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Encyclopedia > List of anarchist organizations
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Anarchism

Traditions
Anarcha-feminism
Anarchist communism
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Collectivist anarchism
Eco-anarchism
Green anarchism
Individualist anarchism
Mutualism
Politics, sometimes defined as the art and science of government[1], is a process by which collective decisions are made within groups. ... Anarchism is derived from the Greek αναρχία (without archons (ruler, chief, king)). Thus anarchism, in its most general meaning, is the belief that forms of rulership are undesirable and should be abolished. ... Image File history File links Anarchy-symbol. ... Anarcha-feminism combines anarchism with feminism. ... Anarchocommunism is a form of anarchism that advocates the abolition of the State and capitalism in favor of a horizontal network of voluntary associations through which everyone will be free to satisfy his or her needs. ... Anarcho-capitalism refers to an anti-statist philosophy that embraces capitalism as one of its foundational principles. ... Green and black flag of Anarcho-Primitivism. ... Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism which focuses on the labor movement, Syndicalisme is a French word meaning trade unionism hence the syndicalism qualification. ... Christian anarchism (also known as Christian libertarianism) is the belief that the only source of authority to which Christians are ultimately answerable is God, embodied in the teachings of Jesus. ... Left Anarchism is a term used almost exclusively by opponents of traditional anarchism to denominate philosophies that oppose private ownership of the means of production (or capitalism). ... Eco-anarchism argues that small eco-villages (of no more than a few hundred people) are a scale of human living preferable to civilization, and that infrastructure and political systems should be re-organized to ensure that these are created. ... Green anarchism is a set of related political theories that is derived from philosophical and social movements such as social ecologists, feminism, egoism, situationism, surrealism, the Luddittes, primitivism, post- and anti-leftists, indigenous, anti-industrialism, and pre-civilized people. ... Individualist anarchism is a philosophical tradition that opposes collectivism and has a particularly strong emphasis on the supremacy and autonomy of the individual. ... This article is about the economic theory. ...


Anarchism in culture


Anarchism and religion
Anarchism and society
Anarchism and the arts
Anarcho-punk
Anarchists have traditionally been skeptical and opposed to organized religion. ... This article discusses the anarchist critiques of society and proposed solutions from the anarchist perspective. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The anarchy symbol commonly used by anarcho-punks Anarcho-punk (sometimes known as peace-punk) is a subgenre of the punk rock movement consisting of groups and bands promoting specifically anarchist ideas. ...


Anarchist theory


Anarchist economics
Anarchism and capitalism
Anarchism and Marxism
Anarchism and nationalism
Anarchist symbolism
Anarchism w/o adjectives
Post-left anarchy
Anarchist economics entails theory and practice relating to economic activity within the philosophical outlines of anarchism. ... Though the libertarian socialist critique of capitalism is rooted in socialist theory, there are certain key distinctions in their critiques, which this article attempts to elucidate. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Anarchism has a long association with nationalism, dating back to Proudhon, a Gallic Nationalist, and Bakunin, a pan-slavist. ... This article discusses various anarchist symbols, including the circle-A and the black flag. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Post-left anarchy is a recent current in anarchist thought that seeks to distance itself from the traditional left and to escape the confines of ideology in general. ...


Relevant lists


Anarchists
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The following is a list of notable individuals who have been regarded as anarchists by themselves or others, arranged by surname. ... Anarchist Daniel Guérin, Anarchism Robert Graham Anarchism. ... This is a list of past and present anarchist communities. ... These are concepts which, although not exclusive to anarchism, are significant in historical and/or modern anarchist circles. ... The following is a list of notable anarchist musicians. ...

Politics Portal · edit

This list uses the word organization in its loosest sense. It could be argued that some of the following groups would be better categorized as networks. An organization or organisation (read more about -ize vs -ise) is a formal group of people with one or more shared goals. ... A social network is a map of the relationships between individuals, indicating the ways in which they are connected through various social familiarities ranging from casual acquaintance to close familial bonds. ...

