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


A work-in-progress, AnarchyinAction.org will be a resource for anyone to research and write about how and when 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 have collected hundreds of examples of anarchy in practice, many of them from the following works:
[[File:Spreadanarchy.png]]


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[[An Anarchist FAQ]] (excerpt)
[[File:Abolishthepolice.jpg|thumb|[https://www.anarchistagency.com/commentary/this-is-anarchy-eight-ways-the-black-lives-matter-and-justice-for-george-floyd-uprisings-reflect-anarchist-ideas-in-action/]]]


[[Anarchy in Action]] by Colin Ward


[[Anarchy Works]] by Peter Gelderloos
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]]''.


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


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


[[People_Without_Government:_An_Anthropology_of_Anarchy|People Without Government: An Anthropology rf Anarchy]] by Harold Barclay
[[File:Fifthsacredthing.webp|thumb|"Fifth Sacred Thing" by Jessica Perlstein, portraying [[San Francisco (The Fifth Sacred Thing)]].]]


[[The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism]] by Janet Biehl with Murray Bookchin (excerpt)
[[File:Bolobolo.png|thumb|a proposed "bolo" (source: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/p-m-bolo-bolo)]]


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[[File:Clifford-harper-alternative-dream.png|thumb|Clifford Harper portrays an anarchist commune in ''Radical Technology'']]


We sort these examples into four 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. Third, a '''''participatory''''' category includes examples such as ancient Athens where anarchy is extended to many but not to all or even necessarily to most of society. Participatory politics encompasses anti-authoritarianism, which encompasses anarchism. Finally, the '''''autonomous''''' category refers to self-governed communities that shift power relations in a decentralized direction, including examples like the Paris Commune, which fell short of participatory governance.
[[File:Apple Harvest by Camille Pissarro.jpg|thumb|Les chataigniers a Osny (1888) by anarchist painter Camille Pissarro.]]


In addition to the examples of anarchy in action, we created two additional categories, more or less for fun. In a nod to the naturalist Peter Kropotkin who saw cooperative activity as a factor of evolution, we add ''nonhuman anarchy'' to explore power relations in animal and ecological communities. Second, we add the category of ''fictional anarchy'', which would include the planet Annares from Ursula K. LeGuin's novel ''The Dispossessed''.
[[File:Weiße Dame Brandberg.JPG|thumb|ancient [[San]] artwork]]
 
We do not claim to have conclusive evidence that anarchy is possible in all situations. Nor do we deny humans' innate potential for hierarchy and indeed for extreme cruelty. We present this resource 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.
 
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.
 
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[[File:Whoever.jpg|thumb|[https://www.anarchistagency.com/critical-voices/david-damato-what-is-anarchism/]]]




=Societies=
=Societies=


==Anarchist==
''"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>
[[Revolutionary Spain]], 1936-9, 3.2 million people


[[Revolutionary Ukraine]], 1918-1921, 7 million people
''"[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>


[[Shinmin Prefecture]], 1929-1931, 2 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>


==Anti-Authoritarian==
[[Anuak]]


[[Argentinian horizontalidad]]
==Anarchist==


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


[[Kurdish democratic confederalists]]
[[File:Korea001.jpg|thumbnail|[[Shinmin Prefecture]]]]


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


[[Mbuti]]
[[Revolutionary Spain]], 1936-9, 3.2 million people


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


[[Zapatista-run Chiapas]], 1994-present, 120,000-300,000 people
[[Shinmin Prefecture]], 1929-1931, 2 million people


==Participatory==


[[Aboriginal Australians]]
==Anti-Authoritarian==


[[Athenian polis]], 594-431, 404-403 BCE, 40,000 male citizens
[[File:IMG_0497.JPG|thumbnail| [[Zapatista-run Chiapas]]]]


[[Kibbutzim]], 1919-present, 120,000 members
[[File:Rojava_Sewing_Cooperative.jpg|thumbnail|[[Kurdistan democratic confederalists]]]]


[[Landless Workers' Movement]]
[[File:Abahlali baseMjondolo Logo.jpg|thumb|[[Abahlali baseMjondolo]]]]


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


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


New England town meetings
[[File:Keluarga suku Bateq 167.jpg|thumb|[[Batek]]]]


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


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


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


==Autonomous==
[[File:Flag_of_the_Iroquois_Confederacy.svg.png|thumbnail|[[Haudenosaunee]]]]


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


==Unsorted==
[[File:Çayonu.jpg|thumb|[[Cayonu]]]]


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


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


Basque autonomous villages
[[File:Malaipantaram map.gif|thumb|[[Malaipantaram]]]]


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


South American Indians
[[File:Hadza montage.png|thumb| [[Hadza]]]]


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


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


New Guinea indigenous peoples
[[File:Cherán.jpeg|thumb|[[Cherán]]]]


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


Nubian people
[[File:BushmenSan.jpg|thumbnail|[[San]] peoples]]


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


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


Inuit
[[File:Paliyan women.jpg|thumb|[[Paliyan]]]]


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


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


Hill People of Southeast Asia
[[File:Sarvodaya-296x300.png|thumb|[[Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement]]]]


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


Igbo
[[File:Mosuo girls.jpg|thumb|[[Mosuo]]]]


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


La Solana autonomous villages
[[File:GENERAL-Massif 2May2010.jpg|thumb|[[Zomia]]]]


=Movements and Rebellions=
[[File:Panama-Kuna 0605a.jpg|thumb|[[Kuna people]]]]


[[Oaxaca rebellion]]
[[File:Catholic Worker.jpg|thumb|[[Catholic Worker]]]]


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


Building the Syndicalist Unions
[[File:Cherokee beadwork sampler 1840 ohs.jpg|thumb|[[Cherokee]]]]


Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
[[File:Black-sem-detail-1st-war.jpg|thumbnail|[[Seminole people]]]]


Anarchists in the Italian Factory Occupations
[[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]]]]


The May-June Revolt in France, 1968
[[File:Semai man1.jpg|thumb|[[Semai people]]]]


[[Prague Spring]]
[[Abahlali baseMjondolo]], 115,000 members as of 2022
[[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]]


[[Anarchism in the Cuban Revolution]]
[[Andamanese]]


[[Anarchy in the American Revolution]]
[[Anuak]]


[[Sexual revolution]]
[[Argentinian horizontalidad]]


1960 student revolts
[[Batek]]


[[Catholic Worker movement]]
[[Bayaka]]


[[Imazighen]]
[[Çatalhöyük]]


[[Anabaptists]]
[[Catholic Worker]]


[[German Peasants' War]]
[[Cherán]]


[[Alter-globalization movement]]
[[Croatan]]


Parisian urban gardeners
[[El Alto neighborhood councils]], 2000s CE


Cuban agriculture decentralization
[[Cayonu]], 7200 to ca. 4200 BCE


Anti-Shell resistence
[[Cherokee]]


Seattle 1919
[[Southeast Matriarchies|Chickasaw]]


[[Red Cloud's War]]
[[Southeast Matriarchies|Choctaw]]


2007 Lakota declaration of independence
Crianza Mutua (Colombia)


Mohawk road blockade, 1990
Crianza Mutua (Mexico)


