Insurrectionary anarchism

Insurrectionary anarchism is a tendency within anarchism that favors informal organization, direct action, and ongoing revolt against state and capitalist institutions.

Informal organization: Coordination through flexible relationships and affinity groups rather than formal membership structures or centralized leadership. It supplies the decentralized organizational form favored by insurrectionary anarchists.
Mikhail Bakunin: A Russian revolutionary and anarchist theorist who advocated collective revolt against state authority. His emphasis on revolutionary action and anti-authoritarian organization informs the tendency’s lineage.
Syndicalism: A labor movement strategy that uses trade unions and workplace action to pursue social change. Insurrectionary anarchists often reject unions as enduring structures that can absorb revolt.
Black bloc: A tactic in which demonstrators use coordinated clothing and anonymity during protest actions. It is associated with some insurrectionary demonstrations, though it is not exclusive to them.
Illegalism: An anarchist current that treats illegal acts, including theft, as possible forms of resistance to property and authority. It shares an emphasis on individual action outside legal political channels, while remaining distinct.
Affinity group: A small group of people who coordinate action through shared aims and trust. Affinity groups are a recurring model for acting without centralized organizations.
Errico Malatesta: An Italian anarchist who wrote and organized for social revolution and popular action. His debates about organization and insurrection provide an earlier reference point.
Anarcho-syndicalism: An anarchist strategy that builds worker-run unions as instruments of struggle and social transformation. Its reliance on lasting mass organizations differs from insurrectionary informality.
Informal anarchist federation: A name used by decentralized networks claiming responsibility for direct-action attacks in several countries. Its claimed actions illustrate clandestine, informal organization linked to insurrectionary ideas.
Anarchist black cross: An international anarchist network providing support to imprisoned anarchists and other political prisoners. Prisoner support responds to the legal repression faced by militant anarchist activity.

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