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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 anarchy can work. '''''Anarchy''''', coming from the Greek words ''an'' (without) and ''archos'' (ruler) refers to a situation without domination, without coercive hierarchy. We have collected hundreds of examples of anarchy in practice, many of them from the following works:
[[File:Spreadanarchy.png]]


<blockquote>
[[An Anarchist FAQ]] (excerpt)


[[Anarchy in Action]] by Colin Ward
[[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 Works]] by Peter Gelderloos


[[Cartography of Revolutionary Anarchism]] by Michael Schmidt
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]]''.


[[Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution]] by Peter Kropotkin
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.


[[People_Without_Government:_An_Anthropology_of_Anarchy|People Without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy]] by Harold Barclay
[[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/]]]


[[The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism]] by Janet Biehl with Murray Bookchin (excerpt)
[[File:Fifthsacredthing.webp|thumb|"Fifth Sacred Thing" by Jessica Perlstein, portraying [[San Francisco (The Fifth Sacred Thing)]].]]
</blockquote>


We sort the examples by their scale and focus. The list of '''[[Main_Page#Societies|societies]] ''' encompasses confederations of residential communities. The list of '''[[Main_Page#Communities|communities]] ''' includes communes, towns and neighborhoods small enough for people to make face-to-face decisions. The '''[[Main_Page#Movements and Uprisings|movements and uprisings]]''' category includes large-scale movements, rebellions, campaigns and mobilizations. The '''[[Main_Page#Organizations|organizations]]''' category includes groups and their federations. '''[[Main_Page#Everyday Anarchy|Everyday anarchy]]''' lists anarchic projects and phenomena that exist all around us even in capitalist societies. Playfully but still seriously, we add two further categories. In a nod to the naturalist Peter Kropotkin who saw cooperative activity as a factor of evolution, we add '''[[Main_Page#Nonhuman Anarchy|nonhuman anarchy]]''' to explore power relations in nonhuman animal and ecological communities. Lastly, we add the category of '''[[Main_Page#Fictional Anarchy|fictional anarchy]]''', which includes, for example, the planet Anarres from Ursula K. LeGuin's novel ''The Dispossessed''.
[[File:Clifford-harper-alternative-dream.png|thumb|Clifford Harper portrays an anarchist commune in ''Radical Technology'']]


We also sort these examples into four main organizational 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 an anti-authoritarian ''direction'', such as the Paris Commune, which fell short of participatory governance. By looking for anarchy beyond self-identified anarchist projects, we aim to respond to Maria Ramnath's call in ''Decolonizing Anarchism'' to locate anarchism ''"as one contextually specific manifestation among a larger-indeed global-tradition of antiauthoritarian, egal­itarian thought/praxis"''.<ref>Maria Ramnath, ''Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle'' (AK Press, 2011), 6.</ref>
[[File:Apple Harvest by Camille Pissarro.jpg|thumb|Les chataigniers a Osny (1888) by anarchist painter Camille Pissarro.]]


In our articles, we try to explore how horizontal societies and communities deal with ''culture'', ''decisions'', ''economy'',  ''environment'', ''crime'', ''revolution'', and ''neighboring societies''. We do not claim or attempt to present 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 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.
[[File:Weiße Dame Brandberg.JPG|thumb|ancient [[San]] artwork]]


AnarchyinAction.org is a project of [http://www.capitalismvsclimate.org Capitalism vs. the Climate] and of our friends at [https://getlibre.org/ Get Libre], the Wesleyan University Infoshop, and elsewhere. If you would like to get involved, please email dfischer@riseup.net.
[[File:Whoever.jpg|thumb|[https://www.anarchistagency.com/critical-voices/david-damato-what-is-anarchism/]]]


For resources on writing and editing this wiki, please see our [[Editing Guide]].


=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<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>


=Societies=
''"[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>


''"Living without a state remains not a socio-historical anomaly but the standard human condition." -Andrej Grubacic''<ref>Andrej Grubacic, "Exit and Territory" in Alexander Reid Ross, ''Grabbing Back: Essays Against the Global Land Grab'' (Oakland, AK Press, 2014), 160.</ref>


==Anarchist==
==Anarchist==


[[File:Makhno group.jpg|thumbnail| More details Nestor Makhno with members of the anarchist [[Revolutionary Ukraine|Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine]]]]
[[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


[[File:S-d-jpeg-12.jpeg|thumbnail|Collectivized textile factory in Barcelona, [[Revolutionary Spain|Spain]]. From Sam Dolgoff's ''The Anarchist Collectives''.]]


==Anti-Authoritarian==
==Anti-Authoritarian==
[[File:IMG 0427.JPG|thumbnail|A school building in [[Zapatista-run Chiapas]]]]


[[Anuak]]
[[File:IMG_0497.JPG|thumbnail| [[Zapatista-run Chiapas]]]]


[[Argentinian horizontalidad]]
[[File:Rojava_Sewing_Cooperative.jpg|thumbnail|[[Kurdistan democratic confederalists]]]]


[[El Alto]], 1 million people
[[File:Abahlali baseMjondolo Logo.jpg|thumb|[[Abahlali baseMjondolo]]]]


[[Global Ecovillage Network]]
[[File:Baka dancers June 2006.jpg|thumb|[[Bayaka]]]]


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


[[Hill People of Southeast Asia]]
[[File:Keluarga suku Bateq 167.jpg|thumb|[[Batek]]]]


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


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


[[Itoiz villages]]
[[File:Mbuti woman with mushrooms1.jpg|thumbnail|[[Mbuti]]]]


[[Kurdish democratic confederalists]]
[[File:Flag_of_the_Iroquois_Confederacy.svg.png|thumbnail|[[Haudenosaunee]]]]


[[Konkomba]]
[[File:Iroquoian Village, Ontario, Canada36.JPG|thumb|[[Wendat]]]]


[[La Solana villages]]
[[File:Çayonu.jpg|thumb|[[Cayonu]]]]


