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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'']]


[[File:Types of anarchy.png|thumbnail|Types of anarchy: Anarchist, Anti-authoritarian, Participatory, and Autonomous. '''''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 do not necessarily call themselves anarchists but oppose coercive hierarchy and attempt to eliminate it. 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.]]
[[File:Apple Harvest by Camille Pissarro.jpg|thumb|Les chataigniers a Osny (1888) by anarchist painter Camille Pissarro.]]


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 do not necessarily call themselves anarchists but oppose coercive hierarchy and attempt to eliminate it. 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 Maia 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>Maia Ramnath, ''Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle'' (AK Press, 2011), 6.</ref>
[[File:Weiße Dame Brandberg.JPG|thumb|ancient [[San]] artwork]]


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:Whoever.jpg|thumb|[https://www.anarchistagency.com/critical-voices/david-damato-what-is-anarchism/]]]


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.


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>


''"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>
''"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>


''"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act: a general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."'' -Thomas Paine<ref>Thomas Paine, ''Rights of Man'', 1791 https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/paine/thomas/p147r/chapter4.html.</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]]]]


[[File:Flag of Koma Komalên Kurdistan.svg|thumbnail|Flag of the [[Kurdistan democratic confederalists|Group of Communities in Kurdistan]]]]
[[File:IMG_0497.JPG|thumbnail| [[Zapatista-run Chiapas]]]]
[[Anuak]]


[[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]]]]


[[Kurdistan 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)]]


[[Igbo]]
[[File:1280px-Oraibi1.jpg|thumbnail|[[Hopi]]]]


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


[[Landless Workers' Movement]]
[[File:PeiligangCulture-RedPotWithTwoEars-ShanghaiMuseum-May27-08.jpg|thumb|[[Peiligang culture]]]]


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


[[Medieval commune]]
[[File:Sarvodaya-296x300.png|thumb|[[Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement]]]]


[[New England town meetings]]
[[File:Taborites.png|thumbnail|[[Taborite communes]]]]


[[Parisian sections]]
[[File:Mosuo girls.jpg|thumb|[[Mosuo]]]]


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


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


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


[[Castile confederation]]
[[File:Catholic Worker.jpg|thumb|[[Catholic Worker]]]]


[[Paris Commune]], 1871, 2 million people
[[File:Myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria (1916) (14801964123).jpg|thumb|
[[Early Uruk]]]]


[[Swiss confederal leagues]]
[[File:Cherokee beadwork sampler 1840 ohs.jpg|thumb|[[Cherokee]]]]


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


==Unsorted==
[[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]]]]


Santals
[[File:Semai man1.jpg|thumb|[[Semai people]]]]


[[South American Indians]]
[[Abahlali baseMjondolo]], 115,000 members as of 2022


Land Dayaks
[[Andamanese]]


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


Maori
[[Argentinian horizontalidad]]


New Guinea indigenous peoples
[[Batek]]


Northwest coast indigenous peoples
[[Bayaka]]


Nubian people
[[Çatalhöyük]]


Nuer
[[Catholic Worker]]


Imazighen
[[Cherán]]


Ifugao
[[Croatan]]


Dinka people
[[El Alto neighborhood councils]], 2000s CE


=Communities=
[[Cayonu]], 7200 to ca. 4200 BCE


''"The Europeans also imposed their own legal, administrative and security systems in order to meet the needs of the new monetized economies and the more active modern states. All this meant a painful disruption of the familiar communalism of the past. Land now became a mere possession, food a mere commodity of exchange, neighbor a mere common property owner and labor a mere means of survival."''-L.S. Stavrianos<ref> L.S. Stavrianos, ''Global Rift: The Third World Comes of Age'' (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1981), 270.</ref>
[[Cherokee]]


''"The current theory as regards the village community is, that in Western Europe it has died out by a natural death, because the communal possession of the soil was found inconsistent with the modern requirements of agriculture. But the truth is that nowhere did the village community disappear of its own accord; everywhere, on the contrary, it took the ruling classes several centuries of persistent but not always successful efforts to abolish it and to confiscate the communal lands."''-Peter Kropotkin<ref>[[Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution]]</ref>
[[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]]


=Movements and Uprisings=
[[Oceti Sakowin]] (Sioux)


''"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>
[[Nayaka people]]


''"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>
[[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)


[[US anti-nuclear movement|Abalone Alliance]]
[[Wendat]]


[[Alter-globalization movement]]
[[Zapatista-run Chiapas]], 1994-present, 120,000-300,000 people
 
