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AnarchyinAction.org provides research on anarchy. Coming from Greek words ''an'' (without) and ''archos'' (ruler), '''''anarchy''''' refers to situations without coercive hierarchy. Looking at and beyond self-proclaimed anarchist movements, we respond to Maia Ramnath's call 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]]''.
 
This wiki is written by volunteers, and we encourage you to check our work and help us to improve it. Contact us with corrections or for assistance setting up an account. If you're a member of an organization or struggle described on this website, send us information on current campaigns.
 
[[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/]]]
 
[[File:Fifthsacredthing.webp|thumb|"Fifth Sacred Thing" by Jessica Perlstein, portraying [[San Francisco (The Fifth Sacred Thing)]].]]
 
[[File:Bolobolo.png|thumb|a proposed "bolo" (source: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/p-m-bolo-bolo)]]


'''<big>Welcome to AnarchyinAction.org!</big>'''
[[File:Clifford-harper-alternative-dream.png|thumb|Clifford Harper portrays an anarchist commune in ''Radical Technology'']]
 
[[File:Apple Harvest by Camille Pissarro.jpg|thumb|Les chataigniers a Osny (1888) by anarchist painter Camille Pissarro.]]
 
[[File:Weiße Dame Brandberg.JPG|thumb|ancient [[San]] artwork]]
 
[[File:Whoever.jpg|thumb|[https://www.anarchistagency.com/critical-voices/david-damato-what-is-anarchism/]]]
 
 
=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>
 
''"[T]here are also concepts such as anti-authoritarian or egalitarian forms of organizing. Although this differs in degrees from one Indigenous nation to another, it is, overall, a fairly strong part of our traditional culture (with some exceptions)."'' -Gord Hill<ref>"Gord Hill, Indigenous Artist and Anarchist," ''Crimethinc'', 1 August 2017, https://crimethinc.com/2017/08/01/an-interview-with-gord-hill.</ref>
 
''"Egalitarian cities, even regional confederacies, are historically quite commonplace."''-David Graeber and David Wengrow<ref>David Graeber and David Wengrow, "How to change the course of human history,'' ''Eurozine'', 2 March 2018, https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/.</ref>
 
 
==Anarchist==
 
[[File:Makhno group.jpg|thumbnail| Nestor Makhno with members of the anarchist [[Revolutionary Ukraine|Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine]]]]
 
[[File:Korea001.jpg|thumbnail|[[Shinmin Prefecture]]]]
 
[[File:S-d-jpeg-12.jpeg|thumbnail|Collectivized textile factory in Barcelona, [[Revolutionary Spain|Spain]]. From Sam Dolgoff's ''The Anarchist Collectives''.]]
 
[[Revolutionary Spain]], 1936-9, 3.2 million people
 
[[Revolutionary Ukraine]], 1918-1921, 7 million people
 
[[Shinmin Prefecture]], 1929-1931, 2 million people
 
 
==Anti-Authoritarian==
 
[[File:IMG_0497.JPG|thumbnail| [[Zapatista-run Chiapas]]]]
 
[[File:Rojava_Sewing_Cooperative.jpg|thumbnail|[[Kurdistan democratic confederalists]]]]
 
[[File:Abahlali baseMjondolo Logo.jpg|thumb|[[Abahlali baseMjondolo]]]]
 
[[File:Baka dancers June 2006.jpg|thumb|[[Bayaka]]]]
 
[[File:Great Andamanese - two men - 1875.jpg|thumbnail|[[Andamanese]]]]
 
[[File:Keluarga suku Bateq 167.jpg|thumb|[[Batek]]]]
 
[[File:MUFT - Catal Höyük Modell.jpg|thumb|[[Çatalhöyük]]]]
 
[[File:Blood squaws in war dress (HS85-10-18744).jpg|thumbnail|[[Niitsitapi]]]]
 
[[File:Mbuti woman with mushrooms1.jpg|thumbnail|[[Mbuti]]]]
 
[[File:Flag_of_the_Iroquois_Confederacy.svg.png|thumbnail|[[Haudenosaunee]]]]
 
[[File:Iroquoian Village, Ontario, Canada36.JPG|thumb|[[Wendat]]]]
 
[[File:Çayonu.jpg|thumb|[[Cayonu]]]]
 
[[File:Bolivia - Marcha Juventudes Antifacistas.jpg|thumb|[[El Alto neighborhood councils]]]]
 
[[File:Talianki (Trypillian city).jpg|thumb|[[Cucuteni–Trypillia civilization]]]]
 
[[File:Malaipantaram map.gif|thumb|[[Malaipantaram]]]]
 
[[File:North carolina algonkin-dorf.jpg|thumb|[[Croatan]]]]
 
[[File:Hadza montage.png|thumb| [[Hadza]]]]