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


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


[[Mbuti]]
[[File:Malaipantaram map.gif|thumb|[[Malaipantaram]]]]


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


[[San]]
[[File:Hadza montage.png|thumb| [[Hadza]]]]


[[Zapatista-run Chiapas]], 1994-present, 120,000-300,000 people
[[File:Knossos - North Portico 02.jpg|thumb|[[Minoan Crete]]]]


==Participatory==
[[File:Mohenjo-daro.jpg|thumb|[[Indus Valley Civilization]]]]


[[File:Pnyx-berg2.png|thumbnail|Pnyx Hill, the meeting place of the ecclesia in the [[Athenian polis]].]]
[[File:Cherán.jpeg|thumb|[[Cherán]]]]


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


[[Athenian polis]], 594-431, 404-403 BCE, 40,000 male citizens
[[File:BushmenSan.jpg|thumbnail|[[San]] peoples]]


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


[[Kibbutzim]], 1919-present, 120,000 members
[[File:1280px-Oraibi1.jpg|thumbnail|[[Hopi]]]]


[[Landless Workers' Movement]]
[[File:Paliyan women.jpg|thumb|[[Paliyan]]]]


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


[[Medieval commune]]
[[File:Talempong - Sumatra Barat.jpg|thumb|[[Minangkabau]]]]


[[New England town meetings]]
[[File:Sarvodaya-296x300.png|thumb|[[Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement]]]]


[[Parisian sections]]
[[File:Taborites.png|thumbnail|[[Taborite communes]]]]


[[Plateau Tonga]]
[[File:Mosuo girls.jpg|thumb|[[Mosuo]]]]


[[Sami]]
[[File:Anishinaabe-Anishinini Distribution Map.svg|thumb| [[Nishnaabeg]] ]]


==Autonomous==
[[File:GENERAL-Massif 2May2010.jpg|thumb|[[Zomia]]]]


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


[[Paris Commune]], 1871, 2 million people
[[File:Catholic Worker.jpg|thumb|[[Catholic Worker]]]]


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


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


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


Santals
[[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]]]]


South American Indians
[[File:Semai man1.jpg|thumb|[[Semai people]]]]


Land Dayaks
[[Abahlali baseMjondolo]], 115,000 members as of 2022


[[La Paz Zapotec]], nearly 2,000 people
[[Andamanese]]


Maori
[[Anuak]]


New Guinea indigenous peoples
[[Argentinian horizontalidad]]


Northwest coast indigenous peoples
[[Batek]]


Nubian people
[[Bayaka]]


Nuer
[[Çatalhöyük]]


Imazighen
[[Catholic Worker]]


Inuit
[[Cherán]]


Haudennosaunne
[[Croatan]]


Ifugao
[[El Alto neighborhood councils]], 2000s CE


Igbo
[[Cayonu]], 7200 to ca. 4200 BCE


Dinka people
[[Cherokee]]


=Communities=
[[Southeast Matriarchies|Chickasaw]]


==Anarchist==
[[Southeast Matriarchies|Choctaw]]


[[Guangzhou commune]], 1921-1923
Crianza Mutua (Colombia)


==Anti-Autoritarian==
Crianza Mutua (Mexico)


[[Christiania]], 1971-present, 900 people
[[Cucuteni–Trypillia civilization]], 1 million people, 4800 to 3000 BCE


[[Faslane Peace Camp]], 1982-present
[[Diné]]


[[Free Republic of Wendland]], 1980, 5,000 people
[[Early Uruk]], 4000-3200 BCE


[[Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp]], 1981-200
[[Early Neolithic Southern Levant]], 10,500 to 6000 BCE


[[Life and Labor Commune]], 1921-1930, nearly 1,000 people
[[Global Ecovillage Network]]


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


[[ZAD]], 2012-present, thousands of people
[[Haudenosaunee]]


==Participatory==
[[Hopi]]


==Autonomous==
[[Indus Valley Civilization]]


Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Commune, 1922-1926
[[Inuit]]


[[Pocasset]]
[[Itoiz villages]]


==Unsorted==
[[Jenne-jeno]], 250 BCE-1400 CE, 11,000 people


Alcatraz occupation
[[Konkomba]]


Taita Hills
[[Kuna people]]


Ghana shantytown
[[La Solana villages]]


Minnehaha Free State
[[Late Taosi]]


Mexican ''colonial proletarias''
[[Longo Maï]]


Peruvian 'barriadas''
[[Malaipantaram]]


Tunisian ''gourbivilles''
[[Mapuche]], 1 million people in sixteenth century


Indian ''bus tees''
[[Mbuti]]


Turkish ''gecekondu''
[[Minangkabau]]


Venezuelan ''ranchos''
[[Minoan Crete]], 3000 BCE-1100 BCE


[[King Hill hostel squat]]
[[Southeast Matriarchies|Muscogee]]


[[Oceti Sakowin]] (Sioux)


=Movements and Uprisings=
[[Nayaka people]]


''"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. During the [[First Intifada]], for instance, when someone's home was demolished, people would organize to rebuild it, almost spontaneously. As a Palestinian anarchist I look forward to going back to the roots of the First Intifada. It did not come from a political decision. It came against the will of the PLO." -Beesan Ramadan''<ref>Joshua Stephens, “Palestinian Anarchists in Conversation: Recalibrating anarchism in a colonized country,” ''Institute for Anarchist Studies'', 19 July 2013, http://anarchiststudies.org/2013/07/19/palestinian-anarchists-in-conversation-recalibrating-anarchism-in-a-colonized-country/.</ref>
[[Niitsitapi]] (Blackfoot)


==Anarchist==
[[Nishnaabeg]]
[[File:ChicagoAnarchists.jpg|thumbnail|Chicago anarchists advanced the cause of the 8-hour day and started May Day. See [[The Haymarket Martyrs]].]]


