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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>
 
''"[T]here are also concepts such as anti-authoritarian or egalitarian forms of organizing. Although this differs in degrees from one Indigenous nation to another, it is, overall, a fairly strong part of our traditional culture (with some exceptions)."'' -Gord Hill<ref>"Gord Hill, Indigenous Artist and Anarchist," ''Crimethinc'', 1 August 2017, https://crimethinc.com/2017/08/01/an-interview-with-gord-hill.</ref>


''"Living without a state remains not a socio-historical anomaly but the standard human condition."'' -Andrej Grubačić<ref>Andrej Grubacic, "Exit and Territory" in Alexander Reid Ross, ''Grabbing Back: Essays Against the Global Land Grab'' (Oakland, AK Press, 2014), 160.</ref>
''"Egalitarian cities, even regional confederacies, are historically quite commonplace."''-David Graeber and David Wengrow<ref>David Graeber and David Wengrow, "How to change the course of human history,'' ''Eurozine'', 2 March 2018, https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/.</ref>


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


==Anarchist==
==Anarchist==
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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:Abahlali baseMjondolo Logo.jpg|thumb|[[Abahlali baseMjondolo]]]]
[[File:Baka dancers June 2006.jpg|thumb|[[Bayaka]]]]


[[File:Great Andamanese - two men - 1875.jpg|thumbnail|[[Andamanese]]]]
[[File:Great Andamanese - two men - 1875.jpg|thumbnail|[[Andamanese]]]]
[[File:Keluarga suku Bateq 167.jpg|thumb|[[Batek]]]]
[[File:MUFT - Catal Höyük Modell.jpg|thumb|[[Çatalhöyük]]]]
[[File:Blood squaws in war dress (HS85-10-18744).jpg|thumbnail|[[Niitsitapi]]]]


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


[[File:Atotarhoreceivingtwomohawkchieftains.png|thumbnail|[[Haudennosaunne]]]]
[[File:Flag_of_the_Iroquois_Confederacy.svg.png|thumbnail|[[Haudenosaunee]]]]
 
[[File:Iroquoian Village, Ontario, Canada36.JPG|thumb|[[Wendat]]]]


[[File:Çatalhöyük with surroundings..jpg|thumbnail| [[Catal Huyuk]]]]
[[File:Çayonu.jpg|thumb|[[Cayonu]]]]
 
[[File:Bolivia - Marcha Juventudes Antifacistas.jpg|thumb|[[El Alto neighborhood councils]]]]
 
[[File:Talianki (Trypillian city).jpg|thumb|[[Cucuteni–Trypillia civilization]]]]
 
[[File:Malaipantaram map.gif|thumb|[[Malaipantaram]]]]
 
[[File:North carolina algonkin-dorf.jpg|thumb|[[Croatan]]]]
 
[[File:Hadza montage.png|thumb| [[Hadza]]]]
 
[[File:Knossos - North Portico 02.jpg|thumb|[[Minoan Crete]]]]
 
[[File:Mohenjo-daro.jpg|thumb|[[Indus Valley Civilization]]]]
 
[[File:Cherán.jpeg|thumb|[[Cherán]]]]
 
[[File:Seated figure grom Mali, 13th century, Djenné peoples, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981.218.JPG|thumb|[[Jenne-jeno]]]]


[[File:BushmenSan.jpg|thumbnail|[[San]] peoples]]
[[File:BushmenSan.jpg|thumbnail|[[San]] peoples]]
[[File:Sioux social structure council fires.jpg|thumb|[[Oceti Sakowin]] (Sioux)]]


[[File:1280px-Oraibi1.jpg|thumbnail|[[Hopi]]]]
[[File:1280px-Oraibi1.jpg|thumbnail|[[Hopi]]]]
[[File:Paliyan women.jpg|thumb|[[Paliyan]]]]
[[File:PeiligangCulture-RedPotWithTwoEars-ShanghaiMuseum-May27-08.jpg|thumb|[[Peiligang culture]]]]
[[File:Talempong - Sumatra Barat.jpg|thumb|[[Minangkabau]]]]
[[File:Sarvodaya-296x300.png|thumb|[[Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement]]]]


[[File:Taborites.png|thumbnail|[[Taborite communes]]]]
[[File:Taborites.png|thumbnail|[[Taborite communes]]]]
[[File:Mosuo girls.jpg|thumb|[[Mosuo]]]]
[[File:Anishinaabe-Anishinini Distribution Map.svg|thumb| [[Nishnaabeg]] ]]
[[File:GENERAL-Massif 2May2010.jpg|thumb|[[Zomia]]]]
[[File:Panama-Kuna 0605a.jpg|thumb|[[Kuna people]]]]
[[File:Catholic Worker.jpg|thumb|[[Catholic Worker]]]]
[[File:Myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria (1916) (14801964123).jpg|thumb|
[[Early Uruk]]]]
[[File:Cherokee beadwork sampler 1840 ohs.jpg|thumb|[[Cherokee]]]]
[[File:Black-sem-detail-1st-war.jpg|thumbnail|[[Seminole people]]]]
[[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]]]]
[[File:Semai man1.jpg|thumb|[[Semai people]]]]
[[Abahlali baseMjondolo]], 115,000 members as of 2022


[[Andamanese]]
[[Andamanese]]
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[[Argentinian horizontalidad]]
[[Argentinian horizontalidad]]


[[El Alto]], 1 million people
[[Batek]]
 
[[Bayaka]]
 
[[Çatalhöyük]]
 
[[Catholic Worker]]
 
[[Cherán]]
 
[[Croatan]]
 
[[El Alto neighborhood councils]], 2000s CE
 
[[Cayonu]], 7200 to ca. 4200 BCE
 
[[Cherokee]]
 
[[Southeast Matriarchies|Chickasaw]]
 
