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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. '''''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 Grubačić<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]]]]


[[File:Çatalhöyük with surroundings..jpg|thumbnail| [[Catal Huyuk]]]]
[[File:Rojava_Sewing_Cooperative.jpg|thumbnail|[[Kurdistan democratic confederalists]]]]


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


[[Argentinian horizontalidad]]
[[File:Baka dancers June 2006.jpg|thumb|[[Bayaka]]]]


[[El Alto]], 1 million people
[[File:Great Andamanese - two men - 1875.jpg|thumbnail|[[Andamanese]]]]


[[Catal Huyuk]], 7500 to 5700 BCE, 6,000-10,000 people
[[File:Keluarga suku Bateq 167.jpg|thumb|[[Batek]]]]


[[Global Ecovillage Network]]
[[File:MUFT - Catal Höyük Modell.jpg|thumb|[[Çatalhöyük]]]]


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


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


[[Inuit]]
[[File:Flag_of_the_Iroquois_Confederacy.svg.png|thumbnail|[[Haudenosaunee]]]]


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


[[Kurdistan democratic confederalists]], present, 4.6 million in Rojava
[[File:Çayonu.jpg|thumb|[[Cayonu]]]]


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


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


[[Longo Maï]]
[[File:Malaipantaram map.gif|thumb|[[Malaipantaram]]]]


[[Mapuche]], 1 million people in sixteenth century
[[File:North carolina algonkin-dorf.jpg|thumb|[[Croatan]]]]


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


[[Piaroa]]
[[File:Knossos - North Portico 02.jpg|thumb|[[Minoan Crete]]]]


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


[[Santals]]
[[File:Cherán.jpeg|thumb|[[Cherán]]]]


[[Zapatista-run Chiapas]], 1994-present, 120,000-300,000 people
[[File:Seated figure grom Mali, 13th century, Djenné peoples, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981.218.JPG|thumb|[[Jenne-jeno]]]]


[[Zomia]], present, 100 million people
[[File:BushmenSan.jpg|thumbnail|[[San]] peoples]]


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


[[File:Pnyx-berg2.png|thumbnail|Pnyx Hill, the meeting place of the ecclesia in the [[Athenian polis]].]]
[[File:1280px-Oraibi1.jpg|thumbnail|[[Hopi]]]]


[[Aboriginal Australians]]
[[File:Paliyan women.jpg|thumb|[[Paliyan]]]]


[[Athenian polis]], 594-431, 404-403 BCE, 40,000 male citizens
[[File:PeiligangCulture-RedPotWithTwoEars-ShanghaiMuseum-May27-08.jpg|thumb|[[Peiligang culture]]]]


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


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


[[Kibbutzim]], 1919-present, 120,000 members
[[File:Taborites.png|thumbnail|[[Taborite communes]]]]


[[Landless Workers' Movement]]
[[File:Mosuo girls.jpg|thumb|[[Mosuo]]]]


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


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


[[New England town meetings]]
[[File:Panama-Kuna 0605a.jpg|thumb|[[Kuna people]]]]


[[Parisian sections]]
[[File:Catholic Worker.jpg|thumb|[[Catholic Worker]]]]


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


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


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


[[Castile confederation]]
[[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]]]]


[[Paris Commune]], 1871, 2 million people
[[File:Semai man1.jpg|thumb|[[Semai people]]]]


[[Swiss confederal leagues]]
[[Abahlali baseMjondolo]], 115,000 members as of 2022


[[Tiv]]
[[Andamanese]]


==Unsorted==
[[Anuak]]


[[South American Indians]]
[[Argentinian horizontalidad]]


Land Dayaks
[[Batek]]


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


Maori
[[Çatalhöyük]]


New Guinea indigenous peoples
[[Catholic Worker]]


Northwest coast indigenous peoples
[[Cherán]]


Nubian people
[[Croatan]]


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


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


Ifugao
[[Cherokee]]


Dinka people
[[Southeast Matriarchies|Chickasaw]]


=Communities=
[[Southeast Matriarchies|Choctaw]]


''"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>
Crianza Mutua (Colombia)


''"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>
Crianza Mutua (Mexico)


==Anarchist==
[[Cucuteni–Trypillia civilization]], 1 million people, 4800 to 3000 BCE


[[Guangzhou commune]], 1921-1923
[[Diné]]


==Anti-Autoritarian==
[[Early Uruk]], 4000-3200 BCE
[[File:Entrée de Christiania.jpg|thumbnail|Entrance to [[Christiania]]]]


[[File:Faslane.jpg|thumbnail|Police dismantling a blockade of protesters at [[Faslane Peace Camp]]. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faslane_Peace_Camp]]
[[Early Neolithic Southern Levant]], 10,500 to 6000 BCE


