.jpg|thumbnail|[[The Yard]], an "adventure playground" in Minneapolis. http://www.minnpost.com/arts-culture/2014/07/when-yard-was-minnesota-s-most-radical-park]]


Communist League of Anarchists
[[File:250px-Woodstock poster.jpg|thumbnail|[[Woodstock Festival]] poster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_festival]]


Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation


Anarchist Federation (AF) / Czech and Slovak Anarchist Federation (CSAF)
==Anarchist==
==Anti-Authoritarian==


Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)
[[Really Really Free Market]]


[[Spies for Peace]]
[[Mumbai community dog care]]


==Participatory==


=Everyday Anarchy=
==Autonomous==


[[Stonehenge Free Festival]], 1972-1985 (one month a year), 30,000 people
[[Stonehenge Free Festival]], 1972-1985 (one month a year), 30,000 people
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[[Horizontal organization in British architecture]]
[[Horizontal organization in British architecture]]
[[Dinka people]]
[[Human brain]]


[[Global postal service]]
[[Global postal service]]
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[[Swiss city planning]]
[[Swiss city planning]]
Mexican ''colonial proletarias''
Peruvian 'barriadas''
Tunisian ''gourbivilles''
Indian ''bus tees''
Turkish ''gecekondu''
Venezuelan ''ranchos''
Prestolee School
Institueion Libre de Enseiianza
Residential College for Students
1960 student revolts


[[Emdrup playground]]
[[Emdrup playground]]
Freetown playground


[[The Yard]]
[[The Yard]]


Skrammellegeplad playgrounds
==Unsorted==
 
Robinson Crusoe playgrounds
 
Brixham fishing cooperative
 
Brora mining cooperative
 
Standard tractor factory
 
Durham worker-managed mines
 
Gheel mental health care
 
Synanon
 
Claimant's Union
 
Eyes on the street
 
Open Source
 
Wikipedia
 
 
 
 
 
=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
 
[[Revolutionary Spain|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 commune]]
 
[[Anarchy in the American Revolution]]
 
New England Town Meetings


Mexican ''colonial proletarias''
Mexican ''colonial proletarias''
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Venezuelan ''ranchos''
Venezuelan ''ranchos''
[[King Hill hostel squat]]
[[Sexual revolution]]


Prestolee School
Prestolee School
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1960 student revolts
1960 student revolts
[[Emdrup playground]]


Freetown playground
Freetown playground
[[The Yard]]


Skrammellegeplad playgrounds
Skrammellegeplad playgrounds
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Eyes on the street
Eyes on the street


[[Open source]]


=Examples  from [[Anarchy Works]]=
[[Wikipedia]]
 
[[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]]
 
[[Shinmin Prefecture]]
 
[[Spanish Revolution]]
 
[[Landless Workers' Movement]]
 
[[Oaxaca rebellion]]


[[Kibbutzim]]
=Nonhuman Anarchy=


[[Nubian people]]
''"Everything is connected, absolutely everything. There are many aboriginal groups that will tell you stories about how all the species in the forests are connected, and many will talk about below-ground networks."'' -Sm’hayetsk Teresa Ryan<ref>Ferris Jabr, "The Social Life of Forests", ''New York Times'', 2 December, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/02/magazine/tree-communication-mycorrhiza.html.</ref>


[[Hopi people]]
''"The basic premise in the ontology of wildness translates into anarchy, where the'' raison d'etre ''of everything and everyone - living or non-living, human or nonhuman, child or adult, male, female, intersexual, bisexual, or asexual, whatever the species, ethnicity, or race (all of which are important classifications for civilization only) is simply to be and to enjoy being. In wilderness, the world exists for its own reasons, its space and time uncontrolled, solely its own, regardless of whether it was created by an external divine will or generated through its own exploded forces."'' - Layla AbdelRahim<ref>Layla AbdelRahim, ''Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation'' (New York: Routledge, 2015), 3-4.</ref>


Italian factory occupations
''"As I watch the Robins and Cedar Waxwings fill their bellies, I see a gift economy in which abundance is stored “in the belly of my brother.” Supporting a thriving bird community is essential to the well-being of the Serviceberry and everyone else up the food chain. That seems especially important to an immobile, long-lived being like a tree, who can’t run away from ruptured relationships. Thriving is possible only if you have nurtured strong bonds with your community."''-Robin Wall Kimmerer<ref>Robin Wall Kimmerer, "The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance," ''Emergence Magazine'', 2020, https://emergencemagazine.org/story/the-serviceberry/.</ref>


