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Anarchism is derived from the Greek αναρχ?α ("without archons" or "without rulers"). Thus "anarchism," in its most general meaning, is the belief that all forms of rulership are undesirable and should be abolished.
Anarchist Groups
The Angry Brigade was a British libertarian communist urban guerrilla group responsible for a long string of bomb attacks around Britain between 1970 and 1972.
Strongly influenced by anarchism and the Situationists, their targets included banks, embassies and the homes of Tory MPs. In total, 25 bombings were attributed to them by the police. The damage done by the bombings was mostly limited to property damage although one person was slightly injured. The actions of the Brigade came to an end in one of the longest criminal trials of English history (May 30 to December 6,1972). As a result of the trial, John Barker, Jim Greenfield, Hilary Creek and Anna Mendleson received sentences of 10 years. A number of other defendants were found not guilty, including Stuart Christie, who had previously been imprisoned in Spain for carrying explosives with the intent to assassinate the dictator Francisco Franco, and Angela Mason, who went on to become director of Stonewall, the LGBT pressure group.
Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers (often referred to as simply "the Motherfuckers") was an anarchist affinity group based in New York City. This "street gang with analysis" was famous for its Lower East Side direct action and is said to have inspired members of the Weather Underground and Yippies.
King Mob was a radical group endeavouring to contribute to worldwide proletarian social revolution, based in London during the 1970s. It was a cultural mutation of the Situationists and the Motherfuckers street gang. They sought to emphasize the cultural anarchy and disorder being ignored in Britain. They derived their name from Christopher Hibbert's 1958 book on the Gordon Riots of June 1780, in which rioters daubed the slogan "His Majesty King Mob"' on the walls of Newgate prison, after gutting the building.
The Movement 2 June (German: Bewegung 2. Juni) also known as the June 2 Movement, June 2nd Movement or J2M was a well known West German militant group based in West Berlin. Founded by former members of Kommune 1, Movement 2 June was based in West Berlin. Named after the date on which Benno Ohnesorg was killed, the group mostly bombed property in Berlin. The most significant operation of the group was when they successfully kidnapped Peter Lorenz in 1975.
Os Cangaceiros was a group of working class revolutionaries who emerged from the student/worker riots and occupations in France of May 1968. Coming together in Nice, France, Os Cangaceiros – or Les Fossoyeurs du vieux monde (Gravediggers of the Old World) as they were also known – were characteristic of the new antagonistic social movements in post-may Europe that demanded nothing short of an "End of Politics".
The Weatherman , known colloquially as the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization, was a U.S. Radical Left organization consisting of splintered-off members and leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society. The group referred to itself as a "revolutionary organization of communist women and men" whose purpose was to carry out a series of militant actions that would achieve the revolutionary overthrow of the Government of the United States (and of capitalism as a whole).
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