Bolivia water protests
[[Cucuteni–Trypillia civilization]], 1 million people, 4800 to 3000 BCE


[[First Intifada]]
[[Diné]]


[[Really Really Free Market]]
[[Early Uruk]], 4000-3200 BCE


[[Grassroots Hurricane Katrina relief]]
[[Early Neolithic Southern Levant]], 10,500 to 6000 BCE


Work democracy
[[Global Ecovillage Network]]


[[Anusilan Samiti]]
[[Hadza]]


[[Haudenosaunee]]


=Communities=
[[Hopi]]


==Anarchist==
[[Indus Valley Civilization]]


Guangzhou commune
[[Inuit]]


==Anti-Autoritarian==
[[Itoiz villages]]


[[Christiania]], 1971-present, 900 people
[[Jenne-jeno]], 250 BCE-1400 CE, 11,000 people


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


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


[[Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp]], 1981-200
[[La Solana villages]]


[[Life and Labor Commune]], 1921-1930, nearly 1,000 people
[[Late Taosi]]


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


==Participatory==
[[Malaipantaram]]


==Autonomous==
[[Mapuche]], 1 million people in sixteenth century


[[Pocasset]]
[[Mbuti]]


[[Paris Commune]]
[[Minangkabau]]


==Unsorted==
[[Minoan Crete]], 3000 BCE-1100 BCE


Alcatraz occupation
[[Southeast Matriarchies|Muscogee]]


Taita Hills
[[Oceti Sakowin]] (Sioux)


Ghana shantytown
[[Nayaka people]]


Minnehaha Free State
[[Niitsitapi]] (Blackfoot)


Mexican ''colonial proletarias''
[[Nishnaabeg]]


Peruvian 'barriadas''
[[Piaroa]]


Tunisian ''gourbivilles''
[[Peiligang culture]], 7000-5000 BCE


Indian ''bus tees''
[[Kurdistan democratic confederalists|Rojava]], 2012-present, 2.5 million people


Turkish ''gecekondu''
[[San]] (including !Kung)


Venezuelan ''ranchos''
[[Santals]]


[[King Hill hostel squat]]
[[Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement]]


[[Semai people]]


=Organizations and Institutions=
[[Seminole people]]


[[Squatters' Protection Society]]
[[Taborite communes]], 15th century


[[Dissent! Network]]
Vikalp Sangam (India)


[[Mondragon]]
[[Wendat]]


Boston Area Liberation Medic Squad
[[Zapatista-run Chiapas]], 1994-present, 120,000-300,000 people


Bay Area Radical Health Collective
[[Zomia]], present, 100 million people


US Modern schools
[[Zuni]]


Albany Free School
==Autonomous==


Quechua Farmers School
[[File:Teotihuacán-5973.JPG|thumb|[[Teotihuacan]]]]


Universidad Transhumante
[[File:Mst conabNove2004.jpg|thumb|[[Landless Workers' Movement]]]]


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


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


Critical Resistance
[[File:Familienleben.jpg|thumb|[[Canela people]]]]


Take Back the Night
[[Aboriginal Australians]]


Philly's Pissed
[[Canela people]]


Philly Stands Up
[[Early Christians]]


No Border Network
[[Early Israelites]]


[[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]]
[[Early Uruk]]


[[Fraternity of the Red Flag]]
[[Highland Madagascar]]


[[Shamrik Mukti Dal]]
[[Igbo]]


[[Libertarian Socialist Institute]]
[[Landless Workers' Movement]]


[[Jugoremedija]]
[[Lugbara]]


[[Freedom Fight]]
[[Mashkan-shapir]]


International Brotherhood
[[Medieval commune]]


International Alliance of Socialist Democracy
[[Palmares]]


International Working Person's Association
[[Parisian sections]]


Anti-Authoritarian International
[[Pequot]]


Spanish Regional Federation (FRE)
[[Sea Peoples]]


Spanish Regional Labour Federation (FTRE)
[[Syrian Revolution|Revolutionary Syria]]


Spanish Regional Anarchist Organisation (OARE)
[[Sami]]


Pact of Union & Solidarity (PUS)
[[Teotihuacan]]


National Confederation of Labor (CNT)
[[File:QumranLivingQuarters.jpg|thumbnail|[[Essenes]]]]


Spanish Regional Workers' Federation (FORE)
[[Castile confederation]]


Cantonalist Revolt of 1873-1874
[[Essenes]], 4,000 people


Proletarian Circle (CP)
[[Paris Commune]], 1871, 2 million people


Grand Circle of Mexican Workers (GCO)
[[Black Reconstruction|South Carolina Commune]]


Regional Federation of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay (FRROU)
[[Maluku archipelago]]


Worker's Federation (FO)
[[Quinnipiac]]


Artisan's Central Council (JCA)
[[Swiss confederal leagues]]


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


Cuban Labour Confederation (CTC)
[[Tiv]]


Central Labor Union (CLU)
[[Tlaxcala (Postclassic)]]


Northern Worker's Union (NWU)
[[Venezuelan communes]]


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


Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
[[File:Pnyx-berg2.png|thumbnail|Pnyx Hill, the meeting place of the ecclesia in the [[Athenian polis]].]]


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


1907 International Anarchist Congress
[[Kibbutzim]], 1919-present, 120,000 members in 2011


1913 Syndicalist Conference in London
[[New England town meetings]]


Insurgent Committee of Revolutionary Partisans
[[Tribal Arabia]]


Industrial Workers' Association (IWA)
[[Tonga people]]


National Labour Secretariat (NAS)


Federation of Freedom-loving Communists (FVC)


General Confederation of Labour (CGT)
==Unsorted==


Anarchist Communist Alliance
[[South American Indians]]


Anarchist Federation
Land Dayaks


Co-ordination of Anarchist Groups
[[La Paz Zapotec]], nearly 2,000 people


Libertarian Communist Organization
Maori


Libertarian Alternative
New Guinea indigenous peoples


Committee for the Defence of Revolutionary Syndicalism (CDSR, member of IWA)
Northwest coast indigenous peoples


1905-1907 Russian Revolt
[[Nubian people]]


Trans-Siberian Railway
Nuer


Anarchist Federation of the Altai (AFA)
Imazighen


Siberian Industrial Workers of the World (IWW-Siberia)
Ifugao


Autonomous Industrial Commune
Dinka people


All-Russian Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists (ARKAS)
=Communities=


Bleikhman's Petrograd Anarchist Communist Federation (PACF)
''"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>


Union of Anarcho-Syndicalist Propaganda (MFAG)
''"Strong communities make police obsolete."'' -police-abolitionist slogan


Black Guards


Industrial Workers of the World-US (IWW-US)
==Anarchist==


Teahouse Labour Union
[[Guangzhou commune]], 1921-1923


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


Confederation of Labour Associations (GLH)
[[File:Faslane.jpg|thumbnail|Police dismantling a blockade of protesters at [[Faslane Peace Camp]].]]