[[Argentinian horizontalidad]]
''" From autocatalytic chemical processes to cells, from living bodies to galaxies, we find a universe filled with structures exhibiting self-organizing dynamics... [A]n atom is a self-organizing system as well. Each atom is a storm of ordered activity. This invisible power assembling the energy into a particular constellation is the atom's identity. A galaxy, too, is an autopoietic system, organizing its stars into a nonequilibrium process and drawing forth new stars from its interstellar materials."'' -Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry <ref>Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry, ''The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era - A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos'' (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992), 75.</ref>


[[Mondragon]]
''"The forest has always been my teacher in peace, in diversity in democracy. Diverse life forms, small and large, moving and immobile, above ground and below, with wings, feet or leaves, find their place in the forest. The forest teaches us that in diversity lie the conditions of peace, the realization of democracy."'' -Vandana Shiva<ref>Vandana Shiva, "Foreword" in Derrick Jensen and George Draffan, ''Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests'' (White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2003), vii.</ref>


[[Christiania]]
''"If we recognize that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of plant-animal relationships (rather than a stratified pyramid)...Each species, be it a form of bacteria or deer, is knitted together in a network of interdependence. A predator in the web is also prey, even if the 'lowliest' of organisms merely makes it ill or helps to consume it after death."'' -Murray Bookchin<ref>Murray Bookchin, ''The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy'' (Palo Alto: Cheshire Books, 1982), 26.</ref>


Boston Area Liberation Medic Squad
==Animal Societies==
[[File:Melanerpes formicivorus -San Luis Obispo, California, USA -male-8.jpg|thumbnail|[[Acorn woodpecker]]]]


Bay Area Radical Health Collective
[[File:Squirrel monkey1-cropped.jpg|thumbnail|[[Central American squirrel monkey]]]]


US Modern schools
[[File:Tursiops truncatus 01.jpg|thumbnail|[[Dolphins]]]]


Albany Free School
[[File:Crotophaga sulcirostris.jpg|thumbnail|[[Groove-billed ani]]]]


Quechua Farmers School
[[File:Okonjima Lioness.jpg|thumb|[[Lion]]]]


Universidad Transhumante
[[File:Wolf, voor de natuur, Saxifraga - Jan Nijendijk.5097.jpg|thumbnail|[[Gray wolf]]]]


1969 Alcatraz occupation
[[Acorn woodpecker]]


Bonnot
[[Bison]]


New Guinea highlands
[[Bonobo]]


Open Source
[[Central American squirrel monkey]]


Wikipedia
[[Dolphins]]


Free Stores
[[Domestic cat]]


Freecycle Network
[[Elephant]]


Taita Hills
[[Gorillas dismantling traps]]
 
Village Alternatif, Anticapitalist et AntiGuerres
 
Free Republic of Wendland
 
Stonehenge
 
Ghana shantytown
 
El Alto
 
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
 
[[Revolutionary Ukraine]]
 
[[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
 
[[Zapatista-run Chiapas]]
 
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===
 
[[Revolutionary 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)
 
===Cuba===
Federation of Anarchist Groups of Cuba (FGAC)
 
Cuban Libertarian Alliance (ALC)
 
General Confederation of Labor (CGT)
 
 
==Fourth Wave==
 
===International===
 
Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
 
International of Anarchist Federations (IAF)
 
Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
 
North African Libertarian Movement (MLNA)
 
Libertarian Communist International (ICL)
 
Libertarian Communist Organisation (OCL)
 
Libertarian Alternative (AL)
 
===Cuba===
 
Second Escambray Front
 
Student Revolutionary Directorate (DRE)
 
Cuban Confederation (CTC)
 
Anarchists within the 26th of July Movement
 
Cuban Libertarina Movement in Exile)
 
===Sweden===
 
Swedish Workers' Central Organisation (SAC)
 
IWW Marine Transport Workers' Industrial Union (MTWIU)
 
===Chile===
 
Chilean IWW
 
General Confederation of Labour (CGT)
 
National Workers' Unity Movement (MUNT)
 