A work-in-progress, AnarchyinAction.org will be a resource for anyone to research and write about how and when societies, communities, institutions, rebellions, movements and other social phenomena can function in the absence of coercive hierarchies--and how and when they can not. '''''Anarchy''''', coming from the Greek words ''an'' (without) and ''archos'' (ruler) refers to a situation without rulers, without domination. We collected hundreds of examples of anarchy in practice, many of them from the following works:
[[File:Knossos - North Portico 02.jpg|thumb|[[Minoan Crete]]]]


<blockquote>
[[File:Mohenjo-daro.jpg|thumb|[[Indus Valley Civilization]]]]


[[An Anarchist FAQ]] (excerpt)
[[File:Cherán.jpeg|thumb|[[Cherán]]]]


[[Anarchy in Action]] by Colin Ward
[[File:Seated figure grom Mali, 13th century, Djenné peoples, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981.218.JPG|thumb|[[Jenne-jeno]]]]


[[Anarchy Works]] by Peter Gelderloos
[[File:BushmenSan.jpg|thumbnail|[[San]] peoples]]


[[Cartography of Revolutionary Anarchism]] by Michael Schmidt
[[File:Sioux social structure council fires.jpg|thumb|[[Oceti Sakowin]] (Sioux)]]


[[Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution]] by Peter Kropotkin
[[File:1280px-Oraibi1.jpg|thumbnail|[[Hopi]]]]


[[People_Without_Government:_An_Anthropology_of_Anarchy|People Without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy]] by Harold Barclay
[[File:Paliyan women.jpg|thumb|[[Paliyan]]]]


[[The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism]] by Janet Biehl with Murray Bookchin (excerpt)
[[File:PeiligangCulture-RedPotWithTwoEars-ShanghaiMuseum-May27-08.jpg|thumb|[[Peiligang culture]]]]


</blockquote>
[[File:Talempong - Sumatra Barat.jpg|thumb|[[Minangkabau]]]]


We have sorted these examples into three main categories. '''''Anarchism''''' refers to a political theory and practice that arose in the 19th century, aimed at abolishing coercive hierarchy and establishing a libertarian socialist society in its place. '''''Anti-authoritarianism''''' refers to a broader category of politics including groups such as the Wobblies and Zapatistas that oppose coercive hierarchy but do not call themselves anarchists. Finally, the '''''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.
[[File:Sarvodaya-296x300.png|thumb|[[Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement]]]]


In addition to the examples of anarchy in action, we create two additional categories. In a nod to the naturalist Peter Kropotkin who saw cooperative activity as a factor of evolution, we add ''nonhuman anarchy''. Second, we add the category of ''fictional anarchy'', which would include the planet Annares from Ursula K. LeGuin's ''The Dispossessed''.
[[File:Taborites.png|thumbnail|[[Taborite communes]]]]


We do not pretend to present conclusive evidence that anarchy is possible in all situations. Nor do we deny humans' innate potential for hierarchy and indeed for extreme cruelty. Instead, we present this resource as an attempt for curious and open-minded people to collaboratively explore the question of whether a horizontally-run world is possible and what this world might look like. We will not allow anyone to use this website to promote any kind of authoritarianism or to purposely publish false information.
[[File:Mosuo girls.jpg|thumb|[[Mosuo]]]]


AnarchyinAction.org is a project of [http://www.capitalismvsclimate.org Capitalism vs. the Climate] and of friends at [https://getlibre.org/ Get Libre] and elsewhere. If you would like to get involved, please email dfischer@riseup.net.
[[File:Anishinaabe-Anishinini Distribution Map.svg|thumb| [[Nishnaabeg]] ]]


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


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


=Examples from [[An Anarchist FAQ]]=
[[File:Catholic Worker.jpg|thumb|[[Catholic Worker]]]]


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


The Haymarket Martyrs
[[File:Cherokee beadwork sampler 1840 ohs.jpg|thumb|[[Cherokee]]]]


Building the Syndicalist Unions
[[File:Black-sem-detail-1st-war.jpg|thumbnail|[[Seminole people]]]]


Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
[[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]]]]


Anarchists in the Italian Factory Occupations
[[File:Semai man1.jpg|thumb|[[Semai people]]]]


[[Spanish Revolution|Anarchism and the Spanish Revolution]]
[[Abahlali baseMjondolo]], 115,000 members as of 2022


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


[[Anuak]]


[[Argentinian horizontalidad]]


=Examples from [[Anarchy in Action]]=
[[Batek]]


[[Squatters' Protection Society]]
[[Bayaka]]


[[Woodstock Festival]]
[[Çatalhöyük]]


[[Pioneer Health Centre]]
[[Catholic Worker]]


[[Little Commonwealth]]
[[Cherán]]


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


[[Prague Spring]]
[[El Alto neighborhood councils]], 2000s CE
[[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]]