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Active Organizations

International

AK Press is a collectively owned and operated independent publisher and book distributor that specialises in radical and anarchist literature. ... The Anarchist Black Cross (or ABC) is an anarchist political Prison Abolition organization, first started in Russia as the Anarchist Red Cross, a support organization for political prisoners. ... Anarchist Black Cross Federation was created in 1995 when several North American ABC collectives had merged into a federation. ... The Anarchist Black Cross Network is a world-wide decentralized and egalitarian network of organizations committed to the original ideals of the Anarchist Black Cross movement -- of seeing prisons and the poverty, racism and genocide that accompanies them to be symptoms of a social order whose last days are near. ... THIS PAGE NEEDS TO BE WIKIFIED Critical Mass was a pressure group based in Kent, England. ... Logo Food Not Bombs is a loose-knit group of independent collectives, serving free vegan and vegetarian food to others. ... The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is a famous international union currently headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. It contends that all workers should be united within a single union as a class and the wage system abolished. ... The Independent Media Center, also called Indymedia or the IMC, is a loose network of amateur or alternative media organizations and journalists who organize into decentralized collectives, normally around geographic locations. ... The International of Anarchist Federations (IAF or IFA) was founded during an international anarchist conference in Carrara in 1968 by the three existing european federations of France, Italy and Spain as well as the Bulgarian federation in french exile. ... International Libertarian Solidarity is an international anarchist federation with over 20 participating organizations from North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. ... Peoples Global Action demonstrators in Prague in September 2000. ... Red and Anarchist Skinheads (also Anarcho-skinheads; RASH) are the anti-racist, anti-fascist skinheads. ...

Africa

(See also African Anarchism) African Anarchism This article is about the historical and contemporary Anarchist movement in Africa. ...

The Awareness League is a Nigerian anarchist organisation with a couple of thousand members. ... logo Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Federation (ZACF or ZabFed) is a federation of anarchist groups in South Africa. ... logo Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Federation (ZACF or ZabFed) is a federation of anarchist groups in South Africa. ... logo Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Federation (ZACF or ZabFed) is a federation of anarchist groups in South Africa. ... logo Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Federation (ZACF or ZabFed) is a federation of anarchist groups in South Africa. ...

Asia

  • Counter-Culture Collective (Indonesia)
  • Davao Anarchists Resistance Movement (Davao, Philippines)
  • Phantoms of Anarchy led by Bryan Gaviola (Bohol, Philippines)
  • Society for the Black Front (Japan)
  • Jakarta Anarchist Resistance (Indonesia)

Eurasia

Autonomous Action, Avtonomnoe Deystvie, (AD) is a revolutionary anarchist federation in Russia that was founded in January 2002. ... New Revolutionary Alternative (NRA) is an anarchist organization devoted to insurrectionary struggle in Russia. ... The Siberian Confederation of Labour (Сибирской Конфедерации Труда) or SKT is a Russian anarcho-syndicalist union based in Siberia, the largest union being in the city of Omsk. ...