Chilean Workers' Central (CUT)
 
anarchist faction in Movement of hte Revolutionary Left (MIR)
 
Anarcho-Communist Unification (CUAC) / Libertarian Communist Organisation (OLC)
 
===Argentina===
 
Ship-building Workers' Federation (FTB)
 
===New Zealand===
 
1951 syndicalist resistance
 
===China===
 
Yunan guerilla campaigns
 
1968 revolt
 
Federation of the Provincial Proletariat (Shengwulian)
 
Anarchist Federation
 
===Bolivia===
 
Bolivian Regional Workers' Confederation (CORB)
 
Feminine Workers' Federation (FOB)
 
===Rhodesia===
 
Industrial and Commercial Union of Sourthen Rhodesia (ICU yase Rhodesia)
 
===Uruguay===
 
Uruguayan Anarchist Federation (FAU)
 
Revolutionary Popular Organisation 33 (OPR-33)
 
Worker-Student Resistance (ROE)
 
National Convention of Workers (CNT)
 
===South Korea===
 
Autonomous Workers' League (AWL)
 
Autonomous Village Movement (AVM)
 
===Czechoslovakia===
 
1968 revolt
 
===France===
 
1968 revolt
 
Direct Action (AD)
 
Libertarian Communist Federation (FCL)
 
Thought-Battle Organisation (OPB)
 
Union of Libertarian Communist Workers (UTCL)
 
Alternative Libertaire
 
Anarchist Revolutionary Organisation (ORA)
 
===Italy===
 
1968 revolt
 
Proletarian Action Anarchists Groups (GAAP)
 
Italian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
 
Federation of Communist Anarchists (FdCA)
 
===Japan===
 
1968 revolt
 
===Mexico===
 
1968 revolt
 
===Pakistan===
 
1968 revolt
 
===Poland===
 
1968 revolt
 
Polish Anarchist Federation (FA)
 
===Yugoslavia===
 
1968 revolt
 
===United States===
 
1968 revolt
 
===Germany===
 
1968 revolt
 
Movement 2 June (M2J)
 
===Senegal===
 
1968 revolt
 
===Argentina===
 
Libertarian Resistance (RL)
 
===Iraq===
 
Workers' Liberation Group (Shagila)
 
===Iran===
 
The Sceam of the People (CHK)
 
===Britain===
 
Angry Brigade (AB)
 
===Canada===
 
Direct Action (AD)
 
===Spain===
 
Interior Defense (DI)
 
First of May Group (GPM)
 
Iberian Liberation Movement (MIL-GAC)
 
Groups of International Revolutionary Action (GARI)
 
Anti-capitalist Autonomous Commandos (KAA)
 
===Vietnam===
 
Neutralist Tribune
 
===Russia===
 
Left Opposition (LO)
 
Movement of Revolutionary Communards (MRC)
 
Free General Workers' Union (SMOT)
 
===Ukraine===
 
Communist League of Anarchists
 
===Czechoslovakia===
 
Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation
 
Anarchist Federation (AF) / Czech and Slovak Anarchist Federation (CSAF)
 
===South Africa===
 
Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)
 
=Examples from [[Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution]]=


[[Gray wolf]]
[[Gray wolf]]


[[San people]]
[[Groove-billed ani]]
 
Khoikhoi people
 
[[Aboriginal Australians]]
 
Paupan people


[[Inuit]]
[[Lion]]


Aleut people
[[Manatee]]


Dayak people
[[Seahorse]]


Village community
==Earth and Ecology==


Buryats
[[File:Craggy Gardens-27527.jpg|thumbnail|[[Appalachian forests]]]]


Kabyle people
[[File:The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpg|thumbnail|[[Earth system]]]]


Peoples of the Caucasus
[[File:Elysia-chlorotica-body.jpg|thumbnail|[[Evolution of sea slugs]]]]


[[Medieval commune]]
[[File:Symsagittifera roscoffensis(Jersey).jpg|thumbnail|[[Evolution of translucent worms]]]]


Medieval guild
[[File:Mycorrhizal network.svg|thumb|[[Mycorrhizal network]]]]


Labor unions
[[File:Utricularia aurea 8 Darwiniana.jpg|thumb|[[Utricularia-algae-zooplankton feedback]]]]


Strikes
[[Appalachian forests]]


Worker cooperatives
[[Bacteria]]


Lifeboat Association
[[Earth system]]