[[File:Levellers declaration and standard.gif|thumbnail| Woodcut from a [[Diggers]] document by William Everard]]
[[Global Ecovillage Network]]


[[Christiania]], 1971-present, 900 people
[[Hadza]]


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


[[Free Republic of Wendland]], 1980, 5,000 people
[[Hopi]]


[[Diggers|George's Hill (Diggers)]], 1649, 40 people
[[Indus Valley Civilization]]


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


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


[[Village Alternatif, Anticapitalist et AntiGuerres]], 2003, thousands of people
[[Jenne-jeno]], 250 BCE-1400 CE, 11,000 people


==Participatory==
[[Konkomba]]


==Autonomous==
[[Kuna people]]


Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Commune, 1922-1926
[[La Solana villages]]


[[Pocasset]]
[[Late Taosi]]


==Unsorted==
[[Longo Maï]]


Alcatraz occupation
[[Malaipantaram]]


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


Ghana shantytown
[[Mbuti]]


Minnehaha Free State
[[Minangkabau]]


Mexican ''colonial proletarias''
[[Minoan Crete]], 3000 BCE-1100 BCE


Peruvian 'barriadas''
[[Southeast Matriarchies|Muscogee]]


Tunisian ''gourbivilles''
[[Oceti Sakowin]] (Sioux)


Indian ''bus tees''
[[Nayaka people]]


Turkish ''gecekondu''
[[Niitsitapi]] (Blackfoot)


Venezuelan ''ranchos''
[[Nishnaabeg]]


[[King Hill hostel squat]]
[[Piaroa]]


=Movements and Uprisings=
[[Peiligang culture]], 7000-5000 BCE


''"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>
[[Kurdistan democratic confederalists|Rojava]], 2012-present, 2.5 million 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>
[[San]] (including !Kung)


==Anarchist==
[[Santals]]
[[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]]
[[Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement]]


Building the Syndicalist Unions
[[Semai people]]


[[Anarchists in the Russian Revolution]]
[[Seminole people]]


[[Anarchists in the Italian Factory Occupations]]
[[Taborite communes]], 15th century


[[Revolutionary Spain|Anarchism and the Spanish Revolution]]
Vikalp Sangam (India)


[[Anarchism in the Cuban Revolution]]
[[Wendat]]


Modern schools
[[Zapatista-run Chiapas]], 1994-present, 120,000-300,000 people


==Anti-Authoritarian==
[[Zomia]], present, 100 million 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]]
[[Zuni]]


[[File:Naelfpoletterhead.jpg|thumbnail|[[Earth Liberation Front]]]]
==Autonomous==


[[File:Earthfirstmonkeywrench.png|thumbnail|[[Earth First!]]]]
[[File:Teotihuacán-5973.JPG|thumb|[[Teotihuacan]]]]


[[File:Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (logo).png|thumbnail|[[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]]]]
[[File:Mst conabNove2004.jpg|thumb|[[Landless Workers' Movement]]]]


[[US anti-nuclear movement|Abalone Alliance]]
[[File:024.Jacob Wrestles with the Angel.jpg|thumb|[[Early Israelites]]]]


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


[[Animal Liberation Front]]
[[File:Familienleben.jpg|thumb|[[Canela people]]]]


[[Anti-Shell actions]]
[[Aboriginal Australians]]


[[Anusilan Samiti]]
[[Canela people]]


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


[[Catholic Worker movement]]
[[Early Israelites]]


[[US anti-nuclear movement|Clamshell Alliance]]
[[Early Uruk]]


[[Earth First!]]
[[Highland Madagascar]]


[[Earth Liberation Front]]
[[Igbo]]


[[Grassroots Hurricane Katrina relief]]
[[Landless Workers' Movement]]


[[Kronstadt rebellion]]
[[Lugbara]]


[[US anti-nuclear movement]]
[[Mashkan-shapir]]


[[US Green movement]]
[[Medieval commune]]


[[Sexual revolution]]
[[Palmares]]


[[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]]
[[Parisian sections]]


[[The May-June Revolt in France, 1968]]
[[Pequot]]


[[Zone to Defend (ZAD)]], 2012-present
[[Sea Peoples]]


==Participatory==
[[Syrian Revolution|Revolutionary Syria]]


==Autonomous==
[[Sami]]


[[File:Seattle General Strike.jpg|thumbnail|[[1919 Seattle general strike]]]]
[[Teotihuacan]]


[[File:First int.jpg|thumbnail|Woman confronts soldiers during the [[First Intifada]].]]
[[File:QumranLivingQuarters.jpg|thumbnail|[[Essenes]]]]


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


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


2007 Lakota declaration of independence
[[Paris Commune]], 1871, 2 million people


[[Anabaptists]]
[[Black Reconstruction|South Carolina Commune]]


