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


[[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''''' (or libertarianism) refers to a broader category of politics including groups such as the Wobblies and Zapatistas that do not necessarily call themselves Anarchists but, like the Anarchists, oppose coercive hierarchy and attempt to implement libertarian socialism. Third, a '''''participatory''''' category includes examples such as the classical Athenian polis where anarchy is extended to many but not to all or even necessarily to most of society. (In other words, we split apart the concept of participatory democracy and assert that a society can be participatory but not democratic.) Significantly, participatory examples have historically relied on oppressive systems of enslavement and colonialism, and yet these examples may still be useful for the study of how large people groups of people can engage in horizontal self-rule. 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.]]
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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. We have collected hundreds of examples of anarchy in practice, many of them from the following works. We sort the examples by their scale and focus. For an explanation of the categories, visit our [[Definitions]] page.
AnarchyinAction.org is a project of [http://www.capitalismvsclimate.org Capitalism vs. the Climate] and of our friends at [https://getlibre.org/ Get Libre] and elsewhere. If you would like to get involved, please email dfischer@riseup.net. For instructions on how to write for and edit this wiki, please see our [[Editing Guide]].


=Societies=
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''"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>


''"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>
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]]''.


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


[[Revolutionary Spain]], 1936-9, 3.2 million people
[[File:Fifthsacredthing.webp|thumb|"Fifth Sacred Thing" by Jessica Perlstein, portraying [[San Francisco (The Fifth Sacred Thing)]].]]


[[Revolutionary Ukraine]], 1918-1921, 7 million people
[[File:Clifford-harper-alternative-dream.png|thumb|Clifford Harper portrays an anarchist commune in ''Radical Technology'']]


[[Shinmin Prefecture]], 1929-1931, 2 million people
[[File:Apple Harvest by Camille Pissarro.jpg|thumb|Les chataigniers a Osny (1888) by anarchist painter Camille Pissarro.]]


[[File:S-d-jpeg-12.jpeg|thumbnail|Collectivized textile factory in Barcelona, [[Revolutionary Spain|Spain]]. From Sam Dolgoff's ''The Anarchist Collectives''.]]
[[File:Weiße Dame Brandberg.JPG|thumb|ancient [[San]] artwork]]


==Anti-Authoritarian==
[[File:Whoever.jpg|thumb|[https://www.anarchistagency.com/critical-voices/david-damato-what-is-anarchism/]]]
[[File:IMG 0427.JPG|thumbnail|A school building in [[Zapatista-run Chiapas]]]]


[[File:Flag of Syrian Kurdistan.svg|thumbnail|Flag of [[Kurdistan democratic confederalists|Rojava]]]]


[[File:Çatalhöyük with surroundings..jpg|thumbnail| [[Catal Huyuk]]]]
=Societies=


[[Anuak]]
''"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>


[[Argentinian horizontalidad]]
''"[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>


[[El Alto]], 1 million people
''"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>


[[Catal Huyuk]], 7500 to 5700 BCE, 6,000-10,000 people


[[Global Ecovillage Network]]
==Anarchist==


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


[[Hopi]]
[[File:Korea001.jpg|thumbnail|[[Shinmin Prefecture]]]]


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


[[Itoiz villages]]
[[Revolutionary Spain]], 1936-9, 3.2 million people


[[Konkomba]]
[[Revolutionary Ukraine]], 1918-1921, 7 million people


[[La Solana villages]]
[[Shinmin Prefecture]], 1929-1931, 2 million people


[[Longo Maï]]


[[Mapuche]], 1 million people in sixteenth century
==Anti-Authoritarian==


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


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


[[Kurdistan democratic confederalists|Rojava]], 2012-present, 2.5 million people
[[File:Abahlali baseMjondolo Logo.jpg|thumb|[[Abahlali baseMjondolo]]]]


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


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


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


[[Zomia]], present, 100 million people
[[File:MUFT - Catal Höyük Modell.jpg|thumb|[[Çatalhöyük]]]]


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


[[File:Pnyx-berg2.png|thumbnail|Pnyx Hill, the meeting place of the ecclesia in the [[Athenian polis]].]]
[[File:Mbuti woman with mushrooms1.jpg|thumbnail|[[Mbuti]]]]


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


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


[[Athenian polis]], 594-431, 404-403 BCE, 40,000 male citizens
[[File:Çayonu.jpg|thumb|[[Cayonu]]]]


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


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


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


[[Kibbutzim]], 1919-present, 120,000 members in 2011
[[File:North carolina algonkin-dorf.jpg|thumb|[[Croatan]]]]


[[Landless Workers' Movement]]
[[File:Hadza montage.png|thumb| [[Hadza]]]]


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


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


[[New England town meetings]]
[[File:Cherán.jpeg|thumb|[[Cherán]]]]


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


[[Plateau Tonga]]
[[File:BushmenSan.jpg|thumbnail|[[San]] peoples]]