[[Animal Liberation Front]]
 
[[Anti-Shell actions]]
 
[[Anusilan Samiti]]
 
[[Cascadia Free State]], 1995-6
 
[[Catholic Worker movement]]
 
[[US anti-nuclear movement|Clamshell Alliance]]
 
[[Earth Liberation Front]]
 
[[Grassroots Hurricane Katrina relief]]
 
[[US anti-nuclear movement]]
 
[[US Green movement]]
 
[[Sexual revolution]]
 
The May-June Revolt in France, 1968
 
[[Zone to Defend (ZAD)]]
 
==Participatory==
[[File:First int.jpg|thumbnail|Woman confronts soldiers during the [[First Intifada]].]]
 
[[File:Red cloud and other souix.jpg|thumbnail|[[Red Cloud's War]]]]


[[First Intifada]]
[[Zomia]], present, 100 million people


[[Red Cloud's War]]
[[Zuni]]


==Autonomous==
==Autonomous==


[[German Peasants' War]]
[[File:Teotihuacán-5973.JPG|thumb|[[Teotihuacan]]]]


2007 Lakota declaration of independence
[[File:Mst conabNove2004.jpg|thumb|[[Landless Workers' Movement]]]]


[[Pirate anarchy]]
[[File:024.Jacob Wrestles with the Angel.jpg|thumb|[[Early Israelites]]]]


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


[[Oaxaca rebellion]]
[[File:Familienleben.jpg|thumb|[[Canela people]]]]


[[Prague Spring]]
[[Aboriginal Australians]]
[[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]]


[[Anarchy in the American Revolution]]
[[Canela people]]


1903 Macedonian revolt
[[Early Christians]]


1905–1907 Russian Revolt
[[Early Israelites]]


1910 Mexican revolution
[[Early Uruk]]


1960 student revolts
[[Highland Madagascar]]


[[Imazighen]]
[[Igbo]]


[[Anabaptists]]
[[Landless Workers' Movement]]


Parisian urban gardeners
[[Lugbara]]


Seattle 1919
[[Mashkan-shapir]]


Cantonalist Revolt of 1873-1874
[[Medieval commune]]


Mohawk road blockade, 1990
[[Palmares]]


Bolivia water protests
[[Parisian sections]]


Work democracy
[[Pequot]]


=Organizations=
[[Sea Peoples]]


''"[[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>
[[Syrian Revolution|Revolutionary Syria]]


''"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>
[[Sami]]


==Anarchist==
[[Teotihuacan]]


[[File:Iwafooter.png|thumbnail|[[International Workers' Association]]]]
[[File:QumranLivingQuarters.jpg|thumbnail|[[Essenes]]]]


[[File:Woman with cnt-fai flag.jpg|thumbnail]]
[[Castile confederation]]


[[File:Lala Har Dayal Young.jpg|thumbnail|Har Dayal, founder of [[Fraternity of the Red Flag]]]]
[[Essenes]], 4,000 people


Teahouse Labour Union, 11,000 members in 1918
[[Paris Commune]], 1871, 2 million people


National Confederation of Labor (CNT), 2 million members in 1936
[[Black Reconstruction|South Carolina Commune]]


[[International Workers' Association]] (IWA), 1.5-2 million members
[[Maluku archipelago]]


[[US Green movement|Left Green Network]]
[[Quinnipiac]]


[[US Green movement|Youth Greens]]
[[Swiss confederal leagues]]


Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
[[Therapeutae]]


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


Chilean Labourers Federation (FTCh), 60,000 members in 1921
[[Tlaxcala (Postclassic)]]


Revolutionary Insurgent Army of the Ukraine (RPAU), 110,000 members
[[Venezuelan communes]]


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


Italian Anarchist Union (UAI), 20,000 members
[[File:Pnyx-berg2.png|thumbnail|Pnyx Hill, the meeting place of the ecclesia in the [[Athenian polis]].]]


