Outline of anarchism

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to anarchism:

Nature

Schools of thought

Organizational forms

History

The execution of the Haymarket martyrs following the Haymarket affair of 1886 inspired a new generation of anarchists

Timeline of major events

Historic precedents and background events (pre-1840)
Early stages (1840-1870)
Classical era (1870–1913)
World War I, Interwar period and World War II (1914 – 1945)
Cold War era (1946 – 1989)
  • 1955 – Pierre Morain becomes the first French activist jailed for supporting Algerian independence.
  • 1968 – May 68 in France.[13]
  • 1969 – Piazza Fontana bombing and death of Giuseppe Pinelli in Italy.
  • 1970 – Barracks anarchists killed in Italy.
  • 1971 – Chomsky–Foucault debate the Netherlands.
  • 1978 – Scala case in Spain.
  • 1980 – Faurisson affair in France.
  • 1980 – Wanganui Computer Centre bombing in New Zealand.
  • 1982 – Litton Industries bombing in Canada.
  • 1986 – Battle of Ryesgade in Denmark.
Post-Cold War era resurgence (1990 – present)

History by region

Australian Anarchist Centenary Celebrations on 1 May 1986 at the Melbourne Eight Hour Day monument

Historians

Historical societies

Organizations

Notable organizations

  • Delo Truda (1925–1930)
  • Friends of Durruti Group (1937–1939)
  • Uruguayan Anarchist Federation (est. 1956)
  • Alternative libertaire (1991–2019)
  • Revolutionary Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists (1994–2014)
  • Autonomous Action (est. 2002)
  • Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (est. 2003)
  • Libertære Socialister (2009–2017)
  • Libertarian Communist Union (est. 2019)
  • The Platform (est. 2019)
  • Federation of Workers of the Spanish Region (1881–1888)
  • Sociedad Cosmopolita de Resistencia y Colocación de Obreros Panaderos (1887–1930)
  • Pact of Union and Solidarity (1888–1896)[16]
  • National Labor Secretariat (1893–1914)
  • Confédération Générale du Travail (est. 1895)
  • Free Association of German Trade Unions (1897–1919)
  • Federation of Workers' Societies of the Spanish Region (1900–1907)[17]
  • Argentine Regional Workers' Federation (est. 1901)
  • Industrial Workers of the World (est. 1905)
  • Paraguayan Regional Workers' Federation (1906–1916)[18]
  • Solidaridad Obrera (1907–1910)
  • Brazilian Workers' Confederation (1908–1915)
  • Union of Russian Workers (1908–1919)
  • Central Organisation of the Workers of Sweden (est. 1910)
  • Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (est. 1910)
  • Fagoppositionens Sammenslutning (1910–1921)[19]
  • Unione Sindacale Italiana (est. 1912)
  • Peruvian Regional Workers' Federation (1912–1925)
  • Casa del Obrero Mundial (1912–1916)
  • National Workers' Union (Portugal) (1914–1919)[20]
  • Norsk Syndikalistisk Forbund (est. 1916)
  • Regional Workers' Center of Paraguay (1916–1934)[21]
  • Free Workers' Union of Germany (1919–1933)
  • General Confederation of Labour (Portugal) (1919–1938)[22]
  • Syndicalist Defense Committee (1922–1926)
  • Dutch Syndicalist Trade Union Federation (1923–1940)
  • All-Japan Libertarian Federation of Labour Unions (1926–1936)[23]
  • Confédération Générale du Travail-Syndicaliste Révolutionnaire (1926–1939)
  • Syndikalistiska Arbetarefederationen (1928–1938)
  • Libertarian Federal Council of Labour Unions of Japan (1929–1934)[23]
  • Union of Trade Unions (1931–1939)
  • Confédération nationale du travail (est. 1946)
  • Free Workers' Union (est. 1977)
  • Solidarity Federation (est. 1979)
  • Confederación General del Trabajo (est. 1979)
  • Workers' Initiative (est. 2001)
  • Autonomous Workers' Union (2011–2018)