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


Black Societies
[[Christiania]], 1971-present, 900 people


Black Societies
[[Faslane Peace Camp]], 1982-present


Wonsan General Trade Union
[[Free Republic of Wendland]], 1980, 5,000 people


Free Trade Union
[[Diggers|George's Hill (Diggers)]], 1649, 40 people


Argentine Regional Workers' Federation (FORA)
[[Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp]], 1981-200


Argentine Regional Workers' Confederation (CORA)
[[Life and Labor Commune]], 1921-1930, nearly 1,000 people


Argentine Regional Workers' Federation of the 5th Congress (FORA-V)
[[Village Alternatif, Anticapitalist et AntiGuerres]], 2003, thousands of people


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


Argentine Libertarian Alliance (ALA)
Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Commune, 1922-1926


Anarcho-Communist Port-workers' Group (ACAOP)
[[Pocasset]], 200 families


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


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


Brazilian Labour Confederation (COB)
Taita Hills


Chilean Labourers Federation (FTCh)
Ghana shantytown


Industrial Workers of the World- Chile (IWW-Chile)
Minnehaha Free State


Paraguayan Regional Workers' Organisation (FORPa)
Mexican ''colonial proletarias''


Paraguayan Regional Workers' Centre (CORP)
Peruvian 'barriadas''


National Revolutionary Alliance (ANR)
Tunisian ''gourbivilles''


Workers' Trade Union Reorganisation Council (CORS)
Indian ''bus tees''


Havana Labour Federation (FOH)
Turkish ''gecekondu''


Cuban Workers' Confederation (CTC)
Venezuelan ''ranchos''


Cuban National Labour Confederation (CNOC)
[[King Hill hostel squat]]


House of the World Worker (COM)
=Movements and Uprisings=


Mexican Regional Workers' Organization (FORM)
''"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>


General Confederation of Labour (CGT)
''"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>


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


Local Workers' Federation of Lima (FOL)
==Anarchist==


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


Local Workers' Federation (FOL)
[[File:Seattle black bloc.png|thumbnail|[[1999 Seattle WTO shutdown]]]]


Feminine Workers' Federation
[[File:Magon.png|thumbnail|[[Anarchy in the Mexican Revolution]]]]


Bolivian Regional Workers' Confederation
[[File:Logo de la FAI.svg|thumb|[[Informal Anarchist Federation]]]]


Guayas Workers' Regional Federation (FORG)
[[File:Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, Logo.jpg|thumb|[[Conspiracy of Cells of Fire]]]]


Ecuadoran Regional Federation of Labor (FTRE)
[[The Haymarket Martyrs]]


National Confederation of Labour (CNT)
[[Conspiracy of Cells of Fire]]


National Workers' Union (UON)
[[Informal Anarchist Federation]]


(renamed General Confederation of Labour (CGT))
[[Anarchists in the Russian Revolution]]


National Workers' Union (UON)
[[Anarchists in the Italian Factory Occupations]]


General Confederation of Labour (CGT, member of IWA)
[[Revolutionary Spain|Anarchism and the Spanish Revolution]]


Mexican Revolution of 1910
[[Anarchy in the Mexican Revolution|Anarchism in the Mexican Revolution]]


Mexican Industrial Workers of the World (IWW-Mexico)
[[Shinmin_Prefecture|Manchurian Revolution]]


Mexican Liberal Party (PLM)
[[1999 Seattle WTO shutdown]]


Industrial Union of North and South America (UIANS)
Modern schools


Liberation Army of the South (ELS)
[[2008 Greek insurrection]]


National Agrarian Party (PNA)
[[US Galleanists]]


Industrial Syndicalist Education League (ITGWU)
[[1911 Lima-Callao general strike]]


Federation of Anarchist-Communists of Bulgaria (FAKB)
[[1919 Peruvian general strike]]


Vlassovden Confederation
==Anti-Authoritarian==


Anarcho-Syndicalist National Confederation of Labour (ASNKR)
[[File:Interfauna-raid-1990.jpg|thumb|[[Animal Liberation Front]]]]


[[Revolutionary Ukraine|Ukranian Revolution]]
[[File:Metropolitan Indians.jpg|thumbnail|[[Italian Autonomia]]]]


Revolutionary Insurgent Army of the Ukraine (RPAU)
[[File:Warner-creek-EF-96.jpg|thumbnail|[[Cascadia Free State]]]]


Italian Syndicalist Union (USI, member of IWA)
[[File:Jean Froissart, Chroniques, 154v, 12148 btv1b8438605hf336, crop.jpg|thumb|[[English Peasants' Revolt of 1381]]]]


Italian Workers' Party (POI)
[[File:Battle for Palm Tree Hill.jpg|thumbnail|[[Anarchy in the Haitian Revolution]]]]


Revolutionary Anarchist Socialist Party (PSAR)
[[File:Alcatraz Island 01 Prison sign.jpg|thumbnail|[[Alcatraz occupation]]]]


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


Italian Anarchist Union (UAI)
[[File:ANG40InfantryDivisionLosAngelesRiot1992.jpg|thumbnail|National Guard deployed during the [[Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992]]]]


Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD)
[[File:Flag of Koma Komalên Kurdistan.svg|thumbnail|Flag of the [[Kurdistan democratic confederalists|Group of Communities in Kurdistan]]]]


Free Association of German Trade Unions (FvDG)
[[File:"Happi" American Horse direct action against DAPL, August 2016 (cropped).png|thumb|[[Standing Rock Uprising]]]]


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


Federation of Communist Anarchists of German (FKAD)
[[File:TaroAKL.jpg|thumbnail|[[Community taro patches]] run by indigenous and non-indigenous farmers across Hawaii]]


German Workers' Union of Germany (AAUD)
[[File:John Brown by Levin Handy, 1890-1910.jpg|thumbnail|[[John Brown's raids]]]]


General Labour Union--Unity Organisation (AAU-E)
[[File:VD VD200710070509005AR.jpg|thumb|[[Earth Liberation Front]]]]


Federation of Anarchist-communist Groups of Poland and Lithuania (FAGPL)
[[File:Occupy Wall Street Crowd Size 2011 Shankbone.JPG|thumbnail|[[Occupy movement]]]]


East Asian Anarchist Federation (EAAF)
[[File:Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (logo).png|thumbnail|[[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]]]]


American Continental Workingmen's Association (ACAT)
[[File:Routes des châteaux cathares.svg|thumb|[[Cathars]]]]


North African Libertarian Movement (MLNA)
[[File:Earthfirstmonkeywrench.png|thumbnail|[[Earth First!]]]]