[[The Haymarket Martyrs]]
[[Piaroa]]


Building the Syndicalist Unions
[[Peiligang culture]], 7000-5000 BCE


[[Anarchists in the Russian Revolution]]
[[Kurdistan democratic confederalists|Rojava]], 2012-present, 2.5 million people


Anarchists in the Italian Factory Occupations
[[San]] (including !Kung)


[[Revolutionary Spain|Anarchism and the Spanish Revolution]]
[[Santals]]


[[Anarchism in the Cuban Revolution]]
[[Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement]]


Modern schools
[[Semai people]]


==Anti-Authoritarian==
[[Seminole people]]


[[File:Warner-creek-EF-96.jpg|thumbnail|[[Cascadia Free State]]. Source: http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2013/11/warner-creek-EF-96.jpg]]
[[Taborite communes]], 15th century


[[File:Naelfpoletterhead.jpg|thumbnail|[[Earth Liberation Front]]]]
Vikalp Sangam (India)


[[Alter-globalization movement]]
[[Wendat]]


[[Animal Liberation Front]]
[[Zapatista-run Chiapas]], 1994-present, 120,000-300,000 people


[[Anti-Shell actions]]
[[Zomia]], present, 100 million people


[[Anusilan Samiti]]
[[Zuni]]


[[Cascadia Free State]], 1995-6
==Autonomous==


[[Catholic Worker movement]]
[[File:Teotihuacán-5973.JPG|thumb|[[Teotihuacan]]]]


[[Earth Liberation Front]]
[[File:Mst conabNove2004.jpg|thumb|[[Landless Workers' Movement]]]]


[[Grassroots Hurricane Katrina relief]]
[[File:024.Jacob Wrestles with the Angel.jpg|thumb|[[Early Israelites]]]]


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


The May-June Revolt in France, 1968
[[File:Familienleben.jpg|thumb|[[Canela people]]]]


[[Zone to Defend (ZAD)]]
[[Aboriginal Australians]]


==Participatory==
[[Canela people]]
[[File:First int.jpg|thumbnail|Woman confronts soldiers during the [[First Intifada]].]]


[[File:Red cloud and other souix.jpg|thumbnail|[[Red Cloud's War]]]]
[[Early Christians]]


[[First Intifada]]
[[Early Israelites]]


[[Red Cloud's War]]
[[Early Uruk]]


==Autonomous==
[[Highland Madagascar]]


[[German Peasants' War]]
[[Igbo]]


2007 Lakota declaration of independence
[[Landless Workers' Movement]]


[[Pirate anarchy]]
[[Lugbara]]


==Unsorted==
[[Mashkan-shapir]]


[[Oaxaca rebellion]]
[[Medieval commune]]


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


[[Anarchy in the American Revolution]]
[[Parisian sections]]


1903 Macedonian revolt
[[Pequot]]


1905–1907 Russian Revolt
[[Sea Peoples]]


1910 Mexican revolution
[[Syrian Revolution|Revolutionary Syria]]


1960 student revolts
[[Sami]]


[[Imazighen]]
[[Teotihuacan]]


[[Anabaptists]]
[[File:QumranLivingQuarters.jpg|thumbnail|[[Essenes]]]]


Parisian urban gardeners
[[Castile confederation]]


Seattle 1919
[[Essenes]], 4,000 people


Cantonalist Revolt of 1873-1874
[[Paris Commune]], 1871, 2 million people


Mohawk road blockade, 1990
[[Black Reconstruction|South Carolina Commune]]


Bolivia water protests
[[Maluku archipelago]]


Work democracy
[[Quinnipiac]]


=Organizations=
[[Swiss confederal leagues]]


''"[[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>
[[Therapeutae]]


==Anarchist==
[[Tiv]]


[[File:Iwafooter.png|thumbnail|[[International Workers' Association]]]]
[[Tlaxcala (Postclassic)]]


[[File:Woman with cnt-fai flag.jpg|thumbnail]]
[[Venezuelan communes]]


[[File:Lala Har Dayal Young.jpg|thumbnail|Har Dayal, founder of [[Fraternity of the Red Flag]]]]
==Limited==


Teahouse Labour Union, 11,000 members in 1918
[[File:Pnyx-berg2.png|thumbnail|Pnyx Hill, the meeting place of the ecclesia in the [[Athenian polis]].]]


National Confederation of Labor (CNT), 2 million members in 1936
[[Athenian polis]], 594-431, 404-403 BCE, 40,000 male citizens


[[International Workers' Association]] (IWA), 1.5-2 million members
[[Kibbutzim]], 1919-present, 120,000 members in 2011


Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
[[New England town meetings]]


Spanish Regional Federation (FRE), 60,000 members in 1873
[[Tribal Arabia]]


Chilean Labourers Federation (FTCh), 60,000 members in 1921
[[Tonga people]]


Revolutionary Insurgent Army of the Ukraine (RPAU), 110,000 members


All-Russian Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists (ARKAS), 88,000 members


Italian Anarchist Union (UAI), 20,000 members
==Unsorted==


General Confederation of Labor (CGT) (Spain), 60,000 members in 2010s
[[South American Indians]]


National Confederation of Labor--France (CNT-F), 5,000 members
Land Dayaks


Swedish Central Workers' Organisation (SAC), 10,000 members in 1990s
[[La Paz Zapotec]], nearly 2,000 people


Argentine Regional Workers' Federation of the 5th Congress (FORA-V), 200,000 members in 1919
Maori


House of the World Worker (COM), 50,000 members in 1910s
New Guinea indigenous peoples


Bleikhman's Petrograd Anarchist Communist Federation (PACF)
Northwest coast indigenous peoples


Union of Anarcho-Syndicalist Propaganda (MFAG)
[[Nubian people]]