Cyclists' Alliance
[[Evolution of eukaryotes]]


Gymnasts' Societies
[[Evolution of green hydra]]


Alpine Clubs
[[Evolution of horse]]


Froebel Unions
[[Evolution of sea slugs]]


pedagogical societies in Germany
[[Evolution of translucent worms]]


religious charitable associations
[[Human body and anarchy]]


scientific, literary, artistic, and educational societies
[[Mimosa-beetle symbiosis]]


Mutual-Aid in slum-life
[[Mycorrhizal network]]


=Examples from [[People Without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy]]=
[[Utricularia-algae-zooplankton feedback]]


[[San people]]
==Cosmos, Physics, and Chemistry==


[[Inuit]]
[[File:RBCells.jpg|thumbnail|[[Bénard_convection]]]]


[[Mbuti people]]
[[File:Bzr fotos.jpg|thumbnail|[[Chemical clock]]]]


[[Aboriginal Australians]]
[[Chemical clock]]


[[Northwest coast indigenous peoples]]
[[Bénard convection]]


[[Lugbara people]]
[[Laser]]


[[Konkomba people]]
[[Physics and anarchy]]


[[Tiv people]]
[[Solar system's planets]]


Plateau Tonga
[[Universe]]


Anuak
=Fictional Anarchy=


Ibo
''"We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."'' -Ursula K. LeGuin<ref>"Ursula K Le Guin's speech at National Book Awards", ''The Guardian'', 20 November 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/20/ursula-k-le-guin-national-book-awards-speech.</ref>


New Guinea indigenous peoples
==Anarchist==
[[File:Anarres.jpeg|thumbnail|[[Anarres]]]]


Ifugao
[[Anarres]] (''The Dispossessed'')


Land Dayaks
Mars (''Mars'' trilogy)


South American Indians
[[San Francisco (The Fifth Sacred Thing)]]


Nuer
==Anti-Authoritarian==


Samek or Lapps
[[File:Earthseed.jpg|thumb|[[Earthseed]]]]


Imazighen
[[File:Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. 037.jpg|thumbnail| [[Cokaygne]] ]]


Santals
[[File:Fraggle Rock.png|thumb|[[Fraggle Rock]]]]


[[Medieval commune]]
[[File:Hobbiton, New Zealand.jpg|thumb|[[The Shire]]]]
 
Anabaptists


[[Spanish Revolution]]
[[Cokaygne]]


=Examples from [[The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism]]=
[[Earthseed]]


[[Athenian polis]]
[[Fraggle Rock]]


[[Medieval commune]]
[[Haudenosaunee#.22Warp_and_Weft.2C.22_from_The_Years_of_Rice_and_Salt_by_Kim_Stanley_Robinson|Haudenosaunee]] (''The Years of Rice and Salt'' by Kim Stanley Robinson)


New England Town Meetings
[[Kesh]] (''Always Coming Home'')


Parisian Sections
Nowhere (''News from Nowhere'')


Swiss confederal leagues
[[The Shire]] (''The Lord of the Rings'')


=Other Examples=
==Autonomous==
 
[[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]]
 
[[Kurdish democratic confederalists]]


[[Anusilan Samiti]]
[[Igbo|Umuofia (''Things Fall Apart'')]]


[[Fraternity of the Red Flag]]


[[Shamrik Mukti Dal]]


[[Libertarian Socialist Institute]]
<references/>
 
[[Jugoremedija]]
 
[[Freedom Fight]]
 
[[First Intifada]]

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AnarchyinAction.org is a resource for anyone to research and write about how and when anarchy can work. Anarchy, coming from the Greek words an (without) and archos (ruler) refers to a situation without domination, without coercive hierarchy. Here are many examples of anarchy in practice. By looking for anarchy well beyond the self-proclaimed anarchist movements (although we're interested in those too!), we respond, for example, to Maia Ramnath's call in Decolonizing Anarchism to "locate the Western anarchist tradition as one contextually specific manifestation among a larger-indeed global-tradition of antiauthoritarian, egal­itarian thought/praxis".[1] We take our name from Colin Ward's 1973 book Anarchy in Action.