Anarchist International Relations Commission (CRIA)
[[File:Margarete Porete, fol. 38.jpg|thumbnail|[[Movement of the Free Spirit]]]]


Continental Commission of Anarchist Relations (CCRA)
[[File:Unist'ot'en camp.jpg|thumbnail|[[Unist'ot'en Camp]]]]


Anarchist Federation of Poland (AFP)
[[File:Wattsriots-burningbuildings-loc.jpg|thumbnail|[[Watts Rebellion]] of 1965]]


General Workers' Federation (GFP)
[[File:Waldenser-Wappen.png|thumb|[[Waldensians]]]]


Union of Trade Unions (ZZZ, member of IWA)
[[US anti-nuclear movement|Abalone Alliance]]


Polish Syndicalist Union (ZSP)
[[Alcatraz occupation]]


Korean Anarchist Federation's Chinese Exile Section (KAF-C)
[[Taborite communes|Adamites]]


Korean Youth Federation in South China (KYFSC)
[[Alter-globalization movement]]


Manchurian Revolution of 1929-31
[[Anarchy in the German Revolution]]


--Shinmin Prefecture (General League of Koreans or HCH)
[[Anarchy in the Russian Revolution]]


Korean Anarchist Federation (KAF)
[[Anarchy in the Haitian Revolution]]


Korean Anarchist Communist Federation (KACF)
[[Animal Liberation Front]]


Korean Anarchist Federation in Manchuria
[[Anti-Shell actions]]


Federation of Free Society Builders (FFSB)
[[Bogomils]]


Korean Revolutionary Federation (KRF)
[[BDS Movement]]


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


--CNT's 1936 Zargosa Congress
[[Cathars]], 11th to 14th centuries


Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
[[Catholic Worker movement]]


Libertarian Youth Federation of Iberia (FIJL)
[[Community taro patches]]


Libertarian Youth (JJLL)
[[US anti-nuclear movement|Clamshell Alliance]]


Durruti Column
[[Earth First!]]


Friends of Durruti (AD)
[[Earth Liberation Front]]


International Revolutionary Syndicalist Federation (FISR)
[[English food riots in eighteenth century]]


National Confederation of Labour (CNT)
[[English Peasants' Revolt of 1381]]


Francophile Anarchist Federation (FAF)
[[German Anti-Fascism]]


Italian Anarchist Communists (FdCAI)
[[Italian Anti-Fascism]]


General Italian Workers' Federation (CGIL)
[[Italian Autonomia]]


Anarchist Federation of Britain
[[John Brown's raids]]


Syndicalist Workers' Federation (SWF)
[[Kurdish democratic confederalists]]


Japanese Anarchist Federation (JAF)
[[Kronstadt rebellion]]


Federation of Free Labour Unions (FFLU)
[[Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992]]


Conference of Labour Unions (CLU)
[[Mapuche|Mapuche Struggle]]


Japanese Anarchist Club (JAC)
[[Movement of the Free Spirit]]


Anarchist Federation
[[Oaxaca rebellion]]


Federation of Libertarian Socialists (FFS)
[[Occupy movement]]


Independent League of Trade Unions (OVB)
[[Oka Crisis]]


General Delegation of the CNT (CNT-DG)
[[Unist'ot'en Camp]]


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


Federation of Anarchist Groups of Cuba (FGAC)
[[US Green movement]]


Cuban Libertarian Alliance (ALC)
[[School of the Tillers]]


General Confederation of Labor (CGT)
[[Sexual revolution]]


Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
[[Standing Rock Uprising]]


International of Anarchist Federations (IAF)
[[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]]


Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
[[Texas KXL blockade]]


North African Libertarian Movement (MLNA)
[[The May-June Revolt in France, 1968]]


Libertarian Communist International (ICL)
[[Waldensians]]


Libertarian Communist Organisation (OCL)
[[Watts Rebellion]]


Libertarian Alternative (AL)
[[Yellow Turban Rebellion]]


Second Escambray Front
[[Zone to Defend (ZAD)]], 2012-present


Student Revolutionary Directorate (DRE)
==Autonomous==


Cuban Confederation (CTC)
[[File:La Vía Campesina logo.png|thumb|[[La Via Campesina]]]]


Anarchists within the 26th of July Movement
[[File:Flag of Edward England.svg|thumbnail|[[Pirate anarchy]]]]


Cuban Libertarina Movement in Exile)
[[File:Nat Turner woodcut.jpg|thumbnail|[[Nat Turner's rebellion]]]]


Swedish Workers' Central Organisation (SAC)
[[File:Luddite.jpg|thumbnail|[[Luddites]]]]


IWW Marine Transport Workers' Industrial Union (MTWIU)
[[File:Mi'kmaq blockade.png|thumbnail|[[2013 Mi'kmaq anti-fracking struggle]]]]


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


General Confederation of Labour (CGT)
[[File:First int.jpg|thumbnail|Woman confronts soldiers during the [[First Intifada]].]]


National Workers' Unity Movement (MUNT)
[[File:Red cloud and other souix.jpg|thumbnail|[[Red Cloud's War]]]]


Chilean Workers' Central (CUT)
[[File:Boston Tea Party Currier colored.jpg|thumbnail|[[American Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


anarchist faction in Movement of hte Revolutionary Left (MIR)
[[File:1917petrogradsoviet assembly.jpg|thumbnail|[[Russian Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


Anarcho-Communist Unification (CUAC) / Libertarian Communist Organisation (OLC)
[[File:Anarchist cuba.png|thumbnail|[[Cuban Revolution and Anarchism]]]]


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


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


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


Federation of the Provincial Proletariat (Shengwulian)
[[1848 revolutions]]


Anarchist Federation
[[1968 revolutions]]


Bolivian Regional Workers' Confederation (CORB)
[[1919 Seattle general strike]]


Feminine Workers' Federation (FOB)
[[2007 Lakota declaration of independence]]


Industrial and Commercial Union of Sourthen Rhodesia (ICU yase Rhodesia)
[[2013 Mi'kmaq anti-fracking struggle]]


Uruguayan Anarchist Federation (FAU)
[[American Revolution and Anarchy]]


Revolutionary Popular Organisation 33 (OPR-33)
[[Anabaptists]]


Worker-Student Resistance (ROE)
[[Barcelona en Comú]]


National Convention of Workers (CNT)
[[Black Reconstruction]]


Autonomous Workers' League (AWL)
[[Bolivia Water War]]


Autonomous Village Movement (AVM)
[[Cuban Revolution and Anarchism]]


Direct Action (AD)
[[First Intifada]]


Libertarian Communist Federation (FCL)
[[French Revolution and Anarchy]]


Thought-Battle Organisation (OPB)
[[German Peasants' War]]


Union of Libertarian Communist Workers (UTCL)
[[Jewish armed anti-Nazi resistance]]


Alternative Libertaire
[[La Via Campesina]]


Anarchist Revolutionary Organisation (ORA)
[[Luddites]]


Proletarian Action Anarchists Groups (GAAP)
[[Mexican Revolution and Anarchy]]


Italian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
[[Nat Turner's rebellion]]


Federation of Communist Anarchists (FdCA)
[[Pirate anarchy]]


1968 revolt
[[Pueblo Revolt]]


Polish Anarchist Federation (FA)
[[Red Cloud's War]]


Movement 2 June (M2J)
[[Seminole people|Seminole Wars]]


Libertarian Resistance (RL)
[[Syrian Revolution]]


Workers' Liberation Group (Shagila)
==Limited==


The Scream of the People (CHK)
[[Karaite Judaism]]


Angry Brigade (AB)
[[Kharijites]]


Direct Action (AD)
[[Mu'tazilites]]


Interior Defense (DI)
==Unsorted==


First of May Group (GPM)
[[Massalians]]


Iberian Liberation Movement (MIL-GAC)
[[Prague Spring]]
 