Moscow Federation of Anarchist Groups
Nuer


Black Guards, 1,000 members
Imazighen


Federation of Anarchist-Communists of Bulgaria (FAKB)
Ifugao


[[Fraternity of the Red Flag]]
Dinka people


[[Freedom Fight]]
=Communities=


[[Jugoremedija]]
''"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>


Autonomous Action (AD)
''"Strong communities make police obsolete."'' -police-abolitionist slogan


Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists (KAS)


Confederation of Revolutionary Anarcho-Syndicalists (KRAS)
==Anarchist==


Revolutionary Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists, Nestor Makhno (RKAS-NM), 2,000 members
[[Guangzhou commune]], 1921-1923


Indigenous Popular Council of Oaxaca--Ricardo Flores Magnón (CIPO-RFM)
==Anti-Autoritarian==
[[File:Entrée de Christiania.jpg|thumbnail|Entrance to [[Christiania]]]]


Magónista-Zapatista Alliance (AMZ)
[[File:Faslane.jpg|thumbnail|Police dismantling a blockade of protesters at [[Faslane Peace Camp]].]]


Anarchist Workers' and Students' Group (ASWG)
[[File:Levellers declaration and standard.gif|thumbnail| Woodcut from a [[Diggers]] document by William Everard]]


Awareness League (AL)
[[Christiania]], 1971-present, 900 people


Anarchist Resistance Movement (ARM)
[[Faslane Peace Camp]], 1982-present


Durban Anarchist Federation (DAF)
[[Free Republic of Wendland]], 1980, 5,000 people


Zabala Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF)
[[Diggers|George's Hill (Diggers)]], 1649, 40 people


North-Eastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists (NEFAC)
[[Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp]], 1981-200


Common Struggle Libertarian Communist Federation
[[Life and Labor Commune]], 1921-1930, nearly 1,000 people


Common Cause
[[Village Alternatif, Anticapitalist et AntiGuerres]], 2003, thousands of people


Libertarian Communist Union
==Autonomous==


Siberian Confederation of Labor (SKT)
Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Commune, 1922-1926


Anarkismo.net
[[Pocasset]], 200 families


Workers' Solidarity Movement (WSM)
[[Huehuecoyotl]]


Libertarian Socialist Movement (LSM)
==Unsorted==


Libertarian Alternative (AL)
Taita Hills


International Brotherhood
Ghana shantytown


International Alliance of Socialist Democracy
Minnehaha Free State


Anarchist organizations within the International Working Person's Association
Mexican ''colonial proletarias''


Anti-Authoritarian International
Peruvian 'barriadas''


Anarchist Federation of the Altai (AFA)
Tunisian ''gourbivilles''


Anarchist Federation of Poland (AFP)
Indian ''bus tees''


Revolutionary Anarchist Socialist Party (PSAR)
Turkish ''gecekondu''


German Anarchist Federation (AFD)
Venezuelan ''ranchos''


East Asian Anarchist Federation (EAAF)
[[King Hill hostel squat]]


Anarchist International Relations Commission (CRIA)
=Movements and Uprisings=


Continental Commission of Anarchist Relations (CCRA)
''"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>


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


Korean Anarchist Federation (KAF)
''"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>


Korean Anarchist Communist Federation (KACF)
==Anarchist==


Korean Anarchist Federation in Manchuria (KAF-M)
[[File:ChicagoAnarchists.jpg|thumbnail|Chicago anarchists advanced the cause of the 8-hour day and started May Day. See [[The Haymarket Martyrs]].]]


Durruti Column
[[File:Seattle black bloc.png|thumbnail|[[1999 Seattle WTO shutdown]]]]


Friends of Durruti (AD)
[[File:Magon.png|thumbnail|[[Anarchy in the Mexican Revolution]]]]


Kronstadt Accords (ZK)
[[File:Logo de la FAI.svg|thumb|[[Informal Anarchist Federation]]]]


Francophile Anarchist Federation (FAF)
[[File:Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, Logo.jpg|thumb|[[Conspiracy of Cells of Fire]]]]


Italian Anarchist Communists (FdCAI)
[[The Haymarket Martyrs]]


Anarchist Federation of Britain (AFB)
[[Conspiracy of Cells of Fire]]


Japanese Anarchist Federation (JAF)
[[Informal Anarchist Federation]]


Spanish Regional Anarchist Organisation (OARE)
[[Anarchists in the Russian Revolution]]


Anarchist Communist Alliance
[[Anarchists in the Italian Factory Occupations]]


Anarchist Federation
[[Revolutionary Spain|Anarchism and the Spanish Revolution]]


Black Front Society
[[Anarchy in the Mexican Revolution|Anarchism in the Mexican Revolution]]


Libertarian Socialist Council (LSC)
[[Shinmin_Prefecture|Manchurian Revolution]]


Workers' Solidarity Movement (RRU)
[[1999 Seattle WTO shutdown]]


Workers' Solidarity (RR)
Modern schools


Co-ordination of Anarchist Groups
[[2008 Greek insurrection]]


Anarcho-Communist Port-workers' Group (ACAOP)
[[US Galleanists]]


Anarcho-Syndicalist National Confederation of Labour (ASNKR)
[[1911 Lima-Callao general strike]]


Union of Communist Anarchists (UCAI)
[[1919 Peruvian general strike]]


Federation of Communist Anarchists of German (FKAD)
==Anti-Authoritarian==


Federation of Anarchist-communist Groups of Poland and Lithuania (FAGPL)
[[File:Interfauna-raid-1990.jpg|thumb|[[Animal Liberation Front]]]]


Japanese Anarchist Club (JAC)
[[File:Metropolitan Indians.jpg|thumbnail|[[Italian Autonomia]]]]


Anarchist Federation
[[File:Warner-creek-EF-96.jpg|thumbnail|[[Cascadia Free State]]]]


Federation of Anarchist Groups of Cuba (FGAC)
[[File:Jean Froissart, Chroniques, 154v, 12148 btv1b8438605hf336, crop.jpg|thumb|[[English Peasants' Revolt of 1381]]]]


Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
[[File:Battle for Palm Tree Hill.jpg|thumbnail|[[Anarchy in the Haitian Revolution]]]]


International of Anarchist Federations (IAF)
[[File:Alcatraz Island 01 Prison sign.jpg|thumbnail|[[Alcatraz occupation]]]]


Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
[[File:SOAS BDS demonstration 27 April 2017 12.jpg|thumbnail|[[BDS Movement]]]]


anarchist faction in Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR)
[[File:ANG40InfantryDivisionLosAngelesRiot1992.jpg|thumbnail|National Guard deployed during the [[Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992]]]]


Anarcho-Communist Unification (CUAC)
[[File:Flag of Koma Komalên Kurdistan.svg|thumbnail|Flag of the [[Kurdistan democratic confederalists|Group of Communities in Kurdistan]]]]


Libertarian Communist Organisation (OLC)
[[File:"Happi" American Horse direct action against DAPL, August 2016 (cropped).png|thumb|[[Standing Rock Uprising]]]]


Uruguayan Anarchist Federation (FAU)
[[File:Slavic Bogomil Cemetery in Chalkidona, Thessaloniki.jpg|thumb|[[Bogomils]]]]


Anarchist Revolutionary Organisation (ORA)
[[File:TaroAKL.jpg|thumbnail|[[Community taro patches]] run by indigenous and non-indigenous farmers across Hawaii]]


Proletarian Action Anarchists Groups (GAAP)
[[File:John Brown by Levin Handy, 1890-1910.jpg|thumbnail|[[John Brown's raids]]]]


Italian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
[[File:VD VD200710070509005AR.jpg|thumb|[[Earth Liberation Front]]]]


Federation of Communist Anarchists (FdCA)
[[File:Occupy Wall Street Crowd Size 2011 Shankbone.JPG|thumbnail|[[Occupy movement]]]]


Polish Anarchist Federation (FA)
[[File:Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (logo).png|thumbnail|[[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]]]]


Communist League of Anarchists
[[File:Routes des châteaux cathares.svg|thumb|[[Cathars]]]]


Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation
[[File:Earthfirstmonkeywrench.png|thumbnail|[[Earth First!]]]]


Anarchist Federation (AF) / Czech and Slovak Anarchist Federation (CSAF)
[[File:Margarete Porete, fol. 38.jpg|thumbnail|[[Movement of the Free Spirit]]]]


Federation of Libertarian Socialists (FFS)
[[File:Unist'ot'en camp.jpg|thumbnail|[[Unist'ot'en Camp]]]]


General Delegation of the CNT (CNT-DG)
[[File:Wattsriots-burningbuildings-loc.jpg|thumbnail|[[Watts Rebellion]] of 1965]]


Venezuelan Regional Workers' Federation (FORV)
[[US anti-nuclear movement|Abalone Alliance]]


Federation of Anarchist Groups of Cuba (FGAC)
[[Alcatraz occupation]]


Cuban Libertarian Alliance (ALC)
[[Taborite communes|Adamites]]


General Confederation of Labor (CGT)
[[Alter-globalization movement]]


Federation of Anarchist Groups in Cuba (FGAC)
[[Anarchy in the German Revolution]]


Yunan guerilla campaigns
[[Anarchy in the Russian Revolution]]


Bolivian Regional Workers' Confederation (CORB)
[[Anarchy in the Haitian Revolution]]


Feminine Workers' Federation (FOB)
[[Animal Liberation Front]]


Revolutionary Popular Organisation 33 (OPR-33)
[[Anti-Shell actions]]


Libertarian Resistance (RL)
[[Bogomils]]


Workers' Liberation Group (Shagila)
[[BDS Movement]]


The Scream of the People (CHK)
[[Cascadia Free State]], 1995-6


Movement 2 June (M2J)
[[Cathars]], 11th to 14th centuries


Angry Brigade (AB)
[[Catholic Worker movement]]


Direct Action (AD)
[[Community taro patches]]


Anti-capitalist Autonomous Commandos (KAA)
[[US anti-nuclear movement|Clamshell Alliance]]


Left Opposition (LO)
[[Earth First!]]


Wiyathi Collective within the Anti-Capitalist Convergence
[[Earth Liberation Front]]


==Anti-Authoritarian==
[[English food riots in eighteenth century]]


[[File:Freedom Summer.jpg|thumbnail|Freedom Summer, a 1964 campaign of the [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]], an anti-authoritarian civil rights group. Source: http://www.crmvet.org/images/imgfs.htm]]
[[English Peasants' Revolt of 1381]]


[[File:IWW demonstration NY 1914.jpg|thumbnail|[[Industrial Workers of the World]] demonstration in New York, 1914]]
[[German Anti-Fascism]]


[[File:Psu.jpg|thumbnail|[[Philly Stands Up]], a transformative justice collective.  ]]
[[Italian Anti-Fascism]]


Industrial Workers of the World- Chile (IWW-Chile), 25,000 members in 1920
[[Italian Autonomia]]


Cuban National Labour Confederation (CNOC), 200,000 members
[[John Brown's raids]]


Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
[[Kurdish democratic confederalists]]


[[Philly Stands Up]]
[[Kronstadt rebellion]]


[[Libertarian Socialist Institute]]
[[Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992]]


[[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]]
[[Mapuche|Mapuche Struggle]]


[[Shamrik Mukti Dal]]
[[Movement of the Free Spirit]]


IWW-Sierra Leonne, 3,240 members
[[Oaxaca rebellion]]


Solidarity Union Democracy (SUD)
[[Occupy movement]]


European Federation of Alternative Syndicalism (FESAL-E)
[[Oka Crisis]]


General Confederation of Labour (CGT), 230,000 members in 1906
[[Unist'ot'en Camp]]


Industrial Union of North and South America (UIANS) (Mexico)
[[US anti-nuclear movement]]


Liberation Army of the South (ELS) (Mexico), 70,000 members
[[US Green movement]]