General Confederation of Labor (CGT) (Spain), 60,000 members in 2010s
[[Athenian polis]], 594-431, 404-403 BCE, 40,000 male citizens


National Confederation of Labor--France (CNT-F), 5,000 members
[[Kibbutzim]], 1919-present, 120,000 members in 2011


Swedish Central Workers' Organisation (SAC), 10,000 members in 1990s
[[New England town meetings]]


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


House of the World Worker (COM), 50,000 members in 1910s
[[Tonga people]]


Bleikhman's Petrograd Anarchist Communist Federation (PACF)


Union of Anarcho-Syndicalist Propaganda (MFAG)


Moscow Federation of Anarchist Groups
==Unsorted==


Black Guards, 1,000 members
[[South American Indians]]


Federation of Anarchist-Communists of Bulgaria (FAKB)
Land Dayaks


[[Fraternity of the Red Flag]]
[[La Paz Zapotec]], nearly 2,000 people


[[Freedom Fight]]
Maori


[[Jugoremedija]]
New Guinea indigenous peoples


Autonomous Action (AD)
Northwest coast indigenous peoples


Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists (KAS)
[[Nubian people]]


Confederation of Revolutionary Anarcho-Syndicalists (KRAS)
Nuer


Revolutionary Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists, Nestor Makhno (RKAS-NM), 2,000 members
Imazighen


Indigenous Popular Council of Oaxaca--Ricardo Flores Magnón (CIPO-RFM)
Ifugao


Magónista-Zapatista Alliance (AMZ)
Dinka people


Anarchist Workers' and Students' Group (ASWG)
=Communities=


Awareness League (AL)
''"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 Resistance Movement (ARM)
''"Strong communities make police obsolete."'' -police-abolitionist slogan


Durban Anarchist Federation (DAF)


Zabala Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF)
==Anarchist==


North-Eastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists (NEFAC)
[[Guangzhou commune]], 1921-1923


Common Struggle Libertarian Communist Federation
==Anti-Autoritarian==
[[File:Entrée de Christiania.jpg|thumbnail|Entrance to [[Christiania]]]]


Common Cause
[[File:Faslane.jpg|thumbnail|Police dismantling a blockade of protesters at [[Faslane Peace Camp]].]]


Libertarian Communist Union
[[File:Levellers declaration and standard.gif|thumbnail| Woodcut from a [[Diggers]] document by William Everard]]


Siberian Confederation of Labor (SKT)
[[Christiania]], 1971-present, 900 people


Anarkismo.net
[[Faslane Peace Camp]], 1982-present


Workers' Solidarity Movement (WSM)
[[Free Republic of Wendland]], 1980, 5,000 people


Libertarian Socialist Movement (LSM)
[[Diggers|George's Hill (Diggers)]], 1649, 40 people


Libertarian Alternative (AL)
[[Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp]], 1981-200


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


International Alliance of Socialist Democracy
[[Village Alternatif, Anticapitalist et AntiGuerres]], 2003, thousands of people


Anarchist organizations within the International Working Person's Association
==Autonomous==


Anti-Authoritarian International
Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Commune, 1922-1926


Anarchist Federation of the Altai (AFA)
[[Pocasset]], 200 families


Anarchist Federation of Poland (AFP)
[[Huehuecoyotl]]


Revolutionary Anarchist Socialist Party (PSAR)
==Unsorted==


German Anarchist Federation (AFD)
Taita Hills


East Asian Anarchist Federation (EAAF)
Ghana shantytown


Anarchist International Relations Commission (CRIA)
Minnehaha Free State


Continental Commission of Anarchist Relations (CCRA)
Mexican ''colonial proletarias''


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


Korean Anarchist Federation (KAF)
Tunisian ''gourbivilles''


Korean Anarchist Communist Federation (KACF)
Indian ''bus tees''


Korean Anarchist Federation in Manchuria (KAF-M)
Turkish ''gecekondu''


Durruti Column
Venezuelan ''ranchos''


Friends of Durruti (AD)
[[King Hill hostel squat]]


Kronstadt Accords (ZK)
=Movements and Uprisings=


Francophile Anarchist Federation (FAF)
''"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>


Italian Anarchist Communists (FdCAI)
''"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>


Anarchist Federation of Britain (AFB)
''"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>


Japanese Anarchist Federation (JAF)
==Anarchist==


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


Anarchist Communist Alliance
[[File:Seattle black bloc.png|thumbnail|[[1999 Seattle WTO shutdown]]]]


Anarchist Federation
[[File:Magon.png|thumbnail|[[Anarchy in the Mexican Revolution]]]]


Black Front Society
[[File:Logo de la FAI.svg|thumb|[[Informal Anarchist Federation]]]]


Libertarian Socialist Council (LSC)
[[File:Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, Logo.jpg|thumb|[[Conspiracy of Cells of Fire]]]]


Workers' Solidarity Movement (RRU)
[[The Haymarket Martyrs]]


Workers' Solidarity (RR)
[[Conspiracy of Cells of Fire]]


Co-ordination of Anarchist Groups
[[Informal Anarchist Federation]]