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


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


[[Castile confederation]]
[[File:Paliyan women.jpg|thumb|[[Paliyan]]]]


[[Paris Commune]], 1871, 2 million people
[[File:PeiligangCulture-RedPotWithTwoEars-ShanghaiMuseum-May27-08.jpg|thumb|[[Peiligang culture]]]]


South Carolina Commune
[[File:Talempong - Sumatra Barat.jpg|thumb|[[Minangkabau]]]]


[[Swiss confederal leagues]]
[[File:Sarvodaya-296x300.png|thumb|[[Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement]]]]


[[Tiv]]
[[File:Taborites.png|thumbnail|[[Taborite communes]]]]


==Unsorted==
[[File:Mosuo girls.jpg|thumb|[[Mosuo]]]]


[[South American Indians]]
[[File:Anishinaabe-Anishinini Distribution Map.svg|thumb| [[Nishnaabeg]] ]]


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


[[La Paz Zapotec]], nearly 2,000 people
[[File:Panama-Kuna 0605a.jpg|thumb|[[Kuna people]]]]


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


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


Northwest coast indigenous peoples
[[File:Cherokee beadwork sampler 1840 ohs.jpg|thumb|[[Cherokee]]]]


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


Nuer
[[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]]]]


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


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


Dinka people
[[Andamanese]]


=Communities=
[[Anuak]]


''"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>
[[Argentinian horizontalidad]]
 
''"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>


==Anarchist==
[[Batek]]


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


==Anti-Autoritarian==
[[Çatalhöyük]]
[[File:Entrée de Christiania.jpg|thumbnail|Entrance to [[Christiania]]]]


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


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


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


[[Faslane Peace Camp]], 1982-present
[[El Alto neighborhood councils]], 2000s CE


[[Free Republic of Wendland]], 1980, 5,000 people
[[Cayonu]], 7200 to ca. 4200 BCE


[[Diggers|George's Hill (Diggers)]], 1649, 40 people
[[Cherokee]]


[[Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp]], 1981-200
[[Southeast Matriarchies|Chickasaw]]


[[Life and Labor Commune]], 1921-1930, nearly 1,000 people
[[Southeast Matriarchies|Choctaw]]


[[Village Alternatif, Anticapitalist et AntiGuerres]], 2003, thousands of people
Crianza Mutua (Colombia)


==Participatory==
Crianza Mutua (Mexico)


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


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


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


[[Huehuecoyotl]]
[[Early Neolithic Southern Levant]], 10,500 to 6000 BCE


==Unsorted==
[[Global Ecovillage Network]]


Alcatraz occupation
[[Hadza]]


Taita Hills
[[Haudenosaunee]]


Ghana shantytown
[[Hopi]]


Minnehaha Free State
[[Indus Valley Civilization]]


Mexican ''colonial proletarias''
[[Inuit]]


Peruvian 'barriadas''
[[Itoiz villages]]


Tunisian ''gourbivilles''
[[Jenne-jeno]], 250 BCE-1400 CE, 11,000 people


Indian ''bus tees''
[[Konkomba]]


Turkish ''gecekondu''
[[Kuna people]]


Venezuelan ''ranchos''
[[La Solana villages]]


[[King Hill hostel squat]]
[[Late Taosi]]


=Movements and Uprisings=
[[Longo Maï]]


''"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>
[[Malaipantaram]]


''"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>
[[Mapuche]], 1 million people in sixteenth century


==Anarchist==
[[Mbuti]]
[[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]]
[[Minangkabau]]


Building the Syndicalist Unions
[[Minoan Crete]], 3000 BCE-1100 BCE


[[Anarchists in the Russian Revolution]]
[[Southeast Matriarchies|Muscogee]]


[[Anarchists in the Italian Factory Occupations]]
[[Oceti Sakowin]] (Sioux)


[[Revolutionary Spain|Anarchism and the Spanish Revolution]]
[[Nayaka people]]


[[Anarchism in the Cuban Revolution]]
[[Niitsitapi]] (Blackfoot)


[[Anarchy in the Mexican Revolution]]
[[Nishnaabeg]]


Modern schools
[[Piaroa]]


==Anti-Authoritarian==
[[Peiligang culture]], 7000-5000 BCE


[[File:Warner-creek-EF-96.jpg|thumbnail|[[Cascadia Free State]]]]
[[Kurdistan democratic confederalists|Rojava]], 2012-present, 2.5 million people


[[File:ANG40InfantryDivisionLosAngelesRiot1992.jpg|thumbnail|National Guard deployed during the [[Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992]]]]
[[San]] (including !Kung)


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


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


[[File:Naelfpoletterhead.jpg|thumbnail|[[Earth Liberation Front]]]]
[[Semai people]]


[[File:Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (logo).png|thumbnail|[[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]]]]
[[Seminole people]]


[[File:Earthfirstmonkeywrench.png|thumbnail|[[Earth First!]]]]
[[Taborite communes]], 15th century


[[File:Unist'ot'en camp.jpg|thumbnail|[[Unist'ot'en Camp]]]]
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]]
[[Zomia]], present, 100 million people


[[Anti-Shell actions]]
[[Zuni]]
 
[[Anusilan Samiti]]
 
[[Cascadia Free State]], 1995-6
 
[[Catholic Worker movement]]
 
[[Community taro patches]]
 
[[US anti-nuclear movement|Clamshell Alliance]]
 
[[Earth First!]]
 
