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


[[File:Types of anarchy.png|thumbnail|Types of anarchy. '''''Anarchism''''' refers to a political theory and practice that arose in the 19th century, aimed at abolishing coercive hierarchy. '''''Anti-authoritarianism''''' (also known as libertarianism, libertarian socialism, or small-a anarchism) refers to a broader category of politics including Anarchists but also groups such as the Wobblies and Zapatistas that eliminate coercive hierarchy in their practice and in the world they're trying to build. None of the Anarchist or anti-authoritarian experiments in our study have fully succeeded in abolishing coercive hierarchy; what makes them anti-authoritarian according to our definition is their ''attempt'' to extend anarchy to everyone, through horizontal means. Third, a '''''participatory''''' category includes examples such as the classical Athenian polis where anarchy is extended to many but not to all or even necessarily to most of society. Participatory politics encompasses anti-authoritarianism, which encompasses Anarchism. Finally, the '''''autonomous''''' category refers to self-governed entities that have liberatory features but fall short of fully participatory decision-making, such as the Paris Commune. For further elaboration, please see the [[Definitions]] page.]]
[[File:Spreadanarchy.png]]


AnarchyinAction.org is a resource for anyone to research and write about how and when anarchy can work. '''''Anarchy''''', coming from the Greek words ''an'' (without) and ''archos'' (ruler) refers to a situation without domination, without coercive hierarchy. We have collected hundreds of examples of anarchy in practice and sorted them by their scale and focus. By looking for anarchy beyond "big-A" Anarchist projects (although we're interested in those too!), we respond to Maia Ramnath's call in ''Decolonizing Anarchism'' to "locate the Western anarchist tradition as one contextually specific manifestation among a larger-indeed global-tradition of antiauthoritarian, egal­itarian thought/praxis".<ref>Maia Ramnath, ''Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle'' (AK Press, 2011), 6.
</ref> We take our name from Colin Ward's 1973 book ''[[Anarchy in Action]]''.


AnarchyinAction.org is a project of [http://www.capitalismvsclimate.org Dragonfly Climate Collective] and of our friends at [https://getlibre.org/ Get Libre] and elsewhere. If you would like to get involved, please email dfischer@riseup.net. For instructions on how to write for and edit this wiki, please see our [[Editing Guide]].
[[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/]]]
 
 
AnarchyinAction.org is a resource for anyone to research and write about how and when anarchy can work. '''''Anarchy''''', coming from the Greek words ''an'' (without) and ''archos'' (ruler) refers to a situation without domination, without coercive hierarchy. Here are many examples of anarchy in practice. By looking for anarchy well beyond the self-proclaimed anarchist movements (although we're interested in those too!), we respond, for example, to Maia Ramnath's call in ''Decolonizing Anarchism'' to "locate the Western anarchist tradition as one contextually specific manifestation among a larger-indeed global-tradition of antiauthoritarian, egal­itarian thought/praxis".<ref>Maia Ramnath, ''Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle'' (AK Press, 2011), 6.</ref> We take our name from Colin Ward's 1973 book ''[[Anarchy in Action]]''.


This wiki is done entirely by volunteers, and we encourage you to check our work and help us to constantly improve it. If you see misinformation, please contact us right away so that we can either fix it or assist you in setting up an account so you can edit the page directly. See the [[About]] page for more information. Additionally, if you are a member of an organization or another group described on this website, please feel free to send us information on current campaigns, and we will include it so that our readers will know how to get involved or participate in solidarity efforts.
This wiki is done entirely by volunteers, and we encourage you to check our work and help us to constantly improve it. If you see misinformation, please contact us right away so that we can either fix it or assist you in setting up an account so you can edit the page directly. See the [[About]] page for more information. Additionally, if you are a member of an organization or another group described on this website, please feel free to send us information on current campaigns, and we will include it so that our readers will know how to get involved or participate in solidarity efforts.
[[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: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=
=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 ed. Barry Maxwell and Raymond Crib, ''No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms'' (Oakland: PM Press, 2015), 350-351.</ref>
''"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>


''"Living without a state remains not a socio-historical anomaly but the standard human condition."'' -Andrej Grubačić<ref>Andrej Grubacic, "Exit and Territory" in Alexander Reid Ross, ''Grabbing Back: Essays Against the Global Land Grab'' (Oakland, AK Press, 2014), 160.</ref>
''"[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>


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


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


[[Revolutionary Spain]], 1936-9, 3.2 million people
[[Revolutionary Spain]], 1936-9, 3.2 million people
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[[File:Rojava_Sewing_Cooperative.jpg|thumbnail|[[Kurdistan democratic confederalists]]]]
[[File:Rojava_Sewing_Cooperative.jpg|thumbnail|[[Kurdistan democratic confederalists]]]]


[[File:Mbuti woman with mushrooms1.jpg|thumbnail|[[Mbuti]]]]
[[File:Abahlali baseMjondolo Logo.jpg|thumb|[[Abahlali baseMjondolo]]]]


[[File:Atotarhoreceivingtwomohawkchieftains.png|thumbnail|[[Haudennosaunne]]]]
[[File:Baka dancers June 2006.jpg|thumb|[[Bayaka]]]]


[[File:Çatalhöyük with surroundings..jpg|thumbnail| [[Catal Huyuk]]]]
[[File:Great Andamanese - two men - 1875.jpg|thumbnail|[[Andamanese]]]]


[[File:BushmenSan.jpg|thumbnail|[[San]] peoples]]
[[File:Keluarga suku Bateq 167.jpg|thumb|[[Batek]]]]


[[File:1280px-Oraibi1.jpg|thumbnail|[[Hopi]]]]
[[File:MUFT - Catal Höyük Modell.jpg|thumb|[[Çatalhöyük]]]]


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


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


[[El Alto]], 1 million people
[[File:Flag_of_the_Iroquois_Confederacy.svg.png|thumbnail|[[Haudenosaunee]]]]


[[Catal Huyuk]], 7500 to 5700 BCE, 6,000-10,000 people
[[File:Iroquoian Village, Ontario, Canada36.JPG|thumb|[[Wendat]]]]


[[Global Ecovillage Network]]
[[File:Çayonu.jpg|thumb|[[Cayonu]]]]


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


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


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


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


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


[[La Solana villages]]
[[File:Knossos - North Portico 02.jpg|thumb|[[Minoan Crete]]]]


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


[[Mapuche]], 1 million people in sixteenth century
[[File:Cherán.jpeg|thumb|[[Cherán]]]]


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


[[Minoan Crete]], 3000 BCE to 1100 BCE
[[File:BushmenSan.jpg|thumbnail|[[San]] peoples]]


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


[[Kurdistan democratic confederalists|Rojava]], 2012-present, 2.5 million people
[[File:1280px-Oraibi1.jpg|thumbnail|[[Hopi]]]]


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


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


[[Zapatista-run Chiapas]], 1994-present, 120,000-300,000 people
[[File:Talempong - Sumatra Barat.jpg|thumb|[[Minangkabau]]]]


[[Zomia]], present, 100 million people
[[File:Sarvodaya-296x300.png|thumb|[[Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement]]]]


==Participatory==
[[File:Taborites.png|thumbnail|[[Taborite communes]]]]


[[File:Black-sem-detail-1st-war.jpg|thumbnail|[[African-Seminole alliance]]]]
[[File:Mosuo girls.jpg|thumb|[[Mosuo]]]]


[[File:Pnyx-berg2.png|thumbnail|Pnyx Hill, the meeting place of the ecclesia in the [[Athenian polis]].]]
[[File:Anishinaabe-Anishinini Distribution Map.svg|thumb| [[Nishnaabeg]] ]]


[[File:280px-San Gimignano (1).jpg|thumbnail|[[Medieval commune]]]]
[[File:GENERAL-Massif 2May2010.jpg|thumb|[[Zomia]]]]


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


[[African-Seminole alliance]]
[[File:Catholic Worker.jpg|thumb|[[Catholic Worker]]]]