[[Anarchy in the American Revolution]]
[[Maluku archipelago]]


[[Bolivia Water War]]
[[Quinnipiac]]


[[First Intifada]]
[[Swiss confederal leagues]]


[[German Peasants' War]]
[[Therapeutae]]


[[Pirate anarchy]]
[[Tiv]]


[[Red Cloud's War]]
[[Tlaxcala (Postclassic)]]


==Unsorted==
[[Venezuelan communes]]


[[Oaxaca rebellion]]
==Limited==


[[Prague Spring]]
[[File:Pnyx-berg2.png|thumbnail|Pnyx Hill, the meeting place of the ecclesia in the [[Athenian polis]].]]
[[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]]


1903 Macedonian revolt
[[Athenian polis]], 594-431, 404-403 BCE, 40,000 male citizens


1905–1907 Russian Revolt
[[Kibbutzim]], 1919-present, 120,000 members in 2011


1910 Mexican revolution
[[New England town meetings]]


1960 student revolts
[[Tribal Arabia]]


[[Imazighen]]
[[Tonga people]]


Parisian urban gardeners


Cantonalist Revolt of 1873-1874


Mohawk road blockade, 1990
==Unsorted==


Work democracy
[[South American Indians]]


=Organizations=
Land Dayaks


''"[[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>
[[La Paz Zapotec]], nearly 2,000 people


''"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>
Maori


Most of the membership numbers come from Michael Schmidt's [[Cartography of Revolutionary Anarchism]] and refer to peak rather than current membership.
New Guinea indigenous peoples


==Anarchist==
Northwest coast indigenous peoples


[[File:Iwafooter.png|thumbnail|[[International Workers' Association]]]]
[[Nubian people]]


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


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


Teahouse Labour Union, 11,000 members in 1918
Ifugao


National Confederation of Labor (CNT), 2 million members in 1936
Dinka people


[[International Workers' Association]] (IWA)
=Communities=


[[US Green movement|Left Green Network]]
''"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>


[[US Green movement|Youth Greens]]
''"Strong communities make police obsolete."'' -police-abolitionist slogan


Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)


Spanish Regional Federation (FRE), 60,000 members in 1873
==Anarchist==


Chilean Labourers Federation (FTCh), 60,000 members in 1921
[[Guangzhou commune]], 1921-1923


Revolutionary Insurgent Army of the Ukraine (RPAU), 110,000 members
==Anti-Autoritarian==
[[File:Entrée de Christiania.jpg|thumbnail|Entrance to [[Christiania]]]]


All-Russian Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists (ARKAS), 88,000 members
[[File:Faslane.jpg|thumbnail|Police dismantling a blockade of protesters at [[Faslane Peace Camp]].]]


Italian Anarchist Union (UAI), 20,000 members
[[File:Levellers declaration and standard.gif|thumbnail| Woodcut from a [[Diggers]] document by William Everard]]


General Confederation of Labor (CGT) (Spain), 60,000 members in 2010s
[[Christiania]], 1971-present, 900 people


National Confederation of Labor--France (CNT-F)
[[Faslane Peace Camp]], 1982-present


Swedish Central Workers' Organisation (SAC), 10,000 members in 1990s
[[Free Republic of Wendland]], 1980, 5,000 people


Argentine Regional Workers' Federation of the 5th Congress (FORA-V), 200,000 members in 1919
[[Diggers|George's Hill (Diggers)]], 1649, 40 people


House of the World Worker (COM), 50,000 members in 1910s
[[Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp]], 1981-200


Bleikhman's Petrograd Anarchist Communist Federation (PACF)
[[Life and Labor Commune]], 1921-1930, nearly 1,000 people


Union of Anarcho-Syndicalist Propaganda (MFAG)
[[Village Alternatif, Anticapitalist et AntiGuerres]], 2003, thousands of people


Moscow Federation of Anarchist Groups
==Autonomous==


Black Guards, 1,000 members
Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Commune, 1922-1926


Federation of Anarchist-Communists of Bulgaria (FAKB)
[[Pocasset]], 200 families


[[Fraternity of the Red Flag]]
[[Huehuecoyotl]]


[[Freedom Fight]]
==Unsorted==


[[Jugoremedija]]
Taita Hills


Autonomous Action (AD)
Ghana shantytown


Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists (KAS)
Minnehaha Free State


Confederation of Revolutionary Anarcho-Syndicalists (KRAS)
Mexican ''colonial proletarias''


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


Indigenous Popular Council of Oaxaca--Ricardo Flores Magnón (CIPO-RFM)
Tunisian ''gourbivilles''


Magónista-Zapatista Alliance (AMZ)
Indian ''bus tees''


