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Anarchism in Russia and Ukraine
Anarchism in Russia and Ukraine is the history of a small, persecuted movement that gained a mass peasant following under Nestor Makhno from 1918 to 1921.
Anarchism in South Africa
Anarchism in South Africa is a political current that emerged in the 1880s and peaked in the 1910s, when syndicalists built multiracial unions across racial lines.
Anarchism in Southeast Asia
Anarchism in Southeast Asia is the history of anarchist currents in the region, arriving under colonial rule in the late 19th century and reviving from the 1990s.
Anarchism in Spain
Anarchism in Spain, also called Spanish anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism, is the libertarian socialist movement founded via Fanelli's 1869 First International section, mass-organized in the CNT from 1910, peaking in the 1936–1939 revolution with collectivizations and anarchist government ministers.
Anarchism in Sweden
Anarchism in Sweden is a libertarian socialist movement whose main expression is the anarcho-syndicalist union SAC, founded in 1910, which peaked at around 37,000 members in the 1920s and 1930s.
Anarchism in the Netherlands
Anarchism in the Netherlands is an anti-statist socialist current that took root in 1885, peaked between 1898 and 1919, and revived in the 1960s Provo movement and 1970s squatters.
Anarchism in the United Kingdom
Anarchism in the United Kingdom: the British anarchist movement from William Godwin through Kropotkin's Freedom, French exiles in London, ethical anarchism, the Spanish Civil War, Herbert Read, and today's Anarchist Federation.
Anarchism in the United States
Anarchism in the United States, also called American anarchism, is a political movement rejecting state authority, from colonial times through the Haymarket affair, the Palmer Raids, and later revival.
Anarchism without adjectives
Anarchism without adjectives (anarquismo sin adjetivos): pluralist, unhyphenated anarchism tolerating all anarchist schools, coined by Fernando Tarrida del Mármol in Barcelona in 1889 with Ricardo Mella during the 1880s collectivist-communist dispute.
Anarchist Black Cross
The Anarchist Black Cross, originally the Anarchist Red Cross, is a decentralized network of anarchist groups founded in 1907 that supports political prisoners with stipends, parcels, and legal-defense fundraising.
Anarchist black flag
The anarchist black flag, a plain black "anti-flag" negating all national banners, has been anarchism's principal symbol since the early 1880s, popularized by Louise Michel's 1883 Paris demonstration and carried from Makhno's Ukraine to modern black blocs.
Anarchist bookfairs and annual gatherings
An anarchist bookfair is a recurring movement event combining a radical publishing market with workshops, discussions, and social gatherings, usually free or donation-based; the first was held in London in December 1981.
Anarchist communism
Anarchist communism, also called libertarian or communist anarchism, is a model of stateless society based on common ownership and distribution by need, first proclaimed in Italy in 1876 and theorized most influentially by Peter Kropotkin.
Anarchist free school movement
The anarchist free school movement is a tradition of voluntary, non-coercive schools begun with Francisco Ferrer's Escuela Moderna in Barcelona in 1901 and revived as free skools after 2000.
Anarchist periodicals
Anarchist periodicals are newspapers, magazines, and zines produced by or for the anarchist movement as organizing tools and debate forums, with hundreds published in dozens of languages.
Anarchist publishing houses
Anarchist publishing houses are presses or imprints run on anarchist principles, typically as worker collectives with equal pay and no owners, publishing radical books, pamphlets, and periodicals.
Anarchist St. Imier International
Anarchist St. Imier International (Anti-authoritarian International), the Bakuninist wing of the First International founded at Saint-Imier, Switzerland, 15-16 September 1872, rejecting the Hague Congress, with a solidarity pact of free federations instead of a General Council; lasted until about 1877.
Anarchist symbolism
Anarchist symbolism covers the black flag (1880s), red-and-black CNT-FAI flag, black cat (sabo-tabby), and the circled A, invented in Paris in April 1964 and spread internationally from Milan in 1966.
Anarcho-capitalism
Anarcho-capitalism, also called free-market anarchism or capitalist anarchy, is a libertarian political philosophy, founded by Murray Rothbard, that abolishes the state in favor of private law, competing security firms, and voluntary markets.
Anarcho-primitivism
Anarcho-primitivism (anti-civ, green anarchism current) is an anarchist critique of civilization advocating deindustrialization, an end to the division of labor, and abandonment of high technology, blaming the Neolithic agricultural turn for coercion, alienation, and stratification; developed around John Zerzan and the Fifth Estate circle, and criticized on anthropological and ableist grounds.
Anarcho-punk
Anarcho-punk is a political subgenre of 1980s punk rock aligned with anarchism, led by Crass (1977–1984), defined by DIY production, anti-commercialism, animal rights, and anti-nuclear politics, later spawning crust punk and scenes in the US and Mexico City.
Anarcho-syndicalism
Anarcho-syndicalism, also called revolutionary syndicalism, fuses anarchist politics with direct-action unionism. Key bodies include Spain's CNT (founded 1910), Argentina's FORA, and the IWW; its apogee came in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.
Anarchy
Anarchy is the condition of society without ruling power; anarchism is the political theory skeptical of state authority, grounded in freedom from domination, mutual aid, and non-coercive consensus, spanning political, religious, theoretical, and applied varieties from Godwin, Proudhon, Bakunin, and Kropotkin onward.
Anarchy at Samarra
The Anarchy at Samarra (فتنة سامراء) was a period of instability in the Abbasid Caliphate from 861 to 870, during which four caliphs were murdered or deposed.
Anarchy in the U.K.
Anarchy in the U.K. (also Anarchy in the UK) is the Sex Pistols' 1976 debut single on EMI, written mainly by Glen Matlock, recorded at Wessex Studios, peaking at UK number 38 before withdrawal.
Anarchy of the 'Abid al-Bukhari
The Anarchy of the 'Abid al-Bukhari was a period of succession struggles in Morocco after Sultan Moulay Isma'il died in 1727, with the 'Abid al-Bukhari slave-soldier corps installing and deposing sultans.
Anarchy of the Twelve Warlords
The Anarchy of the Twelve Warlords (Loạn 12 sứ quân) was a civil war in tenth-century Vietnam, ended when Dinh Bo Linh reunified the country in 967.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Anarchy, State, and Utopia is Robert Nozick's 1974 libertarian defense of the minimal state, a National Book Award-winning reply to Rawls's A Theory of Justice built on rights as side constraints and the entitlement theory.
Anargharaghava
Anargharaghava, also known as Anargharāghava or the Murari Nataka, is a seven-act Sanskrit drama by Murari, probably of the ninth century, retelling the Ramayana up to Rama's coronation.
Anari (1993) is a Hindi romantic action comedy directed by K. Murali Mohan Rao, starring Venkatesh and Karisma Kapoor. It belongs to that durable Bollywood tradition in which a man of modest means and a woman of great wealth are thrown together and the film mines the gap between them for both laughs and fights, and it gives Venkatesh, already a major Telugu star, his Hindi-language showcase.
Anari (अनाड़ी), 1993 Hindi romantic action comedy directed by K. Murali Mohan Rao, starring Venkatesh and Karisma Kapoor; a Suresh Productions remake of Chinna Thambi/Chanti that marked Venkatesh's Bollywood debut and was a box-office hit.