[[Anarchism in the Cuban Revolution]]
[[Cayonu]], 7200 to ca. 4200 BCE


[[Spanish Revolution]]
[[Cherokee]]


[[Horizontal organization in British architecture]]
[[Southeast Matriarchies|Chickasaw]]


Work democracy
[[Southeast Matriarchies|Choctaw]]


[[Tiv people]]
Crianza Mutua (Colombia)


[[Dinka people]]
Crianza Mutua (Mexico)


[[Human brain]]
[[Cucuteni–Trypillia civilization]], 1 million people, 4800 to 3000 BCE


[[Global postal service]]
[[Diné]]


[[International railways]]
[[Early Uruk]], 4000-3200 BCE


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


[[Spies for Peace]]
[[Global Ecovillage Network]]


[[Swiss city planning]]
[[Hadza]]


[[Medieval commune]]
[[Haudenosaunee]]


[[Anarchy in the American Revolution]]
[[Hopi]]


New England Town Meetings
[[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]]


[[Sexual revolution]]
[[Longo Maï]]


Prestolee School
[[Malaipantaram]]


Institueion Libre de Enseiianza
[[Mapuche]], 1 million people in sixteenth century


Residential College for Students
[[Mbuti]]


1960 student revolts
[[Minangkabau]]


[[Emdrup playground]]
[[Minoan Crete]], 3000 BCE-1100 BCE


Freetown playground
[[Southeast Matriarchies|Muscogee]]


[[The Yard]]
[[Oceti Sakowin]] (Sioux)


Skrammellegeplad playgrounds
[[Nayaka people]]


Robinson Crusoe playgrounds
[[Niitsitapi]] (Blackfoot)


Brixham fishing cooperative
[[Nishnaabeg]]


Brora mining cooperative
[[Piaroa]]


Standard tractor factory
[[Peiligang culture]], 7000-5000 BCE


Durham worker-managed mines
[[Kurdistan democratic confederalists|Rojava]], 2012-present, 2.5 million people


=Examples  from [[Anarchy Works]]=
[[San]] (including !Kung)


94 examples
[[Santals]]


[[Really Really Free Market]]
[[Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement]]


[[Semai people]]
[[Semai people]]


[[Mbuti people]]
[[Seminole people]]
 
[[Taborite communes]], 15th century


[[Grassroots Hurricane Katrina relief]]
Vikalp Sangam (India)


[[FIERCE!]]
[[Wendat]]


Providence Plantations
[[Zapatista-run Chiapas]], 1994-present, 120,000-300,000 people


[[Pocasset]]
[[Zomia]], present, 100 million people


Igbo
[[Zuni]]


[[Haudennosaunne]]
==Autonomous==


[[Faslane Peace Camp]]
[[File:Teotihuacán-5973.JPG|thumb|[[Teotihuacan]]]]


[[Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp]]
[[File:Mst conabNove2004.jpg|thumb|[[Landless Workers' Movement]]]]


[[Life and Labor Commune]]
[[File:024.Jacob Wrestles with the Angel.jpg|thumb|[[Early Israelites]]]]


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


[[Imazighen]]
[[File:Familienleben.jpg|thumb|[[Canela people]]]]


[[Anabaptists]]
[[Aboriginal Australians]]


[[German Peasants' War]]
[[Canela people]]


[[Alter-globalization movement]]
[[Early Christians]]


[[Dissent! Network]]
[[Early Israelites]]


[[Hill People of Southeast Asia]]
[[Early Uruk]]


Korean Anarchist Communist Federation
[[Highland Madagascar]]


[[Spanish Revolution]]
[[Igbo]]


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


[[Oaxaca rebellion]]
[[Lugbara]]
 
[[Mashkan-shapir]]
 
[[Medieval commune]]
 
[[Palmares]]


[[Kibbutzim]]
[[Parisian sections]]


[[Nubian people]]
[[Pequot]]


[[Hopi people]]
[[Sea Peoples]]


Italian factory occupations
[[Syrian Revolution|Revolutionary Syria]]


[[Argentinian horizontalidad]]
[[Sami]]


[[Mondragon]]
[[Teotihuacan]]


Gore Associates
[[File:QumranLivingQuarters.jpg|thumbnail|[[Essenes]]]]


Christiana
[[Castile confederation]]


Boston Area Liberation Medic Squad
[[Essenes]], 4,000 people


Bay Area Radical Health Collective
[[Paris Commune]], 1871, 2 million people


US Modern schools
[[Black Reconstruction|South Carolina Commune]]


Albany Free School
[[Maluku archipelago]]


Quechua Farmers School
[[Quinnipiac]]


Universidad Transhumante
[[Swiss confederal leagues]]


1969 Alcatraz occupation
[[Therapeutae]]


Bonnot
[[Tiv]]