[[Athenian polis]], 594-431, 404-403 BCE, 40,000 male citizens
[[File:Myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria (1916) (14801964123).jpg|thumb|
[[Early Uruk]]]]


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


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


[[Highland Madagascar]]
[[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]]]]


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


[[Kibbutzim]], 1919-present, 120,000 members in 2011
[[Abahlali baseMjondolo]], 115,000 members as of 2022


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


[[Lugbara]]
[[Anuak]]


[[Medieval commune]]
[[Argentinian horizontalidad]]


[[New England town meetings]]
[[Batek]]


[[Parisian sections]]
[[Bayaka]]


[[Pequot]]
[[Çatalhöyük]]


[[Plateau Tonga]]
[[Catholic Worker]]


[[Sami]]
[[Cherán]]


==Autonomous==
[[Croatan]]


[[Castile confederation]]
[[El Alto neighborhood councils]], 2000s CE


[[Essenes]], 4,000 people
[[Cayonu]], 7200 to ca. 4200 BCE


[[Paris Commune]], 1871, 2 million people
[[Cherokee]]


[[Black Reconstruction|South Carolina Commune]]
[[Southeast Matriarchies|Chickasaw]]


[[Quinnipiac]]
[[Southeast Matriarchies|Choctaw]]


[[Swiss confederal leagues]]
Crianza Mutua (Colombia)


[[Tiv]]
Crianza Mutua (Mexico)


[[Tribal Arabia]]
[[Cucuteni–Trypillia civilization]], 1 million people, 4800 to 3000 BCE


==Unsorted==
[[Diné]]


[[South American Indians]]
[[Early Uruk]], 4000-3200 BCE


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


[[La Paz Zapotec]], nearly 2,000 people
[[Global Ecovillage Network]]


Maori
[[Hadza]]


New Guinea indigenous peoples
[[Haudenosaunee]]


Northwest coast indigenous peoples
[[Hopi]]


Nubian people
[[Indus Valley Civilization]]


Nuer
[[Inuit]]


Imazighen
[[Itoiz villages]]


Ifugao
[[Jenne-jeno]], 250 BCE-1400 CE, 11,000 people


Dinka people
[[Konkomba]]


=Communities=
[[Kuna people]]


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


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


==Anarchist==
[[Longo Maï]]


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


==Anti-Autoritarian==
[[Mapuche]], 1 million people in sixteenth century
[[File:Entrée de Christiania.jpg|thumbnail|Entrance to [[Christiania]]]]


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


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


[[Christiania]], 1971-present, 900 people
[[Minoan Crete]], 3000 BCE-1100 BCE


[[Faslane Peace Camp]], 1982-present
[[Southeast Matriarchies|Muscogee]]


[[Free Republic of Wendland]], 1980, 5,000 people
[[Oceti Sakowin]] (Sioux)


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


[[Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp]], 1981-200
[[Niitsitapi]] (Blackfoot)


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


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


==Participatory==
[[Peiligang culture]], 7000-5000 BCE


==Autonomous==
[[Kurdistan democratic confederalists|Rojava]], 2012-present, 2.5 million people


Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Commune, 1922-1926
[[San]] (including !Kung)


[[Pocasset]]
[[Santals]]


[[Huehuecoyotl]]
[[Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement]]


==Unsorted==
[[Semai people]]


Alcatraz occupation
[[Seminole people]]


Taita Hills
[[Taborite communes]], 15th century


Ghana shantytown
Vikalp Sangam (India)


Minnehaha Free State
[[Wendat]]


Mexican ''colonial proletarias''
[[Zapatista-run Chiapas]], 1994-present, 120,000-300,000 people


Peruvian 'barriadas''
[[Zomia]], present, 100 million people


Tunisian ''gourbivilles''
[[Zuni]]


Indian ''bus tees''
==Autonomous==


Turkish ''gecekondu''
[[File:Teotihuacán-5973.JPG|thumb|[[Teotihuacan]]]]


Venezuelan ''ranchos''
[[File:Mst conabNove2004.jpg|thumb|[[Landless Workers' Movement]]]]


[[King Hill hostel squat]]
[[File:024.Jacob Wrestles with the Angel.jpg|thumb|[[Early Israelites]]]]


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


''"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>
[[File:Familienleben.jpg|thumb|[[Canela people]]]]


''"People have done horizontal, or non-hierarchical, organization all their lives. It is already there in my culture and the way Palestinian activism has worked. During the [[First Intifada]], for instance, when someone's home was demolished, people would organize to rebuild it, almost spontaneously. As a Palestinian anarchist I look forward to going back to the roots of the First Intifada. It did not come from a political decision. It came against the will of the PLO."'' -Beesan Ramadan<ref>Joshua Stephens, “Palestinian Anarchists in Conversation: Recalibrating anarchism in a colonized country,” ''Institute for Anarchist Studies'', 19 July 2013, http://anarchiststudies.org/2013/07/19/palestinian-anarchists-in-conversation-recalibrating-anarchism-in-a-colonized-country/.</ref>
[[Aboriginal Australians]]


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


[[The Haymarket Martyrs]]
[[Early Christians]]


Building the Syndicalist Unions
[[Early Israelites]]


[[Anarchists in the Russian Revolution]]
[[Early Uruk]]


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


[[Revolutionary Spain|Anarchism and the Spanish Revolution]]
[[Igbo]]


[[Anarchism in the Cuban Revolution]]
[[Landless Workers' Movement]]


[[Anarchy in the Mexican Revolution]]
[[Lugbara]]


[[Shinmin_Prefecture|Manchurian Revolution]]
[[Mashkan-shapir]]


Modern schools
[[Medieval commune]]


[[2008 Greek insurrection]]
[[Palmares]]


[[US Galleanists]]
[[Parisian sections]]


[[1911 Lima-Callao general strike]]
[[Pequot]]


[[1919 Peruvian general strike]]
[[Sea Peoples]]


==Anti-Authoritarian==
[[Syrian Revolution|Revolutionary Syria]]


[[File:Warner-creek-EF-96.jpg|thumbnail|[[Cascadia Free State]]]]
[[Sami]]


[[File:ANG40InfantryDivisionLosAngelesRiot1992.jpg|thumbnail|National Guard deployed during the [[Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992]]]]
[[Teotihuacan]]


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


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


[[File:John Brown by Levin Handy, 1890-1910.jpg|thumbnail|[[John Brown's raids]]]]
[[Essenes]], 4,000 people


[[File:Naelfpoletterhead.jpg|thumbnail|[[Earth Liberation Front]]]]
[[Paris Commune]], 1871, 2 million people


[[File:Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (logo).png|thumbnail|[[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]]]]
[[Black Reconstruction|South Carolina Commune]]


[[File:Earthfirstmonkeywrench.png|thumbnail|[[Earth First!]]]]
[[Maluku archipelago]]


[[File:Unist'ot'en camp.jpg|thumbnail|[[Unist'ot'en Camp]]]]
[[Quinnipiac]]


[[US anti-nuclear movement|Abalone Alliance]]
[[Swiss confederal leagues]]


[[Alter-globalization movement]]
[[Therapeutae]]


[[Anarchy in the Russian Revolution]]
[[Tiv]]


[[Animal Liberation Front]]
[[Tlaxcala (Postclassic)]]


[[Anti-Shell actions]]
[[Venezuelan communes]]


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


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


[[Community taro patches]]
[[Athenian polis]], 594-431, 404-403 BCE, 40,000 male citizens


[[US anti-nuclear movement|Clamshell Alliance]]
[[Kibbutzim]], 1919-present, 120,000 members in 2011


[[Earth First!]]
[[New England town meetings]]


[[Earth Liberation Front]]
[[Tribal Arabia]]
 
[[Italian Autonomia]]
 
[[John Brown's raids]]
 
[[Kurdish democratic confederalists]]
 
[[Kronstadt rebellion]]
 
[[Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992]]
 
[[Mapuche|Mapuche Struggle]]
 
[[Unist'ot'en Camp]]
 
[[US anti-nuclear movement]]
 
[[US Green movement]]
 
[[Sexual revolution]]
 
[[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]]
 
[[The May-June Revolt in France, 1968]]
 
[[Zone to Defend (ZAD)]], 2012-present
 
==Participatory==
 
[[School of the Tillers]]
 
==Autonomous==
 
[[File:Seattle General Strike.jpg|thumbnail|[[1919 Seattle general strike]]]]
 
[[File:First int.jpg|thumbnail|Woman confronts soldiers during the [[First Intifada]].]]
 