Anarcho-Communist Port-workers' Group (ACAOP)
[[Anarchists in the Russian Revolution]]


Anarcho-Syndicalist National Confederation of Labour (ASNKR)
[[Anarchists in the Italian Factory Occupations]]


Union of Communist Anarchists (UCAI)
[[Revolutionary Spain|Anarchism and the Spanish Revolution]]


Federation of Communist Anarchists of German (FKAD)
[[Anarchy in the Mexican Revolution|Anarchism in the Mexican Revolution]]


Federation of Anarchist-communist Groups of Poland and Lithuania (FAGPL)
[[Shinmin_Prefecture|Manchurian Revolution]]


Japanese Anarchist Club (JAC)
[[1999 Seattle WTO shutdown]]


Anarchist Federation
Modern schools


Federation of Anarchist Groups of Cuba (FGAC)
[[2008 Greek insurrection]]


Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
[[US Galleanists]]


International of Anarchist Federations (IAF)
[[1911 Lima-Callao general strike]]


Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
[[1919 Peruvian general strike]]


anarchist faction in Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR)
==Anti-Authoritarian==


Anarcho-Communist Unification (CUAC)
[[File:Interfauna-raid-1990.jpg|thumb|[[Animal Liberation Front]]]]


Libertarian Communist Organisation (OLC)
[[File:Metropolitan Indians.jpg|thumbnail|[[Italian Autonomia]]]]


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


Anarchist Revolutionary Organisation (ORA)
[[File:Jean Froissart, Chroniques, 154v, 12148 btv1b8438605hf336, crop.jpg|thumb|[[English Peasants' Revolt of 1381]]]]


Proletarian Action Anarchists Groups (GAAP)
[[File:Battle for Palm Tree Hill.jpg|thumbnail|[[Anarchy in the Haitian Revolution]]]]


Italian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
[[File:Alcatraz Island 01 Prison sign.jpg|thumbnail|[[Alcatraz occupation]]]]


Federation of Communist Anarchists (FdCA)
[[File:SOAS BDS demonstration 27 April 2017 12.jpg|thumbnail|[[BDS Movement]]]]


Polish Anarchist Federation (FA)
[[File:ANG40InfantryDivisionLosAngelesRiot1992.jpg|thumbnail|National Guard deployed during the [[Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992]]]]


Communist League of Anarchists
[[File:Flag of Koma Komalên Kurdistan.svg|thumbnail|Flag of the [[Kurdistan democratic confederalists|Group of Communities in Kurdistan]]]]


Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation
[[File:"Happi" American Horse direct action against DAPL, August 2016 (cropped).png|thumb|[[Standing Rock Uprising]]]]


Anarchist Federation (AF) / Czech and Slovak Anarchist Federation (CSAF)
[[File:Slavic Bogomil Cemetery in Chalkidona, Thessaloniki.jpg|thumb|[[Bogomils]]]]


Federation of Libertarian Socialists (FFS)
[[File:TaroAKL.jpg|thumbnail|[[Community taro patches]] run by indigenous and non-indigenous farmers across Hawaii]]


General Delegation of the CNT (CNT-DG)
[[File:John Brown by Levin Handy, 1890-1910.jpg|thumbnail|[[John Brown's raids]]]]


Venezuelan Regional Workers' Federation (FORV)
[[File:VD VD200710070509005AR.jpg|thumb|[[Earth Liberation Front]]]]


Federation of Anarchist Groups of Cuba (FGAC)
[[File:Occupy Wall Street Crowd Size 2011 Shankbone.JPG|thumbnail|[[Occupy movement]]]]


Cuban Libertarian Alliance (ALC)
[[File:Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (logo).png|thumbnail|[[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]]]]


General Confederation of Labor (CGT)
[[File:Routes des châteaux cathares.svg|thumb|[[Cathars]]]]


Federation of Anarchist Groups in Cuba (FGAC)
[[File:Earthfirstmonkeywrench.png|thumbnail|[[Earth First!]]]]