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Anarchist banners at World Conference Against Racism, Durban, 2001.[2]
"Fifth Sacred Thing" by Jessica Perlstein, portraying San Francisco (The Fifth Sacred Thing).
Clifford Harper portrays an anarchist commune in Radical Technology
Les chataigniers a Osny (1888) by anarchist painter Camille Pissarro.
ancient San artwork
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Societies

"Once we leave Europe, in fact, we discover that statelessness and the desire for self-government are not eternally receding utopias, but are principles that for millennia have structured communities in every part of the world." -Silvia Federici[2]

"[T]here are also concepts such as anti-authoritarian or egalitarian forms of organizing. Although this differs in degrees from one Indigenous nation to another, it is, overall, a fairly strong part of our traditional culture (with some exceptions)." -Gord Hill[3]

"Egalitarian cities, even regional confederacies, are historically quite commonplace."-David Graeber and David Wengrow[4]


Anarchist

Nestor Makhno with members of the anarchist Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine
Shinmin Prefecture
Collectivized textile factory in Barcelona, Spain. From Sam Dolgoff's The Anarchist Collectives.

Revolutionary Spain, 1936-9, 3.2 million people

Revolutionary Ukraine, 1918-1921, 7 million people

Shinmin Prefecture, 1929-1931, 2 million people


Anti-Authoritarian

Zapatista-run Chiapas
Kurdistan democratic confederalists
Abahlali baseMjondolo
Bayaka
Andamanese
Batek
Çatalhöyük
Niitsitapi
Mbuti
Haudenosaunee
Wendat
Cayonu
El Alto neighborhood councils
Cucuteni–Trypillia civilization
Malaipantaram
Croatan
Hadza
Minoan Crete
Indus Valley Civilization
Cherán
Jenne-jeno
San peoples
Oceti Sakowin (Sioux)
Hopi
Paliyan
Peiligang culture
Minangkabau
Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement
Taborite communes
Mosuo
Nishnaabeg
Zomia
Kuna people
Catholic Worker
Early Uruk
Cherokee
Seminole people
Zuni
Semai people

Abahlali baseMjondolo, 115,000 members as of 2022

Andamanese

Anuak

Argentinian horizontalidad

Batek

Bayaka

Çatalhöyük

Catholic Worker

Cherán

Croatan

El Alto neighborhood councils, 2000s CE

Cayonu, 7200 to ca. 4200 BCE

Cherokee

Chickasaw

Choctaw

Crianza Mutua (Colombia)

Crianza Mutua (Mexico)

Cucuteni–Trypillia civilization, 1 million people, 4800 to 3000 BCE

Diné

Early Uruk, 4000-3200 BCE

Early Neolithic Southern Levant, 10,500 to 6000 BCE

Global Ecovillage Network

Hadza

Haudenosaunee

Hopi

Indus Valley Civilization

Inuit

Itoiz villages

Jenne-jeno, 250 BCE-1400 CE, 11,000 people

Konkomba

Kuna people

La Solana villages

Late Taosi

Longo Maï

Malaipantaram

Mapuche, 1 million people in sixteenth century

Mbuti

Minangkabau

Minoan Crete, 3000 BCE-1100 BCE

Muscogee

Oceti Sakowin (Sioux)

Nayaka people

Niitsitapi (Blackfoot)

Nishnaabeg

Piaroa

Peiligang culture, 7000-5000 BCE

Rojava, 2012-present, 2.5 million people

San (including !Kung)

Santals

Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement

Semai people

Seminole people

Taborite communes, 15th century

Vikalp Sangam (India)

Wendat

Zapatista-run Chiapas, 1994-present, 120,000-300,000 people

Zomia, present, 100 million people

Zuni

Autonomous

Teotihuacan
Landless Workers' Movement
Early Israelites
Medieval commune
Canela people

Aboriginal Australians

Canela people

Early Christians

Early Israelites

Early Uruk

Highland Madagascar

Igbo

Landless Workers' Movement

Lugbara

Mashkan-shapir

Medieval commune

Palmares

Parisian sections

Pequot

Sea Peoples

Revolutionary Syria

Sami

Teotihuacan

Essenes

Castile confederation

Essenes, 4,000 people

Paris Commune, 1871, 2 million people

South Carolina Commune

Maluku archipelago

Quinnipiac

Swiss confederal leagues

Therapeutae

Tiv

Tlaxcala (Postclassic)

Venezuelan communes

Limited

Pnyx Hill, the meeting place of the ecclesia in the Athenian polis.