[[Southeast Matriarchies|Choctaw]]


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


[[Haudennosaunne]]
[[Hadza]]
 
[[Haudenosaunee]]


[[Hopi]]
[[Hopi]]
[[Indus Valley Civilization]]


[[Inuit]]
[[Inuit]]


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


[[Konkomba]]
[[Konkomba]]
[[Kuna people]]


[[La Solana villages]]
[[La Solana villages]]
[[Late Taosi]]


[[Longo Maï]]
[[Longo Maï]]
[[Malaipantaram]]


[[Mapuche]], 1 million people in sixteenth century
[[Mapuche]], 1 million people in sixteenth century
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[[Mbuti]]
[[Mbuti]]


[[Minoan Crete]], 3000 BCE to 1100 BCE
[[Minangkabau]]
 
[[Minoan Crete]], 3000 BCE-1100 BCE
 
[[Southeast Matriarchies|Muscogee]]
 
[[Oceti Sakowin]] (Sioux)
 
[[Nayaka people]]
 
[[Niitsitapi]] (Blackfoot)
 
[[Nishnaabeg]]


[[Piaroa]]
[[Piaroa]]
[[Peiligang culture]], 7000-5000 BCE


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


[[San]]
[[San]] (including !Kung)


[[Santals]]
[[Santals]]
[[Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement]]
[[Semai people]]
[[Seminole people]]


[[Taborite communes]], 15th century
[[Taborite communes]], 15th century
Vikalp Sangam (India)
[[Wendat]]


[[Zapatista-run Chiapas]], 1994-present, 120,000-300,000 people
[[Zapatista-run Chiapas]], 1994-present, 120,000-300,000 people
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[[Zomia]], present, 100 million people
[[Zomia]], present, 100 million people


==Participatory==
[[Zuni]]
 
==Autonomous==
 
[[File:Teotihuacán-5973.JPG|thumb|[[Teotihuacan]]]]


[[File:Black-sem-detail-1st-war.jpg|thumbnail|[[Seminoles and Black Seminoles]]]]
[[File:Mst conabNove2004.jpg|thumb|[[Landless Workers' Movement]]]]


[[File:Pnyx-berg2.png|thumbnail|Pnyx Hill, the meeting place of the ecclesia in the [[Athenian polis]].]]
[[File:024.Jacob Wrestles with the Angel.jpg|thumb|[[Early Israelites]]]]


[[File:280px-San Gimignano (1).jpg|thumbnail|[[Medieval commune]]]]
[[File:280px-San Gimignano (1).jpg|thumbnail|[[Medieval commune]]]]
[[File:Familienleben.jpg|thumb|[[Canela people]]]]


[[Aboriginal Australians]]
[[Aboriginal Australians]]


[[Seminoles and Black Seminoles]]
[[Canela people]]


[[Athenian polis]], 594-431, 404-403 BCE, 40,000 male citizens
[[Early Christians]]


[[Cherokee]]
[[Early Israelites]]


[[Early Israelites]]
[[Early Uruk]]


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


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


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


[[Lugbara]]
[[Lugbara]]
[[Mashkan-shapir]]


[[Medieval commune]]
[[Medieval commune]]


[[New England town meetings]]
[[Palmares]]


[[Parisian sections]]
[[Parisian sections]]
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[[Pequot]]
[[Pequot]]


[[Plateau Tonga]]
[[Sea Peoples]]
 
[[Syrian Revolution|Revolutionary Syria]]


[[Sami]]
[[Sami]]


==Autonomous==
[[Teotihuacan]]
 
[[File:QumranLivingQuarters.jpg|thumbnail|[[Essenes]]]]


[[Castile confederation]]
[[Castile confederation]]
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[[Black Reconstruction|South Carolina Commune]]
[[Black Reconstruction|South Carolina Commune]]
[[Maluku archipelago]]


[[Quinnipiac]]
[[Quinnipiac]]


[[Swiss confederal leagues]]
[[Swiss confederal leagues]]
[[Therapeutae]]


[[Tiv]]
[[Tiv]]
[[Tlaxcala (Postclassic)]]
[[Venezuelan communes]]
==Limited==
[[File:Pnyx-berg2.png|thumbnail|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]]
[[Tribal Arabia]]


[[Venezuelan communes]]
[[Tonga people]]
 
 


==Unsorted==
==Unsorted==
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=Communities=
=Communities=


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


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


==Anarchist==
==Anarchist==
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[[Village Alternatif, Anticapitalist et AntiGuerres]], 2003, thousands of people
[[Village Alternatif, Anticapitalist et AntiGuerres]], 2003, thousands of people
==Participatory==


==Autonomous==
==Autonomous==
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Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Commune, 1922-1926
Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Commune, 1922-1926


[[Pocasset]]
[[Pocasset]], 200 families


[[Huehuecoyotl]]
[[Huehuecoyotl]]


==Unsorted==
==Unsorted==
Alcatraz occupation


Taita Hills
Taita Hills
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''"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>
''"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>


''"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>
''"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>
 
''"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>


==Anarchist==
==Anarchist==
[[File:ChicagoAnarchists.jpg|thumbnail|Chicago anarchists advanced the cause of the 8-hour day and started May Day. See [[The Haymarket Martyrs]].]]
[[File:ChicagoAnarchists.jpg|thumbnail|Chicago anarchists advanced the cause of the 8-hour day and started May Day. See [[The Haymarket Martyrs]].]]
[[File:Seattle black bloc.png|thumbnail|[[1999 Seattle WTO shutdown]]]]
[[File:Magon.png|thumbnail|[[Anarchy in the Mexican Revolution]]]]
[[File:Logo de la FAI.svg|thumb|[[Informal Anarchist Federation]]]]
[[File:Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, Logo.jpg|thumb|[[Conspiracy of Cells of Fire]]]]