New Guinea highlands
[[Tlaxcala (Postclassic)]]


Open Source
[[Venezuelan communes]]


Wikipedia
==Limited==


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


Freecycle Network
[[Athenian polis]], 594-431, 404-403 BCE, 40,000 male citizens


Taita Hills
[[Kibbutzim]], 1919-present, 120,000 members in 2011


Village Alternatif, Anticapitalist et AntiGuerres
[[New England town meetings]]


Free Republic of Wendland
[[Tribal Arabia]]


Stonehenge
[[Tonga people]]


Ghana shantytown


FEJUVE


Mjondolo
==Unsorted==


Symphony Way
[[South American Indians]]


Parisian urban gardeners
Land Dayaks


Cuban agriculture decentralization
[[La Paz Zapotec]], nearly 2,000 people


Maori
Maori


Global Ecovillage Network
New Guinea indigenous peoples


-Old Bassaisa
Northwest coast indigenous peoples


-Ecotop
[[Nubian people]]


-Earthhaven
Nuer


-Tehuantepec
Imazighen


Minnehaha Free State
Ifugao


Bilston Glen
Dinka people


Anti-Shell resistance
=Communities=


Tonga
''"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>


Seattle 1919
''"Strong communities make police obsolete."'' -police-abolitionist slogan


Exarchia


Rotuman
==Anarchist==


Wapole inmates
[[Guangzhou commune]], 1921-1923


Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
==Anti-Autoritarian==
[[File:Entrée de Christiania.jpg|thumbnail|Entrance to [[Christiania]]]]


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


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


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


Critical Resistance
[[Faslane Peace Camp]], 1982-present


Take Back the Night
[[Free Republic of Wendland]], 1980, 5,000 people


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


Philly Stands Up
[[Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp]], 1981-200


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


Red Cloud's War
[[Village Alternatif, Anticapitalist et AntiGuerres]], 2003, thousands of people


2007 Lakota declaration of independence
==Autonomous==


Mohawk road blockade, 1990
Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Commune, 1922-1926


Bolivia water protests
[[Pocasset]], 200 families


Albania
[[Huehuecoyotl]]


Hamburg 1986-7
==Unsorted==


Copenhagen 1986
Taita Hills


Can Masdeu
Ghana shantytown


Gwangiu
Minnehaha Free State


Hungarian Revolution
Mexican ''colonial proletarias''


Zapatistas
Peruvian 'barriadas''


Tsimihety
Tunisian ''gourbivilles''


Basque autonomous villages
Indian ''bus tees''


-Lakabe
Turkish ''gecekondu''


-Aritzkuren
Venezuelan ''ranchos''


-Rala
[[King Hill hostel squat]]


-Uli
=Movements and Uprisings=


La Solana autonomous villages
''"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>


Longo Mai
''"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>


Mas de Granier
''"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>


-Transkarpaty
==Anarchist==


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


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


No Border Network
[[File:Magon.png|thumbnail|[[Anarchy in the Mexican Revolution]]]]


!Kung
[[File:Logo de la FAI.svg|thumb|[[Informal Anarchist Federation]]]]


Whiteway Colony
[[File:Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, Logo.jpg|thumb|[[Conspiracy of Cells of Fire]]]]


=Examples from [[Cartography of Revolutionary Anarchism]]=
[[The Haymarket Martyrs]]


==First Wave, 1868-1894==
[[Conspiracy of Cells of Fire]]


===International===
[[Informal Anarchist Federation]]


International Brotherhood
[[Anarchists in the Russian Revolution]]


International Alliance of Socialist Democracy
[[Anarchists in the Italian Factory Occupations]]


International Working Person's Association
[[Revolutionary Spain|Anarchism and the Spanish Revolution]]


Anti-Authoritarian International
[[Anarchy in the Mexican Revolution|Anarchism in the Mexican Revolution]]


===Spain===
[[Shinmin_Prefecture|Manchurian Revolution]]


Spanish Regional Federation (FRE)
[[1999 Seattle WTO shutdown]]


Spanish Regional Labour Federation (FTRE)
Modern schools


Spanish Regional Anarchist Organisation (OARE)
[[2008 Greek insurrection]]


Pact of Union & Solidarity (PUS)
[[US Galleanists]]


National Confederation of Labor (CNT)
[[1911 Lima-Callao general strike]]


Spanish Regional Workers' Federation (FORE)
[[1919 Peruvian general strike]]


Cantonalist Revolt of 1873-1874
==Anti-Authoritarian==


===Mexico===
[[File:Interfauna-raid-1990.jpg|thumb|[[Animal Liberation Front]]]]


Proletarian Circle (CP)
[[File:Metropolitan Indians.jpg|thumbnail|[[Italian Autonomia]]]]


Grand Circle of Mexican Workers (GCO)
[[File:Warner-creek-EF-96.jpg|thumbnail|[[Cascadia Free State]]]]