[[Earth Liberation Front]]
 
[[Italian Autonomia]]
 
[[Kurdish democratic confederalists]]
 
[[Kronstadt rebellion]]
 
[[Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992]]
 
[[Unist'ot'en Camp]]
 
[[US anti-nuclear movement]]
 
[[US Green movement]]
 
[[Sexual revolution]]
 
[[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]]
 
[[The May-June Revolt in France, 1968]]
 
[[Zone to Defend (ZAD)]], 2012-present
 
==Participatory==
 
[[School of the Tillers]]


==Autonomous==
==Autonomous==


[[File:Seattle General Strike.jpg|thumbnail|[[1919 Seattle general strike]]]]
[[File:Teotihuacán-5973.JPG|thumb|[[Teotihuacan]]]]


[[File:First int.jpg|thumbnail|Woman confronts soldiers during the [[First Intifada]].]]
[[File:Mst conabNove2004.jpg|thumb|[[Landless Workers' Movement]]]]


[[File:Red cloud and other souix.jpg|thumbnail|[[Red Cloud's War]]]]
[[File:024.Jacob Wrestles with the Angel.jpg|thumb|[[Early Israelites]]]]


[[1919 Seattle general strike]]
[[File:280px-San Gimignano (1).jpg|thumbnail|[[Medieval commune]]]]


2007 Lakota declaration of independence
[[File:Familienleben.jpg|thumb|[[Canela people]]]]


[[Anabaptists]]
[[Aboriginal Australians]]


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


[[Anarchy in the French Revolution]]
[[Early Christians]]


[[Bolivia Water War]]
[[Early Israelites]]


[[First Intifada]]
[[Early Uruk]]


[[German Peasants' War]]
[[Highland Madagascar]]


[[Pirate anarchy]]
[[Igbo]]


[[Pueblo Revolt]]
[[Landless Workers' Movement]]


[[Red Cloud's War]]
[[Lugbara]]


Nat Turner's slave rebellion
[[Mashkan-shapir]]


==Unsorted==
[[Medieval commune]]


[[Oaxaca rebellion]]
[[Palmares]]


[[Prague Spring]]
[[Parisian sections]]
[[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]]


1903 Macedonian revolt
[[Pequot]]


1905–1907 Russian Revolt
[[Sea Peoples]]


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


1960 student revolts
[[Sami]]


[[Imazighen]]
[[Teotihuacan]]


Parisian urban gardeners
[[File:QumranLivingQuarters.jpg|thumbnail|[[Essenes]]]]


Cantonalist Revolt of 1873-1874
[[Castile confederation]]


Mohawk road blockade, 1990
[[Essenes]], 4,000 people


Work democracy
[[Paris Commune]], 1871, 2 million people


=Organizations=
[[Black Reconstruction|South Carolina Commune]]


''"[[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>
[[Maluku archipelago]]


''"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>
[[Quinnipiac]]


Most of the membership numbers come from Michael Schmidt's [[Cartography of Revolutionary Anarchism]] and refer to peak rather than current membership.
[[Swiss confederal leagues]]


==Anarchist==
[[Therapeutae]]


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


[[File:Woman with cnt-fai flag.jpg|thumbnail]]
[[Tlaxcala (Postclassic)]]


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


[[Mujeres Creando]]
==Limited==


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


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


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


[[US Green movement|Left Green Network]]
[[New England town meetings]]


[[US Green movement|Youth Greens]]
[[Tribal Arabia]]


[[Anti-Authoritarian International]] ("Black International")
[[Tonga people]]


Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)


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


Chilean Labourers Federation (FTCh), 60,000 members in 1921
==Unsorted==


Revolutionary Insurgent Army of the Ukraine (RPAU), 110,000 members
[[South American Indians]]


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


Italian Anarchist Union (UAI), 20,000 members
[[La Paz Zapotec]], nearly 2,000 people


General Confederation of Labor (CGT) (Spain), 60,000 members in 2010s
Maori


National Confederation of Labor--France (CNT-F)
New Guinea indigenous peoples


Swedish Central Workers' Organisation (SAC), 10,000 members in 1990s
Northwest coast indigenous peoples


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


House of the World Worker (COM), 50,000 members in 1910s
Nuer


Bleikhman's Petrograd Anarchist Communist Federation (PACF)
Imazighen


Union of Anarcho-Syndicalist Propaganda (MFAG)
Ifugao


Moscow Federation of Anarchist Groups
Dinka people


Black Guards, 1,000 members
=Communities=


Federation of Anarchist-Communists of Bulgaria (FAKB)
''"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>