[[File:Red cloud and other souix.jpg|thumbnail|[[Red Cloud's War]]]]
 
[[1919 Seattle general strike]]
 
2007 Lakota declaration of independence
 
[[Anabaptists]]
 
[[Anarchy in the American Revolution]]
 
[[Anarchy in the French Revolution]]


[[Black Reconstruction]]
[[Tonga people]]


[[Bolivia Water War]]


[[First Intifada]]
[[German Peasants' War]]
Nat Turner's slave rebellion
[[Pirate anarchy]]
[[Pueblo Revolt]]
[[Red Cloud's War]]
[[Syrian Revolution]]


==Unsorted==
==Unsorted==


[[Oaxaca rebellion]]
[[South American Indians]]


[[Prague Spring]]
Land Dayaks
[[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]]


1903 Macedonian revolt
[[La Paz Zapotec]], nearly 2,000 people


1905–1907 Russian Revolt
Maori


1910 Mexican revolution
New Guinea indigenous peoples


1960 student revolts
Northwest coast indigenous peoples


[[Imazighen]]
[[Nubian people]]


Parisian urban gardeners
Nuer


Cantonalist Revolt of 1873-1874
Imazighen


Mohawk road blockade, 1990
Ifugao


Work democracy
Dinka people


=Organizations=
=Communities=


''"[[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>
''"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>


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




==Anarchist==
==Anarchist==


[[File:Iwafooter.png|thumbnail|[[International Workers' Association]]]]
[[Guangzhou commune]], 1921-1923


[[File:Woman with cnt-fai flag.jpg|thumbnail]]
==Anti-Autoritarian==
[[File:Entrée de Christiania.jpg|thumbnail|Entrance to [[Christiania]]]]


[[File:Lala Har Dayal Young.jpg|thumbnail|Har Dayal, founder of [[Fraternity of the Red Flag]]]]
[[File:Faslane.jpg|thumbnail|Police dismantling a blockade of protesters at [[Faslane Peace Camp]].]]


[[File:Wall st is war st.jpg|thumbnail|[[Black Mask]]/Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers]]
[[File:Levellers declaration and standard.gif|thumbnail| Woodcut from a [[Diggers]] document by William Everard]]


[[Anti-Authoritarian International]] ("Black International")
[[Christiania]], 1971-present, 900 people


[[Black Mask]]/ Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers
[[Faslane Peace Camp]], 1982-present


[[Burlington Greens]]
[[Free Republic of Wendland]], 1980, 5,000 people


[[Fraternity of the Red Flag]]
[[Diggers|George's Hill (Diggers)]], 1649, 40 people


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


[[Free Popular University (Egypt)]]
[[Life and Labor Commune]], 1921-1930, nearly 1,000 people


[[Guangzhou commune|Teahouse Labour Union]], 11,000 members in 1918
[[Village Alternatif, Anticapitalist et AntiGuerres]], 2003, thousands of people


[[Guangzhou_commune|Crock-Cow Society]]
==Autonomous==


[[International Workers' Association]] (IWA)
Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Commune, 1922-1926


[[International Working Men’s Association]] (IWMA)
[[Pocasset]], 200 families


[[Jugoremedija]]
[[Huehuecoyotl]]


[[Shinmin_Prefecture|Korean Anarchist Communist Federation]] (KACF)
==Unsorted==


[[Shinmin_Prefecture|Korean Anarchist Federation in Manchuria]] (KAF-M)
Taita Hills


[[Mujeres Creando]]
Ghana shantytown


National Confederation of Labor (CNT), 2 million members in 1936
Minnehaha Free State


[[US Green movement|Left Green Network]]
Mexican ''colonial proletarias''


[[US Green movement|Youth Greens]]
Peruvian 'barriadas''


Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
Tunisian ''gourbivilles''


Spanish Regional Federation (FRE), 60,000 members in 1873
Indian ''bus tees''


Chilean Labourers Federation (FTCh), 60,000 members in 1921
Turkish ''gecekondu''


Revolutionary Insurgent Army of the Ukraine (RPAU), 110,000 members
Venezuelan ''ranchos''


All-Russian Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists (ARKAS), 88,000 members
[[King Hill hostel squat]]


Italian Anarchist Union (UAI), 20,000 members
=Movements and Uprisings=


General Confederation of Labor (CGT) (Spain), 60,000 members in 2010s
''"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>


National Confederation of Labor--France (CNT-F)
''"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>


Swedish Central Workers' Organisation (SAC), 10,000 members in 1990s
''"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>


Argentine Regional Workers' Federation of the 5th Congress (FORA-V), 200,000 members in 1919
==Anarchist==


House of the World Worker (COM), 50,000 members in 1910s
[[File:ChicagoAnarchists.jpg|thumbnail|Chicago anarchists advanced the cause of the 8-hour day and started May Day. See [[The Haymarket Martyrs]].]]


Bleikhman's Petrograd Anarchist Communist Federation (PACF)
[[File:Seattle black bloc.png|thumbnail|[[1999 Seattle WTO shutdown]]]]


Union of Anarcho-Syndicalist Propaganda (MFAG)
[[File:Magon.png|thumbnail|[[Anarchy in the Mexican Revolution]]]]


Moscow Federation of Anarchist Groups
[[File:Logo de la FAI.svg|thumb|[[Informal Anarchist Federation]]]]


Black Guards, 1,000 members
[[File:Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, Logo.jpg|thumb|[[Conspiracy of Cells of Fire]]]]


Federation of Anarchist-Communists of Bulgaria (FAKB)
[[The Haymarket Martyrs]]


Autonomous Action (AD)
[[Conspiracy of Cells of Fire]]


Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists (KAS)
[[Informal Anarchist Federation]]


Confederation of Revolutionary Anarcho-Syndicalists (KRAS)
[[Anarchists in the Russian Revolution]]


Revolutionary Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists, Nestor Makhno (RKAS-NM), 2,000 members
[[Anarchists in the Italian Factory Occupations]]


Indigenous Popular Council of Oaxaca--Ricardo Flores Magnón (CIPO-RFM)
[[Revolutionary Spain|Anarchism and the Spanish Revolution]]


Magónista-Zapatista Alliance (AMZ)
[[Anarchy in the Mexican Revolution|Anarchism in the Mexican Revolution]]


Anarchist Workers' and Students' Group (ASWG)
[[Shinmin_Prefecture|Manchurian Revolution]]


Awareness League (AL)
[[1999 Seattle WTO shutdown]]


Anarchist Resistance Movement (ARM)
Modern schools


Durban Anarchist Federation (DAF)
[[2008 Greek insurrection]]


Zabala Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF)
[[US Galleanists]]


North-Eastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists (NEFAC)
[[1911 Lima-Callao general strike]]


Common Struggle Libertarian Communist Federation
[[1919 Peruvian general strike]]


Common Cause
==Anti-Authoritarian==


Libertarian Communist Union
[[File:Interfauna-raid-1990.jpg|thumb|[[Animal Liberation Front]]]]


Siberian Confederation of Labor (SKT)
[[File:Metropolitan Indians.jpg|thumbnail|[[Italian Autonomia]]]]


Anarkismo.net
[[File:Warner-creek-EF-96.jpg|thumbnail|[[Cascadia Free State]]]]


Workers' Solidarity Movement (WSM)
[[File:Jean Froissart, Chroniques, 154v, 12148 btv1b8438605hf336, crop.jpg|thumb|[[English Peasants' Revolt of 1381]]]]


Libertarian Socialist Movement (LSM)
[[File:Battle for Palm Tree Hill.jpg|thumbnail|[[Anarchy in the Haitian Revolution]]]]