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


Regional Federation of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay (FRROU)
[[File:Battle for Palm Tree Hill.jpg|thumbnail|[[Anarchy in the Haitian Revolution]]]]


Worker's Federation (FO)
[[File:Alcatraz Island 01 Prison sign.jpg|thumbnail|[[Alcatraz occupation]]]]


===Cuba===
[[File:SOAS BDS demonstration 27 April 2017 12.jpg|thumbnail|[[BDS Movement]]]]


Artisan's Central Council (JCA)
[[File:ANG40InfantryDivisionLosAngelesRiot1992.jpg|thumbnail|National Guard deployed during the [[Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992]]]]


Labourer's Circle (CT)
[[File:Flag of Koma Komalên Kurdistan.svg|thumbnail|Flag of the [[Kurdistan democratic confederalists|Group of Communities in Kurdistan]]]]


Cuban Labour Confederation (CTC)
[[File:"Happi" American Horse direct action against DAPL, August 2016 (cropped).png|thumb|[[Standing Rock Uprising]]]]


===United States===
[[File:Slavic Bogomil Cemetery in Chalkidona, Thessaloniki.jpg|thumb|[[Bogomils]]]]


Central Labor Union (CLU)
[[File:TaroAKL.jpg|thumbnail|[[Community taro patches]] run by indigenous and non-indigenous farmers across Hawaii]]


===Russia===
[[File:John Brown by Levin Handy, 1890-1910.jpg|thumbnail|[[John Brown's raids]]]]


Northern Worker's Union (NWU)
[[File:VD VD200710070509005AR.jpg|thumb|[[Earth Liberation Front]]]]


[[File:Occupy Wall Street Crowd Size 2011 Shankbone.JPG|thumbnail|[[Occupy movement]]]]


==Second Wave, 1895-1923==
[[File:Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (logo).png|thumbnail|[[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]]]]


===International===
[[File:Routes des châteaux cathares.svg|thumb|[[Cathars]]]]


Federation of Labour Exchanges (FBT)
[[File:Earthfirstmonkeywrench.png|thumbnail|[[Earth First!]]]]


Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
[[File:Margarete Porete, fol. 38.jpg|thumbnail|[[Movement of the Free Spirit]]]]


1903 Macedonian Revolt
[[File:Unist'ot'en camp.jpg|thumbnail|[[Unist'ot'en Camp]]]]


1907 International Anarchist Congress
[[File:Wattsriots-burningbuildings-loc.jpg|thumbnail|[[Watts Rebellion]] of 1965]]


1913 Syndicalist Conference in London
[[File:Waldenser-Wappen.png|thumb|[[Waldensians]]]]


Insurgent Committee of Revolutionary Partisans
[[US anti-nuclear movement|Abalone Alliance]]


Industrial Workers' Association (IWA)
[[Alcatraz occupation]]


===Netherlands===
[[Taborite communes|Adamites]]


National Labour Secretariat (NAS)
[[Alter-globalization movement]]


Federation of Freedom-loving Communists (FVC)
[[Anarchy in the German Revolution]]


===France===
[[Anarchy in the Russian Revolution]]


General Confederation of Labour (CGT)
[[Anarchy in the Haitian Revolution]]


Anarchist Communist Alliance
[[Animal Liberation Front]]


Anarchist Federation
[[Anti-Shell actions]]


Co-ordination of Anarchist Groups
[[Bogomils]]


Libertarian Communist Organization
[[BDS Movement]]


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


Committee for the Defence of Revolutionary Syndicalism (CDSR, member of IWA)
[[Cathars]], 11th to 14th centuries


===Russia===
[[Catholic Worker movement]]


1905-1907 Russian Revolt
[[Community taro patches]]


Trans-Siberian Railway
[[US anti-nuclear movement|Clamshell Alliance]]


Anarchist Federation of the Altai (AFA)
[[Earth First!]]


Siberian Industrial Workers of the World (IWW-Siberia)
[[Earth Liberation Front]]


Autonomous Industrial Commune
[[English food riots in eighteenth century]]


All-Russian Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists (ARKAS)
[[English Peasants' Revolt of 1381]]


Bleikhman's Petrograd Anarchist Communist Federation (PACF)
[[German Anti-Fascism]]


Union of Anarcho-Syndicalist Propaganda (MFAG)
[[Italian Anti-Fascism]]


Black Guards
[[Italian Autonomia]]


===United States===
[[John Brown's raids]]


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


===China===
[[Kronstadt rebellion]]


Teahouse Labour Union
[[Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992]]


Guangzhou commune
[[Mapuche|Mapuche Struggle]]


Confederation of Labour Associations (GLH)
[[Movement of the Free Spirit]]


Hunan Workers' Association
[[Oaxaca rebellion]]


Black Societies
[[Occupy movement]]