Europe

See also the Anarchist Federation (US). ... Anti-State Justice (Greek: Antikratiki Dikaiosini) is an anarchist organization that has carried out violent attacks on political targets in Athens, Greece. ... Alternative Libertaire is a French anarchist organization formed in 1991 which publishes a monthly magazine, actively participates in a variety of social movements, and is a member of International Libertarian Solidarity. ... CIB Unicobas (Confederazione Italiana di Base UNIcobas) or Italian Base Confederation Unicobas is an independent, syndicalist, libertarian socialist union, and part of the Italian rank and file or base union movement. ... This article is about the organisation and newspaper Class War. ... The Confederación General del Trabajo of Spain (CGT) is a Anarcho-Syndicalist trade union, arisen from the split of CNT/AIT after the arrival of democracy and the following reorganization and restructuring process of the trade unions. ... The Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (National Confederation of Labour or CNT), founded in Barcelona, Spain, in 1910, was at one time that countrys largest labor organization. ... Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston is the title of a seminal book by Ernest Callenbach, published in 1975. ... Federacja Anarchistyczna [Anarchist Federation]. Polish org that works towards drugs legalization, acceptance for homosexual couples, against police violence or fascism and fights civil rights. ... The Federation of Anarchists of Western Greece, Anarchici della Grecia Occidentale (OADE), was formed in May of 2003 in Agrinio as a result of numerous conversations about the need for greater organization among anarchists in western Greece. ... La Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici (www. ... The Freedom Press premises in Angel Alley, Whitechapel, east London Freedom Press is the oldest surviving anarchist publishing house in the English speaking world and the largest in Britain. ... The magazine Green Anarchist was for a while the principle voice in the UK advocating an explicit fusion of libertarian socialist and ecological thinking (Green anarchism), although such ideas had arguably been co-sympathetic for decades if not generations beforehand. ... Haringey Solidarity Group or HSG, are a loose collective of anarchists, socialists, and community activists based in the London Borough of Haringey. ... The Movement Against the Monarchy, abbreviated and commonly referred to simply as MAM, is a UK-based Anarchist organization that frequently engages in protests against the British Monarchy. ... The Sveriges Arbetares Centralorganisation (SAC) or the Central Organisation of Swedish Workers is a Swedish anarcho-syndicalist union. ... Formed in 1994, the Solidarity Federation (SolFed) is a federation of class struggle anarchists active in Britain. ... The Thieves in Black is an anarchist gang responsible for numerous bank robberies in Athens, Greece. ... The Irish Workers Solidarity Movement is an anarchist organisation from the platformist tradition of Nestor Makhno. ...

Middle East

Anarchists Against the Wall (AAW), sometimes called Anarchists Against the Fence or Jews Against Ghettos, is a loose-knit organization comprised of Israeli anarchists and anti-authoritarians who oppose the construction of the barrier between Palestine and Israel (supporters of the barrier call it a security fence while many opponents... Black Laundry is a group of self-described queer Israelis opposed to the Occupation of the Palestinian territories. ...

North America

The Alternative Media Project is a non-profit organization that promotes alternative and independent media. ... Anarchist People of Color was created to increase focus on issues of race in the anarchist movement and increase political space for people of color. ... The Anarchist Prisoners Legal Aid Network (APLAN) is an Anarchist organization that provides legal aid to known anarchist prisoners and publishes the newsletter We Never Sleep. ... Anti-Racist Action Network (ARA) is a decentralized network of anti-fascist and anti-racist activists. ... The Biotic Baking Brigade is a loosely connected group of activists, famous for throwing pies in the faces of such figures as Bill Gates, San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, anti-gay preacher Fred Phelps, economist Milton Friedman, Swedish King Carl Gustaf, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, conservative journalist William... Bring the Ruckus is a revolutionary cadre organization that rejects the loose network model of the anarchists and the vanguard model of the Leninists. ... CrimethInc. ... The DAAA Collective, or Direct Action Anti-Authoritarians, is an anarchist and anti-authoritarian collective based out of the Central Valley city of Modesto in California. ... Green Anarchy is a magazine published three times a year out of Eugene, Oregon by a collective. ... Homes Not Jails is an American organization which describes itself as an autonomous group of individuals whose mission is to end homelessness and abolish the prison industrial complex. ... The Institute for Anarchist Studies is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 to assist anarchist writers and further develop the theoretical aspects of the anarchist movement. ... The Liberty House is a DIY music venue operating out of Dallas, Texas. ... NEFAC (the North Eastern Federation of Anarchist-Communists or the Fédération des Communistes Libertaires du Nord-Est) is an anarchist-communist organization, associated with International Libertarian Solidarity and consisting of active member collectives in Canada and the United States. ... The Northwest Anarchist Federation (NAF) is a recently formed federation of revolutionary unions and collectives in the Pacific Northwest. ... The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) is a group of anti-poverty activists in Ontario, Canada, that uses direct action to fight for the rights of the poor and homeless. ... POG (Pittsburgh Organizing Group) is a Pittsburgh based progressive group concerned with peace, autonomy, anarchism, social justice, economic justice, and environmental issues locally, nationally, and internationally. ... Queer Fist is a radical LGBT collective in New York City that was started as an ad hoc network amid the 2004 Republican National Convention protests. ... The Red & Anarchist Action Network (RAAN) is a loose organization of autonomous individuals and collectives who subscribe to revolutionary anarchist and libertarian (that is, anti-state, anti-leninist) communist ideals. ... The Rural Ontario Anarchist Development (ROAD) Network is a recent group which is Ontario-based, trying to promote education and networking. ... The Rhizome Collective is a consensus-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based on Austin, Texas, USA. The collective was founded in 2000 and operates an Educational Center for Urban Sustainability and a Center for Community Organizing. ... Workers Solidarity Alliance is a group that advocates anarcho-syndicalism. ...

