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List of left-wing militant groups

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This is a list of left-wing militant groups around the world. These groups seek change through armed conflict or violent protest in opposition to an established government.

List of active groups[edit]

Logo Name of movement Founded Strength Official ideology Flag
 Afghanistan
Afghanistan Liberation Organization 1973 Unknown Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan 2004 Unknown Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
 Bangladesh
Maoist Bolshevik Reorganisation Movement of the Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party 2001 Unknown Maoism
Purbo Banglar Communist Party 1968 Unknown Maoism
Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party 1971 Unknown Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
 Bhutan
Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) 2003 600–1,000 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
 Bolivia
People's Revolutionary Front (Marxist−Leninist−Maoist) Unknown Unknown Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
 Canada
Résistance internationaliste 2004 Unknown Anarchism
 Colombia
National Liberation Army 1964 1,380–3,000 Liberation Theology
Popular Liberation Army 1967 1,000 Hoxhaism
Indigenous Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Pacific Unknown 80 Indigenous rights
 Ecuador
Communist Party of Ecuador–Red Sun 1993 Unknown Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Group of Popular Combatants Unknown Unknown Hoxhaism
 Germany
Revolutionary Actioncells Unknown Unknown Communism
 Greece
Anti-State Justice Unknown Unknown Anarchism
Black Star Unknown Unknown Insurrectionary anarchism
Revolutionary Struggle 2003 Unknown Platformism
Sect of Revolutionaries 2009 Unknown Individualist anarchism
 India
Akhil Bharat Nepali Ekta Samaj 1979 Unknown Maoism
Communist Party of India (Maoist) 2004 People's Liberation Guerrilla Army: 8,000–9,000 (September 2013)
People's Militia: 38,000 (armed with bows, arrows, and machetes)
Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Maoist Communist Party of Manipur
  • New People's Militia
2011 Unknown Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
People's Liberation Army of Manipur 1978 3,800 (2008) Maoism
United National Liberation Front of Western South East Asia (2015)
  • 1995
  • 1986
  • 1980
  • 1979
National Socialist Council of Nagaland: ~4,500 Left-wing nationalism
 Iran
Communist Party of Iran (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) 2001 Unknown Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan 1945 Unknown Left-wing nationalism
Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan 2000 800–900 Social democracy
Kurdistan Free Life Party 2004 Unknown Democratic confederalism
Worker-communist Party of Iran – Hekmatist 2004 Unknown Workerism
 Iraq
Al-Awda 2003 Unknown Ba'athism
General Military Council for Iraqi Revolutionaries 2014 Ba'athism
Jeish Muhammad 2003 Unknown Ba'athism
Sinjar Alliance (2015)
  • 2005
  • 2016
  • 2015
  • 2007
Sinjar Resistance Units: 1,500[3] Democratic confederalism
File:Logo of the Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation.png Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation 2007 1,000+ Ba'athism
 Ireland
Real Irish Republican Army 1997 Unknown Left-wing nationalism
Continuity Irish Republican Army 1986 Unknown Left-wing nationalism
 Japan
Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction) 1959 Unknown Trotskyism
 Lebanon
Popular Nasserist Organization 1973 Unknown Nasserism
As-Sa'iqa 1966 Unknown Ba'athism
Lebanese Communist Party 1924 Unknown Marxism–Leninism
 Libya
Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya 2016 Unknown Third International Theory
Brigade 93 2012 Unknown Third International Theory
 Mexico
Popular Revolutionary Army 1996 Unknown Maoism
Zapatista Army of National Liberation 1983 Unknown Neozapatismo
 Palestine
Fatah al-Intifada 1983 Unknown Left-wing nationalism File:Fatah Flag.svg
Palestine Liberation Organization (1964)
  • 1969
  • 1968
  • 1959
  • 1993
  • 1990
  • 1960
  • 1982
  • 1967
  • 1967
Unknown Left-wing nationalism
 Paraguay
Paraguayan People's Army 2008 50–80 Marxism-Leninism
 Peru
Communist Party of Peru (Shining Path)
  • People's Guerilla Army
1960s 4,200 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
 Philippines
Communist Party of the Philippines 1968
  • 1969
  • 1973
more than 120 guerilla fronts all over the country Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Revolutionary Workers' Party 1995 Unknown Marxism–Leninism
Revolutionary Workers Party – Mindanao[4] Unknown Unknown Trotskyism
 Syria
Democratic Union Party (2003)
  • 2011
  • 2013
  • 2005
50,000[5] Democratic confederalism
International Freedom Battalion (2015)
  • 1972
  • 2009
  • 1994
  • 2014
  • 2014
    • 1975
    • 2016
Unknown Revolutionary socialism
Syrian Resistance 2011 2,000[6] Marxism–Leninism
 Turkey
Civil Protection Units
  • Civil Protection Units-Women
2015 1,000 Democratic confederalism
Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist (Maoist Party Centre) 1987 Unknown Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Peoples' United Revolutionary Movement (2016)
  • 1990
  • 2009
  • 2005
  • 1978
  • 1994
  • 1975
  • 1994
  • 2016
Kurdistan Workers' Party: Over 32,800 active fighters (2015 Turkish claim)[7] Revolutionary socialism
Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist
  • Liberation Army of the Workers and Peasants of Turkey
1972 Unknown Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front 1994 Unknown Guevarism
 United Kingdom
Continuity Irish Republican Army 1986 50 or less "hard-core" operatives[8] and fewer than 200 members in total[9] Irish republican socialism
Irish Republican Liberation Army 2006 Unknown Irish republicanism
Real Irish Republican Army 1997 250–300[10] Irish republicanism
 United States
Black Guerrilla Family 1966 100-300 full members with 50,000 associates Marxism–Leninism[11]
 Venezuela
Bolivarian Forces of Liberation 1992 4,000(2005) Bolivarianism, communism
 Western Sahara
Polisario Front 1973 6–7,000 active soldiers Left-wing nationalism
 Yemen
Southern Movement 2007 Unknown Socialism