[[Fraternity of the Red Flag]]
''"Strong communities make police obsolete."'' -police-abolitionist slogan


[[Freedom Fight]]


[[Jugoremedija]]
==Anarchist==


Autonomous Action (AD)
[[Guangzhou commune]], 1921-1923


Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists (KAS)
==Anti-Autoritarian==
[[File:Entrée de Christiania.jpg|thumbnail|Entrance to [[Christiania]]]]


Confederation of Revolutionary Anarcho-Syndicalists (KRAS)
[[File:Faslane.jpg|thumbnail|Police dismantling a blockade of protesters at [[Faslane Peace Camp]].]]


Revolutionary Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists, Nestor Makhno (RKAS-NM), 2,000 members
[[File:Levellers declaration and standard.gif|thumbnail| Woodcut from a [[Diggers]] document by William Everard]]


Indigenous Popular Council of Oaxaca--Ricardo Flores Magnón (CIPO-RFM)
[[Christiania]], 1971-present, 900 people


Magónista-Zapatista Alliance (AMZ)
[[Faslane Peace Camp]], 1982-present


Anarchist Workers' and Students' Group (ASWG)
[[Free Republic of Wendland]], 1980, 5,000 people


Awareness League (AL)
[[Diggers|George's Hill (Diggers)]], 1649, 40 people


Anarchist Resistance Movement (ARM)
[[Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp]], 1981-200


Durban Anarchist Federation (DAF)
[[Life and Labor Commune]], 1921-1930, nearly 1,000 people


Zabala Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF)
[[Village Alternatif, Anticapitalist et AntiGuerres]], 2003, thousands of people


North-Eastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists (NEFAC)
==Autonomous==


Common Struggle Libertarian Communist Federation
Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Commune, 1922-1926


Common Cause
[[Pocasset]], 200 families


Libertarian Communist Union
[[Huehuecoyotl]]


Siberian Confederation of Labor (SKT)
==Unsorted==


Anarkismo.net
Taita Hills


Workers' Solidarity Movement (WSM)
Ghana shantytown


Libertarian Socialist Movement (LSM)
Minnehaha Free State


Libertarian Alternative (AL)
Mexican ''colonial proletarias''


International Brotherhood
Peruvian 'barriadas''


International Alliance of Socialist Democracy
Tunisian ''gourbivilles''


Anarchist organizations within the International Working Person's Association
Indian ''bus tees''


Anarchist Federation of the Altai (AFA)
Turkish ''gecekondu''


Anarchist Federation of Poland (AFP)
Venezuelan ''ranchos''


Revolutionary Anarchist Socialist Party (PSAR)
[[King Hill hostel squat]]


German Anarchist Federation (AFD)
=Movements and Uprisings=


East Asian Anarchist Federation (EAAF)
''"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>


Anarchist International Relations Commission (CRIA)
''"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>


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


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


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


Korean Anarchist Communist Federation (KACF)
[[File:Seattle black bloc.png|thumbnail|[[1999 Seattle WTO shutdown]]]]


Korean Anarchist Federation in Manchuria (KAF-M)
[[File:Magon.png|thumbnail|[[Anarchy in the Mexican Revolution]]]]


Durruti Column
[[File:Logo de la FAI.svg|thumb|[[Informal Anarchist Federation]]]]


Friends of Durruti (AD)
[[File:Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, Logo.jpg|thumb|[[Conspiracy of Cells of Fire]]]]


Kronstadt Accords (ZK)
[[The Haymarket Martyrs]]


Francophile Anarchist Federation (FAF)
[[Conspiracy of Cells of Fire]]


Italian Anarchist Communists (FdCAI)
[[Informal Anarchist Federation]]


Anarchist Federation of Britain (AFB)
[[Anarchists in the Russian Revolution]]


Japanese Anarchist Federation (JAF)
[[Anarchists in the Italian Factory Occupations]]


Spanish Regional Anarchist Organisation (OARE)
[[Revolutionary Spain|Anarchism and the Spanish Revolution]]


Anarchist Communist Alliance
[[Anarchy in the Mexican Revolution|Anarchism in the Mexican Revolution]]


Anarchist Federation
[[Shinmin_Prefecture|Manchurian Revolution]]


Black Front Society
[[1999 Seattle WTO shutdown]]


Libertarian Socialist Council (LSC)
Modern schools


Workers' Solidarity Movement (RRU)
[[2008 Greek insurrection]]


Workers' Solidarity (RR)
[[US Galleanists]]


Co-ordination of Anarchist Groups
[[1911 Lima-Callao general strike]]


Anarcho-Communist Port-workers' Group (ACAOP)
[[1919 Peruvian general strike]]


Anarcho-Syndicalist National Confederation of Labour (ASNKR)
==Anti-Authoritarian==