[[The Haymarket Martyrs]]
[[The Haymarket Martyrs]]


Building the Syndicalist Unions
[[Conspiracy of Cells of Fire]]
 
[[Informal Anarchist Federation]]


[[Anarchists in the Russian Revolution]]
[[Anarchists in the Russian Revolution]]
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[[Revolutionary Spain|Anarchism and the Spanish Revolution]]
[[Revolutionary Spain|Anarchism and the Spanish Revolution]]


[[Anarchism in the Cuban Revolution]]
[[Anarchy in the Mexican Revolution|Anarchism in the Mexican Revolution]]


[[Anarchy in the Mexican Revolution]]
[[Shinmin_Prefecture|Manchurian Revolution]]


[[Shinmin_Prefecture|Manchurian Revolution]]
[[1999 Seattle WTO shutdown]]


Modern schools
Modern schools
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==Anti-Authoritarian==
==Anti-Authoritarian==
[[File:Interfauna-raid-1990.jpg|thumb|[[Animal Liberation Front]]]]


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


[[File:Warner-creek-EF-96.jpg|thumbnail|[[Cascadia Free State]]]]
[[File:Warner-creek-EF-96.jpg|thumbnail|[[Cascadia Free State]]]]
[[File:Jean Froissart, Chroniques, 154v, 12148 btv1b8438605hf336, crop.jpg|thumb|[[English Peasants' Revolt of 1381]]]]
[[File:Battle for Palm Tree Hill.jpg|thumbnail|[[Anarchy in the Haitian Revolution]]]]
[[File:Alcatraz Island 01 Prison sign.jpg|thumbnail|[[Alcatraz occupation]]]]
[[File:SOAS BDS demonstration 27 April 2017 12.jpg|thumbnail|[[BDS Movement]]]]


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


[[File:Flag of Koma Komalên Kurdistan.svg|thumbnail|Flag of the [[Kurdistan democratic confederalists|Group of Communities in Kurdistan]]]]
[[File:Flag of Koma Komalên Kurdistan.svg|thumbnail|Flag of the [[Kurdistan democratic confederalists|Group of Communities in Kurdistan]]]]
[[File:"Happi" American Horse direct action against DAPL, August 2016 (cropped).png|thumb|[[Standing Rock Uprising]]]]
[[File:Slavic Bogomil Cemetery in Chalkidona, Thessaloniki.jpg|thumb|[[Bogomils]]]]


[[File:TaroAKL.jpg|thumbnail|[[Community taro patches]] run by indigenous and non-indigenous farmers across Hawaii]]
[[File:TaroAKL.jpg|thumbnail|[[Community taro patches]] run by indigenous and non-indigenous farmers across Hawaii]]
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[[File:John Brown by Levin Handy, 1890-1910.jpg|thumbnail|[[John Brown's raids]]]]
[[File:John Brown by Levin Handy, 1890-1910.jpg|thumbnail|[[John Brown's raids]]]]


[[File:Naelfpoletterhead.jpg|thumbnail|[[Earth Liberation Front]]]]
[[File:VD VD200710070509005AR.jpg|thumb|[[Earth Liberation Front]]]]


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


[[File:Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (logo).png|thumbnail|[[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]]]]
[[File:Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (logo).png|thumbnail|[[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]]]]
[[File:Routes des châteaux cathares.svg|thumb|[[Cathars]]]]


[[File:Earthfirstmonkeywrench.png|thumbnail|[[Earth First!]]]]
[[File:Earthfirstmonkeywrench.png|thumbnail|[[Earth First!]]]]
[[File:Margarete Porete, fol. 38.jpg|thumbnail|[[Movement of the Free Spirit]]]]


[[File:Unist'ot'en camp.jpg|thumbnail|[[Unist'ot'en Camp]]]]
[[File:Unist'ot'en camp.jpg|thumbnail|[[Unist'ot'en Camp]]]]
[[File:Wattsriots-burningbuildings-loc.jpg|thumbnail|[[Watts Rebellion]] of 1965]]


[[US anti-nuclear movement|Abalone Alliance]]
[[US anti-nuclear movement|Abalone Alliance]]
[[Alcatraz occupation]]


[[Taborite communes|Adamites]]
[[Taborite communes|Adamites]]


[[Alter-globalization movement]]
[[Alter-globalization movement]]
[[Anarchy in the German Revolution]]


[[Anarchy in the Russian Revolution]]
[[Anarchy in the Russian Revolution]]
[[Anarchy in the Haitian Revolution]]


[[Animal Liberation Front]]
[[Animal Liberation Front]]


[[Anti-Shell actions]]
[[Anti-Shell actions]]
[[Bogomils]]
[[BDS Movement]]


[[Cascadia Free State]], 1995-6
[[Cascadia Free State]], 1995-6
[[Cathars]], 11th to 14th centuries


[[Catholic Worker movement]]
[[Catholic Worker movement]]
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[[Earth Liberation Front]]
[[Earth Liberation Front]]
[[English food riots in eighteenth century]]


[[English Peasants' Revolt of 1381]]
[[English Peasants' Revolt of 1381]]
[[German Anti-Fascism]]
[[Italian Anti-Fascism]]


[[Italian Autonomia]]
[[Italian Autonomia]]
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[[Mapuche|Mapuche Struggle]]
[[Mapuche|Mapuche Struggle]]
[[Movement of the Free Spirit]]
[[Oaxaca rebellion]]


[[Occupy movement]]
[[Occupy movement]]
[[Oka Crisis]]


[[Unist'ot'en Camp]]
[[Unist'ot'en Camp]]
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[[US Green movement]]
[[US Green movement]]
[[School of the Tillers]]


[[Sexual revolution]]
[[Sexual revolution]]
[[Standing Rock Uprising]]


[[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]]
[[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]]
[[Texas KXL blockade]]