===Korea===
[[Oka Crisis]]


Black Societies
[[Unist'ot'en Camp]]


Wonsan General Trade Union
[[US anti-nuclear movement]]


Free Trade Union
[[US Green movement]]


===Argentina===
[[School of the Tillers]]


Argentine Regional Workers' Federation (FORA)
[[Sexual revolution]]


Argentine Regional Workers' Confederation (CORA)
[[Standing Rock Uprising]]


Argentine Regional Workers' Federation of the 5th Congress (FORA-V)
[[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]]


Argentine Regional Workers' Federation of the 9th Congress (FORA-IX)
[[Texas KXL blockade]]


Argentine Libertarian Alliance (ALA)
[[The May-June Revolt in France, 1968]]


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


Resistance Society of the Port-workers of the Capital (SROPC)
[[Watts Rebellion]]


===Uruguay===
[[Yellow Turban Rebellion]]


Uruguay Regional Workers' Organisation (FORU)
[[Zone to Defend (ZAD)]], 2012-present


===Brazil===
==Autonomous==


Brazilian Labour Confederation (COB)
[[File:La Vía Campesina logo.png|thumb|[[La Via Campesina]]]]


===Chile===
[[File:Flag of Edward England.svg|thumbnail|[[Pirate anarchy]]]]


Chilean Labourers Federation (FTCh)
[[File:Nat Turner woodcut.jpg|thumbnail|[[Nat Turner's rebellion]]]]


Industrial Workers of the World- Chile (IWW-Chile)
[[File:Luddite.jpg|thumbnail|[[Luddites]]]]


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


Paraguayan Regional Workers' Organisation (FORPa)
[[File:Seattle General Strike.jpg|thumbnail|[[1919 Seattle general strike]]]]


Paraguayan Regional Workers' Centre (CORP)
[[File:First int.jpg|thumbnail|Woman confronts soldiers during the [[First Intifada]].]]


National Revolutionary Alliance (ANR)
[[File:Red cloud and other souix.jpg|thumbnail|[[Red Cloud's War]]]]


Workers' Trade Union Reorganisation Council (CORS)
[[File:Boston Tea Party Currier colored.jpg|thumbnail|[[American Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


===Cuba===
[[File:1917petrogradsoviet assembly.jpg|thumbnail|[[Russian Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


Havana Labour Federation (FOH)
[[File:Anarchist cuba.png|thumbnail|[[Cuban Revolution and Anarchism]]]]


Cuban Workers' Confederation (CTC)
[[File:Magon.png|thumbnail|[[Mexican Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


Cuban National Labour Confederation (CNOC)
[[File:Prise de la Bastille.jpg|thumbnail|[[French Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


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


House of the World Worker (COM)
[[1848 revolutions]]


Mexican Regional Workers' Organization (FORM)
[[1968 revolutions]]


General Confederation of Labour (CGT)
[[1919 Seattle general strike]]


===Peru===
[[2007 Lakota declaration of independence]]


Peruvian Regional Workers' Federation (FORPe)
[[2013 Mi'kmaq anti-fracking struggle]]


Local Workers' Federation of Lima (FOL)
[[American Revolution and Anarchy]]


===Columbia===
[[Anabaptists]]


Columbian Workers' Federation (FOC)
[[Barcelona en Comú]]


===Bolivia===
[[Black Reconstruction]]


Local Workers' Federation (FOL)
[[Bolivia Water War]]


Feminine Workers' Federation
[[Cuban Revolution and Anarchism]]


Bolivian Regional Workers' Confederation
[[First Intifada]]


===Ecuador===
[[French Revolution and Anarchy]]


Guayas Workers' Regional Federation (FORG)
[[German Peasants' War]]


Ecuadoran Regional Federation of Labor (FTRE)
[[Jewish armed anti-Nazi resistance]]


===Spain===
[[La Via Campesina]]


National Confederation of Labour (CNT)
[[Luddites]]


National Workers' Union (UON)
[[Mexican Revolution and Anarchy]]


(renamed General Confederation of Labour (CGT))
[[Nat Turner's rebellion]]


===Portugal===
[[Pirate anarchy]]


National Workers' Union (UON)
[[Pueblo Revolt]]


General Confederation of Labour (CGT, member of IWA)
[[Red Cloud's War]]


===Mexico===
[[Seminole people|Seminole Wars]]


Mexican Revolution of 1910
[[Syrian Revolution]]


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


Mexican Liberal Party (PLM)
[[Karaite Judaism]]


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


Liberation Army of the South (ELS)
[[Mu'tazilites]]


National Agrarian Party (PNA)
==Unsorted==


===Ireland===
[[Massalians]]


Industrial Syndicalist Education League (ITGWU)
[[Prague Spring]]
[[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]]