Industrial Syndicalist Education League (ISEL), 150,000 members in 1910s
[[School of the Tillers]]


Irish Transport & General Workers' Union (ITGWU), 12,000 members in 1917
[[Sexual revolution]]


Situationist International
[[Standing Rock Uprising]]


Siberian Industrial Workers of the World (IWW-Siberia), 16,000 members
[[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]]


General Workers' Federation (GFP), 40,000 members
[[Texas KXL blockade]]


Union of Trade Unions (ZZZ, member of IWA)
[[The May-June Revolt in France, 1968]]


Polish Syndicalist Union (ZSP), estimated 4,000 members
[[Watts Rebellion]]


Italian Syndicalist Union (USI, member of IWA), 80,000 members
[[Yellow Turban Rebellion]]


Free Association of German Trade Unions (FvDG), 100,000 members
[[Zone to Defend (ZAD)]], 2012-present


German Workers' Union of Germany (AAUD), 30,000 members
==Autonomous==


General Labour Union--Unity Organisation (AAU-E), 75,000 members
[[File:La Vía Campesina logo.png|thumb|[[La Via Campesina]]]]


American Continental Workingmen's Association (ACAT)
[[File:Flag of Edward England.svg|thumbnail|[[Pirate anarchy]]]]


General League of Koreans (HCH)
[[File:Nat Turner woodcut.jpg|thumbnail|[[Nat Turner's rebellion]]]]


Libertarian Youth Federation of Iberia (FIJL)
[[File:Luddite.jpg|thumbnail|[[Luddites]]]]


Libertarian Youth (JJLL)
[[File:Mi'kmaq blockade.png|thumbnail|[[2013 Mi'kmaq anti-fracking struggle]]]]


International Revolutionary Syndicalist Federation (FISR)
[[File:Seattle General Strike.jpg|thumbnail|[[1919 Seattle general strike]]]]


Syndicalist Workers' Federation (SWF)
[[File:First int.jpg|thumbnail|Woman confronts soldiers during the [[First Intifada]].]]


Federation of Free Labour Unions (FFLU)
[[File:Red cloud and other souix.jpg|thumbnail|[[Red Cloud's War]]]]


Independent League of Trade Unions (OVB)
[[File:Boston Tea Party Currier colored.jpg|thumbnail|[[American Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


IWW Marine Transport Workers' Industrial Union (MTWIU)
[[File:1917petrogradsoviet assembly.jpg|thumbnail|[[Russian Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


Chilean IWW
[[File:Anarchist cuba.png|thumbnail|[[Cuban Revolution and Anarchism]]]]


Ship-building Workers' Federation (FTB)
[[File:Magon.png|thumbnail|[[Mexican Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


1951 syndicalist resistance in New Zealand
[[File:Prise de la Bastille.jpg|thumbnail|[[French Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


Industrial and Commercial Union of Southern Rhodesia (ICU ''yase'' Rhodesia)
[[File:Stroop Report - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 13.jpg|thumbnail|[[Jewish armed anti-Nazi resistance]]]]


National Convention of Workers (CNT), 400,000 members in 1972
[[1848 revolutions]]


Autonomous Workers' League (AWL)
[[1968 revolutions]]


Autonomous Village Movement (AVM)
[[1919 Seattle general strike]]


Aid Group for the Libertarians and Independent Syndicalists in Cuba (GALSIC)
[[2007 Lakota declaration of independence]]


==Participatory==
[[2013 Mi'kmaq anti-fracking struggle]]


==Autonomous==
[[American Revolution and Anarchy]]


==Unsorted==
[[Anabaptists]]


Albany Free School
[[Barcelona en Comú]]


Quechua Farmers School
[[Black Reconstruction]]


Universidad Transhumante
[[Bolivia Water War]]


Free Stores
[[Cuban Revolution and Anarchism]]


Freecycle Network
[[First Intifada]]


Critical Resistance
[[French Revolution and Anarchy]]


Take Back the Night
[[German Peasants' War]]


Philly's Pissed
[[Jewish armed anti-Nazi resistance]]


No Border Network
[[La Via Campesina]]


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


Pact of Union & Solidarity (PUS)
[[Mexican Revolution and Anarchy]]


Spanish Regional Workers' Federation (FORE)
[[Nat Turner's rebellion]]


Proletarian Circle (CP)
[[Pirate anarchy]]


Grand Circle of Mexican Workers (GCO)
[[Pueblo Revolt]]


Regional Federation of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay (FRROU)
[[Red Cloud's War]]


Worker's Federation (FO)
[[Seminole people|Seminole Wars]]


Artisan's Central Council (JCA)
[[Syrian Revolution]]


Labourer's Circle (CT)
==Limited==


Cuban Labour Confederation (CTC)
[[Karaite Judaism]]


Central Labor Union (CLU)
[[Kharijites]]


Northern Worker's Union (NWU)
[[Mu'tazilites]]


Federation of Labour Exchanges (FBT)
==Unsorted==


1907 International Anarchist Congress
[[Massalians]]


1913 Syndicalist Conference in London
[[Prague Spring]]
[[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]]


Insurgent Committee of Revolutionary Partisans
1903 Macedonian revolt


National Labour Secretariat (NAS), 18,700 members in 1895
1905–1907 Russian Revolt


Federation of Freedom-loving Communists (FVC)
1910 Mexican revolution


Libertarian Communist Organization
1960 student revolts


Libertarian Alternative
[[Imazighen]]


Committee for the Defence of Revolutionary Syndicalism (CDSR, member of IWA), 100,000 members
Parisian urban gardeners


Trans-Siberian Railway
Cantonalist Revolt of 1873-1874


Industrial Workers of the World-US (IWW-US)
=[[Organizations|Organizations]]=


Confederation of Labour Associations (GLH)
''"[[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>


Hunan Workers' Association
''"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>


Black Societies


Wonsan General Trade Union
==[[Organizations#Active|Active Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian]]==


