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Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign

The Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign (清除精神污染) was a short-lived ideological and political campaign launched by the Chinese Communist Party in October 1983, aimed at Western-influenced ideas and lifestyles, and called off by early 1984.

Anti-suffragism

Anti-suffragism: organized opposition to women's voting rights, also called the Antis or remonstrants; US groups included MAOFESW and NAOWS (1911, Josephine Dodge), Britain's 1908 Anti-Suffrage League of Mary Ward; defeated by the 1920 Nineteenth Amendment.

Anti-Tech Revolution (revolutionary movement)

Anti-Tech Revolution (ATR) is an international, aboveground, legal, nonviolent revolutionary movement founded on Theodore Kaczynski's 2016 book Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How. It seeks to dismantle the technological system through a three-stage strategy of organization building, resistance culture, and legal mass-action dismantling, distinguishing itself from anarcho-primitivism and online-only neo-Luddite currents.

Anti-terrorist Operation Zone

Anti-terrorist Operation Zone (ATO, Антитерористична операція): Ukraine's April 14, 2014 to April 30, 2018 legal and territorial designation for the Donbas conflict zone, run by the SBU Anti-Terrorist Centre and replaced by the Joint Forces Operation.

Anti-transgender movement in the United Kingdom

Anti-transgender movement in the UK, also called the gender-critical movement: campaigns opposing trans rights, driven by GRA reform debate, groups like For Women Scotland and Sex Matters, culminating in the April 2025 Supreme Court FWS ruling defining sex as biological in the Equality Act 2010.

Anti-trusteeship movement

The anti-trusteeship movement (반탁운동) was a Korean political campaign, launched in December 1945 by right-wing leaders against the Moscow Conference's decision to place Korea under trusteeship for up to five years.

Anti-war movement

Anti-war movement: organized opposition to specific wars or war in general, overlapping with the peace movement. Key examples: WWI dissent and crackdown, the Vietnam-era movement (largest in U.S. history), and 2003 Iraq War protests.

Anti-Western sentiment

Anti-Western sentiment: hostility toward Western countries, societies, or the Western-led order; also called anti-Americanism in its U.S.-focused form. Covers typologies, causes, Russian, Chinese, Iranian, Arab, Balkan, and African manifestations, and 2026 Pew survey trends.

Anti-White racism

Anti-White racism, also called reverse racism or anti-white bias, is racial prejudice or discrimination directed at white people; the article covers its contested terminology, survey-experiment and hiring-audit evidence, measurement scales, and US legal treatment.

Anti-Zionism

Anti-Zionism: opposition to Zionism and to Israel as a Jewish state. Key disputes: IHRA vs Jerusalem Declaration definitions, historical Jewish anti-Zionism, and evidence that the association with antisemitism is strong but not equivalent.

Anti–money laundering

Anti–money laundering (AML), or AML/CFT, is the regime of laws and FATF standards preventing criminals from disguising illicit proceeds, covering customer due diligence, suspicious activity reporting, supervision, and effectiveness and financial-inclusion debates.

Antialcidas

Antialcidas (Ἀντιαλκίδης) was an Indo-Greek king, most often dated c. 115–95 BCE, known chiefly for the embassy of Heliodorus to the Shunga king Bhagabhadra at Vidisha.

Antica trattoria Bagutto

Antica trattoria Bagutto is a historic restaurant in Milan's Ponte Lambro district, described as Italy's oldest trattoria and Europe's second-oldest restaurant, tracing its origin to a 1284 deed.

Antichrist

The Antichrist is a New Testament term for one who opposes Christ, appearing only in the letters of John and later developed into an end-times figure.

Anticipatory bail

Anticipatory bail, India's pre-arrest bail under Section 438 CrPC, now Section 482 BNSS, lets a person fearing arrest for a non-bailable offence obtain bail in advance; Sushila Aggarwal (2020) made it normally non time-limited.

Antidio Fagúndez Campo

Antidio Fagúndez Campo is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politician, a deputy for Zamora since 2023 and chair of the Congress committee on democratic quality and anti-corruption reforms.

Antidisestablishmentarianism

Antidisestablishmentarianism is opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England, in practice the movement that defended the church's union with the state in Wales until disestablishment took effect on 31 March 1920.

Antifa (Germany)

Antifa (Germany): decentralized spectrum of autonomous antifascist groups, named after the KPD's 1932 Antifaschistische Aktion; revived in 1980s West Germany, peaked 1989/90 to mid-1990s; partly observed by the BfV as left-wing extremism.

Antifa (United States)

Antifa in the United States is a decentralized, leaderless left-wing anti-fascist movement of autonomous local groups, tracing to 1980s punk and anarchist organizing, employing doxxing and protest tactics, assessed by CSIS as a relatively small threat, and designated by executive order in 2025.

Antifaschistische Aktion

Antifaschistische Aktion (Antifascist Action): KPD-founded militant anti-fascist united front of May 1932 in Weimar Germany, source of the two-flags antifa emblem, suppressed in 1933 and revived by autonomous antifa from the 1980s.

Antifeminism

Antifeminism is opposition to feminism and feminist policies in some or all forms, theorized as a countermovement to feminist movements. Distinct from misogyny and sexism, it spans conservative anti-ERA activism, the anti-gender movement, far-right 'gender ideology' discourse, and online manosphere and tradwife influencers.

Antigone

Antigone (Ἀντιγόνη), Theban princess, daughter of Oedipus, heroine of Sophocles' tragedy of about 441 BC: she defies Creon's edict to bury Polynices and dies; the play became antiquity's and modernity's emblem of resistance.

Antigone of Epirus

Antigone of Epirus was a Macedonian Greek noblewoman, daughter of Berenice I, who married Pyrrhus I and was queen of Epirus until her death in 295 BC.

Antigone of Macedon

Antigone of Macedon was a 4th-century BC Macedonian noblewoman, niece of the regent Antipater, known as the mother of Berenice I and ancestor of Egypt's Ptolemaic dynasty.

Antigonus I Monophthalmus

Antigonus I Monophthalmus (Ἀντίγονος ὁ Μονόφθαλμος, c. 382–301 BC), the One-Eyed, Macedonian general of Philip II and Alexander the Great, satrap of Phrygia, king from 306, dominant Diadoch ruler of Asia, killed at Ipsus.

Antigua Labour Party

The Antigua Labour Party (ALP), today the Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party, is the governing party of Antigua and Barbuda, founded in 1946 as the political arm of the Antigua Trades and Labour Union.

Antimilitärischer Apparat

Antimilitärischer Apparat (AM-Apparat), also M-Apparat or Kippenberger-Apparat: the Communist Party of Germany's intelligence service, about 1921 to 1937, covering espionage, counterintelligence, police and army subversion, and Soviet-linked covert work.

Antin Holovaty

Antin Holovaty (Антін Головатий, 1744–1797) was a Ukrainian Cossack military leader and poet who served as military judge and kish otaman of the Black Sea Cossack Host.

Antinatalism

Antinatalism is the philosophical view that procreation is morally wrong, also called anti-natalism. Its most influential academic formulation is David Benatar's 2006 asymmetry argument; it divides into anthropocentric and sentiocentric (efilist) branches.

Antinomian Controversy

The Antinomian Controversy, also known as the Free Grace Controversy, was a 1636–1638 theological and political conflict in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in which Anne Hutchinson and John Wheelwright were banished.