===Bulgaria===
1903 Macedonian revolt


Federation of Anarchist-Communists of Bulgaria (FAKB)
1905–1907 Russian Revolt


Vlassovden Confederation
1910 Mexican revolution


Anarcho-Syndicalist National Confederation of Labour (ASNKR)
1960 student revolts


===Ukraine===
[[Imazighen]]


Ukranian Revolution
Parisian urban gardeners


Revolutionary Insurgent Army of the Ukraine (RPAU)
Cantonalist Revolt of 1873-1874


===Italy===
=[[Organizations|Organizations]]=


Italian Syndicalist Union (USI, member of IWA)
''"[[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>


Italian Workers' Party (POI)
''"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>


Revolutionary Anarchist Socialist Party (PSAR)


Union of Communist Anarchists (UCAI)
==[[Organizations#Active|Active Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian]]==


Italian Anarchist Union (UAI)
==[[Organizations#Historical|Historical Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian]]==


==[[Organizations#Autonomous|Autonomous]]==


===Germany===
==[[Organizations#Unsorted|Unsorted]]==


Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD)
=Everyday Anarchy=


Free Association of German Trade Unions (FvDG)
''''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>


German Anarchist Federation (AFD)
''"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>


Federation of Communist Anarchists of German (FKAD)
''"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>


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


General Labour Union--Unity Organisation (AAU-E)
[[File:250px-Woodstock poster.jpg|thumbnail|[[Woodstock Festival]] poster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_festival]]




==Third Wave, 1924-1949==
==Anarchist==
==Anti-Authoritarian==


===International===
[[Really Really Free Market]]


Federation of Anarchist-communist Groups of Poland and Lithuania (FAGPL)
[[Mumbai community dog care]]


East Asian Anarchist Federation (EAAF)
==Participatory==


American Continental Workingmen's Association (ACAT)
==Autonomous==


North African Libertarian Movement (MLNA)
[[Stonehenge Free Festival]], 1972-1985 (one month a year), 30,000 people


Anarchist International Relations Commission (CRIA)
[[Woodstock Festival]], 1969, 40,000 people


Continental Commission of Anarchist Relations (CCRA)
[[Pioneer Health Centre]]


===Poland===
[[Little Commonwealth]]


Anarchist Federation of Poland (AFP)
[[Vienna Psychoanalytic Society's child guidance service]]
 
[[Horizontal organization in British architecture]]
 
[[Global postal service]]
 
[[International railways]]
 
[[Swiss city planning]]
 
[[Emdrup playground]]


General Workers' Federation (GFP)
[[The Yard]]


Union of Trade Unions (ZZZ, member of IWA)
==Unsorted==


Polish Syndicalist Union (ZSP)
Mexican ''colonial proletarias''


===Korea, South China, and Manchuria===
Peruvian 'barriadas''
Korean Anarchist Federation's Chinese Exile Section (KAF-C)


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


Manchurian Revolution of 1929-31
Indian ''bus tees''


--Shinmin Prefecture (General League of Koreans or HCH)
Turkish ''gecekondu''


Korean Anarchist Federation (KAF)
Venezuelan ''ranchos''
 
Prestolee School
 
Institueion Libre de Enseiianza


Korean Anarchist Communist Federation (KACF)
Residential College for Students


Korean Anarchist Federation in Manchuria
1960 student revolts


Federation of Free Society Builders (FFSB)
Freetown playground


Korean Revolutionary Federation (KRF)
Skrammellegeplad playgrounds


===Spain===
Robinson Crusoe playgrounds
Spanish Revolution


--CNT's 1936 Zargosa Congress
Brixham fishing cooperative


Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
Brora mining cooperative


Libertarian Youth Federation of Iberia (FIJL)
Standard tractor factory


Libertarian Youth (JJLL)
Durham worker-managed mines


Durruti Column
Gheel mental health care


Friends of Durruti (AD)
Synanon


===France===
Claimant's Union


International Revolutionary Syndicalist Federation (FISR)
Eyes on the street


National Confederation of Labour (CNT)
[[Open source]]


Francophile Anarchist Federation (FAF)
[[Wikipedia]]


===Italy===
=Nonhuman Anarchy=


Italian Anarchist Communists (FdCAI)
''"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>


General Italian Workers' Federation (CGIL)
''"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>


===Britain===
''"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>


Anarchist Federation of Britain
''" 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>


Syndicalist Workers' Federation (SWF)
''"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>


===Japan===
''"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>


Japanese Anarchist Federation (JAF)
==Animal Societies==
[[File:Melanerpes formicivorus -San Luis Obispo, California, USA -male-8.jpg|thumbnail|[[Acorn woodpecker]]]]


Federation of Free Labour Unions (FFLU)
[[File:Squirrel monkey1-cropped.jpg|thumbnail|[[Central American squirrel monkey]]]]