Athenian polis, 594-431, 404-403 BCE, 40,000 male citizens

Kibbutzim, 1919-present, 120,000 members in 2011

New England town meetings

Tribal Arabia

Tonga people


Unsorted

South American Indians

Land Dayaks

La Paz Zapotec, nearly 2,000 people

Maori

New Guinea indigenous peoples

Northwest coast indigenous peoples

Nubian people

Nuer

Imazighen

Ifugao

Dinka people

Communities

"The primary aspiration of all history is a genuine community of human beings -- genuine because it is community all through." - Martin Buber[5]

"Strong communities make police obsolete." -police-abolitionist slogan


Anarchist

Guangzhou commune, 1921-1923

Anti-Autoritarian

Entrance to Christiania
Police dismantling a blockade of protesters at Faslane Peace Camp.
Woodcut from a Diggers document by William Everard

Christiania, 1971-present, 900 people

Faslane Peace Camp, 1982-present

Free Republic of Wendland, 1980, 5,000 people

George's Hill (Diggers), 1649, 40 people

Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, 1981-200

Life and Labor Commune, 1921-1930, nearly 1,000 people

Village Alternatif, Anticapitalist et AntiGuerres, 2003, thousands of people

Autonomous

Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Commune, 1922-1926

Pocasset, 200 families

Huehuecoyotl

Unsorted

Taita Hills

Ghana shantytown

Minnehaha Free State

Mexican colonial proletarias

Peruvian 'barriadas

Tunisian gourbivilles

Indian bus tees

Turkish gecekondu

Venezuelan ranchos

King Hill hostel squat

Movements and Uprisings

"If we had surrendered, if we had sold ourselves, we would no longer have been poor, but others would have continued to be so." -Subcomandante Marcos[6]

"People have done horizontal, or non-hierarchical, organization all their lives. It is already there in my culture and the way Palestinian activism has worked." -Beesan Ramadan[7]

"We take inspiration from the Luddites, Levellers, Diggers, the Autonome squatter movement, ALF, the Zapatistas, and the little people -- those mischievous elves of lore." -Earth Liberation Front[8]

Anarchist

Chicago anarchists advanced the cause of the 8-hour day and started May Day. See The Haymarket Martyrs.
1999 Seattle WTO shutdown
Anarchy in the Mexican Revolution
Informal Anarchist Federation
Conspiracy of Cells of Fire

The Haymarket Martyrs

Conspiracy of Cells of Fire

Informal Anarchist Federation

Anarchists in the Russian Revolution

Anarchists in the Italian Factory Occupations

Anarchism and the Spanish Revolution

Anarchism in the Mexican Revolution

Manchurian Revolution

1999 Seattle WTO shutdown

Modern schools

2008 Greek insurrection

US Galleanists

1911 Lima-Callao general strike

1919 Peruvian general strike

Anti-Authoritarian

Animal Liberation Front
Italian Autonomia
Cascadia Free State
English Peasants' Revolt of 1381
Anarchy in the Haitian Revolution
Alcatraz occupation
BDS Movement
National Guard deployed during the Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992
Flag of the Group of Communities in Kurdistan
Standing Rock Uprising
Bogomils
Community taro patches run by indigenous and non-indigenous farmers across Hawaii
John Brown's raids
Earth Liberation Front
Occupy movement
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty
Cathars
Earth First!
Movement of the Free Spirit
Unist'ot'en Camp
Watts Rebellion of 1965

Abalone Alliance

Alcatraz occupation

Adamites

Alter-globalization movement

Anarchy in the German Revolution

Anarchy in the Russian Revolution

Anarchy in the Haitian Revolution

Animal Liberation Front

Anti-Shell actions

Bogomils

BDS Movement

Cascadia Free State, 1995-6

Cathars, 11th to 14th centuries

Catholic Worker movement

Community taro patches

Clamshell Alliance

Earth First!