Groups of International Revolutionary Action (GARI)
[[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]]
 
Anti-capitalist Autonomous Commandos (KAA)
 
Neutralist Tribune
 
Left Opposition (LO)
 
Movement of Revolutionary Communards (MRC)
 
Free General Workers' Union (SMOT)
 
Communist League of Anarchists
 
Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation
 
Anarchist Federation (AF) / Czech and Slovak Anarchist Federation (CSAF)
 
Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)
 
[[Spies for Peace]]
 
 
=Everyday Anarchy=
 
[[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]]
 
[[Dinka people]]
 
[[Human brain]]
 
[[Global postal service]]
 
[[International railways]]
 
[[Swiss city planning]]
 
Mexican ''colonial proletarias''
 
Peruvian 'barriadas''
 
Tunisian ''gourbivilles''
 
Indian ''bus tees''
 
Turkish ''gecekondu''
 
Venezuelan ''ranchos''


Prestolee School
1903 Macedonian revolt


Institueion Libre de Enseiianza
1905–1907 Russian Revolt


Residential College for Students
1910 Mexican revolution


1960 student revolts
1960 student revolts


[[Emdrup playground]]
[[Imazighen]]


Freetown playground
Parisian urban gardeners


[[The Yard]]
Cantonalist Revolt of 1873-1874


Skrammellegeplad playgrounds
=[[Organizations|Organizations]]=


Robinson Crusoe playgrounds
''"[[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>


Brixham fishing cooperative
''"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>


Brora mining cooperative


Standard tractor factory
==[[Organizations#Active|Active Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian]]==


Durham worker-managed mines
==[[Organizations#Historical|Historical Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian]]==


Gheel mental health care
==[[Organizations#Autonomous|Autonomous]]==


Synanon
==[[Organizations#Unsorted|Unsorted]]==


Claimant's Union
=Everyday Anarchy=


Eyes on the street
''''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>


Open Source
''"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>


Wikipedia
''"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>


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




==Anarchist==
==Anti-Authoritarian==


=Examples from [[An Anarchist FAQ]]=
[[Really Really Free Market]]


[[Paris Commune]]
[[Mumbai community dog care]]


The Haymarket Martyrs
==Participatory==


Building the Syndicalist Unions
==Autonomous==


Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
[[Stonehenge Free Festival]], 1972-1985 (one month a year), 30,000 people


Anarchists in the Italian Factory Occupations
[[Woodstock Festival]], 1969, 40,000 people
 
[[Revolutionary Spain|Anarchism and the Spanish Revolution]]
 
The May-June Revolt in France, 1968
 
 
=Examples from [[Anarchy in Action]]=
 
[[Squatters' Protection Society]]
 
[[Woodstock Festival]]


[[Pioneer Health Centre]]
[[Pioneer Health Centre]]
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[[Vienna Psychoanalytic Society's child guidance service]]
[[Vienna Psychoanalytic Society's child guidance service]]
[[Prague Spring]]
[[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]]
[[Anarchism in the Cuban Revolution]]
[[Spanish Revolution]]


[[Horizontal organization in British architecture]]
[[Horizontal organization in British architecture]]
Work democracy
[[Tiv people]]
[[Dinka people]]
[[Human brain]]


[[Global postal service]]
[[Global postal service]]


[[International railways]]
[[International railways]]
Swiss confederation
[[Spies for Peace]]


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


[[Medieval commune]]
[[Emdrup playground]]


[[Anarchy in the American Revolution]]
[[The Yard]]


New England Town Meetings
==Unsorted==


Mexican ''colonial proletarias''
Mexican ''colonial proletarias''
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Venezuelan ''ranchos''
Venezuelan ''ranchos''
[[King Hill hostel squat]]
[[Sexual revolution]]


Prestolee School
Prestolee School
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1960 student revolts
1960 student revolts
[[Emdrup playground]]


Freetown playground
Freetown playground
[[The Yard]]


Skrammellegeplad playgrounds
Skrammellegeplad playgrounds
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Eyes on the street
Eyes on the street


[[Open source]]


=Examples  from [[Anarchy Works]]=
[[Wikipedia]]
 
[[Really Really Free Market]]
 
[[Semai people]]
 
[[Mbuti people]]
 
[[Grassroots Hurricane Katrina relief]]
 
[[FIERCE!]]
 
Providence Plantations
 
[[Pocasset]]
 
Igbo
 
[[Haudennosaunne]]
 
[[Faslane Peace Camp]]
 
[[Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp]]
 
[[Life and Labor Commune]]
 
[[Catholic Worker movement]]
 
[[Imazighen]]
 
[[Anabaptists]]
 
[[German Peasants' War]]
 
[[Alter-globalization movement]]
 
[[Dissent! Network]]
 
[[Hill People of Southeast Asia]]
 
[[Shinmin Prefecture]]
 
[[Spanish Revolution]]
 
[[Landless Workers' Movement]]
 
[[Oaxaca rebellion]]
 
[[Kibbutzim]]
 
[[Nubian people]]
 
[[Hopi people]]
 
Italian factory occupations
 
[[Argentinian horizontalidad]]
 
[[Mondragon]]
 
[[Christiania]]
 
Boston Area Liberation Medic Squad
 
Bay Area Radical Health Collective
 
US Modern schools
 
Albany Free School
 
Quechua Farmers School
 
Universidad Transhumante
 
1969 Alcatraz occupation
 
Bonnot
 
New Guinea highlands
 
Open Source
 
Wikipedia
 
Free Stores
 
Freecycle Network
 
Taita Hills
 
Village Alternatif, Anticapitalist et AntiGuerres
 
Free Republic of Wendland
 
Stonehenge
 
Ghana shantytown
 
El Alto
 
Mjondolo
 
Symphony Way
 
Parisian urban gardeners
 
Cuban agriculture decentralization
 
Maori
 
Global Ecovillage Network
 
-Old Bassaisa
 
-Ecotop
 
-Earthhaven
 
-Tehuantepec
 
Minnehaha Free State
 
Bilston Glen
 
Anti-Shell resistance
 
Tonga
 
Seattle 1919
 
Exarchia
 
Rotuman
 
Wapole inmates
 
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
 
Zapotec
 
[[Inuit]]
 
Navajo
 
Critical Resistance
 
Take Back the Night
 
Philly's Pissed
 
Philly Stands Up
 
[[Revolutionary Ukraine]]
 
[[Red Cloud's War]]
 
2007 Lakota declaration of independence
 
Mohawk road blockade, 1990
 
Bolivia water protests
 
Albania
 
Hamburg 1986-7
 
Copenhagen 1986
 
Can Masdeu
 
Gwangiu
 
Hungarian Revolution
 
[[Zapatista-run Chiapas]]
 
Tsimihety
 
Basque autonomous villages
 
-Lakabe
 
-Aritzkuren
 
-Rala
 
-Uli
 
La Solana autonomous villages
 
Longo Mai
 
Mas de Granier
 
-Transkarpaty
 
Anarchist Black Cross
 
RAWA
 
No Border Network
 
!Kung
 
Whiteway Colony
 
=Examples from [[Cartography of Revolutionary Anarchism]]=
 
==First Wave, 1868-1894==
 
===International===
 
International Brotherhood
 
International Alliance of Socialist Democracy
 
International Working Person's Association
 
Anti-Authoritarian International
 
===Spain===
 
Spanish Regional Federation (FRE)
 