Anarchist Workers' and Students' Group (ASWG)
Turkish ''gecekondu''


Awareness League (AL)
Venezuelan ''ranchos''


Anarchist Resistance Movement (ARM)
[[King Hill hostel squat]]


Durban Anarchist Federation (DAF)
=Movements and Uprisings=


Zabala Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF)
''"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>


North-Eastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists (NEFAC)
''"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>


Common Struggle Libertarian Communist Federation
''"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>


Common Cause
==Anarchist==


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


Siberian Confederation of Labor (SKT)
[[File:Seattle black bloc.png|thumbnail|[[1999 Seattle WTO shutdown]]]]


Anarkismo.net
[[File:Magon.png|thumbnail|[[Anarchy in the Mexican Revolution]]]]


Workers' Solidarity Movement (WSM)
[[File:Logo de la FAI.svg|thumb|[[Informal Anarchist Federation]]]]


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


Libertarian Alternative (AL)
[[The Haymarket Martyrs]]


International Brotherhood
[[Conspiracy of Cells of Fire]]


International Alliance of Socialist Democracy
[[Informal Anarchist Federation]]


Anarchist organizations within the International Working Person's Association
[[Anarchists in the Russian Revolution]]


Anti-Authoritarian International
[[Anarchists in the Italian Factory Occupations]]


Anarchist Federation of the Altai (AFA)
[[Revolutionary Spain|Anarchism and the Spanish Revolution]]


Anarchist Federation of Poland (AFP)
[[Anarchy in the Mexican Revolution|Anarchism in the Mexican Revolution]]


Revolutionary Anarchist Socialist Party (PSAR)
[[Shinmin_Prefecture|Manchurian Revolution]]


German Anarchist Federation (AFD)
[[1999 Seattle WTO shutdown]]


East Asian Anarchist Federation (EAAF)
Modern schools


Anarchist International Relations Commission (CRIA)
[[2008 Greek insurrection]]


Continental Commission of Anarchist Relations (CCRA)
[[US Galleanists]]


Korean Anarchist Federation's Chinese Exile Section (KAF-C)
[[1911 Lima-Callao general strike]]


Korean Anarchist Federation (KAF)
[[1919 Peruvian general strike]]


Korean Anarchist Communist Federation (KACF)
==Anti-Authoritarian==


Korean Anarchist Federation in Manchuria (KAF-M)
[[File:Interfauna-raid-1990.jpg|thumb|[[Animal Liberation Front]]]]


Durruti Column
[[File:Metropolitan Indians.jpg|thumbnail|[[Italian Autonomia]]]]


Friends of Durruti (AD)
[[File:Warner-creek-EF-96.jpg|thumbnail|[[Cascadia Free State]]]]


Kronstadt Accords (ZK)
[[File:Jean Froissart, Chroniques, 154v, 12148 btv1b8438605hf336, crop.jpg|thumb|[[English Peasants' Revolt of 1381]]]]


Francophile Anarchist Federation (FAF)
[[File:Battle for Palm Tree Hill.jpg|thumbnail|[[Anarchy in the Haitian Revolution]]]]


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


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


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


Spanish Regional Anarchist Organisation (OARE)
[[File:Flag of Koma Komalên Kurdistan.svg|thumbnail|Flag of the [[Kurdistan democratic confederalists|Group of Communities in Kurdistan]]]]


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


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


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


Libertarian Socialist Council (LSC)
[[File:John Brown by Levin Handy, 1890-1910.jpg|thumbnail|[[John Brown's raids]]]]


Workers' Solidarity Movement (RRU)
[[File:VD VD200710070509005AR.jpg|thumb|[[Earth Liberation Front]]]]


Workers' Solidarity (RR)
[[File:Occupy Wall Street Crowd Size 2011 Shankbone.JPG|thumbnail|[[Occupy movement]]]]


Co-ordination of Anarchist Groups
[[File:Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (logo).png|thumbnail|[[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]]]]


Anarcho-Communist Port-workers' Group (ACAOP)
[[File:Routes des châteaux cathares.svg|thumb|[[Cathars]]]]


Anarcho-Syndicalist National Confederation of Labour (ASNKR)
[[File:Earthfirstmonkeywrench.png|thumbnail|[[Earth First!]]]]