Free Trade Union
==[[Organizations#Historical|Historical Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian]]==


Argentine Regional Workers' Federation (FORA)
==[[Organizations#Autonomous|Autonomous]]==


Argentine Regional Workers' Confederation (CORA)
==[[Organizations#Unsorted|Unsorted]]==


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


Argentine Libertarian Alliance (ALA)
''''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>


Resistance Society of the Port-workers of the Capital (SROPC)
''"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>


Uruguay Regional Workers' Organisation (FORU)
''"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>


Brazilian Labour Confederation (COB)
[[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]]


Paraguayan Regional Workers' Organisation (FORPa)
[[File:250px-Woodstock poster.jpg|thumbnail|[[Woodstock Festival]] poster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_festival]]


Paraguayan Regional Workers' Centre (CORP)


National Revolutionary Alliance (ANR)
==Anarchist==
==Anti-Authoritarian==


Workers' Trade Union Reorganisation Council (CORS)
[[Really Really Free Market]]


Havana Labour Federation (FOH)
[[Mumbai community dog care]]


Cuban Workers' Confederation (CTC)
==Participatory==


Chilean Workers' Central (CUT)
==Autonomous==


Mexican Regional Workers' Organization (FORM), 150,000 members in 1921
[[Stonehenge Free Festival]], 1972-1985 (one month a year), 30,000 people


General Confederation of Labour (CGT)
[[Woodstock Festival]], 1969, 40,000 people


Peruvian Regional Workers' Federation (FORPe)
[[Pioneer Health Centre]]


Local Workers' Federation of Lima (FOL)
[[Little Commonwealth]]


Colombian Workers' Federation (FOC)
[[Vienna Psychoanalytic Society's child guidance service]]


Local Workers' Federation (FOL)
[[Horizontal organization in British architecture]]


Feminine Workers' Federation
[[Global postal service]]


Guayas Workers' Regional Federation (FORG)
[[International railways]]


Ecuadoran Regional Federation of Labor (FTRE)
[[Swiss city planning]]


National Workers' Union (UON)
[[Emdrup playground]]


General Confederation of Labour (CGT)(Spain), 90,000 members in 1919
[[The Yard]]


National Workers' Union (UON)
==Unsorted==


General Confederation of Labour (CGT, member of IWA) (Portugal)
Mexican ''colonial proletarias''


Mexican Industrial Workers of the World (IWW-Mexico)
Peruvian 'barriadas''


Mexican Liberal Party (PLM)
Tunisian ''gourbivilles''


Industrial Union of North and South America (UIANS)
Indian ''bus tees''


Liberation Army of the South (ELS)
Turkish ''gecekondu''


National Agrarian Party (PNA)
Venezuelan ''ranchos''


Vlassovden Confederation
Prestolee School


Italian Workers' Party (POI)
Institueion Libre de Enseiianza


Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD), 120,000 members
Residential College for Students


North African Libertarian Movement (MLNA)
1960 student revolts


Korean Youth Federation in South China (KYFSC)
Freetown playground


Federation of Free Society Builders (FFSB)
Skrammellegeplad playgrounds


Korean Revolutionary Federation (KRF)
Robinson Crusoe playgrounds


National Confederation of Labour (CNT)
Brixham fishing cooperative


General Italian Workers' Federation (CGIL)
Brora mining cooperative


Conference of Labour Unions (CLU)
Standard tractor factory


Federation of Libertarian Socialists (FFS)
Durham worker-managed mines


Independent League of Trade Unions (OVB)
Gheel mental health care


General Confederation of Labor (CGT) (Cuba)
Synanon


North African Libertarian Movement (MLNA)
Claimant's Union


Libertarian Communist International (ICL)
Eyes on the street


Libertarian Communist Organisation (OCL)
[[Open source]]


Libertarian Alternative (AL)
[[Wikipedia]]


Second Escambray Front
=Nonhuman Anarchy=


Student Revolutionary Directorate (DRE)
''"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>


Cuban Confederation (CTC)
''"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>


Anarchists within the 26th of July Movement
''"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>


Cuban Libertarian Movement in Exile
''" 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>


Swedish Workers' Central Organisation (SAC)
''"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>


General Confederation of Labour (CGT) (Chile)
''"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>


National Workers' Unity Movement (MUNT)
==Animal Societies==
[[File:Melanerpes formicivorus -San Luis Obispo, California, USA -male-8.jpg|thumbnail|[[Acorn woodpecker]]]]


Federation of the Provincial Proletariat (Shengwulian)
[[File:Squirrel monkey1-cropped.jpg|thumbnail|[[Central American squirrel monkey]]]]


Worker-Student Resistance (ROE)
[[File:Tursiops truncatus 01.jpg|thumbnail|[[Dolphins]]]]


Union of Libertarian Communist Workers (UTCL)
[[File:Crotophaga sulcirostris.jpg|thumbnail|[[Groove-billed ani]]]]


Alternative Libertaire
[[File:Okonjima Lioness.jpg|thumb|[[Lion]]]]


Interior Defense (DI)
[[File:Wolf, voor de natuur, Saxifraga - Jan Nijendijk.5097.jpg|thumbnail|[[Gray wolf]]]]


First of May Group (GPM)
[[Acorn woodpecker]]


Iberian Liberation Movement (MIL-GAC)
[[Bison]]


Groups of International Revolutionary Action (GARI)
[[Bonobo]]


Neutralist Tribune
[[Central American squirrel monkey]]


Movement of Revolutionary Communards (MRC)
[[Dolphins]]


Free General Workers' Union (SMOT)
[[Domestic cat]]


Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)
[[Elephant]]


[[Spies for Peace]]
[[Gorillas dismantling traps]]


Black Front Society (KSS)
[[Gray wolf]]


=Everyday Anarchy=
[[Groove-billed ani]]


"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>
[[Lion]]


[[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]]
[[Manatee]]