[[The May-June Revolt in France, 1968]]
[[The May-June Revolt in France, 1968]]
[[Watts Rebellion]]
[[Yellow Turban Rebellion]]


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


==Participatory==
==Autonomous==
 
[[File:La Vía Campesina logo.png|thumb|[[La Via Campesina]]]]
 
[[File:Flag of Edward England.svg|thumbnail|[[Pirate anarchy]]]]


[[School of the Tillers]]
[[File:Nat Turner woodcut.jpg|thumbnail|[[Nat Turner's rebellion]]]]


[[Seminoles and Black Seminoles|Seminole Wars]]
[[File:Luddite.jpg|thumbnail|[[Luddites]]]]


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


[[File:Seattle General Strike.jpg|thumbnail|[[1919 Seattle general strike]]]]
[[File:Seattle General Strike.jpg|thumbnail|[[1919 Seattle general strike]]]]
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[[File:Red cloud and other souix.jpg|thumbnail|[[Red Cloud's War]]]]
[[File:Red cloud and other souix.jpg|thumbnail|[[Red Cloud's War]]]]
[[File:Boston Tea Party Currier colored.jpg|thumbnail|[[American Revolution and Anarchy]]]]
[[File:1917petrogradsoviet assembly.jpg|thumbnail|[[Russian Revolution and Anarchy]]]]
[[File:Anarchist cuba.png|thumbnail|[[Cuban Revolution and Anarchism]]]]
[[File:Magon.png|thumbnail|[[Mexican Revolution and Anarchy]]]]
[[File:Prise de la Bastille.jpg|thumbnail|[[French Revolution and Anarchy]]]]
[[File:Stroop Report - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 13.jpg|thumbnail|[[Jewish armed anti-Nazi resistance]]]]
[[1848 revolutions]]
[[1968 revolutions]]


[[1919 Seattle general strike]]
[[1919 Seattle general strike]]


2007 Lakota declaration of independence
[[2007 Lakota declaration of independence]]
 
[[2013 Mi'kmaq anti-fracking struggle]]
 
[[American Revolution and Anarchy]]


[[Anabaptists]]
[[Anabaptists]]


[[Anarchy in the American Revolution]]
[[Barcelona en Comú]]
 
[[Anarchy in the French Revolution]]


[[Black Reconstruction]]
[[Black Reconstruction]]


[[Bolivia Water War]]
[[Bolivia Water War]]
[[Cuban Revolution and Anarchism]]


[[First Intifada]]
[[First Intifada]]
[[French Revolution and Anarchy]]


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


Nat Turner's slave rebellion
[[Jewish armed anti-Nazi resistance]]
 
[[La Via Campesina]]
 
[[Luddites]]
 
[[Mexican Revolution and Anarchy]]
 
[[Nat Turner's rebellion]]


[[Pirate anarchy]]
[[Pirate anarchy]]
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[[Red Cloud's War]]
[[Red Cloud's War]]
[[Seminole people|Seminole Wars]]


[[Syrian Revolution]]
[[Syrian Revolution]]
==Limited==
[[Karaite Judaism]]
[[Kharijites]]
[[Mu'tazilites]]


==Unsorted==
==Unsorted==


[[Oaxaca rebellion]]
[[Massalians]]


[[Prague Spring]]
[[Prague Spring]]
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Cantonalist Revolt of 1873-1874
Cantonalist Revolt of 1873-1874


Mohawk road blockade, 1990
=[[Organizations|Organizations]]=
 
Work democracy
 
=Organizations=


''"[[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>
''"[[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>
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==Anarchist==
==[[Organizations#Active|Active Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian]]==
 
[[File:Iwafooter.png|thumbnail|[[International Workers' Association]]]]


[[File:Woman with cnt-fai flag.jpg|thumbnail]]
==[[Organizations#Historical|Historical Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian]]==


[[File:Lala Har Dayal Young.jpg|thumbnail|Har Dayal, founder of [[Fraternity of the Red Flag]]]]
==[[Organizations#Autonomous|Autonomous]]==


[[File:Wall st is war st.jpg|thumbnail|[[Black Mask]]/Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers]]
==[[Organizations#Unsorted|Unsorted]]==


[[Anti-Authoritarian International]] ("Black International")
=Everyday Anarchy=
 
[[Black Mask]]/ Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers
 
[[Burlington Greens]]
 
[[Fraternity of the Red Flag]]
 
[[Freedom Fight]]
 
[[Free Popular University (Egypt)]]
 
[[Guangzhou commune|Teahouse Labour Union]], 11,000 members in 1918
 
[[Guangzhou_commune|Crock-Cow Society]]
 
[[International Workers' Association]] (IWA)
 
[[International Working Men’s Association]] (IWMA)
 
[[Jugoremedija]]
 
[[Shinmin_Prefecture|Korean Anarchist Communist Federation]] (KACF)
 
[[Shinmin_Prefecture|Korean Anarchist Federation in Manchuria]] (KAF-M)
 
[[Mujeres Creando]]
 
National Confederation of Labor (CNT), 2 million members in 1936
 
[[US Green movement|Left Green Network]]
 
[[US Green movement|Youth Greens]]
 
Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
 
Spanish Regional Federation (FRE), 60,000 members in 1873
 
Chilean Labourers Federation (FTCh), 60,000 members in 1921
 
Revolutionary Insurgent Army of the Ukraine (RPAU), 110,000 members
 
All-Russian Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists (ARKAS), 88,000 members
 
Italian Anarchist Union (UAI), 20,000 members
 
General Confederation of Labor (CGT) (Spain), 60,000 members in 2010s
 
National Confederation of Labor--France (CNT-F)
 
Swedish Central Workers' Organisation (SAC), 10,000 members in 1990s
 
Argentine Regional Workers' Federation of the 5th Congress (FORA-V), 200,000 members in 1919
 