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


Federation of Communist Anarchists of German (FKAD)
[[File:Unist'ot'en camp.jpg|thumbnail|[[Unist'ot'en Camp]]]]


Federation of Anarchist-communist Groups of Poland and Lithuania (FAGPL)
[[File:Wattsriots-burningbuildings-loc.jpg|thumbnail|[[Watts Rebellion]] of 1965]]


Japanese Anarchist Club (JAC)
[[US anti-nuclear movement|Abalone Alliance]]


Anarchist Federation
[[Alcatraz occupation]]


Federation of Anarchist Groups of Cuba (FGAC)
[[Taborite communes|Adamites]]


Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
[[Alter-globalization movement]]


International of Anarchist Federations (IAF)
[[Anarchy in the German Revolution]]


Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
[[Anarchy in the Russian Revolution]]


anarchist faction in Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR)
[[Anarchy in the Haitian Revolution]]


Anarcho-Communist Unification (CUAC)
[[Animal Liberation Front]]


Libertarian Communist Organisation (OLC)
[[Anti-Shell actions]]


Uruguayan Anarchist Federation (FAU)
[[Bogomils]]


Anarchist Revolutionary Organisation (ORA)
[[BDS Movement]]


Proletarian Action Anarchists Groups (GAAP)
[[Cascadia Free State]], 1995-6


Italian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
[[Cathars]], 11th to 14th centuries


Federation of Communist Anarchists (FdCA)
[[Catholic Worker movement]]


Polish Anarchist Federation (FA)
[[Community taro patches]]


Communist League of Anarchists
[[US anti-nuclear movement|Clamshell Alliance]]


Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation
[[Earth First!]]


Anarchist Federation (AF) / Czech and Slovak Anarchist Federation (CSAF)
[[Earth Liberation Front]]


Federation of Libertarian Socialists (FFS)
[[English food riots in eighteenth century]]


General Delegation of the CNT (CNT-DG)
[[English Peasants' Revolt of 1381]]


Venezuelan Regional Workers' Federation (FORV)
[[German Anti-Fascism]]


Federation of Anarchist Groups of Cuba (FGAC)
[[Italian Anti-Fascism]]


Cuban Libertarian Alliance (ALC)
[[Italian Autonomia]]


General Confederation of Labor (CGT)
[[John Brown's raids]]


Federation of Anarchist Groups in Cuba (FGAC)
[[Kurdish democratic confederalists]]


Yunan guerilla campaigns
[[Kronstadt rebellion]]


Bolivian Regional Workers' Confederation (CORB)
[[Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992]]


Feminine Workers' Federation (FOB)
[[Mapuche|Mapuche Struggle]]


Revolutionary Popular Organisation 33 (OPR-33)
[[Movement of the Free Spirit]]


Libertarian Resistance (RL)
[[Oaxaca rebellion]]


Workers' Liberation Group (Shagila)
[[Occupy movement]]


The Scream of the People (CHK)
[[Oka Crisis]]


Movement 2 June (M2J)
[[Unist'ot'en Camp]]


Angry Brigade (AB)
[[US anti-nuclear movement]]


Direct Action (AD)
[[US Green movement]]


Anti-capitalist Autonomous Commandos (KAA)
[[School of the Tillers]]


Left Opposition (LO)
[[Sexual revolution]]


Wiyathi Collective within the Anti-Capitalist Convergence
[[Standing Rock Uprising]]


==Anti-Authoritarian==
[[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]]


[[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]]
[[Texas KXL blockade]]


[[File:IWW demonstration NY 1914.jpg|thumbnail|[[Industrial Workers of the World]] demonstration in New York, 1914]]
[[The May-June Revolt in France, 1968]]


[[File:02Jane 400.jpg.jpg|thumbnail|[[Jane]] underground abortion service]]
[[Watts Rebellion]]


[[File:Psu.jpg|thumbnail|[[Philly Stands Up]], a transformative justice collective.  ]]
[[Yellow Turban Rebellion]]


[[Industrial Workers of the World]] (IWW)
[[Zone to Defend (ZAD)]], 2012-present


[[Jane]]
==Autonomous==


[[Philly Stands Up]]
[[File:La Vía Campesina logo.png|thumb|[[La Via Campesina]]]]


Industrial Workers of the World- Chile (IWW-Chile), 25,000 members in 1920
[[File:Flag of Edward England.svg|thumbnail|[[Pirate anarchy]]]]


Cuban National Labour Confederation (CNOC), 200,000 members
[[File:Nat Turner woodcut.jpg|thumbnail|[[Nat Turner's rebellion]]]]


[[Libertarian Socialist Institute]]
[[File:Luddite.jpg|thumbnail|[[Luddites]]]]


[[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]]
[[File:Mi'kmaq blockade.png|thumbnail|[[2013 Mi'kmaq anti-fracking struggle]]]]


[[Shamrik Mukti Dal]]
[[File:Seattle General Strike.jpg|thumbnail|[[1919 Seattle general strike]]]]


IWW-Sierra Leonne, 3,240 members
[[File:First int.jpg|thumbnail|Woman confronts soldiers during the [[First Intifada]].]]