Libertarian Alternative (AL)
[[File:Alcatraz Island 01 Prison sign.jpg|thumbnail|[[Alcatraz occupation]]]]


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


International Alliance of Socialist Democracy
[[File:ANG40InfantryDivisionLosAngelesRiot1992.jpg|thumbnail|National Guard deployed during the [[Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992]]]]


Anarchist organizations within the International Working Person's Association
[[File:Flag of Koma Komalên Kurdistan.svg|thumbnail|Flag of the [[Kurdistan democratic confederalists|Group of Communities in Kurdistan]]]]


Anarchist Federation of the Altai (AFA)
[[File:"Happi" American Horse direct action against DAPL, August 2016 (cropped).png|thumb|[[Standing Rock Uprising]]]]


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


Revolutionary Anarchist Socialist Party (PSAR)
[[File:TaroAKL.jpg|thumbnail|[[Community taro patches]] run by indigenous and non-indigenous farmers across Hawaii]]


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


East Asian Anarchist Federation (EAAF)
[[File:VD VD200710070509005AR.jpg|thumb|[[Earth Liberation Front]]]]


Anarchist International Relations Commission (CRIA)
[[File:Occupy Wall Street Crowd Size 2011 Shankbone.JPG|thumbnail|[[Occupy movement]]]]


Continental Commission of Anarchist Relations (CCRA)
[[File:Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (logo).png|thumbnail|[[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]]]]


Korean Anarchist Federation's Chinese Exile Section (KAF-C)
[[File:Routes des châteaux cathares.svg|thumb|[[Cathars]]]]


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


Durruti Column
[[File:Margarete Porete, fol. 38.jpg|thumbnail|[[Movement of the Free Spirit]]]]


Friends of Durruti (AD)
[[File:Unist'ot'en camp.jpg|thumbnail|[[Unist'ot'en Camp]]]]


Kronstadt Accords (ZK)
[[File:Wattsriots-burningbuildings-loc.jpg|thumbnail|[[Watts Rebellion]] of 1965]]


Francophile Anarchist Federation (FAF)
[[US anti-nuclear movement|Abalone Alliance]]


Italian Anarchist Communists (FdCAI)
[[Alcatraz occupation]]


Anarchist Federation of Britain (AFB)
[[Taborite communes|Adamites]]


Japanese Anarchist Federation (JAF)
[[Alter-globalization movement]]


Spanish Regional Anarchist Organisation (OARE)
[[Anarchy in the German Revolution]]


Anarchist Communist Alliance
[[Anarchy in the Russian Revolution]]


Anarchist Federation
[[Anarchy in the Haitian Revolution]]


Black Front Society
[[Animal Liberation Front]]


Libertarian Socialist Council (LSC)
[[Anti-Shell actions]]


Workers' Solidarity Movement (RRU)
[[Bogomils]]


Workers' Solidarity (RR)
[[BDS Movement]]


Co-ordination of Anarchist Groups
[[Cascadia Free State]], 1995-6


Anarcho-Communist Port-workers' Group (ACAOP)
[[Cathars]], 11th to 14th centuries


Anarcho-Syndicalist National Confederation of Labour (ASNKR)
[[Catholic Worker movement]]


Union of Communist Anarchists (UCAI)
[[Community taro patches]]


Federation of Communist Anarchists of German (FKAD)
[[US anti-nuclear movement|Clamshell Alliance]]


Federation of Anarchist-communist Groups of Poland and Lithuania (FAGPL)
[[Earth First!]]


Japanese Anarchist Club (JAC)
[[Earth Liberation Front]]


Anarchist Federation
[[English food riots in eighteenth century]]


Federation of Anarchist Groups of Cuba (FGAC)
[[English Peasants' Revolt of 1381]]


Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
[[German Anti-Fascism]]


International of Anarchist Federations (IAF)
[[Italian Anti-Fascism]]


Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
[[Italian Autonomia]]


anarchist faction in Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR)
[[John Brown's raids]]


Anarcho-Communist Unification (CUAC)
[[Kurdish democratic confederalists]]


Libertarian Communist Organisation (OLC)
[[Kronstadt rebellion]]


Uruguayan Anarchist Federation (FAU)
[[Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992]]


Anarchist Revolutionary Organisation (ORA)
[[Mapuche|Mapuche Struggle]]


Proletarian Action Anarchists Groups (GAAP)
[[Movement of the Free Spirit]]


Italian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
[[Oaxaca rebellion]]


Federation of Communist Anarchists (FdCA)
[[Occupy movement]]


Polish Anarchist Federation (FA)
[[Oka Crisis]]


Communist League of Anarchists
[[Unist'ot'en Camp]]


Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation
[[US anti-nuclear movement]]


Anarchist Federation (AF) / Czech and Slovak Anarchist Federation (CSAF)
[[US Green movement]]


Federation of Libertarian Socialists (FFS)
[[School of the Tillers]]


General Delegation of the CNT (CNT-DG)
[[Sexual revolution]]


Venezuelan Regional Workers' Federation (FORV)
[[Standing Rock Uprising]]


Federation of Anarchist Groups of Cuba (FGAC)
[[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]]


Cuban Libertarian Alliance (ALC)
[[Texas KXL blockade]]


General Confederation of Labor (CGT)
[[The May-June Revolt in France, 1968]]


Federation of Anarchist Groups in Cuba (FGAC)
[[Watts Rebellion]]


Yunan guerilla campaigns
[[Yellow Turban Rebellion]]


Bolivian Regional Workers' Confederation (CORB)
[[Zone to Defend (ZAD)]], 2012-present


Feminine Workers' Federation (FOB)
==Autonomous==


Revolutionary Popular Organisation 33 (OPR-33)
[[File:La Vía Campesina logo.png|thumb|[[La Via Campesina]]]]


Libertarian Resistance (RL)
[[File:Flag of Edward England.svg|thumbnail|[[Pirate anarchy]]]]


Workers' Liberation Group (Shagila)
[[File:Nat Turner woodcut.jpg|thumbnail|[[Nat Turner's rebellion]]]]


The Scream of the People (CHK)
[[File:Luddite.jpg|thumbnail|[[Luddites]]]]


Movement 2 June (M2J)
[[File:Mi'kmaq blockade.png|thumbnail|[[2013 Mi'kmaq anti-fracking struggle]]]]


Angry Brigade (AB)
[[File:Seattle General Strike.jpg|thumbnail|[[1919 Seattle general strike]]]]


Direct Action (AD)
[[File:First int.jpg|thumbnail|Woman confronts soldiers during the [[First Intifada]].]]


Anti-capitalist Autonomous Commandos (KAA)
[[File:Red cloud and other souix.jpg|thumbnail|[[Red Cloud's War]]]]


Left Opposition (LO)
[[File:Boston Tea Party Currier colored.jpg|thumbnail|[[American Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


Wiyathi Collective within the Anti-Capitalist Convergence
[[File:1917petrogradsoviet assembly.jpg|thumbnail|[[Russian Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


==Anti-Authoritarian==
[[File:Anarchist cuba.png|thumbnail|[[Cuban Revolution and Anarchism]]]]


[[File:Freedom Summer.jpg|thumbnail|Freedom Summer, a 1964 campaign of the [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]], an anti-authoritarian civil rights group.]]
[[File:Magon.png|thumbnail|[[Mexican Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


[[File:IWW demonstration NY 1914.jpg|thumbnail|[[Industrial Workers of the World]] demonstration in New York, 1914]]
[[File:Prise de la Bastille.jpg|thumbnail|[[French Revolution and Anarchy]]]]


[[File:02Jane 400.jpg.jpg|thumbnail|[[Jane]] underground abortion service.]]
[[File:Stroop Report - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 13.jpg|thumbnail|[[Jewish armed anti-Nazi resistance]]]]


[[File:Psu.jpg|thumbnail|[[Philly Stands Up]], a transformative justice collective.]]
[[1848 revolutions]]


[[File:Up9thCommonGround7Feb06ClothesTent.jpg|thumbnail|[[Common Ground Collective]] distribution center]]
[[1968 revolutions]]
[[File:Bruderhof.jpg|thumbnail|Self-managed [[Bruderhof factories]].]]