Union of Communist Anarchists (UCAI)
[[File:Interfauna-raid-1990.jpg|thumb|[[Animal Liberation Front]]]]


Federation of Communist Anarchists of German (FKAD)
[[File:Metropolitan Indians.jpg|thumbnail|[[Italian Autonomia]]]]


Federation of Anarchist-communist Groups of Poland and Lithuania (FAGPL)
[[File:Warner-creek-EF-96.jpg|thumbnail|[[Cascadia Free State]]]]


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


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


Federation of Anarchist Groups of Cuba (FGAC)
[[File:Alcatraz Island 01 Prison sign.jpg|thumbnail|[[Alcatraz occupation]]]]


Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
[[File:SOAS BDS demonstration 27 April 2017 12.jpg|thumbnail|[[BDS Movement]]]]


International of Anarchist Federations (IAF)
[[File:ANG40InfantryDivisionLosAngelesRiot1992.jpg|thumbnail|National Guard deployed during the [[Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992]]]]


Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
[[File:Flag of Koma Komalên Kurdistan.svg|thumbnail|Flag of the [[Kurdistan democratic confederalists|Group of Communities in Kurdistan]]]]


anarchist faction in Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR)
[[File:"Happi" American Horse direct action against DAPL, August 2016 (cropped).png|thumb|[[Standing Rock Uprising]]]]


Anarcho-Communist Unification (CUAC)
[[File:Slavic Bogomil Cemetery in Chalkidona, Thessaloniki.jpg|thumb|[[Bogomils]]]]


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


Uruguayan Anarchist Federation (FAU)
[[File:John Brown by Levin Handy, 1890-1910.jpg|thumbnail|[[John Brown's raids]]]]


Anarchist Revolutionary Organisation (ORA)
[[File:VD VD200710070509005AR.jpg|thumb|[[Earth Liberation Front]]]]


Proletarian Action Anarchists Groups (GAAP)
[[File:Occupy Wall Street Crowd Size 2011 Shankbone.JPG|thumbnail|[[Occupy movement]]]]


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


Federation of Communist Anarchists (FdCA)
[[File:Routes des châteaux cathares.svg|thumb|[[Cathars]]]]


Polish Anarchist Federation (FA)
[[File:Earthfirstmonkeywrench.png|thumbnail|[[Earth First!]]]]


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


Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation
[[File:Unist'ot'en camp.jpg|thumbnail|[[Unist'ot'en Camp]]]]


Anarchist Federation (AF) / Czech and Slovak Anarchist Federation (CSAF)
[[File:Wattsriots-burningbuildings-loc.jpg|thumbnail|[[Watts Rebellion]] of 1965]]


Federation of Libertarian Socialists (FFS)
[[US anti-nuclear movement|Abalone Alliance]]


General Delegation of the CNT (CNT-DG)
[[Alcatraz occupation]]


Venezuelan Regional Workers' Federation (FORV)
[[Taborite communes|Adamites]]


Federation of Anarchist Groups of Cuba (FGAC)
[[Alter-globalization movement]]


Cuban Libertarian Alliance (ALC)
[[Anarchy in the German Revolution]]


General Confederation of Labor (CGT)
[[Anarchy in the Russian Revolution]]


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


Yunan guerilla campaigns
[[Animal Liberation Front]]


Bolivian Regional Workers' Confederation (CORB)
[[Anti-Shell actions]]


Feminine Workers' Federation (FOB)
[[Bogomils]]


Revolutionary Popular Organisation 33 (OPR-33)
[[BDS Movement]]


Libertarian Resistance (RL)
[[Cascadia Free State]], 1995-6


Workers' Liberation Group (Shagila)
[[Cathars]], 11th to 14th centuries


The Scream of the People (CHK)
[[Catholic Worker movement]]


Movement 2 June (M2J)
[[Community taro patches]]


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


Direct Action (AD)
[[Earth First!]]


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


Left Opposition (LO)
[[English food riots in eighteenth century]]


Wiyathi Collective within the Anti-Capitalist Convergence
[[English Peasants' Revolt of 1381]]


==Anti-Authoritarian==
[[German Anti-Fascism]]


[[File:Freedom Summer.jpg|thumbnail|Freedom Summer, a 1964 campaign of the [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]], an anti-authoritarian civil rights group.]]
[[Italian Anti-Fascism]]


[[File:IWW demonstration NY 1914.jpg|thumbnail|[[Industrial Workers of the World]] demonstration in New York, 1914]]
[[Italian Autonomia]]


[[File:02Jane 400.jpg.jpg|thumbnail|[[Jane]] underground abortion service.]]
[[John Brown's raids]]


[[File:Psu.jpg|thumbnail|[[Philly Stands Up]], a transformative justice collective.]]
[[Kurdish democratic confederalists]]


[[File:Up9thCommonGround7Feb06ClothesTent.jpg|thumbnail|[[Common Ground Collective]] distribution center]]
[[Kronstadt rebellion]]
[[File:Bruderhof.jpg|thumbnail|Self-managed [[Bruderhof factories]].]]