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


==Earth and Ecology==


==Anarchist==
[[File:Craggy Gardens-27527.jpg|thumbnail|[[Appalachian forests]]]]
==Anti-Authoritarian==


[[Really Really Free Market]]
[[File:The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpg|thumbnail|[[Earth system]]]]


==Participatory==
[[File:Elysia-chlorotica-body.jpg|thumbnail|[[Evolution of sea slugs]]]]
==Autonomous==
==Unsorted==


[[Stonehenge Free Festival]], 1972-1985 (one month a year), 30,000 people
[[File:Symsagittifera roscoffensis(Jersey).jpg|thumbnail|[[Evolution of translucent worms]]]]


[[Woodstock Festival]], 1969, 40,000 people
[[File:Mycorrhizal network.svg|thumb|[[Mycorrhizal network]]]]


[[Pioneer Health Centre]]
[[File:Utricularia aurea 8 Darwiniana.jpg|thumb|[[Utricularia-algae-zooplankton feedback]]]]


[[Little Commonwealth]]
[[Appalachian forests]]


[[Vienna Psychoanalytic Society's child guidance service]]
[[Bacteria]]


[[Horizontal organization in British architecture]]
[[Earth system]]


[[Human brain]]
[[Evolution of eukaryotes]]


[[Global postal service]]
[[Evolution of green hydra]]


[[International railways]]
[[Evolution of horse]]


[[Swiss city planning]]
[[Evolution of sea slugs]]


Mexican ''colonial proletarias''
[[Evolution of translucent worms]]


Peruvian 'barriadas''
[[Human body and anarchy]]


Tunisian ''gourbivilles''
[[Mimosa-beetle symbiosis]]


Indian ''bus tees''
[[Mycorrhizal network]]


Turkish ''gecekondu''
[[Utricularia-algae-zooplankton feedback]]


Venezuelan ''ranchos''
==Cosmos, Physics, and Chemistry==


Prestolee School
[[File:RBCells.jpg|thumbnail|[[Bénard_convection]]]]


Institueion Libre de Enseiianza
[[File:Bzr fotos.jpg|thumbnail|[[Chemical clock]]]]


Residential College for Students
[[Chemical clock]]


1960 student revolts
[[Bénard convection]]


[[Emdrup playground]]
[[Laser]]


Freetown playground
[[Physics and anarchy]]


[[The Yard]]
[[Solar system's planets]]


Skrammellegeplad playgrounds
[[Universe]]


Robinson Crusoe playgrounds
=Fictional Anarchy=
 
Brixham fishing cooperative


Brora mining cooperative
''"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>


Standard tractor factory
==Anarchist==
[[File:Anarres.jpeg|thumbnail|[[Anarres]]]]


Durham worker-managed mines
[[Anarres]] (''The Dispossessed'')


Gheel mental health care
Mars (''Mars'' trilogy)


Synanon
[[San Francisco (The Fifth Sacred Thing)]]


Claimant's Union
==Anti-Authoritarian==
 
Eyes on the street
 
[[Open source]]
 
[[Wikipedia]]
 
=Nonhuman Anarchy=
 
''"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>
 
''"Indeed, anarchism can be illustrated with the example of ecosystems. Both are composed of separate but interdependent living organisms that evolve in endless variations to meet their needs." - scott crow''<ref>scott crow, ''Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective'' (Oakland: PM Press, 2011), 72.</ref>
 
[[File:Craggy Gardens-27527.jpg|thumbnail|[[Appalachian forests]]]]
 
[[File:Wolf, voor de natuur, Saxifraga - Jan Nijendijk.5097.jpg|thumbnail|[[Gray wolf]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_wolf]]
 
[[File:Crotophaga sulcirostris.jpg|thumbnail|[[Groove-billed ani]]]]


[[Appalachian forests]]
[[File:Earthseed.jpg|thumb|[[Earthseed]]]]


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


[[Groove-billed ani]]
[[File:Fraggle Rock.png|thumb|[[Fraggle Rock]]]]


=Fictional Anarchy=
[[File:Hobbiton, New Zealand.jpg|thumb|[[The Shire]]]]


"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>
[[Cokaygne]]


==Anarchist==
[[Earthseed]]


[[Anarres]] (''The Dispossessed'')
[[Fraggle Rock]]


San Fransisco (''The Fifth Sacred Thing'')
[[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)


==Anti-Authoritarian==
[[Kesh]] (''Always Coming Home'')


==Participatory==
Nowhere (''News from Nowhere'')


Umuofia (''Things Fall Apart'')
[[The Shire]] (''The Lord of the Rings'')


==Autonomous==
==Autonomous==


==Unsorted==
[[Igbo|Umuofia (''Things Fall Apart'')]]
 
=Examples by Source=


[[Examples by Source]]




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Welcome to AnarchyinAction.org!

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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/.
  5. ↑ Paths in Utopia (Boston: Beacon Press, 1958), ch. 10.
  6. ↑ Subcomandante Marcos, "Why We Chose the Weapon of Resistance" in Our Word is Our Weapon (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001), 160.
  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/.
  8. ↑ https://www.iiipublishing.com/politics/elf.htm.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ Murray Bookchin, "Anarchy and Organization", Libcom.org, http://libcom.org/library/anarchy-organization-murray-bookchin.
  11. ↑ bell hooks, "How Do You Practice Intersectionalism?", The Anarchist Library, https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/randy-lowens-how-do-you-practice-intersectionalism.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ Colin Ward, Anarchy Works.
  14. ↑ 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.
  15. ↑ Layla AbdelRahim, Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation (New York: Routledge, 2015), 3-4.
  16. ↑ Robin Wall Kimmerer, "The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance," Emergence Magazine, 2020, https://emergencemagazine.org/story/the-serviceberry/.
  17. ↑ 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.
  18. ↑ 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.
  19. ↑ Murray Bookchin, The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy (Palo Alto: Cheshire Books, 1982), 26.
  20. ↑ "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.
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