Solidarity Union Democracy (SUD)
[[File:Red cloud and other souix.jpg|thumbnail|[[Red Cloud's War]]]]


European Federation of Alternative Syndicalism (FESAL-E)
[[File:Boston Tea Party Currier colored.jpg|thumbnail|[[American Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


General Confederation of Labour (CGT), 230,000 members in 1906
[[File:1917petrogradsoviet assembly.jpg|thumbnail|[[Russian Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


Industrial Union of North and South America (UIANS) (Mexico)
[[File:Anarchist cuba.png|thumbnail|[[Cuban Revolution and Anarchism]]]]


Liberation Army of the South (ELS) (Mexico), 70,000 members
[[File:Magon.png|thumbnail|[[Mexican Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


Industrial Syndicalist Education League (ISEL), 150,000 members in 1910s
[[File:Prise de la Bastille.jpg|thumbnail|[[French Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


Irish Transport & General Workers' Union (ITGWU), 12,000 members in 1917
[[File:Stroop Report - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 13.jpg|thumbnail|[[Jewish armed anti-Nazi resistance]]]]


Situationist International
[[1848 revolutions]]


Siberian Industrial Workers of the World (IWW-Siberia), 16,000 members
[[1968 revolutions]]


General Workers' Federation (GFP), 40,000 members
[[1919 Seattle general strike]]


Union of Trade Unions (ZZZ)
[[2007 Lakota declaration of independence]]


Polish Syndicalist Union (ZSP)
[[2013 Mi'kmaq anti-fracking struggle]]


Italian Syndicalist Union (USI)
[[American Revolution and Anarchy]]


Free Association of German Trade Unions (FvDG), 100,000 members
[[Anabaptists]]


German Workers' Union of Germany (AAUD), 30,000 members
[[Barcelona en Comú]]


General Labour Union--Unity Organisation (AAU-E), 75,000 members
[[Black Reconstruction]]


American Continental Workingmen's Association (ACAT)
[[Bolivia Water War]]


General League of Koreans (HCH)
[[Cuban Revolution and Anarchism]]


Libertarian Youth Federation of Iberia (FIJL)
[[First Intifada]]


Libertarian Youth (JJLL)
[[French Revolution and Anarchy]]


International Revolutionary Syndicalist Federation (FISR)
[[German Peasants' War]]


Syndicalist Workers' Federation (SWF)
[[Jewish armed anti-Nazi resistance]]


Federation of Free Labour Unions (FFLU)
[[La Via Campesina]]


Independent League of Trade Unions (OVB)
[[Luddites]]


IWW Marine Transport Workers' Industrial Union (MTWIU)
[[Mexican Revolution and Anarchy]]


Chilean IWW
[[Nat Turner's rebellion]]


Ship-building Workers' Federation (FTB)
[[Pirate anarchy]]


1951 syndicalist resistance in New Zealand
[[Pueblo Revolt]]


Industrial and Commercial Union of Southern Rhodesia (ICU ''yase'' Rhodesia)
[[Red Cloud's War]]


National Convention of Workers (CNT), 400,000 members in 1972
[[Seminole people|Seminole Wars]]


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


Autonomous Village Movement (AVM)
==Limited==


Aid Group for the Libertarians and Independent Syndicalists in Cuba (GALSIC)
[[Karaite Judaism]]


==Participatory==
[[Kharijites]]
[[MOVE]]


==Autonomous==
[[Mu'tazilites]]


==Unsorted==
==Unsorted==


Albany Free School
[[Massalians]]


Quechua Farmers School
[[Prague Spring]]
[[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]]


Universidad Transhumante
1903 Macedonian revolt


Free Stores
1905–1907 Russian Revolt


Freecycle Network
1910 Mexican revolution


Critical Resistance
1960 student revolts


Take Back the Night
[[Imazighen]]


Philly's Pissed
Parisian urban gardeners


No Border Network
Cantonalist Revolt of 1873-1874


Spanish Regional Labour Federation (FTRE)
=[[Organizations|Organizations]]=


Pact of Union & Solidarity (PUS)
''"[[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>


Spanish Regional Workers' Federation (FORE)
''"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>


Proletarian Circle (CP)


Grand Circle of Mexican Workers (GCO)
==[[Organizations#Active|Active Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian]]==


Regional Federation of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay (FRROU)
==[[Organizations#Historical|Historical Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian]]==


Worker's Federation (FO)
==[[Organizations#Autonomous|Autonomous]]==


Artisan's Central Council (JCA)
==[[Organizations#Unsorted|Unsorted]]==


Labourer's Circle (CT)
=Everyday Anarchy=


Cuban Labour Confederation (CTC)
''''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>


Central Labor Union (CLU)
''"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>


Northern Worker's Union (NWU)
''"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>


Federation of Labour Exchanges (FBT)
[[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]]