List of successful groups[edit]

All groups who no longer exist because they have met their goals, some are now the established government in their respective region.

Logo Name of movement Founded Strength Official Ideology Flag
 Algeria
National Liberation Front 1954 300,000 Arab socialism
Algerian Communist Party 1920 Communism
 Albania
National Liberation Movement 1942 70,000 Marxism–Leninism
 Angola
MPLA 1956 Unknown Left-wing nationalism
 Belgium
Front de l'Indépendance 1941 Broadly Socialist-Communist[12]
Milices Patriotiques 22,006 Communism
Österreichische Freiheitsfront 75+ Communism
Partisans Armés 1941 13,246 Communism
 Bangladesh
Mukti Bahini 1971 150,000 Socialism, Bengali nationalism
 Bulgaria
Fatherland Front 1942 Unknown Marxism–Leninism
 Cambodia
Khmer Rouge 1951 Maoism
Khmer Việt Minh 3,000–5,000 Communism
Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation 1978 Marxism–Leninism
Khmer Issarak 1945 Communism
 China
Communist Party of China 1921 2,285,000 active and 510,000 reserve (as government army) Marxism–Leninism
 Cuba
26th of July Movement 1953 Unknown Revolutionary socialism
 Eritrea
Eritrean People's Liberation Front 1970 Marxism–Leninism
 Ethiopia
All-Ethiopia Socialist Movement 1968 Unknown Marxism–Leninism
Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (1988)
  • 1982
  • 1975
Unknown Marxism
Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party 1972 Unknown Marxism–Leninism
Afar Liberation Front 1999 Unknown Self-determination
 Greece
National Liberation Front 1941
  • 1942
  • 1944
  • 1943
  • 1944
  • 1941
Communism
 Guinea-Bissau
African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde 1956 10,000 Marxism
 Hungary
Hungarian Social Democratic Party 1890 Unknown Social democracy
 India
National Democratic Front of Boroland 1986 Socialism
 Italy
Italian resistance movement 1943 Mainly various forms of Communism, Socialism,
Anarchism and Republicanism
 Laos
Pathet Lao 1950 Marxism–Leninism
 Mongolia
Mongolian People's Party 1920 Unknown Marxism–Leninism
 Mozambique
FRELIMO 1962 10,000–15,000 Marxism–Leninism
 Namibia
SWANU 1959 Unknown Democratic socialism
SWAPO 1960 Unknown Democratic socialism
 Nicaragua
Sandinista National Liberation Front 1961 Sandinismo
 Poland
Gwardia Ludowa 1942 Communism
 Russia
Bolsheviks 1917 Unknown Leninism
 South Africa
African National Congress 1912
  • 1961
Unknown Left-wing nationalism
Azanian People's Organisation 1978 Unknown Socialism
Pan Africanist Congress of Azania 1959 Unknown African socialism
 South Vietnam
Viet Cong 1960 Marxism–Leninism
 South Yemen
National Liberation Front 1963 Unknown Marxism
 Yugoslavia
Yugoslav Partisans 1941 Communism
 Vietnam
Việt Minh 1941 80,000 – 800,000 Communism
 Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe African National Union 1963 Democratic socialism
Zimbabwe African People's Union 1961 20,000 in 1979 Left-wing nationalism