Yunan guerilla campaigns
[[File:Margarete Porete, fol. 38.jpg|thumbnail|[[Movement of the Free Spirit]]]]


Bolivian Regional Workers' Confederation (CORB)
[[File:Unist'ot'en camp.jpg|thumbnail|[[Unist'ot'en Camp]]]]


Feminine Workers' Federation (FOB)
[[File:Wattsriots-burningbuildings-loc.jpg|thumbnail|[[Watts Rebellion]] of 1965]]


Revolutionary Popular Organisation 33 (OPR-33)
[[US anti-nuclear movement|Abalone Alliance]]


Libertarian Resistance (RL)
[[Alcatraz occupation]]


Workers' Liberation Group (Shagila)
[[Taborite communes|Adamites]]


The Scream of the People (CHK)
[[Alter-globalization movement]]


Movement 2 June (M2J)
[[Anarchy in the German Revolution]]


Angry Brigade (AB)
[[Anarchy in the Russian Revolution]]


Direct Action (AD)
[[Anarchy in the Haitian Revolution]]


Anti-capitalist Autonomous Commandos (KAA)
[[Animal Liberation Front]]


Left Opposition (LO)
[[Anti-Shell actions]]


Wiyathi Collective within the Anti-Capitalist Convergence
[[Bogomils]]


==Anti-Authoritarian==
[[BDS Movement]]


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


[[File:IWW demonstration NY 1914.jpg|thumbnail|[[Industrial Workers of the World]] demonstration in New York, 1914]]
[[Cathars]], 11th to 14th centuries


[[File:Psu.jpg|thumbnail|[[Philly Stands Up]], a transformative justice collective.  ]]
[[Catholic Worker movement]]


Industrial Workers of the World- Chile (IWW-Chile), 25,000 members in 1920
[[Community taro patches]]


Cuban National Labour Confederation (CNOC), 200,000 members
[[US anti-nuclear movement|Clamshell Alliance]]


Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
[[Earth First!]]


[[Philly Stands Up]]
[[Earth Liberation Front]]


[[Libertarian Socialist Institute]]
[[English food riots in eighteenth century]]


[[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]]
[[English Peasants' Revolt of 1381]]


[[Shamrik Mukti Dal]]
[[German Anti-Fascism]]


IWW-Sierra Leonne, 3,240 members
[[Italian Anti-Fascism]]


Solidarity Union Democracy (SUD)
[[Italian Autonomia]]


European Federation of Alternative Syndicalism (FESAL-E)
[[John Brown's raids]]


General Confederation of Labour (CGT), 230,000 members in 1906
[[Kurdish democratic confederalists]]


Industrial Union of North and South America (UIANS) (Mexico)
[[Kronstadt rebellion]]


Liberation Army of the South (ELS) (Mexico), 70,000 members
[[Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992]]


Industrial Syndicalist Education League (ISEL), 150,000 members in 1910s
[[Mapuche|Mapuche Struggle]]


Irish Transport & General Workers' Union (ITGWU), 12,000 members in 1917
[[Movement of the Free Spirit]]


Situationist International
[[Oaxaca rebellion]]


Siberian Industrial Workers of the World (IWW-Siberia), 16,000 members
[[Occupy movement]]


General Workers' Federation (GFP), 40,000 members
[[Oka Crisis]]


Union of Trade Unions (ZZZ, member of IWA)
[[Unist'ot'en Camp]]


Polish Syndicalist Union (ZSP), estimated 4,000 members
[[US anti-nuclear movement]]


Italian Syndicalist Union (USI, member of IWA), 80,000 members
[[US Green movement]]


Free Association of German Trade Unions (FvDG), 100,000 members
[[School of the Tillers]]


German Workers' Union of Germany (AAUD), 30,000 members
[[Sexual revolution]]


General Labour Union--Unity Organisation (AAU-E), 75,000 members
[[Standing Rock Uprising]]


American Continental Workingmen's Association (ACAT)
[[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]]


General League of Koreans (HCH)
[[Texas KXL blockade]]


Libertarian Youth Federation of Iberia (FIJL)
[[The May-June Revolt in France, 1968]]


Libertarian Youth (JJLL)
[[Watts Rebellion]]


International Revolutionary Syndicalist Federation (FISR)
[[Yellow Turban Rebellion]]


Syndicalist Workers' Federation (SWF)
[[Zone to Defend (ZAD)]], 2012-present


Federation of Free Labour Unions (FFLU)
==Autonomous==


Independent League of Trade Unions (OVB)
[[File:La Vía Campesina logo.png|thumb|[[La Via Campesina]]]]


IWW Marine Transport Workers' Industrial Union (MTWIU)
[[File:Flag of Edward England.svg|thumbnail|[[Pirate anarchy]]]]


Chilean IWW
[[File:Nat Turner woodcut.jpg|thumbnail|[[Nat Turner's rebellion]]]]


Ship-building Workers' Federation (FTB)
[[File:Luddite.jpg|thumbnail|[[Luddites]]]]


1951 syndicalist resistance in New Zealand
[[File:Mi'kmaq blockade.png|thumbnail|[[2013 Mi'kmaq anti-fracking struggle]]]]


Industrial and Commercial Union of Southern Rhodesia (ICU ''yase'' Rhodesia)
[[File:Seattle General Strike.jpg|thumbnail|[[1919 Seattle general strike]]]]


National Convention of Workers (CNT), 400,000 members in 1972
[[File:First int.jpg|thumbnail|Woman confronts soldiers during the [[First Intifada]].]]