Spanish Regional Labour Federation (FTRE)
 
Spanish Regional Anarchist Organisation (OARE)
 
Pact of Union & Solidarity (PUS)
 
National Confederation of Labor (CNT)
 
Spanish Regional Workers' Federation (FORE)
 
Cantonalist Revolt of 1873-1874
 
===Mexico===
 
Proletarian Circle (CP)
 
Grand Circle of Mexican Workers (GCO)
 
===Uruguay===
 
Regional Federation of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay (FRROU)
 
Worker's Federation (FO)
 
===Cuba===
 
Artisan's Central Council (JCA)
 
Labourer's Circle (CT)
 
Cuban Labour Confederation (CTC)
 
===United States===
 
Central Labor Union (CLU)
 
===Russia===
 
Northern Worker's Union (NWU)
 
 
==Second Wave, 1895-1923==
 
===International===
 
Federation of Labour Exchanges (FBT)
 
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
 
1903 Macedonian Revolt
 
1907 International Anarchist Congress
 
1913 Syndicalist Conference in London
 
Insurgent Committee of Revolutionary Partisans
 
Industrial Workers' Association (IWA)
 
===Netherlands===
 
National Labour Secretariat (NAS)
 
Federation of Freedom-loving Communists (FVC)
 
===France===
 
General Confederation of Labour (CGT)
 
Anarchist Communist Alliance
 
Anarchist Federation
 
Co-ordination of Anarchist Groups
 
Libertarian Communist Organization
 
Libertarian Alternative
 
Committee for the Defence of Revolutionary Syndicalism (CDSR, member of IWA)
 
===Russia===
 
1905-1907 Russian Revolt
 
Trans-Siberian Railway
 
Anarchist Federation of the Altai (AFA)
 
Siberian Industrial Workers of the World (IWW-Siberia)
 
Autonomous Industrial Commune
 
All-Russian Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists (ARKAS)
 
Bleikhman's Petrograd Anarchist Communist Federation (PACF)
 
Union of Anarcho-Syndicalist Propaganda (MFAG)
 
Black Guards
 
===United States===
 
Industrial Workers of the World-US (IWW-US)
 
===China===
 
Teahouse Labour Union
 
Guangzhou commune
 
Confederation of Labour Associations (GLH)
 
Hunan Workers' Association
 
Black Societies
 
===Korea===
 
Black Societies
 
Wonsan General Trade Union
 
Free Trade Union
 
===Argentina===
 
Argentine Regional Workers' Federation (FORA)
 
Argentine Regional Workers' Confederation (CORA)
 
Argentine Regional Workers' Federation of the 5th Congress (FORA-V)
 
Argentine Regional Workers' Federation of the 9th Congress (FORA-IX)
 
Argentine Libertarian Alliance (ALA)
 
Anarcho-Communist Port-workers' Group (ACAOP)
 
Resistance Society of the Port-workers of the Capital (SROPC)
 
===Uruguay===
 
Uruguay Regional Workers' Organisation (FORU)
 
===Brazil===
 
Brazilian Labour Confederation (COB)
 
===Chile===
 
Chilean Labourers Federation (FTCh)
 
Industrial Workers of the World- Chile (IWW-Chile)
 
===Paraguay===
 
Paraguayan Regional Workers' Organisation (FORPa)
 
Paraguayan Regional Workers' Centre (CORP)
 
National Revolutionary Alliance (ANR)
 
Workers' Trade Union Reorganisation Council (CORS)
 
===Cuba===
 
Havana Labour Federation (FOH)
 
Cuban Workers' Confederation (CTC)
 
Cuban National Labour Confederation (CNOC)
 
===Mexico===
 
House of the World Worker (COM)
 
Mexican Regional Workers' Organization (FORM)
 
General Confederation of Labour (CGT)
 
===Peru===
 
Peruvian Regional Workers' Federation (FORPe)
 
Local Workers' Federation of Lima (FOL)
 
===Columbia===
 
Columbian Workers' Federation (FOC)
 
===Bolivia===
 
Local Workers' Federation (FOL)
 
Feminine Workers' Federation
 
Bolivian Regional Workers' Confederation
 
===Ecuador===
 
Guayas Workers' Regional Federation (FORG)
 
Ecuadoran Regional Federation of Labor (FTRE)
 
===Spain===
 
National Confederation of Labour (CNT)
 
National Workers' Union (UON)
 
(renamed General Confederation of Labour (CGT))
 
===Portugal===
 
National Workers' Union (UON)
 
General Confederation of Labour (CGT, member of IWA)
 
===Mexico===
 
Mexican Revolution of 1910
 
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)
 
===Ireland===
 
Industrial Syndicalist Education League (ITGWU)
 
===Bulgaria===
 
Federation of Anarchist-Communists of Bulgaria (FAKB)
 
Vlassovden Confederation
 
Anarcho-Syndicalist National Confederation of Labour (ASNKR)
 
===Ukraine===
 
[[Revolutionary Ukraine|Ukranian Revolution]]
 
Revolutionary Insurgent Army of the Ukraine (RPAU)
 
===Italy===
 
Italian Syndicalist Union (USI, member of IWA)
 
Italian Workers' Party (POI)
 
Revolutionary Anarchist Socialist Party (PSAR)
 
Union of Communist Anarchists (UCAI)
 
Italian Anarchist Union (UAI)
 
 
===Germany===
 
Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD)
 
Free Association of German Trade Unions (FvDG)
 
German Anarchist Federation (AFD)
 
Federation of Communist Anarchists of German (FKAD)
 
German Workers' Union of Germany (AAUD)
 
General Labour Union--Unity Organisation (AAU-E)
 
 
==Third Wave, 1924-1949==
 
===International===
 
Federation of Anarchist-communist Groups of Poland and Lithuania (FAGPL)
 
East Asian Anarchist Federation (EAAF)
 
American Continental Workingmen's Association (ACAT)
 
North African Libertarian Movement (MLNA)
 
Anarchist International Relations Commission (CRIA)
 
Continental Commission of Anarchist Relations (CCRA)
 
===Poland===
 
Anarchist Federation of Poland (AFP)
 
General Workers' Federation (GFP)
 
Union of Trade Unions (ZZZ, member of IWA)
 
Polish Syndicalist Union (ZSP)
 
===Korea, South China, and Manchuria===
Korean Anarchist Federation's Chinese Exile Section (KAF-C)
 
Korean Youth Federation in South China (KYFSC)
 
Manchurian Revolution of 1929-31
 
--Shinmin Prefecture (General League of Koreans or HCH)
 
Korean Anarchist Federation (KAF)
 
Korean Anarchist Communist Federation (KACF)
 
Korean Anarchist Federation in Manchuria
 
Federation of Free Society Builders (FFSB)
 
Korean Revolutionary Federation (KRF)
 