Earth Liberation Front

English food riots in eighteenth century

English Peasants' Revolt of 1381

German Anti-Fascism

Italian Anti-Fascism

Italian Autonomia

John Brown's raids

Kurdish democratic confederalists

Kronstadt rebellion

Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992

Mapuche Struggle

Movement of the Free Spirit

Oaxaca rebellion

Occupy movement

Oka Crisis

Unist'ot'en Camp

US anti-nuclear movement

US Green movement

School of the Tillers

Sexual revolution

Standing Rock Uprising

Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty

Texas KXL blockade

The May-June Revolt in France, 1968

Watts Rebellion

Yellow Turban Rebellion

Zone to Defend (ZAD), 2012-present

Autonomous

La Via Campesina
Pirate anarchy
Nat Turner's rebellion
Luddites
2013 Mi'kmaq anti-fracking struggle
1919 Seattle general strike
Woman confronts soldiers during the First Intifada.
Red Cloud's War
American Revolution and Anarchy
Russian Revolution and Anarchy
Cuban Revolution and Anarchism
Mexican Revolution and Anarchy
French Revolution and Anarchy
Jewish armed anti-Nazi resistance

1848 revolutions

1968 revolutions

1919 Seattle general strike

2007 Lakota declaration of independence

2013 Mi'kmaq anti-fracking struggle

American Revolution and Anarchy

Anabaptists

Barcelona en Comú

Black Reconstruction

Bolivia Water War

Cuban Revolution and Anarchism

First Intifada

French Revolution and Anarchy

German Peasants' War

Jewish armed anti-Nazi resistance

La Via Campesina

Luddites

Mexican Revolution and Anarchy

Nat Turner's rebellion

Pirate anarchy

Pueblo Revolt

Red Cloud's War

Seminole Wars

Syrian Revolution

Limited

Karaite Judaism

Kharijites

Mu'tazilites

Unsorted

Massalians

Prague Spring

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

1903 Macedonian revolt

1905–1907 Russian Revolt

1910 Mexican revolution

1960 student revolts

Imazighen

Parisian urban gardeners

Cantonalist Revolt of 1873-1874

Organizations

"SNCC without knowing about anarchism as philosophy embodied the characteristics of anarchism." -Howard Zinn[9]

"The real question at issue is not organization versus non-organization, but rather, what kind of organization. What different kinds of anarchist organizations have in common is that they are developed organically from below, not engineered into existence from above." -Murray Bookchin[10]


Active Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian

Historical Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian

Autonomous

Unsorted

Everyday Anarchy

''I think we have to talk about educating the people for critical consciousness about what anarchy is. I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term." -bell hooks.[11]

"If there’s a line to get on a crowded bus, do you wait your turn and refrain from elbowing your way past others even in the absence of police? If you answered 'yes', then you are used to acting like an anarchist!" -David Graeber[12]

"How would you feel if you discovered that the society in which you would really like to live was already here, apart from a few little local difficulties like exploitation, war, dictatorship and starvation?" -Colin Ward[13]

The Yard, an "adventure playground" in Minneapolis. http://www.minnpost.com/arts-culture/2014/07/when-yard-was-minnesota-s-most-radical-park
Woodstock Festival poster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_festival


Anarchist

Anti-Authoritarian

Really Really Free Market

Mumbai community dog care

Participatory

Autonomous

Stonehenge Free Festival, 1972-1985 (one month a year), 30,000 people

Woodstock Festival, 1969, 40,000 people

Pioneer Health Centre

Little Commonwealth

Vienna Psychoanalytic Society's child guidance service

Horizontal organization in British architecture

Global postal service

International railways

Swiss city planning

Emdrup playground

The Yard

Unsorted

Mexican colonial proletarias

Peruvian 'barriadas

Tunisian gourbivilles

Indian bus tees

Turkish gecekondu

Venezuelan ranchos

Prestolee School

Institueion Libre de Enseiianza

Residential College for Students

1960 student revolts

Freetown playground

Skrammellegeplad playgrounds

Robinson Crusoe playgrounds

Brixham fishing cooperative

Brora mining cooperative

Standard tractor factory

Durham worker-managed mines

Gheel mental health care

Synanon

Claimant's Union

Eyes on the street

Open source

Wikipedia

Nonhuman Anarchy

"Everything is connected, absolutely everything. There are many aboriginal groups that will tell you stories about how all the species in the forests are connected, and many will talk about below-ground networks." -Sm’hayetsk Teresa Ryan[14]