List of disbanded groups[edit]

All groups that have failed at their end goal or have dissolved, and no longer exist.

Logo Name of movement Founded Strength Official Ideology Flag
 Argentina
Montoneros 1970 Peronism
People's Revolutionary Army 1970 Guevarism
 Austria
Republikanischer Schutzbund 1923 80,000 Social democracy
 Bahrain
Popular Front for the Liberation of Bahrain 1974 Unknown Marxism–Leninism
 Belgium
Partisans Armés 1941 Communism
 Bolivia
Ñancahuazú Guerrilla 1966 29 Bolivians 25 Cubans 3 Peruvians 1 Argentine-Cuban (Che) 1 Argentine-German (Tania) Revolutionary socialism
 Brazil
Ação Libertadora Nacional 1967 Marxism–Leninism
Marx, Mao, Marighella, and Guevara 1969 Communism
 Bulgaria
Bulgarian Communist Party 1919 Marxism–Leninism
Bulgarian Agrarian National Union 1899 Agrarianism
Anarchists Anarchism
 Canada
Front de libération du Québec 1963 Left-wing nationalism
 Chile
Lautaro Youth Movement 1982 2,000–2,500 Revolutionary socialism
 China
East Turkestan People's Revolutionary Party 1969 60,000 (claimed)[13] Marxism–Leninism
United Revolutionary Front of East Turkestan 1969 Marxism–Leninism
 Colombia
Workers Revolutionary Party of Colombia 1982 200[14] Communism
19th of April Movement 1970 1,500–2,000 Revolutionary socialism, Left-wing nationalism
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army 1964 7,000–10,000 Marxism–Leninism
Peasant Student Workers Movement 1961 Socialism
Movimiento Armado Quintin Lame 1984 130 Indigenismo
Ernesto Rojas Commandos 1991 25 Marxism–Leninism
Guevarista Revolutionary Army 1992 45 Guevarism
 Eritrea
Eritrean Liberation Front 1961 Marxism–Leninism
 Estonia
Soviet Republic of Naissaar 1917 Revolutionary socialism
 Finland
Red Guards 1905 Revolutionary socialism
 France
Action directe 1971 Libertarian socialism
Paris Commune 1871 On paper, 200,000; in reality, probably between 25,000 and 50,000 actual combatants Revolutionary socialism
 Germany
Alsace Soviet Republic 1918 14 Soviet republicanism
Anti-Imperialist Cell 1992 2 Anti-imperialism
Bavarian Council Republic 1918 Unknown Socialism
Communist Party of Germany 1918 360,000 in 1932 Marxism
Das K.O.M.I.T.E.E. Unknown Autonomism
European Union 1939 Socialism
Free Workers' Union of Germany 1919 Unknown Anarcho-syndicalism
German Cheka Unknown Communism
Militante gruppe (mg) 2001 Unknown Communism
Spartacus League 1914 Unknown Luxemburgism
 Greece
Revolutionary Nuclei 1996 Unknown Anarchism
Thieves in Black 2005 Unknown Anarchism
 Iran
Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas 1980 3,000 (estimate) Marxism–Leninism
Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas (Minority) 1980 Marxism–Leninism
Union of Iranian Communists (Sarbedaran) 1979 Maoism
 Italy
Armed Proletarians for Communism 1976 Communism
Autonomia Operaia 1976 Autonomism
Lotta Continua 1969 Communism
October 22 Group 1969 Marxism–Leninism
Political-Military Communist Party 2007 Communism
Potere Operaio 1967 Workerism
Prima Linea 1976 Marxism–Leninism
Red Brigades 1970 Unknown Marxism–Leninism
 Lebanon
Arab Communist Organization mid-1970s Unknown Communism
Front of Patriotic and National Parties (1976)
  • 1966
  • 1975
  • 1932
  • 1965
Unknown Left-wing nationalism
Lebanese National Movement (1969)
  • 1999
  • 1957
  • 1966
  • 1970
  • 1968
  • mid-1970s
  • 1976
  • 1924
  • 1968
  • 1967
  • 1970
  • Until 1986
  • 1966
  • 1932
18,700 in 1976 Arab socialism
Lebanese National Resistance Front (1982)
  • 1974
  • 1966
  • 1979
  • 1924
  • 1970
  • 1932
1,000–2,000 Arab socialism
 Mexico
Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre 1973 Unknown Marxism–Leninism
Party of the Poor 1967 Unknown Socialism
 North Yemen
National Democratic Front (1976)
  • 1970
  • 1968
Unknown Socialism
 Oman
Dhofar Liberation Front 1965 Unknown Marxism
Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman 1974 Unknown Marxism
Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf 1968 Unknown Marxism
 Palestine
Arab Palestine Organization 1969 Unknown Nasserism
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – Special Command 1978 Unknown Marxism–Leninism
 Peru
National Liberation Army 1965 Guevarism
Puka Llacta 1969 Maoism
Revolutionary Left Movement 1962 Marxism
Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement 1982 Guevarism
 Russia
Black Guards 1917 Unknown Anarchist communism
Green armies 1918 Unknown Vague Leftism
Kronstadt rebels 1921 17,961 at highest Leftist Anti-Leninism
Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1917 Unknown Socialism
Mensheviks 1903 Unknown Socialism
New Revolutionary Alternative 1996 Unknown Insurrectionary anarchism
Socialist Revolutionary Party 1902 Unknown Agrarian socialism
 Saudi Arabia
Arab Socialist Action Party – Arabian Peninsula 1972 Unknown Nasserism
Arabian Peninsula People's Union 1959 Unknown Nasserism
 Slovakia
Slovak Soviet Republic 1919 Unknown Socialism
 South Korea
South Korean National Liberation Front Preparation Committee 1948 Unknown Socialism
 Spain
Andecha Obrera 1980s Marxism–Leninism
Canary Islands Independence Movement 1964 Left-wing nationalism
Catalan Liberation Front 1969 Marxism–Leninism
Catalan Red Liberation Army 1987 Marxism–Leninism
Communist Party of Spain (international) (1975) 1975 Communism
Exército Guerrilheiro do Povo Galego Ceive 1986 Revolutionary socialism
First of May Group 1966 Left anarchism
Iberian Liberation Movement 1971 Council communism
Liga Armada Galega 1978 Marxism–Leninism
Loita Armada Revolucionaria 1978 Marxism–Leninism
Los Solidarios 1922 About 11 Anarcho-syndicalism
Organización Obreira 1972 100+[15] Marxism–Leninism
Popular Liberation Front 1959 New Left
Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front 1971 Marxism–Leninism
Segi Socialism
Spanish National Liberation Front 1964 Marxism–Leninism
Terra Lliure 1978 Marxism
Workers' Front of Catalonia 1961 Socialism
 Turkey
Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist – Hareketi 1976 Hoxhaism
People's Liberation Army of Turkey 1972 Marxism–Leninism
People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey 1970 Marxism–Leninism
 Ukraine
Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic 1918 Unknown Revolutionary socialism
Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine 1918 103,000 (December 1919) Anarchist communism
Odessa Soviet Republic 1918 Unknown Revolutionary socialism
 United Kingdom
Irish People's Liberation Organisation 1986 Unknown Irish republican socialism
Irish Republican Army (1922)
  • 1969
  • 1976
  • 1956
14,500 (at maximum) 1,000 (at minimum) Marxism (later)
King Mob late 1960s/early 1970s Unknown Situationism
Official Irish Republican Army 1969 Unknown Marxism
Óglaigh na hÉireann 2009 50 members[16] Irish republicanism
Saor Éire 1967 Unknown Irish republican socialism
Saor Uladh 1953 Unknown Irish republicanism
The Angry Brigade 1968 Unknown Left anarchism
 United States
Black Liberation Army 1970 Unknown Socialism
Black Panther Party (1966)
  • 1972
  • 1969
  • 2007
Unknown Marxism–Leninism
Black Revolutionary Assault Team 1971 Unknown African-American leftism
Boricua Popular Army 1976 1,100–5,700 Left-wing Nationalism
Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña 1950 Marxism-Leninism
George Jackson Brigade 1975 5 at highest Communism
John Brown Anti-Klan Committee 1978 Unknown Radical left
May 19th Communist Organization 1978 Unknown Communism
MOVE 1972 Most famous the "MOVE 9" Anarcho-primitivism
National Black Antiwar Antidraft Union 1968 African-American leftism
Seattle Liberation Front 1970 Most famous the "Seattle Seven". New Left
Symbionese Liberation Army 1974 16 in total Communism
The Camden 28 1971 28 Christian left
United Freedom Front 1975 Known as the "Ohio 7" Marxism
Weather Underground (1969)
  • 1969
  • 1970
Unknown Marxism–Leninism
Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers 1968 Left anarchism
White Panther Party 1968 Unknown Revolutionary socialism
 West Germany
2 June Movement 1972 14 Left anarchism
Central Council of the roving Hashrebels Unknown Far-left politics
Red Army Faction 1970 Marxism–Leninism
Revolutionary Cells 1973 New Left
Rote Zora 1974 New Left
Tupamaros München Unknown Marxism
Tupamaros West-Berlin Unknown Marxism
 Venezuela
Revolutionary Left Movement 1960 Unknown Marxism
 Yemen
Yemeni Socialist Party 1978 Arab socialism, Social democracy Factions: Marxism, Democratic socialism
 Zimbabwe
Front for the Liberation of Zimbabwe 1971 Communism