[[Industrial Workers of the World]] (IWW)
[[1919 Seattle general strike]]


[[Jane]]
[[2007 Lakota declaration of independence]]


[[Philly Stands Up]]
[[2013 Mi'kmaq anti-fracking struggle]]


[[Common Ground Collective]]
[[American Revolution and Anarchy]]


[[Philly's Pissed]]
[[Anabaptists]]


Industrial Workers of the World- Chile (IWW-Chile), 25,000 members in 1920
[[Barcelona en Comú]]


Cuban National Labour Confederation (CNOC), 200,000 members
[[Black Reconstruction]]


[[Libertarian Socialist Institute]]
[[Bolivia Water War]]


[[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]]
[[Cuban Revolution and Anarchism]]


[[Shamrik Mukti Dal]]
[[First Intifada]]


[[Bruderhof factories]]
[[French Revolution and Anarchy]]


Black Liberation Army
[[German Peasants' War]]


IWW-Sierra Leonne, 3,240 members
[[Jewish armed anti-Nazi resistance]]


Solidarity Union Democracy (SUD)
[[La Via Campesina]]


European Federation of Alternative Syndicalism (FESAL-E)
[[Luddites]]


General Confederation of Labour (CGT), 230,000 members in 1906
[[Mexican Revolution and Anarchy]]


Industrial Union of North and South America (UIANS) (Mexico)
[[Nat Turner's rebellion]]


Liberation Army of the South (ELS) (Mexico), 70,000 members
[[Pirate anarchy]]


Industrial Syndicalist Education League (ISEL), 150,000 members in 1910s
[[Pueblo Revolt]]


Irish Transport & General Workers' Union (ITGWU), 12,000 members in 1917
[[Red Cloud's War]]


Situationist International
[[Seminole people|Seminole Wars]]


Siberian Industrial Workers of the World (IWW-Siberia), 16,000 members
[[Syrian Revolution]]
 
General Workers' Federation (GFP), 40,000 members
 
Union of Trade Unions (ZZZ)
 
Polish Syndicalist Union (ZSP)
 
Italian Syndicalist Union (USI)
 
Free Association of German Trade Unions (FvDG), 100,000 members
 
German Workers' Union of Germany (AAUD), 30,000 members
 
General Labour Union--Unity Organisation (AAU-E), 75,000 members


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


General League of Koreans (HCH)
[[Karaite Judaism]]


Libertarian Youth Federation of Iberia (FIJL)
[[Kharijites]]


Libertarian Youth (JJLL)
[[Mu'tazilites]]
 
International Revolutionary Syndicalist Federation (FISR)
 
Syndicalist Workers' Federation (SWF)
 
Federation of Free Labour Unions (FFLU)
 
Independent League of Trade Unions (OVB)
 
IWW Marine Transport Workers' Industrial Union (MTWIU)
 
Chilean IWW
 
Ship-building Workers' Federation (FTB)
 
1951 syndicalist resistance in New Zealand
 
Industrial and Commercial Union of Southern Rhodesia (ICU ''yase'' Rhodesia)
 
National Convention of Workers (CNT), 400,000 members in 1972
 
Autonomous Workers' League (AWL)
 
Autonomous Village Movement (AVM)
 
Aid Group for the Libertarians and Independent Syndicalists in Cuba (GALSIC)
 
==Participatory==
 
[[MOVE]]
 
[[San Francisco Diggers]]
 
==Autonomous==
 
[[Anarchy and the Black Panther Party]]
 
[[Anusilan Samiti]]


==Unsorted==
==Unsorted==


Albany Free School
[[Massalians]]


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


Universidad Transhumante
1903 Macedonian revolt


Free Stores
1905–1907 Russian Revolt


Freecycle Network
1910 Mexican revolution


Critical Resistance
1960 student revolts


Take Back the Night
[[Imazighen]]


No Border Network
Parisian urban gardeners


Spanish Regional Labour Federation (FTRE)
Cantonalist Revolt of 1873-1874


Pact of Union & Solidarity (PUS)
=[[Organizations|Organizations]]=


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


Proletarian Circle (CP)
''"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>


Grand Circle of Mexican Workers (GCO)


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


Worker's Federation (FO)
==[[Organizations#Historical|Historical Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian]]==


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


Labourer's Circle (CT)
==[[Organizations#Unsorted|Unsorted]]==


Cuban Labour Confederation (CTC)
=Everyday Anarchy=
 
Central Labor Union (CLU)
 
Northern Worker's Union (NWU)
 
Federation of Labour Exchanges (FBT)
 
1907 International Anarchist Congress
 
1913 Syndicalist Conference in London
 
Insurgent Committee of Revolutionary Partisans
 
National Labour Secretariat (NAS), 18,700 members in 1895
 
Federation of Freedom-loving Communists (FVC)
 
Libertarian Communist Organization
 
Libertarian Alternative
 
Committee for the Defence of Revolutionary Syndicalism (CDSR), 100,000 members
 
Trans-Siberian Railway
 
Industrial Workers of the World-US (IWW-US)
 
Confederation of Labour Associations (GLH)
 
Hunan Workers' Association
 
Black Societies
 
Wonsan General Trade Union
 
Free Trade Union
 
Argentine Regional Workers' Federation (FORA)
 
Argentine Regional Workers' Confederation (CORA)
 
Argentine Regional Workers' Federation of the 9th Congress (FORA-IX)
 
Argentine Libertarian Alliance (ALA)
 
Resistance Society of the Port-workers of the Capital (SROPC)
 
Uruguay Regional Workers' Organisation (FORU)
 
Brazilian Labour Confederation (COB)
 
Paraguayan Regional Workers' Organisation (FORPa)
 
Paraguayan Regional Workers' Centre (CORP)
 
National Revolutionary Alliance (ANR)
 
Workers' Trade Union Reorganisation Council (CORS)
 
Havana Labour Federation (FOH)
 
Cuban Workers' Confederation (CTC)
 
Chilean Workers' Central (CUT)
 
Mexican Regional Workers' Organization (FORM), 150,000 members in 1921
 
General Confederation of Labour (CGT)
 
Peruvian Regional Workers' Federation (FORPe)
 
Local Workers' Federation of Lima (FOL)
 
Colombian Workers' Federation (FOC)
 
Local Workers' Federation (FOL)
 
Feminine Workers' Federation
 
Guayas Workers' Regional Federation (FORG)
 
Ecuadoran Regional Federation of Labor (FTRE)
 
National Workers' Union (UON)
 
General Confederation of Labour (CGT)(Spain), 90,000 members in 1919
 
National Workers' Union (UON)
 
General Confederation of Labour (CGT) (Portugal)
 
Mexican Industrial Workers of the World (IWW-Mexico)
 
Mexican Liberal Party (PLM)
 
Industrial Union of North and South America (UIANS)
 
Liberation Army of the South (ELS)
 
National Agrarian Party (PNA)
 
Vlassovden Confederation
 
Italian Workers' Party (POI)
 
Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD), 120,000 members
 
North African Libertarian Movement (MLNA)
 
Korean Youth Federation in South China (KYFSC)
 
Federation of Free Society Builders (FFSB)
 
Korean Revolutionary Federation (KRF)
 
National Confederation of Labour (CNT)
 
General Italian Workers' Federation (CGIL)
 
Conference of Labour Unions (CLU)
 
Federation of Libertarian Socialists (FFS)
 
Independent League of Trade Unions (OVB)
 
General Confederation of Labor (CGT) (Cuba)
 
North African Libertarian Movement (MLNA)
 
Libertarian Communist International (ICL)
 
Libertarian Communist Organisation (OCL)
 
Libertarian Alternative (AL)
 
Second Escambray Front
 
Student Revolutionary Directorate (DRE)
 
Cuban Confederation (CTC)
 
Anarchists within the 26th of July Movement
 
Cuban Libertarian Movement in Exile
 
Swedish Workers' Central Organisation (SAC)
 
General Confederation of Labour (CGT) (Chile)
 
National Workers' Unity Movement (MUNT)
 