"The basic premise in the ontology of wildness translates into anarchy, where the raison d'etre of everything and everyone - living or non-living, human or nonhuman, child or adult, male, female, intersexual, bisexual, or asexual, whatever the species, ethnicity, or race (all of which are important classifications for civilization only) is simply to be and to enjoy being. In wilderness, the world exists for its own reasons, its space and time uncontrolled, solely its own, regardless of whether it was created by an external divine will or generated through its own exploded forces." - Layla AbdelRahim[15]

"As I watch the Robins and Cedar Waxwings fill their bellies, I see a gift economy in which abundance is stored “in the belly of my brother.” Supporting a thriving bird community is essential to the well-being of the Serviceberry and everyone else up the food chain. That seems especially important to an immobile, long-lived being like a tree, who can’t run away from ruptured relationships. Thriving is possible only if you have nurtured strong bonds with your community."-Robin Wall Kimmerer[16]

" From autocatalytic chemical processes to cells, from living bodies to galaxies, we find a universe filled with structures exhibiting self-organizing dynamics... [A]n atom is a self-organizing system as well. Each atom is a storm of ordered activity. This invisible power assembling the energy into a particular constellation is the atom's identity. A galaxy, too, is an autopoietic system, organizing its stars into a nonequilibrium process and drawing forth new stars from its interstellar materials." -Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry [17]

"The forest has always been my teacher in peace, in diversity in democracy. Diverse life forms, small and large, moving and immobile, above ground and below, with wings, feet or leaves, find their place in the forest. The forest teaches us that in diversity lie the conditions of peace, the realization of democracy." -Vandana Shiva[18]

"If we recognize that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of plant-animal relationships (rather than a stratified pyramid)...Each species, be it a form of bacteria or deer, is knitted together in a network of interdependence. A predator in the web is also prey, even if the 'lowliest' of organisms merely makes it ill or helps to consume it after death." -Murray Bookchin[19]

Animal Societies

Acorn woodpecker
Central American squirrel monkey
Dolphins
Groove-billed ani
Lion
Gray wolf

Acorn woodpecker

Bison

Bonobo

Central American squirrel monkey

Dolphins

Domestic cat

Elephant

Gorillas dismantling traps

Gray wolf

Groove-billed ani

Lion

Manatee

Seahorse

Earth and Ecology

Appalachian forests
Earth system
Evolution of sea slugs
Evolution of translucent worms
Mycorrhizal network
Utricularia-algae-zooplankton feedback

Appalachian forests

Bacteria

Earth system

Evolution of eukaryotes

Evolution of green hydra

Evolution of horse

Evolution of sea slugs

Evolution of translucent worms

Human body and anarchy

Mimosa-beetle symbiosis

Mycorrhizal network

Utricularia-algae-zooplankton feedback

Cosmos, Physics, and Chemistry

Bénard_convection
Chemical clock

Chemical clock

Bénard convection

Laser

Physics and anarchy

Solar system's planets

Universe

Fictional Anarchy

"We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings." -Ursula K. LeGuin[20]

Anarchist

Anarres

Anarres (The Dispossessed)

Mars (Mars trilogy)

San Francisco (The Fifth Sacred Thing)

Anti-Authoritarian

Earthseed
Cokaygne
Fraggle Rock
The Shire

Cokaygne

Earthseed

Fraggle Rock

Haudenosaunee (The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson)

Kesh (Always Coming Home)

Nowhere (News from Nowhere)

The Shire (The Lord of the Rings)

Autonomous

Umuofia (Things Fall Apart)


  1. ↑ Maia Ramnath, Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle (AK Press, 2011), 6.
  2. ↑ Silvia Federici, "Global Anarchism: Provocations" in No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms, ed. Barry Maxwell and Raymond Crib, (Oakland: PM Press, 2015), 350-351.
  3. ↑ "Gord Hill, Indigenous Artist and Anarchist," Crimethinc, 1 August 2017, https://crimethinc.com/2017/08/01/an-interview-with-gord-hill.
  4. ↑ David Graeber and David Wengrow, "How to change the course of human history, Eurozine, 2 March 2018, https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/.
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  7. ↑ Joshua Stephens, “Palestinian Anarchists in Conversation: Recalibrating anarchism in a colonized country,” Institute for Anarchist Studies, 19 July 2013, https://anarchiststudies.org/palestinian-anarchists/.
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  11. ↑ bell hooks, "How Do You Practice Intersectionalism?", The Anarchist Library, https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/randy-lowens-how-do-you-practice-intersectionalism.
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