House of the World Worker (COM), 50,000 members in 1910s
 
Bleikhman's Petrograd Anarchist Communist Federation (PACF)
 
Union of Anarcho-Syndicalist Propaganda (MFAG)
 
Moscow Federation of Anarchist Groups
 
Black Guards, 1,000 members
 
Federation of Anarchist-Communists of Bulgaria (FAKB)
 
Autonomous Action (AD)
 
Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists (KAS)
 
Confederation of Revolutionary Anarcho-Syndicalists (KRAS)
 
Revolutionary Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists, Nestor Makhno (RKAS-NM), 2,000 members
 
Indigenous Popular Council of Oaxaca--Ricardo Flores Magnón (CIPO-RFM)
 
Magónista-Zapatista Alliance (AMZ)
 
Anarchist Workers' and Students' Group (ASWG)
 
Awareness League (AL)
 
Anarchist Resistance Movement (ARM)
 
Durban Anarchist Federation (DAF)
 
Zabala Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF)
 
North-Eastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists (NEFAC)
 
Common Struggle Libertarian Communist Federation
 
Common Cause
 
Libertarian Communist Union
 
Siberian Confederation of Labor (SKT)
 
Anarkismo.net
 
Workers' Solidarity Movement (WSM)
 
Libertarian Socialist Movement (LSM)
 
Libertarian Alternative (AL)
 
International Brotherhood
 
International Alliance of Socialist Democracy
 
Anarchist organizations within the International Working Person's Association
 
Anarchist Federation of the Altai (AFA)
 
Anarchist Federation of Poland (AFP)
 
Revolutionary Anarchist Socialist Party (PSAR)
 
German Anarchist Federation (AFD)
 
East Asian Anarchist Federation (EAAF)
 
Anarchist International Relations Commission (CRIA)
 
Continental Commission of Anarchist Relations (CCRA)
 
Korean Anarchist Federation's Chinese Exile Section (KAF-C)
 
Korean Anarchist Federation (KAF)
 
Durruti Column
 
Friends of Durruti (AD)
 
Kronstadt Accords (ZK)
 
Francophile Anarchist Federation (FAF)
 
Italian Anarchist Communists (FdCAI)
 
Anarchist Federation of Britain (AFB)
 
Japanese Anarchist Federation (JAF)


Spanish Regional Anarchist Organisation (OARE)
''''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>


Anarchist Communist Alliance
''"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>


Anarchist Federation
''"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>
 
Black Front Society
 
Libertarian Socialist Council (LSC)
 
Workers' Solidarity Movement (RRU)
 
Workers' Solidarity (RR)
 
Co-ordination of Anarchist Groups
 
Anarcho-Communist Port-workers' Group (ACAOP)
 
Anarcho-Syndicalist National Confederation of Labour (ASNKR)
 
Union of Communist Anarchists (UCAI)
 
Federation of Communist Anarchists of German (FKAD)
 
Federation of Anarchist-communist Groups of Poland and Lithuania (FAGPL)
 
Japanese Anarchist Club (JAC)
 
Anarchist Federation
 
Federation of Anarchist Groups of Cuba (FGAC)
 
Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
 
International of Anarchist Federations (IAF)
 
Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
 
anarchist faction in Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR)
 
Anarcho-Communist Unification (CUAC)
 
Libertarian Communist Organisation (OLC)
 
Uruguayan Anarchist Federation (FAU)
 
Anarchist Revolutionary Organisation (ORA)
 
Proletarian Action Anarchists Groups (GAAP)
 
Italian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
 
Federation of Communist Anarchists (FdCA)
 
Polish Anarchist Federation (FA)
 
Communist League of Anarchists
 
Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation
 
Anarchist Federation (AF) / Czech and Slovak Anarchist Federation (CSAF)
 
Federation of Libertarian Socialists (FFS)
 
General Delegation of the CNT (CNT-DG)
 
Venezuelan Regional Workers' Federation (FORV)
 
Federation of Anarchist Groups of Cuba (FGAC)
 
Cuban Libertarian Alliance (ALC)
 
General Confederation of Labor (CGT)
 
Federation of Anarchist Groups in Cuba (FGAC)
 
Yunan guerilla campaigns
 
Bolivian Regional Workers' Confederation (CORB)
 
Feminine Workers' Federation (FOB)
 
Revolutionary Popular Organisation 33 (OPR-33)
 
Libertarian Resistance (RL)
 
Workers' Liberation Group (Shagila)
 
The Scream of the People (CHK)
 
Movement 2 June (M2J)
 
Angry Brigade (AB)
 
Direct Action (AD)
 
Anti-capitalist Autonomous Commandos (KAA)
 
Left Opposition (LO)
 
Wiyathi Collective within the Anti-Capitalist Convergence
 
==Anti-Authoritarian==
 
[[File:Freedom Summer.jpg|thumbnail|Freedom Summer, a 1964 campaign of the [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]], an anti-authoritarian civil rights group.]]
 
[[File:IWW demonstration NY 1914.jpg|thumbnail|[[Industrial Workers of the World]] demonstration in New York, 1914]]
 
[[File:02Jane 400.jpg.jpg|thumbnail|[[Jane]] underground abortion service.]]
 
[[File:Psu.jpg|thumbnail|[[Philly Stands Up]], a transformative justice collective.]]
 
[[File:Up9thCommonGround7Feb06ClothesTent.jpg|thumbnail|[[Common Ground Collective]] distribution center]]
[[File:Bruderhof.jpg|thumbnail|Self-managed [[Bruderhof factories]].]]
 