Federation of the Provincial Proletariat (Shengwulian)
 
Worker-Student Resistance (ROE)
 
Union of Libertarian Communist Workers (UTCL)
 
Alternative Libertaire
 
Interior Defense (DI)
 
First of May Group (GPM)
 
Iberian Liberation Movement (MIL-GAC)
 
Groups of International Revolutionary Action (GARI)


Neutralist Tribune
''''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>


Movement of Revolutionary Communards (MRC)
''"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>


Free General Workers' Union (SMOT)
''"How would you feel if you discovered that the society in which you would really like to live was already here, apart from a few little local difficulties like exploitation, war, dictatorship and starvation?"'' -Colin Ward<ref>Colin Ward, [[Anarchy Works]].</ref>
 
Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)
 
[[Spies for Peace]]
 
Black Front Society (KSS)
 
=Everyday Anarchy=
''"If there’s a line to get on a crowded bus, do you wait your turn and refrain from elbowing your way past others even in the absence of police? If you answered 'yes', then you are used to acting like an anarchist!" -David Graeber''<ref>David Graeber, "Are You an Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!", ''The Anarchist Library'', http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-are-you-an-anarchist-the-answer-may-surprise-you.</ref>


[[File:McCallsJimmyBarry640.jpg|thumbnail|[[The Yard]], an "adventure playground" in Minneapolis. http://www.minnpost.com/arts-culture/2014/07/when-yard-was-minnesota-s-most-radical-park]]
[[File:McCallsJimmyBarry640.jpg|thumbnail|[[The Yard]], an "adventure playground" in Minneapolis. http://www.minnpost.com/arts-culture/2014/07/when-yard-was-minnesota-s-most-radical-park]]
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[[Really Really Free Market]]
[[Really Really Free Market]]
[[Mumbai community dog care]]


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


[[Global postal service]]
[[Global postal service]]
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=Nonhuman Anarchy=
=Nonhuman Anarchy=


''"The forest has always been my teacher in peace, in diversity in democracy. Diverse life forms, small and large, moving and immobile, above ground and below, with wings, feet or leaves, find their place in the forest. The forest teaches us that in diversity lie the conditions of peace, the realization of democracy." -Vandana Shiva''<ref>Vandana Shiva, "Foreword" in Derrick Jensen and George Draffan, ''Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests'' (White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2003), vii.</ref>
''"Everything is connected, absolutely everything. There are many aboriginal groups that will tell you stories about how all the species in the forests are connected, and many will talk about below-ground networks."'' -Sm’hayetsk Teresa Ryan<ref>Ferris Jabr, "The Social Life of Forests", ''New York Times'', 2 December, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/02/magazine/tree-communication-mycorrhiza.html.</ref>


''"Indeed, anarchism can be illustrated with the example of ecosystems. Both are composed of separate but interdependent living organisms that evolve in endless variations to meet their needs." - scott crow''<ref>scott crow, ''Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective'' (Oakland: PM Press, 2011), 72.</ref>
''"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>


"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>
''"As I watch the Robins and Cedar Waxwings fill their bellies, I see a gift economy in which abundance is stored “in the belly of my brother.” Supporting a thriving bird community is essential to the well-being of the Serviceberry and everyone else up the food chain. That seems especially important to an immobile, long-lived being like a tree, who can’t run away from ruptured relationships. Thriving is possible only if you have nurtured strong bonds with your community."''-Robin Wall Kimmerer<ref>Robin Wall Kimmerer, "The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance," ''Emergence Magazine'', 2020, https://emergencemagazine.org/story/the-serviceberry/.</ref>
 
''" From autocatalytic chemical processes to cells, from living bodies to galaxies, we find a universe filled with structures exhibiting self-organizing dynamics... [A]n atom is a self-organizing system as well. Each atom is a storm of ordered activity. This invisible power assembling the energy into a particular constellation is the atom's identity. A galaxy, too, is an autopoietic system, organizing its stars into a nonequilibrium process and drawing forth new stars from its interstellar materials."'' -Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry <ref>Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry, ''The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era - A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos'' (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992), 75.</ref>
 
''"The forest has always been my teacher in peace, in diversity in democracy. Diverse life forms, small and large, moving and immobile, above ground and below, with wings, feet or leaves, find their place in the forest. The forest teaches us that in diversity lie the conditions of peace, the realization of democracy."'' -Vandana Shiva<ref>Vandana Shiva, "Foreword" in Derrick Jensen and George Draffan, ''Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests'' (White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2003), vii.</ref>
 
''"If we recognize that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of plant-animal relationships (rather than a stratified pyramid)...Each species, be it a form of bacteria or deer, is knitted together in a network of interdependence. A predator in the web is also prey, even if the 'lowliest' of organisms merely makes it ill or helps to consume it after death."'' -Murray Bookchin<ref>Murray Bookchin, ''The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy'' (Palo Alto: Cheshire Books, 1982), 26.</ref>
 
==Animal Societies==
[[File:Melanerpes formicivorus -San Luis Obispo, California, USA -male-8.jpg|thumbnail|[[Acorn woodpecker]]]]


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


[[File:Crotophaga sulcirostris.jpg|thumbnail|[[Groove-billed ani]]]]
[[File:Crotophaga sulcirostris.jpg|thumbnail|[[Groove-billed ani]]]]
[[File:Okonjima Lioness.jpg|thumb|[[Lion]]]]
[[File:Wolf, voor de natuur, Saxifraga - Jan Nijendijk.5097.jpg|thumbnail|[[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==


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


[[File:Wolf, voor de natuur, Saxifraga - Jan Nijendijk.5097.jpg|thumbnail|[[Gray wolf]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_wolf]]
[[File:The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpg|thumbnail|[[Earth system]]]]
 
[[File:Elysia-chlorotica-body.jpg|thumbnail|[[Evolution of sea slugs]]]]
 
[[File:Symsagittifera roscoffensis(Jersey).jpg|thumbnail|[[Evolution of translucent worms]]]]
 
[[File:Mycorrhizal network.svg|thumb|[[Mycorrhizal network]]]]
 
[[File:Utricularia aurea 8 Darwiniana.jpg|thumb|[[Utricularia-algae-zooplankton feedback]]]]


[[Appalachian forests]]
[[Appalachian forests]]


[[Central American squirrel monkey]]
[[Bacteria]]
 
[[Earth system]]


[[Evolution of eukaryotes]]
[[Evolution of eukaryotes]]
[[Evolution of green hydra]]
[[Evolution of horse]]


[[Evolution of sea slugs]]
[[Evolution of sea slugs]]


[[Gray wolf]]
[[Evolution of translucent worms]]
 
[[Human body and anarchy]]
 
[[Mimosa-beetle symbiosis]]
 
[[Mycorrhizal network]]
 
[[Utricularia-algae-zooplankton feedback]]
 
==Cosmos, Physics, and Chemistry==
 
[[File:RBCells.jpg|thumbnail|[[Bénard_convection]]]]
 
[[File:Bzr fotos.jpg|thumbnail|[[Chemical clock]]]]
 
[[Chemical clock]]
 
[[Bénard convection]]


[[Groove-billed ani]]
[[Laser]]


[[Physics and anarchy]]
[[Physics and anarchy]]
[[Solar system's planets]]
[[Universe]]


=Fictional Anarchy=
=Fictional Anarchy=


"We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings." -Ursula K. LeGuin<ref>"Ursula K Le Guin's speech at National Book Awards", ''The Guardian'', 20 November 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/20/ursula-k-le-guin-national-book-awards-speech.</ref>
''"We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."'' -Ursula K. LeGuin<ref>"Ursula K Le Guin's speech at National Book Awards", ''The Guardian'', 20 November 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/20/ursula-k-le-guin-national-book-awards-speech.</ref>


==Anarchist==
==Anarchist==
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Mars (''Mars'' trilogy)
Mars (''Mars'' trilogy)


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


[[Fraggle Rock]]


==Anti-Authoritarian==
[[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)


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


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


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


==Autonomous==
==Autonomous==


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


[[Examples by Source]]




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Welcome to AnarchyinAction.org!