Oceania

The Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group (MACG) is a recently formed federation of revolutionary anarchists with a focus on class struggle and direct action in Melbourne, Australia. ... A small but active libertarian communist group in Auckland. ... In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to ones nation or state. ...

South America

  • AUCA - Socialismo Rivoluzionario (Argentina) [66]
  • Comision de Relaciones Anarquistas (Venezuela)
  • Ervadaninha (Brazil) [67]
  • Federação Anarquista do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) [68]
  • Federação Anarquista Gaúcha (Brazil) [69]
  • Federación Anarquista Uruguya (Uruguay) [70]
  • Federación Libertaria Argentina (Argentina) [71]
  • Luta Libertaria (Brazil) [72]
  • Mujeres Creando (Bolivia)
  • Organización Socialista Libertaria (Argentina) [73]

The Commission of Anarchist Relations (CRA) is a Venezuelan anarchist organization that has been publishing the periodical El Libertario since 1995. ... The Argentine Libertarian Federation (in Spanish, Federación Libertaria Argentina, FLA) is an anarchist federation which operates in Argentina, out of San Pedro, La Pampa Province, and Rosario. ...

Defunct organizations

International

The Anarchist St. ...

Africa

  • Anarchist Revolutionary Movement (South Africa)
  • Workers Solidarity Federation (South Africa) [74]
  • Zabalaza Action Group

logo Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Federation (ZACF or ZabFed) is a federation of anarchist groups in South Africa. ...

Asia

The Japanese Anarchist Federation (JAF) was an anarchist union that existed in Japan from May 1946 to 1968. ...

Europe

Acratas, also known as the anti-crats, was a protest group formed at Madrid University, Spain, by Agustin Garcia Calvo in 1967. ... The Angry Brigade were a group of anarchist terrorists responsible for a long string of bomb attacks between 1970 and 1972. ... The Bonnot Gang was a French criminal anarchist group that terrorized France and Belgium from 1911 to 1912. ... For the Utah city, see Provo, Utah. ...

North America

See also the Anarchist Federation (US). ... The Bl(A)ck Tea Society is an ad hoc, nonviolent anti-authoritarian coalition whose purpose is to protest the Democratic National Convention in Boston, which was held on the last week of July 2004. ... The slogan Bread and Roses originated in the strike of women textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912. ... Direct action is a method and a theory of stopping objectionable practices or creating more favorable conditions using immediately available means. ... Direct Action Network (DAN) was a confederation of anarchist and anti-authoritarian organizations that was formed to coordinate Seattles anti-WTO mobilization in 1999. ... The Federation of Revolutionary Anarchists Collectives -- Great Lakes (FRAC-GL) is a regional revolutionary anarchist federation around the US Great Lakes. ... The Front de libération du Québec (Quebec Liberation Front), commonly known as the FLQ, was a socialist and nationalist terrorist group founded in the 1960s, during the early days of the Quebec independence movement, which practiced propaganda of the deed. ... The Libertarian Workers Group was a New York City based affinity group which was a member of the US Anarchist Communist Federation (ACF). ... This article deals with the US Love and Rage. ... Port7alliance was a North American hacker group responsible for production of the internet based magazine Radical Future. ... The Social Revolutionary Anarchist Federation (SRAF) was a loose-based federation of American anarchists of different stripes. ... Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers (often referred to as simply the Motherfuckers) was an anarchist affinity group based in New York City. ...

External links

  • International Anarchism
  • International organisations
  • Anarchist organizations

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