[[Industrial Workers of the World]] (IWW)
 
[[Jane]]
 
[[Philly Stands Up]]
 
[[Common Ground Collective]]
 
[[Philly's Pissed]]
 
[[San Francisco Diggers]]
 
[[Libertarian Socialist Institute]]
 
[[Situationist International]]
 
[[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]]
 
[[Shamrik Mukti Dal]]
 
[[Bruderhof factories]]
 
Industrial Workers of the World- Chile (IWW-Chile), 25,000 members in 1920
 
Cuban National Labour Confederation (CNOC), 200,000 members
 
IWW-Sierra Leonne, 3,240 members
 
Solidarity Union Democracy (SUD)
 
European Federation of Alternative Syndicalism (FESAL-E)
 
General Confederation of Labour (CGT), 230,000 members in 1906
 
Industrial Union of North and South America (UIANS) (Mexico)
 
Liberation Army of the South (ELS) (Mexico), 70,000 members
 
Industrial Syndicalist Education League (ISEL), 150,000 members in 1910s
 
Irish Transport & General Workers' Union (ITGWU), 12,000 members in 1917
 
Situationist International
 
Siberian Industrial Workers of the World (IWW-Siberia), 16,000 members
 
General Workers' Federation (GFP), 40,000 members
 
Union of Trade Unions (ZZZ)
 
Polish Syndicalist Union (ZSP)
 
Italian Syndicalist Union (USI)
 
Free Association of German Trade Unions (FvDG), 100,000 members
 
German Workers' Union of Germany (AAUD), 30,000 members
 
General Labour Union--Unity Organisation (AAU-E), 75,000 members
 
American Continental Workingmen's Association (ACAT)
 
General League of Koreans (HCH)
 
Libertarian Youth Federation of Iberia (FIJL)
 
Libertarian Youth (JJLL)
 
International Revolutionary Syndicalist Federation (FISR)
 
Syndicalist Workers' Federation (SWF)
 
Federation of Free Labour Unions (FFLU)
 
Independent League of Trade Unions (OVB)
 
IWW Marine Transport Workers' Industrial Union (MTWIU)
 
Chilean IWW
 
Ship-building Workers' Federation (FTB)
 
1951 syndicalist resistance in New Zealand
 
Industrial and Commercial Union of Southern Rhodesia (ICU ''yase'' Rhodesia)
 
National Convention of Workers (CNT), 400,000 members in 1972
 
Autonomous Workers' League (AWL)
 
Autonomous Village Movement (AVM)
 
Aid Group for the Libertarians and Independent Syndicalists in Cuba (GALSIC)
 
==Participatory==
 
[[MOVE]]
 
 
==Autonomous==
 
[[Black Panther Party and Anarchy]]
 
[[Anusilan Samiti]]
 
==Unsorted==
 
Albany Free School
 
Quechua Farmers School
 
Universidad Transhumante
 
Free Stores
 
Freecycle Network
 
Critical Resistance
 
Take Back the Night
 
No Border Network
 
Spanish Regional Labour Federation (FTRE)
 
Pact of Union & Solidarity (PUS)
 
Spanish Regional Workers' Federation (FORE)
 
Proletarian Circle (CP)
 
Grand Circle of Mexican Workers (GCO)
 
Regional Federation of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay (FRROU)
 
Worker's Federation (FO)
 
Artisan's Central Council (JCA)
 
Labourer's Circle (CT)
 
Cuban Labour Confederation (CTC)
 
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
 
Movement of Revolutionary Communards (MRC)
 
Free General Workers' Union (SMOT)
 
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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=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:Craggy Gardens-27527.jpg|thumbnail|[[Appalachian forests]]]]
[[File:Okonjima Lioness.jpg|thumb|[[Lion]]]]
 
[[File:Wolf, voor de natuur, Saxifraga - Jan Nijendijk.5097.jpg|thumbnail|[[Gray wolf]]]]
 
[[Acorn woodpecker]]
 
[[Bison]]
 
[[Bonobo]]
 
[[Central American squirrel monkey]]
 
[[Dolphins]]
 
[[Domestic cat]]
 
[[Elephant]]
 
[[Gorillas dismantling traps]]
 
[[Gray wolf]]
 
[[Groove-billed ani]]
 
[[Lion]]
 
[[Manatee]]
 
[[Seahorse]]


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


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


[[File:Bzr fotos.jpg|thumbnail|[[Chemical clock]]]]
[[File:The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpg|thumbnail|[[Earth system]]]]


[[File:Lasers.JPG|thumbnail|[[Laser]]]]
[[File:Elysia-chlorotica-body.jpg|thumbnail|[[Evolution of sea slugs]]]]


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


[[Bénard convection]]
[[File:Mycorrhizal network.svg|thumb|[[Mycorrhizal network]]]]


[[Bonobo]]
[[File:Utricularia aurea 8 Darwiniana.jpg|thumb|[[Utricularia-algae-zooplankton feedback]]]]


[[Central American squirrel monkey]]
[[Appalachian forests]]


[[Chemical clock]]
[[Bacteria]]


[[Earth system]]
[[Earth system]]


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


[[Evolution of horse]]
[[Evolution of horse]]
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[[Gray wolf]]
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[[Human body and anarchy]]
 
[[Mimosa-beetle symbiosis]]
 
[[Mycorrhizal network]]
 
[[Utricularia-algae-zooplankton feedback]]
 
==Cosmos, Physics, and Chemistry==
 
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[[Groove-billed ani]]
[[Chemical clock]]


[[Human body and anarchy]]
[[Bénard convection]]


[[Laser]]
[[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>


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==Anti-Authoritarian==


[[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)
[[File:Earthseed.jpg|thumb|[[Earthseed]]]]


Nowhere (''News from Nowhere'')
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[[File:Fraggle Rock.png|thumb|[[Fraggle Rock]]]]
 
[[File:Hobbiton, New Zealand.jpg|thumb|[[The Shire]]]]
 
[[Cokaygne]]
 
[[Earthseed]]


[[The Shire]] (''The Lord of the Rings'')
[[Fraggle Rock]]


==Participatory==
[[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)


[[File:Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. 037.jpg|thumbnail| [[Cokaygne]] ]]
[[Kesh]] (''Always Coming Home'')


[[Cokaygne]]
Nowhere (''News from Nowhere'')


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


==Autonomous==
==Autonomous==


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


[[Examples by Source]]




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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.

