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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

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 File:Flag of the Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan.svg
 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 File:Flag of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist).svg
 Bhutan
Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) 2003 600–1,000 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism File:Communist Party of Bhutan Flag.svg
 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 File:Flag of ELN.svg
File:PCdeC-ML.png Popular Liberation Army 1967 1,000 Hoxhaism File:Flag of EPL.svg
Indigenous Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Pacific Unknown 80 Indigenous rights
 Ecuador
File:PCE-SR.svg 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 File:Bandera FPRM Manipur.png
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 File:Flag of Partiya Demokrat a Kurdistana Îranê.png
File:The Official Logo Of Komala.png Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan 2000 800–900 Social democracy File:Flag of Komala.png
Kurdistan Free Life Party 2004 Unknown Democratic confederalism Error creating thumbnail:
Worker-communist Party of Iran – Hekmatist 2004 Unknown Workerism
 Iraq
Al-Awda 2003 Unknown Ba'athism
File:Emblem of the General Military Council for Iraqi Revolutionaries.svg 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 File:Flag of the Popular Nasserist Organization.svg
As-Sa'iqa 1966 Unknown Ba'athism
Lebanese Communist Party 1924 Unknown Marxism–Leninism File:Flag of the Lebanese Communist Party.svg
 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 File:Mx-epr.gif
Zapatista Army of National Liberation 1983 Unknown Neozapatismo File:Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, Flag.svg
 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
File:Emblema del Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo.svg Paraguayan People's Army 2008 50–80 Marxism-Leninism File:Insignia del EPP.svg
 Peru
File:Shining Path Hammer and Sickle.svg Communist Party of Peru (Shining Path)
  • People's Guerilla Army
1960s 4,200 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism File:Flag of Sendero Luminoso.svg
 Philippines
File:Communist Party of the Philippines Hammer and Sickle.svg Communist Party of the Philippines 1968
  • 1969
  • 1973
more than 120 guerilla fronts all over the country Marxism–Leninism–Maoism File:Flag of the Communist Party of the Philippines (alternative II).svg
File:RPM-P logo.svg Revolutionary Workers' Party 1995 Unknown Marxism–Leninism
Revolutionary Workers Party – Mindanao[4] Unknown Unknown Trotskyism
 Syria
File:PYD logo.svg Democratic Union Party (2003)
  • 2011
  • 2013
  • 2005
50,000[5] Democratic confederalism File:Flag of the Democratic Union Party.svg
File:International Freedom Battalion's Badge.svg International Freedom Battalion (2015)
  • 1972
  • 2009
  • 1994
  • 2014
  • 2014
    • 1975
    • 2016
Unknown Revolutionary socialism File:International Freedom Battalion original banner.svg
File:Syrian Resistance SSI.svg Syrian Resistance 2011 2,000[6] Marxism–Leninism File:Syrian Resistance Flag.svg
 Turkey
Civil Protection Units
  • Civil Protection Units-Women
2015 1,000 Democratic confederalism File:Flag of the YPS - Vertical.svg
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 File:Flag of the Peoples' United Revolutionary Movement (Halkların Birleşik Devrim Hareketi - HBDH).svg
File:TKPML.svg Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist
  • Liberation Army of the Workers and Peasants of Turkey
1972 Unknown Marxism–Leninism–Maoism File:Flag of Communist Party of Turkey-Marxist–Leninist.svg
Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front 1994 Unknown Guevarism File:DHKP.svg
 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
File:Bgfdragon.gif 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
File:شعار المجلس الانتقالي الجنوبي باللون الذهبي.svg Southern Movement 2007 Unknown Socialism