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AnarchyinAction.org is a resource for anyone to research and write about how and when anarchy can work. Anarchy, coming from the Greek words an (without) and archos (ruler) refers to a situation without domination, without coercive hierarchy. Here are many examples of anarchy in practice. By looking for anarchy well beyond the self-proclaimed anarchist movements (although we're interested in those too!), we respond, for example, to Maia Ramnath's call in Decolonizing Anarchism to "locate the Western anarchist tradition as one contextually specific manifestation among a larger-indeed global-tradition of antiauthoritarian, egal­itarian thought/praxis".[1] We take our name from Colin Ward's 1973 book Anarchy in Action.

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Anarchist banners at World Conference Against Racism, Durban, 2001.[2]
"Fifth Sacred Thing" by Jessica Perlstein, portraying San Francisco (The Fifth Sacred Thing).
Clifford Harper portrays an anarchist commune in Radical Technology
Les chataigniers a Osny (1888) by anarchist painter Camille Pissarro.
ancient San artwork
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Societies

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

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

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


Anarchist

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

Revolutionary Spain, 1936-9, 3.2 million people

Revolutionary Ukraine, 1918-1921, 7 million people

Shinmin Prefecture, 1929-1931, 2 million people


Anti-Authoritarian

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

Abahlali baseMjondolo, 115,000 members as of 2022

Andamanese

Anuak

Argentinian horizontalidad

Batek

Bayaka

Çatalhöyük

Catholic Worker

Cherán

Croatan

El Alto neighborhood councils, 2000s CE

Cayonu, 7200 to ca. 4200 BCE

Cherokee

Chickasaw

Choctaw

Crianza Mutua (Colombia)

Crianza Mutua (Mexico)

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

Diné

Early Uruk, 4000-3200 BCE

Early Neolithic Southern Levant, 10,500 to 6000 BCE

Global Ecovillage Network

Hadza

Haudenosaunee

Hopi

Indus Valley Civilization

Inuit

Itoiz villages

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

Konkomba

Kuna people

La Solana villages

Late Taosi

Longo Maï

Malaipantaram

Mapuche, 1 million people in sixteenth century

Mbuti

Minangkabau

Minoan Crete, 3000 BCE-1100 BCE

Muscogee

Oceti Sakowin (Sioux)

Nayaka people

Niitsitapi (Blackfoot)

Nishnaabeg

Piaroa

Peiligang culture, 7000-5000 BCE

Rojava, 2012-present, 2.5 million people

San (including !Kung)

Santals

Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement

Semai people

Seminole people

Taborite communes, 15th century

Vikalp Sangam (India)

Wendat

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

Zomia, present, 100 million people

Zuni

Autonomous

Teotihuacan
Landless Workers' Movement
Early Israelites
Medieval commune
Canela people

Aboriginal Australians

Canela people

Early Christians

Early Israelites

Early Uruk

Highland Madagascar

Igbo

Landless Workers' Movement

Lugbara

Mashkan-shapir

Medieval commune

Palmares

Parisian sections

Pequot

Sea Peoples

Revolutionary Syria

Sami

Teotihuacan

Essenes

Castile confederation

Essenes, 4,000 people

Paris Commune, 1871, 2 million people

South Carolina Commune

Maluku archipelago

Quinnipiac

Swiss confederal leagues

Therapeutae

Tiv

Tlaxcala (Postclassic)

Venezuelan communes

Limited

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

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

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

New England town meetings

Tribal Arabia

Tonga people


Unsorted

South American Indians

Land Dayaks

La Paz Zapotec, nearly 2,000 people

Maori

New Guinea indigenous peoples

Northwest coast indigenous peoples

Nubian people

Nuer

Imazighen

Ifugao

Dinka people

Communities

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

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


Anarchist

Guangzhou commune, 1921-1923

Anti-Autoritarian

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

Christiania, 1971-present, 900 people

Faslane Peace Camp, 1982-present

Free Republic of Wendland, 1980, 5,000 people

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

Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, 1981-200

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

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

Autonomous

Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Commune, 1922-1926

Pocasset, 200 families

Huehuecoyotl

Unsorted

Taita Hills

Ghana shantytown

Minnehaha Free State

Mexican colonial proletarias

Peruvian 'barriadas

Tunisian gourbivilles

Indian bus tees

Turkish gecekondu

Venezuelan ranchos

King Hill hostel squat

Movements and Uprisings

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

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

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

Anarchist

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

The Haymarket Martyrs

Conspiracy of Cells of Fire

Informal Anarchist Federation

Anarchists in the Russian Revolution

Anarchists in the Italian Factory Occupations

Anarchism and the Spanish Revolution

Anarchism in the Mexican Revolution

Manchurian Revolution

1999 Seattle WTO shutdown

Modern schools

2008 Greek insurrection

US Galleanists

1911 Lima-Callao general strike

1919 Peruvian general strike

Anti-Authoritarian

Animal Liberation Front
Italian Autonomia
Cascadia Free State
English Peasants' Revolt of 1381
Anarchy in the Haitian Revolution
Alcatraz occupation
BDS Movement
National Guard deployed during the Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992
Flag of the Group of Communities in Kurdistan
Standing Rock Uprising
Bogomils
Community taro patches run by indigenous and non-indigenous farmers across Hawaii
John Brown's raids
Earth Liberation Front
Occupy movement
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty
Cathars
Earth First!
Movement of the Free Spirit
Unist'ot'en Camp
Watts Rebellion of 1965

Abalone Alliance

Alcatraz occupation

Adamites

Alter-globalization movement

Anarchy in the German Revolution

Anarchy in the Russian Revolution

Anarchy in the Haitian Revolution

Animal Liberation Front

Anti-Shell actions

Bogomils

BDS Movement

Cascadia Free State, 1995-6

Cathars, 11th to 14th centuries

Catholic Worker movement

Community taro patches

Clamshell Alliance

Earth First!

Earth Liberation Front

English food riots in eighteenth century

English Peasants' Revolt of 1381

German Anti-Fascism

Italian Anti-Fascism

Italian Autonomia

John Brown's raids

Kurdish democratic confederalists

Kronstadt rebellion

Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992

Mapuche Struggle

Movement of the Free Spirit

Oaxaca rebellion

Occupy movement

Oka Crisis

Unist'ot'en Camp

US anti-nuclear movement

US Green movement

School of the Tillers

Sexual revolution

Standing Rock Uprising

Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty

Texas KXL blockade

The May-June Revolt in France, 1968

Watts Rebellion

Yellow Turban Rebellion

Zone to Defend (ZAD), 2012-present

Autonomous

La Via Campesina
Pirate anarchy
Nat Turner's rebellion
Luddites
2013 Mi'kmaq anti-fracking struggle
1919 Seattle general strike
Woman confronts soldiers during the First Intifada.
Red Cloud's War
American Revolution and Anarchy
Russian Revolution and Anarchy
Cuban Revolution and Anarchism
Mexican Revolution and Anarchy
French Revolution and Anarchy
Jewish armed anti-Nazi resistance

1848 revolutions

1968 revolutions

1919 Seattle general strike

2007 Lakota declaration of independence

2013 Mi'kmaq anti-fracking struggle

American Revolution and Anarchy

Anabaptists

Barcelona en Comú

Black Reconstruction

Bolivia Water War

Cuban Revolution and Anarchism

First Intifada

French Revolution and Anarchy

German Peasants' War

Jewish armed anti-Nazi resistance

La Via Campesina

Luddites

Mexican Revolution and Anarchy

Nat Turner's rebellion

Pirate anarchy

Pueblo Revolt

Red Cloud's War

Seminole Wars

Syrian Revolution

Limited

Karaite Judaism

Kharijites

Mu'tazilites

Unsorted

Massalians

Prague Spring

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

1903 Macedonian revolt

1905–1907 Russian Revolt

1910 Mexican revolution

1960 student revolts

Imazighen

Parisian urban gardeners

Cantonalist Revolt of 1873-1874

Organizations

"SNCC without knowing about anarchism as philosophy embodied the characteristics of anarchism." -Howard Zinn[9]