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.

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

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

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

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


Anarchist

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

Revolutionary Spain, 1936-9, 3.2 million people

Revolutionary Ukraine, 1918-1921, 7 million people

Shinmin Prefecture, 1929-1931, 2 million people


Anti-Authoritarian

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

Abahlali baseMjondolo, 115,000 members as of 2022

Andamanese

Anuak

Argentinian horizontalidad

Batek

Bayaka

Çatalhöyük

Catholic Worker

Cherán

Croatan

El Alto neighborhood councils, 2000s CE

Cayonu, 7200 to ca. 4200 BCE

Cherokee

Chickasaw

Choctaw

Crianza Mutua (Colombia)

Crianza Mutua (Mexico)

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

Diné

Early Uruk, 4000-3200 BCE

Early Neolithic Southern Levant, 10,500 to 6000 BCE

Global Ecovillage Network

Hadza

Haudenosaunee

Hopi

Indus Valley Civilization

Inuit

Itoiz villages

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

Konkomba

Kuna people

La Solana villages

Late Taosi

Longo Maï

Malaipantaram

Mapuche, 1 million people in sixteenth century

Mbuti

Minangkabau

Minoan Crete, 3000 BCE-1100 BCE

Muscogee

Oceti Sakowin (Sioux)

Nayaka people

Niitsitapi (Blackfoot)

Nishnaabeg

Piaroa

Peiligang culture, 7000-5000 BCE

Rojava, 2012-present, 2.5 million people

San (including !Kung)

Santals

Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement

Semai people

Seminole people

Taborite communes, 15th century

Vikalp Sangam (India)

Wendat

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

Zomia, present, 100 million people

Zuni

Autonomous

Teotihuacan
Landless Workers' Movement
Early Israelites
Medieval commune
Canela people

Aboriginal Australians

Canela people

Early Christians

Early Israelites

Early Uruk

Highland Madagascar

Igbo

Landless Workers' Movement

Lugbara

Mashkan-shapir

Medieval commune

Palmares

Parisian sections

Pequot

Sea Peoples

Revolutionary Syria

Sami

Teotihuacan

Essenes

Castile confederation

Essenes, 4,000 people

Paris Commune, 1871, 2 million people

South Carolina Commune

Maluku archipelago

Quinnipiac

Swiss confederal leagues

Therapeutae

Tiv

Tlaxcala (Postclassic)

Venezuelan communes

Limited

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

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

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

New England town meetings

Tribal Arabia

Tonga people


Unsorted

South American Indians

Land Dayaks

La Paz Zapotec, nearly 2,000 people

Maori

New Guinea indigenous peoples

Northwest coast indigenous peoples

Nubian people

Nuer

Imazighen

Ifugao

Dinka people

Communities

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

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


Anarchist

Guangzhou commune, 1921-1923

Anti-Autoritarian

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

Christiania, 1971-present, 900 people

Faslane Peace Camp, 1982-present

Free Republic of Wendland, 1980, 5,000 people

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

Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, 1981-200

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

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

Autonomous

Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Commune, 1922-1926

Pocasset, 200 families

Huehuecoyotl

Unsorted

Taita Hills

Ghana shantytown

Minnehaha Free State

Mexican colonial proletarias

Peruvian 'barriadas

Tunisian gourbivilles

Indian bus tees

Turkish gecekondu

Venezuelan ranchos

King Hill hostel squat

Movements and Uprisings

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

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

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

Anarchist

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

The Haymarket Martyrs

Conspiracy of Cells of Fire

Informal Anarchist Federation

Anarchists in the Russian Revolution

Anarchists in the Italian Factory Occupations

Anarchism and the Spanish Revolution

Anarchism in the Mexican Revolution

Manchurian Revolution

1999 Seattle WTO shutdown

Modern schools

2008 Greek insurrection

US Galleanists

1911 Lima-Callao general strike

1919 Peruvian general strike

Anti-Authoritarian

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

Abalone Alliance

Alcatraz occupation

Adamites

Alter-globalization movement

Anarchy in the German Revolution

Anarchy in the Russian Revolution

Anarchy in the Haitian Revolution

Animal Liberation Front

Anti-Shell actions

Bogomils

BDS Movement

Cascadia Free State, 1995-6

Cathars, 11th to 14th centuries

Catholic Worker movement

Community taro patches

Clamshell Alliance

Earth First!