Autonomous Workers' League (AWL)
[[File:Red cloud and other souix.jpg|thumbnail|[[Red Cloud's War]]]]


Autonomous Village Movement (AVM)
[[File:Boston Tea Party Currier colored.jpg|thumbnail|[[American Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


Aid Group for the Libertarians and Independent Syndicalists in Cuba (GALSIC)
[[File:1917petrogradsoviet assembly.jpg|thumbnail|[[Russian Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


==Participatory==
[[File:Anarchist cuba.png|thumbnail|[[Cuban Revolution and Anarchism]]]]


==Autonomous==
[[File:Magon.png|thumbnail|[[Mexican Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


==Unsorted==
[[File:Prise de la Bastille.jpg|thumbnail|[[French Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


Albany Free School
[[File:Stroop Report - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 13.jpg|thumbnail|[[Jewish armed anti-Nazi resistance]]]]


Quechua Farmers School
[[1848 revolutions]]


Universidad Transhumante
[[1968 revolutions]]


Free Stores
[[1919 Seattle general strike]]


Freecycle Network
[[2007 Lakota declaration of independence]]


Critical Resistance
[[2013 Mi'kmaq anti-fracking struggle]]


Take Back the Night
[[American Revolution and Anarchy]]


Philly's Pissed
[[Anabaptists]]


No Border Network
[[Barcelona en Comú]]


Spanish Regional Labour Federation (FTRE)
[[Black Reconstruction]]


Pact of Union & Solidarity (PUS)
[[Bolivia Water War]]


Spanish Regional Workers' Federation (FORE)
[[Cuban Revolution and Anarchism]]


Proletarian Circle (CP)
[[First Intifada]]


Grand Circle of Mexican Workers (GCO)
[[French Revolution and Anarchy]]


Regional Federation of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay (FRROU)
[[German Peasants' War]]


Worker's Federation (FO)
[[Jewish armed anti-Nazi resistance]]


Artisan's Central Council (JCA)
[[La Via Campesina]]


Labourer's Circle (CT)
[[Luddites]]


Cuban Labour Confederation (CTC)
[[Mexican Revolution and Anarchy]]


Central Labor Union (CLU)
[[Nat Turner's rebellion]]


Northern Worker's Union (NWU)
[[Pirate anarchy]]


Federation of Labour Exchanges (FBT)
[[Pueblo Revolt]]


1907 International Anarchist Congress
[[Red Cloud's War]]


1913 Syndicalist Conference in London
[[Seminole people|Seminole Wars]]


Insurgent Committee of Revolutionary Partisans
[[Syrian Revolution]]


National Labour Secretariat (NAS), 18,700 members in 1895
==Limited==


Federation of Freedom-loving Communists (FVC)
[[Karaite Judaism]]


Libertarian Communist Organization
[[Kharijites]]


Libertarian Alternative
[[Mu'tazilites]]


Committee for the Defence of Revolutionary Syndicalism (CDSR, member of IWA), 100,000 members
==Unsorted==


Trans-Siberian Railway
[[Massalians]]


Industrial Workers of the World-US (IWW-US)
[[Prague Spring]]
[[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]]


Confederation of Labour Associations (GLH)
1903 Macedonian revolt


Hunan Workers' Association
1905–1907 Russian Revolt


Black Societies
1910 Mexican revolution


Wonsan General Trade Union
1960 student revolts


Free Trade Union
[[Imazighen]]


Argentine Regional Workers' Federation (FORA)
Parisian urban gardeners


Argentine Regional Workers' Confederation (CORA)
Cantonalist Revolt of 1873-1874


Argentine Regional Workers' Federation of the 9th Congress (FORA-IX)
=[[Organizations|Organizations]]=


Argentine Libertarian Alliance (ALA)
''"[[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>


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


Uruguay Regional Workers' Organisation (FORU)


Brazilian Labour Confederation (COB)
==[[Organizations#Active|Active Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian]]==


Paraguayan Regional Workers' Organisation (FORPa)
==[[Organizations#Historical|Historical Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian]]==