[[Industrial Workers of the World]] (IWW)
[[Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992]]


[[Jane]]
[[Mapuche|Mapuche Struggle]]


[[Philly Stands Up]]
[[Movement of the Free Spirit]]


[[Common Ground Collective]]
[[Oaxaca rebellion]]


[[Philly's Pissed]]
[[Occupy movement]]


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


Cuban National Labour Confederation (CNOC), 200,000 members
[[Unist'ot'en Camp]]


[[Libertarian Socialist Institute]]
[[US anti-nuclear movement]]


[[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]]
[[US Green movement]]


[[Shamrik Mukti Dal]]
[[School of the Tillers]]


[[Bruderhof factories]]
[[Sexual revolution]]


Black Liberation Army
[[Standing Rock Uprising]]


IWW-Sierra Leonne, 3,240 members
[[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]]


Solidarity Union Democracy (SUD)
[[Texas KXL blockade]]


European Federation of Alternative Syndicalism (FESAL-E)
[[The May-June Revolt in France, 1968]]


General Confederation of Labour (CGT), 230,000 members in 1906
[[Watts Rebellion]]


Industrial Union of North and South America (UIANS) (Mexico)
[[Yellow Turban Rebellion]]


Liberation Army of the South (ELS) (Mexico), 70,000 members
[[Zone to Defend (ZAD)]], 2012-present
 
Industrial Syndicalist Education League (ISEL), 150,000 members in 1910s
 
Irish Transport & General Workers' Union (ITGWU), 12,000 members in 1917
 
Situationist International
 
Siberian Industrial Workers of the World (IWW-Siberia), 16,000 members
 
General Workers' Federation (GFP), 40,000 members
 
Union of Trade Unions (ZZZ)
 
Polish Syndicalist Union (ZSP)
 
Italian Syndicalist Union (USI)
 
Free Association of German Trade Unions (FvDG), 100,000 members
 
German Workers' Union of Germany (AAUD), 30,000 members
 
General Labour Union--Unity Organisation (AAU-E), 75,000 members
 
American Continental Workingmen's Association (ACAT)
 
General League of Koreans (HCH)
 
Libertarian Youth Federation of Iberia (FIJL)
 
Libertarian Youth (JJLL)
 
International Revolutionary Syndicalist Federation (FISR)
 
Syndicalist Workers' Federation (SWF)
 
Federation of Free Labour Unions (FFLU)
 
Independent League of Trade Unions (OVB)
 
IWW Marine Transport Workers' Industrial Union (MTWIU)
 
Chilean IWW
 
Ship-building Workers' Federation (FTB)
 
1951 syndicalist resistance in New Zealand
 
Industrial and Commercial Union of Southern Rhodesia (ICU ''yase'' Rhodesia)
 
National Convention of Workers (CNT), 400,000 members in 1972
 
Autonomous Workers' League (AWL)
 
Autonomous Village Movement (AVM)
 
Aid Group for the Libertarians and Independent Syndicalists in Cuba (GALSIC)
 
==Participatory==
[[MOVE]]


==Autonomous==
==Autonomous==


==Unsorted==
[[File:La Vía Campesina logo.png|thumb|[[La Via Campesina]]]]


Albany Free School
[[File:Flag of Edward England.svg|thumbnail|[[Pirate anarchy]]]]


Quechua Farmers School
[[File:Nat Turner woodcut.jpg|thumbnail|[[Nat Turner's rebellion]]]]


Universidad Transhumante
[[File:Luddite.jpg|thumbnail|[[Luddites]]]]


Free Stores
[[File:Mi'kmaq blockade.png|thumbnail|[[2013 Mi'kmaq anti-fracking struggle]]]]


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


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


Take Back the Night
[[File:Red cloud and other souix.jpg|thumbnail|[[Red Cloud's War]]]]


No Border Network
[[File:Boston Tea Party Currier colored.jpg|thumbnail|[[American Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


Spanish Regional Labour Federation (FTRE)
[[File:1917petrogradsoviet assembly.jpg|thumbnail|[[Russian Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


Pact of Union & Solidarity (PUS)
[[File:Anarchist cuba.png|thumbnail|[[Cuban Revolution and Anarchism]]]]


Spanish Regional Workers' Federation (FORE)
[[File:Magon.png|thumbnail|[[Mexican Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


Proletarian Circle (CP)
[[File:Prise de la Bastille.jpg|thumbnail|[[French Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


Grand Circle of Mexican Workers (GCO)
[[File:Stroop Report - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 13.jpg|thumbnail|[[Jewish armed anti-Nazi resistance]]]]


Regional Federation of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay (FRROU)
[[1848 revolutions]]


Worker's Federation (FO)
[[1968 revolutions]]


Artisan's Central Council (JCA)
[[1919 Seattle general strike]]