Earth Liberation Front

English food riots in eighteenth century

English Peasants' Revolt of 1381

German Anti-Fascism

Italian Anti-Fascism

Italian Autonomia

John Brown's raids

Kurdish democratic confederalists

Kronstadt rebellion

Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992

Mapuche Struggle

Movement of the Free Spirit

Oaxaca rebellion

Occupy movement

Oka Crisis

Unist'ot'en Camp

US anti-nuclear movement

US Green movement

School of the Tillers

Sexual revolution

Standing Rock Uprising

Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty

Texas KXL blockade

The May-June Revolt in France, 1968

Watts Rebellion

Yellow Turban Rebellion

Zone to Defend (ZAD), 2012-present

Autonomous

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

1848 revolutions

1968 revolutions

1919 Seattle general strike

2007 Lakota declaration of independence

2013 Mi'kmaq anti-fracking struggle

American Revolution and Anarchy

Anabaptists

Barcelona en Comú

Black Reconstruction

Bolivia Water War

Cuban Revolution and Anarchism

First Intifada

French Revolution and Anarchy

German Peasants' War

Jewish armed anti-Nazi resistance

La Via Campesina

Luddites

Mexican Revolution and Anarchy

Nat Turner's rebellion

Pirate anarchy

Pueblo Revolt

Red Cloud's War

Seminole Wars

Syrian Revolution

Limited

Karaite Judaism

Kharijites

Mu'tazilites

Unsorted

Massalians

Prague Spring

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

1903 Macedonian revolt

1905–1907 Russian Revolt

1910 Mexican revolution

1960 student revolts

Imazighen

Parisian urban gardeners

Cantonalist Revolt of 1873-1874

Organizations

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

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


Active Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian

Historical Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian

Autonomous

Unsorted

Everyday Anarchy

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

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

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

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


Anarchist

Anti-Authoritarian

Really Really Free Market

Mumbai community dog care

Participatory

Autonomous

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

Woodstock Festival, 1969, 40,000 people

Pioneer Health Centre

Little Commonwealth

Vienna Psychoanalytic Society's child guidance service

Horizontal organization in British architecture

Global postal service

International railways

Swiss city planning

Emdrup playground

The Yard

Unsorted

Mexican colonial proletarias

Peruvian 'barriadas

Tunisian gourbivilles

Indian bus tees

Turkish gecekondu

Venezuelan ranchos

Prestolee School

Institueion Libre de Enseiianza

Residential College for Students

1960 student revolts

Freetown playground

Skrammellegeplad playgrounds

Robinson Crusoe playgrounds

Brixham fishing cooperative

Brora mining cooperative

Standard tractor factory

Durham worker-managed mines

Gheel mental health care

Synanon

Claimant's Union

Eyes on the street

Open source

Wikipedia

Nonhuman Anarchy

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

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

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

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

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

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

Animal Societies

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

Acorn woodpecker

Bison

Bonobo

Central American squirrel monkey

Dolphins

Domestic cat

Elephant

Gorillas dismantling traps

Gray wolf

Groove-billed ani

Lion

Manatee

Seahorse

Earth and Ecology

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

Appalachian forests

Bacteria

Earth system

Evolution of eukaryotes

Evolution of green hydra

Evolution of horse

Evolution of sea slugs

Evolution of translucent worms

Human body and anarchy

Mimosa-beetle symbiosis

Mycorrhizal network

Utricularia-algae-zooplankton feedback

Cosmos, Physics, and Chemistry

Bénard_convection
Chemical clock

Chemical clock

Bénard convection

Laser

Physics and anarchy

Solar system's planets

Universe

Fictional Anarchy

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

Anarchist

Anarres

Anarres (The Dispossessed)

Mars (Mars trilogy)

San Francisco (The Fifth Sacred Thing)

Anti-Authoritarian

Earthseed
Cokaygne
Fraggle Rock
The Shire

Cokaygne

Earthseed

Fraggle Rock

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

Kesh (Always Coming Home)

Nowhere (News from Nowhere)

The Shire (The Lord of the Rings)

Autonomous

Umuofia (Things Fall Apart)


  1. ↑ Maia Ramnath, Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle (AK Press, 2011), 6.
  2. ↑ Silvia Federici, "Global Anarchism: Provocations" in No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms, ed. Barry Maxwell and Raymond Crib, (Oakland: PM Press, 2015), 350-351.
  3. ↑ "Gord Hill, Indigenous Artist and Anarchist," Crimethinc, 1 August 2017, https://crimethinc.com/2017/08/01/an-interview-with-gord-hill.
  4. ↑ David Graeber and David Wengrow, "How to change the course of human history, Eurozine, 2 March 2018, https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/.
  5. ↑ Paths in Utopia (Boston: Beacon Press, 1958), ch. 10.
  6. ↑ Subcomandante Marcos, "Why We Chose the Weapon of Resistance" in Our Word is Our Weapon (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001), 160.
  7. ↑ Joshua Stephens, “Palestinian Anarchists in Conversation: Recalibrating anarchism in a colonized country,” Institute for Anarchist Studies, 19 July 2013, https://anarchiststudies.org/palestinian-anarchists/.
  8. ↑ https://www.iiipublishing.com/politics/elf.htm.
  9. ↑ Howard Zinn, "Anarchism Shouldn't Be a Dirty Word," AlterNet, 16 May, 2008, http://www.alternet.org/story/85427/howard_zinn%3A_anarchism_shouldn't_be_a_dirty_word.
  10. ↑ Murray Bookchin, "Anarchy and Organization", Libcom.org, http://libcom.org/library/anarchy-organization-murray-bookchin.
  11. ↑ bell hooks, "How Do You Practice Intersectionalism?", The Anarchist Library, https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/randy-lowens-how-do-you-practice-intersectionalism.
  12. ↑ David Graeber, "Are You an Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!", The Anarchist Library, http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-are-you-an-anarchist-the-answer-may-surprise-you.
  13. ↑ Colin Ward, Anarchy Works.
  14. ↑ Ferris Jabr, "The Social Life of Forests", New York Times, 2 December, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/02/magazine/tree-communication-mycorrhiza.html.
  15. ↑ Layla AbdelRahim, Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation (New York: Routledge, 2015), 3-4.
  16. ↑ Robin Wall Kimmerer, "The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance," Emergence Magazine, 2020, https://emergencemagazine.org/story/the-serviceberry/.
  17. ↑ Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry, The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era - A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992), 75.
  18. ↑ Vandana Shiva, "Foreword" in Derrick Jensen and George Draffan, Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests (White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2003), vii.
  19. ↑ Murray Bookchin, The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy (Palo Alto: Cheshire Books, 1982), 26.
  20. ↑ "Ursula K Le Guin's speech at National Book Awards", The Guardian, 20 November 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/20/ursula-k-le-guin-national-book-awards-speech.
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