"The real question at issue is not organization versus non-organization, but rather, what kind of organization. What different kinds of anarchist organizations have in common is that they are developed organically from below, not engineered into existence from above." -Murray Bookchin[10]


Active Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian

Historical Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian

Autonomous

Unsorted

Everyday Anarchy

''I think we have to talk about educating the people for critical consciousness about what anarchy is. I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term." -bell hooks.[11]

"If there’s a line to get on a crowded bus, do you wait your turn and refrain from elbowing your way past others even in the absence of police? If you answered 'yes', then you are used to acting like an anarchist!" -David Graeber[12]

"How would you feel if you discovered that the society in which you would really like to live was already here, apart from a few little local difficulties like exploitation, war, dictatorship and starvation?" -Colin Ward[13]

The Yard, an "adventure playground" in Minneapolis. http://www.minnpost.com/arts-culture/2014/07/when-yard-was-minnesota-s-most-radical-park
Woodstock Festival poster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_festival


Anarchist

Anti-Authoritarian

Really Really Free Market

Mumbai community dog care

Participatory

Autonomous

Stonehenge Free Festival, 1972-1985 (one month a year), 30,000 people

Woodstock Festival, 1969, 40,000 people

Pioneer Health Centre

Little Commonwealth

Vienna Psychoanalytic Society's child guidance service

Horizontal organization in British architecture

Global postal service

International railways

Swiss city planning

Emdrup playground

The Yard

Unsorted

Mexican colonial proletarias

Peruvian 'barriadas

Tunisian gourbivilles

Indian bus tees

Turkish gecekondu

Venezuelan ranchos

Prestolee School

Institueion Libre de Enseiianza

Residential College for Students

1960 student revolts

Freetown playground

Skrammellegeplad playgrounds

Robinson Crusoe playgrounds

Brixham fishing cooperative

Brora mining cooperative

Standard tractor factory

Durham worker-managed mines

Gheel mental health care

Synanon

Claimant's Union

Eyes on the street

Open source

Wikipedia

Nonhuman Anarchy

"Everything is connected, absolutely everything. There are many aboriginal groups that will tell you stories about how all the species in the forests are connected, and many will talk about below-ground networks." -Sm’hayetsk Teresa Ryan[14]

"The basic premise in the ontology of wildness translates into anarchy, where the raison d'etre of everything and everyone - living or non-living, human or nonhuman, child or adult, male, female, intersexual, bisexual, or asexual, whatever the species, ethnicity, or race (all of which are important classifications for civilization only) is simply to be and to enjoy being. In wilderness, the world exists for its own reasons, its space and time uncontrolled, solely its own, regardless of whether it was created by an external divine will or generated through its own exploded forces." - Layla AbdelRahim[15]

"As I watch the Robins and Cedar Waxwings fill their bellies, I see a gift economy in which abundance is stored “in the belly of my brother.” Supporting a thriving bird community is essential to the well-being of the Serviceberry and everyone else up the food chain. That seems especially important to an immobile, long-lived being like a tree, who can’t run away from ruptured relationships. Thriving is possible only if you have nurtured strong bonds with your community."-Robin Wall Kimmerer[16]

" From autocatalytic chemical processes to cells, from living bodies to galaxies, we find a universe filled with structures exhibiting self-organizing dynamics... [A]n atom is a self-organizing system as well. Each atom is a storm of ordered activity. This invisible power assembling the energy into a particular constellation is the atom's identity. A galaxy, too, is an autopoietic system, organizing its stars into a nonequilibrium process and drawing forth new stars from its interstellar materials." -Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry [17]

"The forest has always been my teacher in peace, in diversity in democracy. Diverse life forms, small and large, moving and immobile, above ground and below, with wings, feet or leaves, find their place in the forest. The forest teaches us that in diversity lie the conditions of peace, the realization of democracy." -Vandana Shiva[18]

"If we recognize that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of plant-animal relationships (rather than a stratified pyramid)...Each species, be it a form of bacteria or deer, is knitted together in a network of interdependence. A predator in the web is also prey, even if the 'lowliest' of organisms merely makes it ill or helps to consume it after death." -Murray Bookchin[19]

Animal Societies

Acorn woodpecker
Central American squirrel monkey
Dolphins
Groove-billed ani
Lion
Gray wolf

Acorn woodpecker

Bison

Bonobo

Central American squirrel monkey

Dolphins

Domestic cat

Elephant

Gorillas dismantling traps

Gray wolf

Groove-billed ani

Lion

Manatee

Seahorse

Earth and Ecology

Appalachian forests
Earth system
Evolution of sea slugs
Evolution of translucent worms
Mycorrhizal network
Utricularia-algae-zooplankton feedback

Appalachian forests

Bacteria

Earth system

Evolution of eukaryotes

Evolution of green hydra

Evolution of horse

Evolution of sea slugs

Evolution of translucent worms

Human body and anarchy

Mimosa-beetle symbiosis

Mycorrhizal network

Utricularia-algae-zooplankton feedback

Cosmos, Physics, and Chemistry

Bénard_convection
Chemical clock

Chemical clock

Bénard convection

Laser

Physics and anarchy

Solar system's planets

Universe

Fictional Anarchy

"We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings." -Ursula K. LeGuin[20]

Anarchist

Anarres

Anarres (The Dispossessed)

Mars (Mars trilogy)

San Francisco (The Fifth Sacred Thing)

Anti-Authoritarian

Earthseed
Cokaygne
Fraggle Rock
The Shire

Cokaygne

Earthseed

Fraggle Rock

Haudenosaunee (The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson)

Kesh (Always Coming Home)

Nowhere (News from Nowhere)

The Shire (The Lord of the Rings)

Autonomous

Umuofia (Things Fall Apart)


  1. ↑ Maia Ramnath, Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle (AK Press, 2011), 6.
  2. ↑ Silvia Federici, "Global Anarchism: Provocations" in No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms, ed. Barry Maxwell and Raymond Crib, (Oakland: PM Press, 2015), 350-351.
  3. ↑ "Gord Hill, Indigenous Artist and Anarchist," Crimethinc, 1 August 2017, https://crimethinc.com/2017/08/01/an-interview-with-gord-hill.
  4. ↑ David Graeber and David Wengrow, "How to change the course of human history, Eurozine, 2 March 2018, https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/.
  5. ↑ Paths in Utopia (Boston: Beacon Press, 1958), ch. 10.
  6. ↑ Subcomandante Marcos, "Why We Chose the Weapon of Resistance" in Our Word is Our Weapon (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001), 160.
  7. ↑ Joshua Stephens, “Palestinian Anarchists in Conversation: Recalibrating anarchism in a colonized country,” Institute for Anarchist Studies, 19 July 2013, https://anarchiststudies.org/palestinian-anarchists/.
  8. ↑ https://www.iiipublishing.com/politics/elf.htm.
  9. ↑ Howard Zinn, "Anarchism Shouldn't Be a Dirty Word," AlterNet, 16 May, 2008, http://www.alternet.org/story/85427/howard_zinn%3A_anarchism_shouldn't_be_a_dirty_word.
  10. ↑ Murray Bookchin, "Anarchy and Organization", Libcom.org, http://libcom.org/library/anarchy-organization-murray-bookchin.
  11. ↑ bell hooks, "How Do You Practice Intersectionalism?", The Anarchist Library, https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/randy-lowens-how-do-you-practice-intersectionalism.
  12. ↑ David Graeber, "Are You an Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!", The Anarchist Library, http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-are-you-an-anarchist-the-answer-may-surprise-you.
  13. ↑ Colin Ward, Anarchy Works.
  14. ↑ Ferris Jabr, "The Social Life of Forests", New York Times, 2 December, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/02/magazine/tree-communication-mycorrhiza.html.
  15. ↑ Layla AbdelRahim, Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation (New York: Routledge, 2015), 3-4.
  16. ↑ Robin Wall Kimmerer, "The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance," Emergence Magazine, 2020, https://emergencemagazine.org/story/the-serviceberry/.
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