Labourer's Circle (CT)
[[2007 Lakota declaration of independence]]


Cuban Labour Confederation (CTC)
[[2013 Mi'kmaq anti-fracking struggle]]


Central Labor Union (CLU)
[[American Revolution and Anarchy]]


Northern Worker's Union (NWU)
[[Anabaptists]]


Federation of Labour Exchanges (FBT)
[[Barcelona en Comú]]


1907 International Anarchist Congress
[[Black Reconstruction]]


1913 Syndicalist Conference in London
[[Bolivia Water War]]


Insurgent Committee of Revolutionary Partisans
[[Cuban Revolution and Anarchism]]


National Labour Secretariat (NAS), 18,700 members in 1895
[[First Intifada]]


Federation of Freedom-loving Communists (FVC)
[[French Revolution and Anarchy]]


Libertarian Communist Organization
[[German Peasants' War]]


Libertarian Alternative
[[Jewish armed anti-Nazi resistance]]


Committee for the Defence of Revolutionary Syndicalism (CDSR), 100,000 members
[[La Via Campesina]]


Trans-Siberian Railway
[[Luddites]]


Industrial Workers of the World-US (IWW-US)
[[Mexican Revolution and Anarchy]]


Confederation of Labour Associations (GLH)
[[Nat Turner's rebellion]]


Hunan Workers' Association
[[Pirate anarchy]]


Black Societies
[[Pueblo Revolt]]


Wonsan General Trade Union
[[Red Cloud's War]]


Free Trade Union
[[Seminole people|Seminole Wars]]


Argentine Regional Workers' Federation (FORA)
[[Syrian Revolution]]


Argentine Regional Workers' Confederation (CORA)
==Limited==


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


Argentine Libertarian Alliance (ALA)
[[Kharijites]]


Resistance Society of the Port-workers of the Capital (SROPC)
[[Mu'tazilites]]


Uruguay Regional Workers' Organisation (FORU)
==Unsorted==


Brazilian Labour Confederation (COB)
[[Massalians]]


Paraguayan Regional Workers' Organisation (FORPa)
[[Prague Spring]]
[[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]]


Paraguayan Regional Workers' Centre (CORP)
1903 Macedonian revolt


National Revolutionary Alliance (ANR)
1905–1907 Russian Revolt


Workers' Trade Union Reorganisation Council (CORS)
1910 Mexican revolution


Havana Labour Federation (FOH)
1960 student revolts


Cuban Workers' Confederation (CTC)
[[Imazighen]]


Chilean Workers' Central (CUT)
Parisian urban gardeners


Mexican Regional Workers' Organization (FORM), 150,000 members in 1921
Cantonalist Revolt of 1873-1874


General Confederation of Labour (CGT)
=[[Organizations|Organizations]]=


Peruvian Regional Workers' Federation (FORPe)
''"[[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>


Local Workers' Federation of Lima (FOL)
''"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>


Colombian Workers' Federation (FOC)


Local Workers' Federation (FOL)
==[[Organizations#Active|Active Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian]]==


Feminine Workers' Federation
==[[Organizations#Historical|Historical Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian]]==


Guayas Workers' Regional Federation (FORG)
==[[Organizations#Autonomous|Autonomous]]==


Ecuadoran Regional Federation of Labor (FTRE)
==[[Organizations#Unsorted|Unsorted]]==


National Workers' Union (UON)
=Everyday Anarchy=
 
General Confederation of Labour (CGT)(Spain), 90,000 members in 1919
 
National Workers' Union (UON)
 
General Confederation of Labour (CGT) (Portugal)
 
Mexican Industrial Workers of the World (IWW-Mexico)
 
Mexican Liberal Party (PLM)
 
Industrial Union of North and South America (UIANS)
 
Liberation Army of the South (ELS)
 
National Agrarian Party (PNA)
 
Vlassovden Confederation
 
Italian Workers' Party (POI)
 
Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD), 120,000 members
 
North African Libertarian Movement (MLNA)
 
Korean Youth Federation in South China (KYFSC)
 
Federation of Free Society Builders (FFSB)
 
Korean Revolutionary Federation (KRF)
 
National Confederation of Labour (CNT)
 
General Italian Workers' Federation (CGIL)
 
Conference of Labour Unions (CLU)
 
Federation of Libertarian Socialists (FFS)
 
Independent League of Trade Unions (OVB)
 
General Confederation of Labor (CGT) (Cuba)
 
North African Libertarian Movement (MLNA)
 
Libertarian Communist International (ICL)
 
Libertarian Communist Organisation (OCL)
 
Libertarian Alternative (AL)
 
Second Escambray Front
 
Student Revolutionary Directorate (DRE)
 
Cuban Confederation (CTC)
 
Anarchists within the 26th of July Movement
 
Cuban Libertarian Movement in Exile
 
Swedish Workers' Central Organisation (SAC)
 