Paraguayan Regional Workers' Centre (CORP)
==[[Organizations#Autonomous|Autonomous]]==


National Revolutionary Alliance (ANR)
==[[Organizations#Unsorted|Unsorted]]==


Workers' Trade Union Reorganisation Council (CORS)
=Everyday Anarchy=


Havana Labour Federation (FOH)
''''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>


Cuban Workers' Confederation (CTC)
''"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>


Chilean Workers' Central (CUT)
''"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>


Mexican Regional Workers' Organization (FORM), 150,000 members in 1921
[[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]]


General Confederation of Labour (CGT)
[[File:250px-Woodstock poster.jpg|thumbnail|[[Woodstock Festival]] poster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_festival]]


Peruvian Regional Workers' Federation (FORPe)


Local Workers' Federation of Lima (FOL)
==Anarchist==
==Anti-Authoritarian==


Colombian Workers' Federation (FOC)
[[Really Really Free Market]]


Local Workers' Federation (FOL)
[[Mumbai community dog care]]


Feminine Workers' Federation
==Participatory==


Guayas Workers' Regional Federation (FORG)
==Autonomous==


Ecuadoran Regional Federation of Labor (FTRE)
[[Stonehenge Free Festival]], 1972-1985 (one month a year), 30,000 people


National Workers' Union (UON)
[[Woodstock Festival]], 1969, 40,000 people


General Confederation of Labour (CGT)(Spain), 90,000 members in 1919
[[Pioneer Health Centre]]


National Workers' Union (UON)
[[Little Commonwealth]]


General Confederation of Labour (CGT, member of IWA) (Portugal)
[[Vienna Psychoanalytic Society's child guidance service]]


Mexican Industrial Workers of the World (IWW-Mexico)
[[Horizontal organization in British architecture]]


Mexican Liberal Party (PLM)
[[Global postal service]]


Industrial Union of North and South America (UIANS)
[[International railways]]


Liberation Army of the South (ELS)
[[Swiss city planning]]


National Agrarian Party (PNA)
[[Emdrup playground]]


Vlassovden Confederation
[[The Yard]]


Italian Workers' Party (POI)
==Unsorted==


Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD), 120,000 members
Mexican ''colonial proletarias''


North African Libertarian Movement (MLNA)
Peruvian 'barriadas''


Korean Youth Federation in South China (KYFSC)
Tunisian ''gourbivilles''


Federation of Free Society Builders (FFSB)
Indian ''bus tees''


Korean Revolutionary Federation (KRF)
Turkish ''gecekondu''


National Confederation of Labour (CNT)
Venezuelan ''ranchos''


General Italian Workers' Federation (CGIL)
Prestolee School


Conference of Labour Unions (CLU)
Institueion Libre de Enseiianza


Federation of Libertarian Socialists (FFS)
Residential College for Students


Independent League of Trade Unions (OVB)
1960 student revolts


General Confederation of Labor (CGT) (Cuba)
Freetown playground


North African Libertarian Movement (MLNA)
Skrammellegeplad playgrounds


Libertarian Communist International (ICL)
Robinson Crusoe playgrounds


Libertarian Communist Organisation (OCL)
Brixham fishing cooperative


Libertarian Alternative (AL)
Brora mining cooperative


Second Escambray Front
Standard tractor factory


Student Revolutionary Directorate (DRE)
Durham worker-managed mines


Cuban Confederation (CTC)
Gheel mental health care


Anarchists within the 26th of July Movement
Synanon


Cuban Libertarian Movement in Exile
Claimant's Union


Swedish Workers' Central Organisation (SAC)
Eyes on the street


General Confederation of Labour (CGT) (Chile)
[[Open source]]


National Workers' Unity Movement (MUNT)
[[Wikipedia]]


Federation of the Provincial Proletariat (Shengwulian)
=Nonhuman Anarchy=


Worker-Student Resistance (ROE)
''"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>


Union of Libertarian Communist Workers (UTCL)
''"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>


Alternative Libertaire
''"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>


Interior Defense (DI)
''" 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>


First of May Group (GPM)
''"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>


Iberian Liberation Movement (MIL-GAC)
''"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>


Groups of International Revolutionary Action (GARI)
==Animal Societies==
[[File:Melanerpes formicivorus -San Luis Obispo, California, USA -male-8.jpg|thumbnail|[[Acorn woodpecker]]]]


Neutralist Tribune
[[File:Squirrel monkey1-cropped.jpg|thumbnail|[[Central American squirrel monkey]]]]