List of inactive groups[edit]

All groups that still exist today, but no longer engage in armed struggle as they did in the past.

Logo Name of movement Founded Strength Official Ideology Flag
 Chile
Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front 1983 1,000–1,500 Marxism–Leninism
Revolutionary Left Movement 1965 Unknown Marxism
 El Salvador
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front 1980
  • 1970
  • 1970
  • 1975
  • 1930
  • 1980
Marxism–Leninism
 Lebanon
Al-Mourabitoun 1957 1,000 regular fighters and 2,000 reservists Nasserism
Communist Action Organization in Lebanon 1970 Unknown Marxism–Leninism
Lebanese Communist Party 1924
  • 1970
2,000 Marxism–Leninism
Nasserist Unionists Movement 1982 Unknown Nasserism
Popular Nasserist Organization 1973 Unknown Nasserism
Progressive Socialist Party 1949 5,000 Socialism
Toilers League 1968 Unknown Nasserism
 Lesotho
Basutoland Congress Party 1952
  • 1979
Left-wing nationalism
 Spain
Communist Party of Spain 1921 Unknown Communism
Communist Party of Spain (Reconstituted) 1975
  • 1975
Marxism–Leninism
Confederación Nacional del Trabajo 1910 Unknown Anarcho-syndicalism
ETA 1959
  • 2002
50 in the year 2011 Revolutionary socialism
 United Kingdom
Cumann na mBan 1914 Irish republicanism
Irish National Liberation Army 1974 Marxism–Leninism
Provisional Irish Republican Army (1969)
  • 1969
Irish republicanism
 Uruguay
Tupamaros 1967 Communism
 Venezuela
Communist Party of Venezuela 1939 Marxism–Leninism
Red Flag Party 1970 Marxism–Leninism

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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