General Confederation of Labour (CGT) (Chile)
 
National Workers' Unity Movement (MUNT)
 
Federation of the Provincial Proletariat (Shengwulian)
 
Worker-Student Resistance (ROE)
 
Union of Libertarian Communist Workers (UTCL)
 
Alternative Libertaire
 
Interior Defense (DI)
 
First of May Group (GPM)
 
Iberian Liberation Movement (MIL-GAC)
 
Groups of International Revolutionary Action (GARI)
 
Neutralist Tribune
 
Movement of Revolutionary Communards (MRC)
 
Free General Workers' Union (SMOT)
 
Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)


[[Spies for Peace]]
''''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>


Black Front Society (KSS)
''"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>


=Everyday Anarchy=
''"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>
''"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]]
[[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]]
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[[Really Really Free Market]]
[[Really Really Free Market]]
[[Mumbai community dog care]]


==Participatory==
==Participatory==
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[[Horizontal organization in British architecture]]
[[Horizontal organization in British architecture]]
[[Human brain]]


[[Global postal service]]
[[Global postal service]]
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=Nonhuman Anarchy=
=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>
''"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>
 
''"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>
 
''"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>
 
''" 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>
 
''"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>
''"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>


"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>
==Animal Societies==
[[File:Melanerpes formicivorus -San Luis Obispo, California, USA -male-8.jpg|thumbnail|[[Acorn woodpecker]]]]


[[File:Squirrel monkey1-cropped.jpg|thumbnail|[[Central American squirrel monkey]]]]
[[File:Squirrel monkey1-cropped.jpg|thumbnail|[[Central American squirrel monkey]]]]
[[File:Tursiops truncatus 01.jpg|thumbnail|[[Dolphins]]]]


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


[[File:Craggy Gardens-27527.jpg|thumbnail|[[Appalachian forests]]]]
[[File:Okonjima Lioness.jpg|thumb|[[Lion]]]]
 
[[File:Wolf, voor de natuur, Saxifraga - Jan Nijendijk.5097.jpg|thumbnail|[[Gray wolf]]]]
 
[[Acorn woodpecker]]


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


[[Appalachian forests]]
[[Bonobo]]


[[Central American squirrel monkey]]
[[Central American squirrel monkey]]
[[Dolphins]]
[[Domestic cat]]
[[Elephant]]
[[Gorillas dismantling traps]]


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


[[Groove-billed ani]]
[[Groove-billed ani]]
[[Lion]]
[[Manatee]]
[[Seahorse]]
==Earth and Ecology==
[[File:Craggy Gardens-27527.jpg|thumbnail|[[Appalachian forests]]]]
[[File:The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpg|thumbnail|[[Earth system]]]]
[[File:Elysia-chlorotica-body.jpg|thumbnail|[[Evolution of sea slugs]]]]
[[File:Symsagittifera roscoffensis(Jersey).jpg|thumbnail|[[Evolution of translucent worms]]]]
[[File:Mycorrhizal network.svg|thumb|[[Mycorrhizal network]]]]
[[File:Utricularia aurea 8 Darwiniana.jpg|thumb|[[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==
[[File:RBCells.jpg|thumbnail|[[Bénard_convection]]]]
[[File:Bzr fotos.jpg|thumbnail|[[Chemical clock]]]]
[[Chemical clock]]
[[Bénard convection]]
[[Laser]]
[[Physics and anarchy]]
[[Solar system's planets]]
[[Universe]]


=Fictional Anarchy=
=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>
''"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==
==Anarchist==
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Mars (''Mars'' trilogy)
Mars (''Mars'' trilogy)


San Fransisco (''The Fifth Sacred Thing'')
[[San Francisco (The Fifth Sacred Thing)]]
 
==Anti-Authoritarian==
 
[[File:Earthseed.jpg|thumb|[[Earthseed]]]]
 
[[File:Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. 037.jpg|thumbnail| [[Cokaygne]] ]]
 
[[File:Fraggle Rock.png|thumb|[[Fraggle Rock]]]]
 
[[File:Hobbiton, New Zealand.jpg|thumb|[[The Shire]]]]


[[Cokaygne]]


==Anti-Authoritarian==
[[Earthseed]]


[[Haudennosaunne#.22Warp_and_Weft.2C.22_from_The_Years_of_Rice_and_Salt_by_Kim_Stanley_Robinson|Haudennosaunne]] (''The Years of Rice and Salt'' by Kim Stanley Robinson)
[[Fraggle Rock]]


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


The Shire (''The Lord of the Rings'')
[[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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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


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
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

San peoples

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

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

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.

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

National Guard deployed during the Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992
Community taro patches run by indigenous and non-indigenous farmers across Hawaii

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

Woman confronts soldiers during the First Intifada.

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]


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

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

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

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 (The Dispossessed)

Mars (Mars trilogy)

San Francisco (The Fifth Sacred Thing)

Anti-Authoritarian

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.