Synthesis federations

  • The Disinherited (1882–1885)
  • Boatmen of Thessaloniki (1898–1903)
  • Chernoe Znamia (1903–1908)
  • Union of Poor Peasants (1905–1908)
  • Chinese Assassination Corps (1910–1911)
  • Rewolucyjni Mściciele (1910–1914)
  • Bonnot Gang (1911–1912)
  • Red Battalions (1914–1916)
  • Black Guards (1917–1919)
  • Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (1918–1921)
    • 1st Donetsk Corps (1919–1920)
    • 2nd Azov Corps (1919–1920)
    • 6th Kyiv Corps (1919–1920)
    • Air Fleet (1918–1921)
    • Azov-Black Sea Flotilla (1919)
    • Kontrrazvedka (1919–1921)
  • Heroic Corps (1919–1928)
  • Red Legion (1919–1925)
  • Los Justicieros (1920–1922)
  • Los Solidarios (1922–1924)
  • Los Errantes (1924–1926)
  • Black Band (1929–1933)
  • Confederal militias (1934–1937)
    • Andalusia-Extremadura Column (1936–1937)
    • Ascaso Column (1936–1937)
    • Durruti Column (1936–1937)
    • Harriers Column (1936–1937)
    • Iberia Column (1936–1937)
    • Iron Column (1936–1937)
    • Land and Freedom Column (1936–1937)
    • Maroto Column (1936)
    • Red and Black Column (1936)
    • Rosal Column (1936–1937)
    • Torres-Benedito Column (1936–1937)
  • Anarchist brigades in the Italian Resistance (1943–1945)
  • 104th Company of Syndicalists (1943–1944)
  • Syndicalist Brigade (1944–1945)
  • Defensa Interior (1961–1965)[24]
  • First of May Group (1966–1974)
  • The Angry Brigade (1968–1972)
  • East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front (1972–1975)
  • 2 June Movement (1972–1980)
  • Internationalist Revolutionary Action Groups (1973–1979)[25]
  • Resistencia Libertaria (1974–1978)
  • Fasel Gang (1977–1991)
  • Comandos Autónomos Anticapitalistas (1978–1985)
  • Action Directe (1979–1987)
  • CLODO (1980–1983)
  • Militant Direct Action Task Force (1980s-early 1990s)
  • Squamish Five (1981–1983)
  • People's Liberation Front (1989–1991)
  • Revolutionary Nuclei (1996–2000)
  • Informal Anarchist Federation (est. 2003)
  • Revolutionary Struggle (est. 2003)
  • Revolutionary Action (est. 2005)
  • Leon Czolgosz Autonomous and Destructive Forces (2006–2009)
  • Revolutionary Anarchist Front (2007–2009)
  • Severino di Giovanni Antipatriot Band (2007–2012)
  • Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei (est. 2008)
  • Jean Marc Rouillan Armed and Heartless Columns (2008–2012)
  • Revolutionary Cells (2009–2011)
  • Sect of Revolutionaries (2009–2011)
  • Iconoclastic Caravans for Free Will (2009–2012)
  • Efraín Plaza Olmedo Dynamite Band (2009–2013)
  • Práxedis G. Guerrero Autonomous Cells of Immediate Revolution (2009–2014)
  • Vandalika Teodoro Suárez Gang (2010–2011)
  • Mariano Sánchez Añón Insurrectional Cell (2010–2014)
  • Antagonic Nuclei of the New Urban Guerrilla (est. 2011)
  • Anarchic Cell for Revolutionary Solidarity (2012)
  • People's Self-Defense (2013–2022)
  • Organization for Revolutionary Self-Defense (2014–2019)
  • Revolutionary Union for Internationalist Solidarity (est. 2015)
  • Anarchist Struggle (est. 2017)
  • International Revolutionary People's Guerrilla Forces (2017–2018)
  • Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists (est. 2018)
  • Resistance Committee (est. 2022)

Others

Structures

Literature

Manifestos and expositions

(1840–1914)
(1914–1984)
(1985–present)
  • Listen, Anarchist! (1987) by Chaz Bufe
  • Anarchy Alive! (2007) by Uri Gordon
  • The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism (2019) by Ruth Kinna

Notable figures

Argentina

Armenia

Australia

Austria

Belgium

Bolivia

  • Petronila Infantes

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Brazil

Bulgaria

  • Mariola Sirakova
  • Manol Vasev
  • Paraskev Stoyanov
  • Spiro Gulabchev
  • Tinko Simov
  • Tsvetana Jermanova

Canada

Chile

China

Cuba

  • Canek Sánchez Guevara

Czechia

  • Franz Kafka
  • Jakub Polák (anarchist)
  • Luisa Landová-Štychová

Denmark

  • Halfdan Rasmussen

Ecuador

  • Piedad Moscoso

Finland

  • Harry Järv
  • Kaarlo Uskela

Georgia

  • Varlam Cherkezishvili[26]

Germany

Greece

Iceland

India

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Korea

Japan

Macedonia

  • Atanas Razdolov

Mexico

Netherlands

  • Bart de Ligt
  • Carolina Bunjes
  • Christiaan Cornelissen
  • Clara Wichmann
  • Edo Fimmen
  • Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis
  • Joop Westerweel
  • Simon Berman
  • Wieke Bosch

New Zealand

  • Philip Josephs
  • Simon Oosterman

Nigeria

  • Sam Mbah

Norway

Paraguay

  • Moisés Santiago Bertoni
  • Obdulio Barthe

Peru

Poland

  • Aniela Wolberg
  • Edward Abramowski
  • German Askarov
  • Jan Wacław Machajski
  • German Askarov
  • Walery Mroczkowski

Portugal

  • Alfredo Luís da Costa
  • Antero de Quental
  • Deolinda Lopes Vieira
  • Mário Castelhano
  • Vitorino

Romania

Russia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Syria

  • Omar Aziz

Taiwan

Turkey

  • Mehmet Tarhan
  • Tayfun Gönül

Tunisia

  • Amina Tyler

Ukraine

United Kingdom

United States of America

Uruguay

  • Abraham Guillén
  • Florencio Sánchez
  • Lilián Celiberti

Non-anarchists influential on anarchism

Places named after anarchists

  • Action Directe (climb), Germany
  • Anarchist Mountain, Canada
  • Collège Louise-Michel in Paris, France
  • Doctor Moisés Bertoni, Paraguay
  • Dorothy Day homeless shelter, United States
  • Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, Mexico
  • Fred Hollows Reserve, Australia
  • Haymarket Martyrs' Monument, USA
  • Georg von Rauch Haus, Germany
  • Golets Kropotkin, Russia
  • Louise Michel station, France
  • Kropotkin, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia
  • Kropotkin, Krasnodar Krai, Russia
  • Kropotkin Range, Russia
  • Kropotkinskaya, Russia
  • Medical University of Varna "Prof. Dr. Paraskev Stoyanov", Bulgaria
  • Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library, Hungary
  • Mount Kropotkin, Antarctica
  • Parc Georges-Brassens, France
  • Práxedis G. Guerrero Municipality, Mexico
  • Práxedis Gilberto Guerrero, Chihuahua, Mexico
  • Red Emma's, United States
  • Ricardo Flores Magón metro station, Mexico
  • Scientific Monument Moises Bertoni, Paraguay
  • Soviet monitor Zhelezniakov, Ukraine
  • Teotitlán de Flores Magón, Mexico
  • Tolstoy, United States

See also

Footnotes

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