===Spain===
Spanish Revolution
 
--CNT's 1936 Zargosa Congress
 
Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
 
Libertarian Youth Federation of Iberia (FIJL)
 
Libertarian Youth (JJLL)
 
Durruti Column
 
Friends of Durruti (AD)
 
===France===
 
International Revolutionary Syndicalist Federation (FISR)
 
National Confederation of Labour (CNT)
 
Francophile Anarchist Federation (FAF)
 
===Italy===
 
Italian Anarchist Communists (FdCAI)
 
General Italian Workers' Federation (CGIL)
 
===Britain===
 
Anarchist Federation of Britain
 
Syndicalist Workers' Federation (SWF)
 
===Japan===
 
Japanese Anarchist Federation (JAF)
 
Federation of Free Labour Unions (FFLU)
 
Conference of Labour Unions (CLU)
 
Japanese Anarchist Club (JAC)
 
Anarchist Federation
 
===Germany===
 
Federation of Libertarian Socialists (FFS)
 
===Netherlands===
 
Independent League of Trade Unions (OVB)
 
===Mexico===
 
General Delegation of the CNT (CNT-DG)
 
===Venezuela===
 
Venezuelan Regional Workers' Federation (FORV)
 
===Cuba===
Federation of Anarchist Groups of Cuba (FGAC)
 
Cuban Libertarian Alliance (ALC)
 
General Confederation of Labor (CGT)
 
 
==Fourth Wave==
 
===International===
 
Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
 
International of Anarchist Federations (IAF)
 
Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
 
North African Libertarian Movement (MLNA)
 
Libertarian Communist International (ICL)
 
Libertarian Communist Organisation (OCL)
 
Libertarian Alternative (AL)
 
===Cuba===
 
Second Escambray Front
 
Student Revolutionary Directorate (DRE)
 
Cuban Confederation (CTC)
 
Anarchists within the 26th of July Movement
 
Cuban Libertarina Movement in Exile)
 
===Sweden===
 
Swedish Workers' Central Organisation (SAC)
 
IWW Marine Transport Workers' Industrial Union (MTWIU)
 
===Chile===
 
Chilean IWW
 
General Confederation of Labour (CGT)
 
National Workers' Unity Movement (MUNT)
 
Chilean Workers' Central (CUT)
 
anarchist faction in Movement of hte Revolutionary Left (MIR)
 
Anarcho-Communist Unification (CUAC) / Libertarian Communist Organisation (OLC)
 
===Argentina===
 
Ship-building Workers' Federation (FTB)
 
===New Zealand===
 
1951 syndicalist resistance
 
===China===
 
Yunan guerilla campaigns
 
1968 revolt
 
Federation of the Provincial Proletariat (Shengwulian)
 
Anarchist Federation
 
===Bolivia===
 
Bolivian Regional Workers' Confederation (CORB)
 
Feminine Workers' Federation (FOB)
 
===Rhodesia===
 
Industrial and Commercial Union of Sourthen Rhodesia (ICU yase Rhodesia)
 
===Uruguay===
 
Uruguayan Anarchist Federation (FAU)
 
Revolutionary Popular Organisation 33 (OPR-33)
 
Worker-Student Resistance (ROE)
 
National Convention of Workers (CNT)
 
===South Korea===
 
Autonomous Workers' League (AWL)
 
Autonomous Village Movement (AVM)
 
===Czechoslovakia===
 
1968 revolt
 
===France===
 
1968 revolt
 
Direct Action (AD)
 
Libertarian Communist Federation (FCL)
 
Thought-Battle Organisation (OPB)
 
Union of Libertarian Communist Workers (UTCL)
 
Alternative Libertaire
 
Anarchist Revolutionary Organisation (ORA)
 
===Italy===
 
1968 revolt
 
Proletarian Action Anarchists Groups (GAAP)
 
Italian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
 
Federation of Communist Anarchists (FdCA)
 
===Japan===
 
1968 revolt
 
===Mexico===
 
1968 revolt
 
===Pakistan===
 
1968 revolt
 
===Poland===
 
1968 revolt
 
Polish Anarchist Federation (FA)
 
===Yugoslavia===
 
1968 revolt
 
===United States===
 
1968 revolt
 
===Germany===
 
1968 revolt
 
Movement 2 June (M2J)
 
===Senegal===
 
1968 revolt
 
===Argentina===
 
Libertarian Resistance (RL)
 
===Iraq===
 
Workers' Liberation Group (Shagila)
 
===Iran===
 
The Sceam of the People (CHK)
 
===Britain===
 
Angry Brigade (AB)
 
===Canada===


Direct Action (AD)
=Nonhuman Anarchy=


===Spain===
''"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>


Interior Defense (DI)
''"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>


First of May Group (GPM)
''"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>


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


Groups of International Revolutionary Action (GARI)
''"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>


Anti-capitalist Autonomous Commandos (KAA)
''"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>


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


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


===Russia===
[[File:Tursiops truncatus 01.jpg|thumbnail|[[Dolphins]]]]


Left Opposition (LO)
[[File:Crotophaga sulcirostris.jpg|thumbnail|[[Groove-billed ani]]]]


Movement of Revolutionary Communards (MRC)
[[File:Okonjima Lioness.jpg|thumb|[[Lion]]]]


Free General Workers' Union (SMOT)
[[File:Wolf, voor de natuur, Saxifraga - Jan Nijendijk.5097.jpg|thumbnail|[[Gray wolf]]]]


===Ukraine===
[[Acorn woodpecker]]


Communist League of Anarchists
[[Bison]]


===Czechoslovakia===
[[Bonobo]]


Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation
[[Central American squirrel monkey]]


Anarchist Federation (AF) / Czech and Slovak Anarchist Federation (CSAF)
[[Dolphins]]


===South Africa===
[[Domestic cat]]


Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)
[[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]]
[[Chemical clock]]


[[Inuit]]
[[Bénard convection]]


[[Mbuti]]
[[Laser]]


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


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


[[Lugbara]]
[[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]]]]


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


Imazighen
[[Abbey of Thélème]]


Santals
[[Cokaygne]]


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


[[Revolutionary Spain]]
[[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
 
=Other Examples=
 
[[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]]
 
[[Kurdish democratic confederalists]]


[[Anusilan Samiti]]
[[Igbo|Umuofia (''Things Fall Apart'')]]


[[Fraternity of the Red Flag]]


[[Shamrik Mukti Dal]]


[[Libertarian Socialist Institute]]
<references/>
 
[[Jugoremedija]]
 
[[Freedom Fight]]
 
[[First Intifada]]

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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
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Societies

"Once we leave Europe, in fact, we discover that statelessness and the desire for self-government are not eternally receding utopias, but are principles that for millennia have structured communities in every part of the world." -Silvia Federici[2]

"[T]here are also concepts such as anti-authoritarian or egalitarian forms of organizing. Although this differs in degrees from one Indigenous nation to another, it is, overall, a fairly strong part of our traditional culture (with some exceptions)." -Gord Hill[3]

"Egalitarian cities, even regional confederacies, are historically quite commonplace."-David Graeber and David Wengrow[4]


Anarchist

Nestor Makhno with members of the anarchist Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine
Shinmin Prefecture
Collectivized textile factory in Barcelona, Spain. From Sam Dolgoff's The Anarchist Collectives.