Movement of Revolutionary Communards (MRC)
[[File:Tursiops truncatus 01.jpg|thumbnail|[[Dolphins]]]]


Free General Workers' Union (SMOT)
[[File:Crotophaga sulcirostris.jpg|thumbnail|[[Groove-billed ani]]]]


Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)
[[File:Okonjima Lioness.jpg|thumb|[[Lion]]]]


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


Black Front Society (KSS)
[[Acorn woodpecker]]


=Everyday Anarchy=
[[Bison]]


"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>
[[Bonobo]]


[[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]]
[[Central American squirrel monkey]]


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


[[Domestic cat]]


==Anarchist==
[[Elephant]]
==Anti-Authoritarian==


[[Really Really Free Market]]
[[Gorillas dismantling traps]]


==Participatory==
[[Gray wolf]]
==Autonomous==
==Unsorted==


[[Stonehenge Free Festival]], 1972-1985 (one month a year), 30,000 people
[[Groove-billed ani]]


[[Woodstock Festival]], 1969, 40,000 people
[[Lion]]


[[Pioneer Health Centre]]
[[Manatee]]


[[Little Commonwealth]]
[[Seahorse]]


[[Vienna Psychoanalytic Society's child guidance service]]
==Earth and Ecology==


[[Horizontal organization in British architecture]]
[[File:Craggy Gardens-27527.jpg|thumbnail|[[Appalachian forests]]]]


[[Human brain]]
[[File:The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpg|thumbnail|[[Earth system]]]]


[[Global postal service]]
[[File:Elysia-chlorotica-body.jpg|thumbnail|[[Evolution of sea slugs]]]]


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


[[Swiss city planning]]
[[File:Mycorrhizal network.svg|thumb|[[Mycorrhizal network]]]]


Mexican ''colonial proletarias''
[[File:Utricularia aurea 8 Darwiniana.jpg|thumb|[[Utricularia-algae-zooplankton feedback]]]]


Peruvian 'barriadas''
[[Appalachian forests]]


Tunisian ''gourbivilles''
[[Bacteria]]


Indian ''bus tees''
[[Earth system]]


Turkish ''gecekondu''
[[Evolution of eukaryotes]]


Venezuelan ''ranchos''
[[Evolution of green hydra]]


Prestolee School
[[Evolution of horse]]


Institueion Libre de Enseiianza
[[Evolution of sea slugs]]


Residential College for Students
[[Evolution of translucent worms]]


1960 student revolts
[[Human body and anarchy]]


[[Emdrup playground]]
[[Mimosa-beetle symbiosis]]


Freetown playground
[[Mycorrhizal network]]


[[The Yard]]
[[Utricularia-algae-zooplankton feedback]]


Skrammellegeplad playgrounds
==Cosmos, Physics, and Chemistry==


Robinson Crusoe playgrounds
[[File:RBCells.jpg|thumbnail|[[Bénard_convection]]]]


Brixham fishing cooperative
[[File:Bzr fotos.jpg|thumbnail|[[Chemical clock]]]]


Brora mining cooperative
[[Chemical clock]]


Standard tractor factory
[[Bénard convection]]


Durham worker-managed mines
[[Laser]]


Gheel mental health care
[[Physics and anarchy]]


Synanon
[[Solar system's planets]]


Claimant's Union
[[Universe]]


Eyes on the street
=Fictional Anarchy=


[[Open source]]
''"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>


[[Wikipedia]]
==Anarchist==
[[File:Anarres.jpeg|thumbnail|[[Anarres]]]]


=Nonhuman Anarchy=
[[Anarres]] (''The Dispossessed'')


''"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>
Mars (''Mars'' trilogy)


''"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>
[[San Francisco (The Fifth Sacred Thing)]]


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


[[File:Wolf, voor de natuur, Saxifraga - Jan Nijendijk.5097.jpg|thumbnail|[[Gray wolf]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_wolf]]
[[File:Earthseed.jpg|thumb|[[Earthseed]]]]


[[File:Crotophaga sulcirostris.jpg|thumbnail|[[Groove-billed ani]]]]
[[File:Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. 037.jpg|thumbnail| [[Cokaygne]] ]]


[[Appalachian forests]]
[[File:Fraggle Rock.png|thumb|[[Fraggle Rock]]]]


[[Gray wolf]]
[[File:Hobbiton, New Zealand.jpg|thumb|[[The Shire]]]]


[[Groove-billed ani]]
[[Cokaygne]]


=Fictional Anarchy=
[[Earthseed]]
 
"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>
 
==Anarchist==


[[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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