Conference of Labour Unions (CLU)
[[File:Tursiops truncatus 01.jpg|thumbnail|[[Dolphins]]]]


Japanese Anarchist Club (JAC)
[[File:Crotophaga sulcirostris.jpg|thumbnail|[[Groove-billed ani]]]]


Anarchist Federation
[[File:Okonjima Lioness.jpg|thumb|[[Lion]]]]


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


Federation of Libertarian Socialists (FFS)
[[Acorn woodpecker]]


===Netherlands===
[[Bison]]


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


===Mexico===
[[Central American squirrel monkey]]


General Delegation of the CNT (CNT-DG)
[[Dolphins]]


===Venezuela===
[[Domestic cat]]


Venezuelan Regional Workers' Federation (FORV)
[[Elephant]]


=Examples from [[Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution]]=
[[Gorillas dismantling traps]]


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


[[San people]]
[[Groove-billed ani]]


Khoikhoi people
[[Lion]]


[[Aboriginal Australians]]
[[Manatee]]


Paupan people
[[Seahorse]]


[[Inuit]]
==Earth and Ecology==


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


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


Village community
[[File:Elysia-chlorotica-body.jpg|thumbnail|[[Evolution of sea slugs]]]]


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


Kabyle people
[[File:Mycorrhizal network.svg|thumb|[[Mycorrhizal network]]]]


Peoples of the Caucasus
[[File:Utricularia aurea 8 Darwiniana.jpg|thumb|[[Utricularia-algae-zooplankton feedback]]]]


[[Medieval commune]]
[[Appalachian forests]]


Medieval guild
[[Bacteria]]


Labor unions
[[Earth system]]


Strikes
[[Evolution of eukaryotes]]


Worker cooperatives
[[Evolution of green hydra]]


Lifeboat Association
[[Evolution of horse]]


Cyclists' Alliance
[[Evolution of sea slugs]]


Gymnasts' Societies
[[Evolution of translucent worms]]


Alpine Clubs
[[Human body and anarchy]]


Froebel Unions
[[Mimosa-beetle symbiosis]]


pedagogical societies in Germany
[[Mycorrhizal network]]


religious charitable associations
[[Utricularia-algae-zooplankton feedback]]


scientific, literary, artistic, and educational societies
==Cosmos, Physics, and Chemistry==


Mutual-Aid in slum-life
[[File:RBCells.jpg|thumbnail|[[Bénard_convection]]]]


=Examples from [[People Without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy]]=
[[File:Bzr fotos.jpg|thumbnail|[[Chemical clock]]]]


[[San people]]
[[Chemical clock]]


[[Inuit]]
[[Bénard convection]]


[[Mbuti people]]
[[Laser]]


[[Aboriginal Australians]]
[[Physics and anarchy]]


[[Northwest coast indigenous peoples]]
[[Solar system's planets]]


[[Lugbara people]]
[[Universe]]


[[Konkomba people]]
=Fictional Anarchy=


[[Tiv people]]
''"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>


Plateau Tonga
==Anarchist==
[[File:Anarres.jpeg|thumbnail|[[Anarres]]]]


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


Ibo
Mars (''Mars'' trilogy)


New Guinea indigenous peoples
[[San Francisco (The Fifth Sacred Thing)]]


Ifugao
==Anti-Authoritarian==


Land Dayaks
[[File:Earthseed.jpg|thumb|[[Earthseed]]]]


South American Indians
[[File:Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. 037.jpg|thumbnail| [[Cokaygne]] ]]


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


Samek or Lapps
[[File:Hobbiton, New Zealand.jpg|thumb|[[The Shire]]]]


Imazighen
[[Abbey of Thélème]]


Santals
[[Cokaygne]]


[[Medieval commune]]
[[Earthseed]]
 
Anabaptists


[[Spanish Revolution]]
[[Fraggle Rock]]


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


[[Athenian polis]]
[[Kesh]] (''Always Coming Home'')


[[Medieval commune]]
Nowhere (''News from Nowhere'')


New England Town Meetings
[[The Shire]] (''The Lord of the Rings'')


Parisian Sections
==Autonomous==


Swiss confederal leagues
[[Igbo|Umuofia (''Things Fall Apart'')]]


=Other Examples=


[[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]]


[[Kurdish democratic confederalists]]
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AnarchyinAction.org provides research on anarchy. Coming from Greek words an (without) and archos (ruler), anarchy refers to situations without coercive hierarchy. Looking at and beyond self-proclaimed anarchist movements, we respond to Maia Ramnath's call 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).
a proposed "bolo" (source: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/p-m-bolo-bolo)
Clifford Harper portrays an anarchist commune in Radical Technology
Les chataigniers a Osny (1888) by anarchist painter Camille Pissarro.
ancient San artwork
[3]


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
Waldensians

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

Waldensians

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

Abbey of Thélème

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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