Revolutionary Spain, 1936-9, 3.2 million people

Revolutionary Ukraine, 1918-1921, 7 million people

Shinmin Prefecture, 1929-1931, 2 million people


Anti-Authoritarian

Zapatista-run Chiapas
Kurdistan democratic confederalists
Abahlali baseMjondolo
Bayaka
Andamanese
Batek
Çatalhöyük
Niitsitapi
Mbuti
Haudenosaunee
Wendat
Cayonu
El Alto neighborhood councils
Cucuteni–Trypillia civilization
Malaipantaram
Croatan
Hadza
Minoan Crete
Indus Valley Civilization
Cherán
Jenne-jeno
San peoples
Oceti Sakowin (Sioux)
Hopi
Paliyan
Peiligang culture
Minangkabau
Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement
Taborite communes
Mosuo
Nishnaabeg
Zomia
Kuna people
Catholic Worker
Early Uruk
Cherokee
Seminole people
Zuni
Semai people

Abahlali baseMjondolo, 115,000 members as of 2022

Andamanese

Anuak

Argentinian horizontalidad

Batek

Bayaka

Çatalhöyük

Catholic Worker

Cherán

Croatan

El Alto neighborhood councils, 2000s CE

Cayonu, 7200 to ca. 4200 BCE

Cherokee

Chickasaw

Choctaw

Crianza Mutua (Colombia)

Crianza Mutua (Mexico)

Cucuteni–Trypillia civilization, 1 million people, 4800 to 3000 BCE

Diné

Early Uruk, 4000-3200 BCE

Early Neolithic Southern Levant, 10,500 to 6000 BCE

Global Ecovillage Network

Hadza

Haudenosaunee

Hopi

Indus Valley Civilization

Inuit

Itoiz villages

Jenne-jeno, 250 BCE-1400 CE, 11,000 people

Konkomba

Kuna people

La Solana villages

Late Taosi

Longo Maï

Malaipantaram

Mapuche, 1 million people in sixteenth century

Mbuti

Minangkabau

Minoan Crete, 3000 BCE-1100 BCE

Muscogee

Oceti Sakowin (Sioux)

Nayaka people

Niitsitapi (Blackfoot)

Nishnaabeg

Piaroa

Peiligang culture, 7000-5000 BCE

Rojava, 2012-present, 2.5 million people

San (including !Kung)

Santals

Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement

Semai people

Seminole people

Taborite communes, 15th century

Vikalp Sangam (India)

Wendat

Zapatista-run Chiapas, 1994-present, 120,000-300,000 people

Zomia, present, 100 million people

Zuni

Autonomous

Teotihuacan
Landless Workers' Movement
Early Israelites
Medieval commune
Canela people

Aboriginal Australians

Canela people

Early Christians

Early Israelites

Early Uruk

Highland Madagascar

Igbo

Landless Workers' Movement

Lugbara

Mashkan-shapir

Medieval commune

Palmares

Parisian sections

Pequot

Sea Peoples

Revolutionary Syria

Sami

Teotihuacan

Essenes

Castile confederation

Essenes, 4,000 people

Paris Commune, 1871, 2 million people

South Carolina Commune

Maluku archipelago

Quinnipiac

Swiss confederal leagues

Therapeutae

Tiv

Tlaxcala (Postclassic)

Venezuelan communes

Limited

Pnyx Hill, the meeting place of the ecclesia in the Athenian polis.

Athenian polis, 594-431, 404-403 BCE, 40,000 male citizens

Kibbutzim, 1919-present, 120,000 members in 2011

New England town meetings

Tribal Arabia

Tonga people


Unsorted

South American Indians

Land Dayaks

La Paz Zapotec, nearly 2,000 people

Maori

New Guinea indigenous peoples

Northwest coast indigenous peoples

Nubian people

Nuer

Imazighen

Ifugao

Dinka people

Communities

"The primary aspiration of all history is a genuine community of human beings -- genuine because it is community all through." - Martin Buber[5]

"Strong communities make police obsolete." -police-abolitionist slogan


Anarchist

Guangzhou commune, 1921-1923

Anti-Autoritarian

Entrance to Christiania
Police dismantling a blockade of protesters at Faslane Peace Camp.
Woodcut from a Diggers document by William Everard

Christiania, 1971-present, 900 people

Faslane Peace Camp, 1982-present

Free Republic of Wendland, 1980, 5,000 people

George's Hill (Diggers), 1649, 40 people

Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, 1981-200

Life and Labor Commune, 1921-1930, nearly 1,000 people

Village Alternatif, Anticapitalist et AntiGuerres, 2003, thousands of people

Autonomous

Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Commune, 1922-1926

Pocasset, 200 families

Huehuecoyotl

Unsorted

Taita Hills

Ghana shantytown

Minnehaha Free State

Mexican colonial proletarias

Peruvian 'barriadas

Tunisian gourbivilles

Indian bus tees

Turkish gecekondu

Venezuelan ranchos

King Hill hostel squat

Movements and Uprisings

"If we had surrendered, if we had sold ourselves, we would no longer have been poor, but others would have continued to be so." -Subcomandante Marcos[6]

"People have done horizontal, or non-hierarchical, organization all their lives. It is already there in my culture and the way Palestinian activism has worked." -Beesan Ramadan[7]

"We take inspiration from the Luddites, Levellers, Diggers, the Autonome squatter movement, ALF, the Zapatistas, and the little people -- those mischievous elves of lore." -Earth Liberation Front[8]

Anarchist

Chicago anarchists advanced the cause of the 8-hour day and started May Day. See The Haymarket Martyrs.
1999 Seattle WTO shutdown
Anarchy in the Mexican Revolution
Informal Anarchist Federation
Conspiracy of Cells of Fire

The Haymarket Martyrs

Conspiracy of Cells of Fire

Informal Anarchist Federation

Anarchists in the Russian Revolution

Anarchists in the Italian Factory Occupations

Anarchism and the Spanish Revolution

Anarchism in the Mexican Revolution

Manchurian Revolution

1999 Seattle WTO shutdown

Modern schools

2008 Greek insurrection

US Galleanists

1911 Lima-Callao general strike

1919 Peruvian general strike

Anti-Authoritarian

Animal Liberation Front
Italian Autonomia
Cascadia Free State
English Peasants' Revolt of 1381
Anarchy in the Haitian Revolution
Alcatraz occupation
BDS Movement
National Guard deployed during the Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992
Flag of the Group of Communities in Kurdistan
Standing Rock Uprising
Bogomils
Community taro patches run by indigenous and non-indigenous farmers across Hawaii
John Brown's raids
Earth Liberation Front
Occupy movement
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty
Cathars
Earth First!
Movement of the Free Spirit
Unist'ot'en Camp
Watts Rebellion of 1965
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/.
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  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/.
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  11. ↑ bell hooks, "How Do You Practice Intersectionalism?", The Anarchist Library, https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/randy-lowens-how-do-you-practice-intersectionalism.
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