1907 International Anarchist Congress
[[File:250px-Woodstock poster.jpg|thumbnail|[[Woodstock Festival]] poster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_festival]]


1913 Syndicalist Conference in London


Insurgent Committee of Revolutionary Partisans
==Anarchist==
==Anti-Authoritarian==


National Labour Secretariat (NAS), 18,700 members in 1895
[[Really Really Free Market]]


Federation of Freedom-loving Communists (FVC)
[[Mumbai community dog care]]


Libertarian Communist Organization
==Participatory==


Libertarian Alternative
==Autonomous==


Committee for the Defence of Revolutionary Syndicalism (CDSR), 100,000 members
[[Stonehenge Free Festival]], 1972-1985 (one month a year), 30,000 people


Trans-Siberian Railway
[[Woodstock Festival]], 1969, 40,000 people


Industrial Workers of the World-US (IWW-US)
[[Pioneer Health Centre]]


Confederation of Labour Associations (GLH)
[[Little Commonwealth]]


Hunan Workers' Association
[[Vienna Psychoanalytic Society's child guidance service]]


Black Societies
[[Horizontal organization in British architecture]]


Wonsan General Trade Union
[[Global postal service]]


Free Trade Union
[[International railways]]


Argentine Regional Workers' Federation (FORA)
[[Swiss city planning]]


Argentine Regional Workers' Confederation (CORA)
[[Emdrup playground]]


Argentine Regional Workers' Federation of the 9th Congress (FORA-IX)
[[The Yard]]


Argentine Libertarian Alliance (ALA)
==Unsorted==


Resistance Society of the Port-workers of the Capital (SROPC)
Mexican ''colonial proletarias''


Uruguay Regional Workers' Organisation (FORU)
Peruvian 'barriadas''


Brazilian Labour Confederation (COB)
Tunisian ''gourbivilles''


Paraguayan Regional Workers' Organisation (FORPa)
Indian ''bus tees''


Paraguayan Regional Workers' Centre (CORP)
Turkish ''gecekondu''


National Revolutionary Alliance (ANR)
Venezuelan ''ranchos''


Workers' Trade Union Reorganisation Council (CORS)
Prestolee School


Havana Labour Federation (FOH)
Institueion Libre de Enseiianza


Cuban Workers' Confederation (CTC)
Residential College for Students


Chilean Workers' Central (CUT)
1960 student revolts


Mexican Regional Workers' Organization (FORM), 150,000 members in 1921
Freetown playground


General Confederation of Labour (CGT)
Skrammellegeplad playgrounds


Peruvian Regional Workers' Federation (FORPe)
Robinson Crusoe playgrounds


Local Workers' Federation of Lima (FOL)
Brixham fishing cooperative


Colombian Workers' Federation (FOC)
Brora mining cooperative


Local Workers' Federation (FOL)
Standard tractor factory


Feminine Workers' Federation
Durham worker-managed mines


Guayas Workers' Regional Federation (FORG)
Gheel mental health care


Ecuadoran Regional Federation of Labor (FTRE)
Synanon


National Workers' Union (UON)
Claimant's Union


General Confederation of Labour (CGT)(Spain), 90,000 members in 1919
Eyes on the street


National Workers' Union (UON)
[[Open source]]


General Confederation of Labour (CGT) (Portugal)
[[Wikipedia]]


Mexican Industrial Workers of the World (IWW-Mexico)
=Nonhuman Anarchy=


Mexican Liberal Party (PLM)
''"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>


Industrial Union of North and South America (UIANS)
''"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>


Liberation Army of the South (ELS)
''"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>


National Agrarian Party (PNA)
''" 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>


Vlassovden Confederation
''"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>


Italian Workers' Party (POI)
''"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>


Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD), 120,000 members
==Animal Societies==
[[File:Melanerpes formicivorus -San Luis Obispo, California, USA -male-8.jpg|thumbnail|[[Acorn woodpecker]]]]


North African Libertarian Movement (MLNA)
[[File:Squirrel monkey1-cropped.jpg|thumbnail|[[Central American squirrel monkey]]]]


Korean Youth Federation in South China (KYFSC)
[[File:Tursiops truncatus 01.jpg|thumbnail|[[Dolphins]]]]


Federation of Free Society Builders (FFSB)
[[File:Crotophaga sulcirostris.jpg|thumbnail|[[Groove-billed ani]]]]


Korean Revolutionary Federation (KRF)
[[File:Okonjima Lioness.jpg|thumb|[[Lion]]]]


National Confederation of Labour (CNT)
[[File:Wolf, voor de natuur, Saxifraga - Jan Nijendijk.5097.jpg|thumbnail|[[Gray wolf]]]]


General Italian Workers' Federation (CGIL)
[[Acorn woodpecker]]


Conference of Labour Unions (CLU)
[[Bison]]


Federation of Libertarian Socialists (FFS)
[[Bonobo]]


Independent League of Trade Unions (OVB)
[[Central American squirrel monkey]]


General Confederation of Labor (CGT) (Cuba)
[[Dolphins]]


North African Libertarian Movement (MLNA)
[[Domestic cat]]


Libertarian Communist International (ICL)
[[Elephant]]


Libertarian Communist Organisation (OCL)
[[Gorillas dismantling traps]]


Libertarian Alternative (AL)
[[Gray wolf]]


Second Escambray Front
[[Groove-billed ani]]


Student Revolutionary Directorate (DRE)
[[Lion]]


Cuban Confederation (CTC)
[[Manatee]]


Anarchists within the 26th of July Movement
[[Seahorse]]


Cuban Libertarian Movement in Exile
==Earth and Ecology==


Swedish Workers' Central Organisation (SAC)
[[File:Craggy Gardens-27527.jpg|thumbnail|[[Appalachian forests]]]]


General Confederation of Labour (CGT) (Chile)
[[File:The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpg|thumbnail|[[Earth system]]]]


National Workers' Unity Movement (MUNT)
[[File:Elysia-chlorotica-body.jpg|thumbnail|[[Evolution of sea slugs]]]]


Federation of the Provincial Proletariat (Shengwulian)
[[File:Symsagittifera roscoffensis(Jersey).jpg|thumbnail|[[Evolution of translucent worms]]]]


Worker-Student Resistance (ROE)
[[File:Mycorrhizal network.svg|thumb|[[Mycorrhizal network]]]]


Union of Libertarian Communist Workers (UTCL)
[[File:Utricularia aurea 8 Darwiniana.jpg|thumb|[[Utricularia-algae-zooplankton feedback]]]]


Alternative Libertaire
[[Appalachian forests]]


Interior Defense (DI)
[[Bacteria]]


First of May Group (GPM)
[[Earth system]]


Iberian Liberation Movement (MIL-GAC)
[[Evolution of eukaryotes]]


Groups of International Revolutionary Action (GARI)
[[Evolution of green hydra]]


Neutralist Tribune
[[Evolution of horse]]


Movement of Revolutionary Communards (MRC)
[[Evolution of sea slugs]]


Free General Workers' Union (SMOT)
[[Evolution of translucent worms]]


Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)
[[Human body and anarchy]]


[[Spies for Peace]]
[[Mimosa-beetle symbiosis]]


Black Front Society (KSS)
[[Mycorrhizal network]]


=Everyday Anarchy=
[[Utricularia-algae-zooplankton feedback]]
''"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>


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


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


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


==Anarchist==
[[Chemical clock]]
==Anti-Authoritarian==


[[Really Really Free Market]]
[[Bénard convection]]


==Participatory==
[[Laser]]


==Autonomous==
[[Physics and anarchy]]


[[Stonehenge Free Festival]], 1972-1985 (one month a year), 30,000 people
[[Solar system's planets]]


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


[[Pioneer Health Centre]]
=Fictional Anarchy=


[[Little Commonwealth]]
''"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>


[[Vienna Psychoanalytic Society's child guidance service]]
==Anarchist==
[[File:Anarres.jpeg|thumbnail|[[Anarres]]]]


[[Horizontal organization in British architecture]]
[[Anarres]] (''The Dispossessed'')


[[Human brain]]
Mars (''Mars'' trilogy)


[[Global postal service]]
[[San Francisco (The Fifth Sacred Thing)]]


[[International railways]]
==Anti-Authoritarian==


[[Swiss city planning]]
[[File:Earthseed.jpg|thumb|[[Earthseed]]]]


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


[[The Yard]]
[[File:Fraggle Rock.png|thumb|[[Fraggle Rock]]]]


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


Mexican ''colonial proletarias''
[[Cokaygne]]


Peruvian 'barriadas''
[[Earthseed]]


Tunisian ''gourbivilles''
[[Fraggle Rock]]


Indian ''bus tees''
[[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)


Turkish ''gecekondu''
[[Kesh]] (''Always Coming Home'')
 
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=
 
''"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]]
 
[[Gray wolf]]
 
[[Groove-billed ani]]
 
=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<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==
[[File:Anarres.jpeg|thumbnail|[[Anarres]]]]
 
[[Anarres]] (''The Dispossessed'')
 
Mars (''Mars'' trilogy)
 
San Fransisco (''The Fifth Sacred Thing'')
 
==Anti-Authoritarian==


Nowhere (''News from Nowhere'')
Nowhere (''News from Nowhere'')


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


==Autonomous==
==Autonomous==


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


[[Examples by Source]]




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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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