List of successful groups

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 File:Variant flag of the GPRA (1958-1962).svg
Algerian Communist Party 1920 Communism File:Flag of Algerian Communist Party.svg
 Albania
National Liberation Movement 1942 70,000 Marxism–Leninism
 Angola
MPLA 1956 Unknown Left-wing nationalism File:Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (bandeira).svg
 Belgium
File:Ecusson du Front de l'Indépendance.jpg Front de l'Indépendance 1941 Broadly Socialist-Communist[12]
File:Ecusson des Milices patriotiques.jpg Milices Patriotiques 22,006 Communism
Österreichische Freiheitsfront 75+ Communism
Partisans Armés 1941 13,246 Communism
 Bangladesh
File:মুক্তিযুদ্ধের প্রতীক.svg Mukti Bahini 1971 150,000 Socialism, Bengali nationalism File:Flag of the Mukti Bahini-DeFacto.svg
 Bulgaria
File:Logo of the Fatherland Front (Bulgaria).svg Fatherland Front 1942 Unknown Marxism–Leninism File:Flag of the Bulgarian Homeland Front.svg
 Cambodia
Khmer Rouge 1951 Maoism
Khmer Việt Minh 3,000–5,000 Communism
File:FUNSK-emblem.JPG Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation 1978 Marxism–Leninism
Khmer Issarak 1945 Communism
 China
File:Danghui.svg Communist Party of China 1921 2,285,000 active and 510,000 reserve (as government army) Marxism–Leninism File:Flag of the Chinese Communist Party.svg
 Cuba
26th of July Movement 1953 Unknown Revolutionary socialism File:M-26-7.svg
 Eritrea
Eritrean People's Liberation Front 1970 Marxism–Leninism File:Flag of the EPLF.svg
 Ethiopia
File:Meison.jpg All-Ethiopia Socialist Movement 1968 Unknown Marxism–Leninism
Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (1988)
  • 1982
  • 1975
Unknown Marxism
File:Logo of the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Party.svg Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party 1972 Unknown Marxism–Leninism
Afar Liberation Front 1999 Unknown Self-determination File:Flag of the Afar Liberation Front.svg
 Greece
National Liberation Front 1941
  • 1942
  • 1944
  • 1943
  • 1944
  • 1941
Communism File:ELAS flag.svg
 Guinea-Bissau
African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde 1956 10,000 Marxism File:Flag of PAIGC.svg
 Hungary
File:MSZDP logo, 1945.svg Hungarian Social Democratic Party 1890 Unknown Social democracy
 India
National Democratic Front of Boroland 1986 Socialism File:Front Nacional Democratic Bodoland.svg
 Italy
Italian resistance movement 1943 Mainly various forms of Communism, Socialism,
Anarchism and Republicanism
File:Flag of Italian Committee of National Liberation.svg
 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 File:Flag of South West African National Union.svg
SWAPO 1960 Unknown Democratic socialism
 Nicaragua
Sandinista National Liberation Front 1961 Sandinismo File:Flag of the FSLN.svg
 Poland
File:Logogl.jpg Gwardia Ludowa 1942 Communism
 Russia
File:КПСС.svg Bolsheviks 1917 Unknown Leninism
 South Africa
African National Congress 1912
  • 1961
Unknown Left-wing nationalism File:Flag of the African National Congress.svg
Azanian People's Organisation 1978 Unknown Socialism File:Flag of the Azanian People's Organisation.svg
Pan Africanist Congress of Azania 1959 Unknown African socialism
 South Vietnam
Viet Cong 1960 Marxism–Leninism File:FNL Flag.svg
 South Yemen
National Liberation Front 1963 Unknown Marxism File:Flag of the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf.svg
 Yugoslavia
Yugoslav Partisans 1941 Communism
 Vietnam
Việt Minh 1941 80,000 – 800,000 Communism File:Flag of North Vietnam (1945–1955).svg
 Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe African National Union 1963 Democratic socialism File:Flag of ZANU-PF.svg
Zimbabwe African People's Union 1961 20,000 in 1979 Left-wing nationalism File:Zimbabwe African People's Union flag.svg

List of disbanded groups

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
File:Seal of Montoneros.svg Montoneros 1970 Peronism File:Flag of Montoneros.svg
File:Badge of Workers’ Revolutionary Party (Argentina).svg People's Revolutionary Army 1970 Guevarism File:Bandera del ERP.svg
 Austria
File:Republikanischer Schutzbund emblem.svg 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
File:ALNlogo.svg Ação Libertadora Nacional 1967 Marxism–Leninism
Marx, Mao, Marighella, and Guevara 1969 Communism
 Bulgaria
File:LogoBKP.svg Bulgarian Communist Party 1919 Marxism–Leninism File:FlagBKP.svg
Bulgarian Agrarian National Union 1899 Agrarianism File:Flag of the Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union.png
Anarchists Anarchism
 Canada
Front de libération du Québec 1963 Left-wing nationalism File:Bandera FLQ.svg
 Chile
Lautaro Youth Movement 1982 2,000–2,500 Revolutionary socialism File:Bandera del MAPU, partit xilè.svg
 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 File:Flag of M-19.svg
File:Escudo Oficial de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia - FARC-EP.png Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army 1964 7,000–10,000 Marxism–Leninism File:Flag of the FARC-EP.svg
Peasant Student Workers Movement 1961 Socialism
Movimiento Armado Quintin Lame 1984 130 Indigenismo File:MA Quintin lame.svg
Ernesto Rojas Commandos 1991 25 Marxism–Leninism
Guevarista Revolutionary Army 1992 45 Guevarism
 Eritrea
Eritrean Liberation Front 1961 Marxism–Leninism File:Flag of Eritrea (1952-1961).svg
 Estonia
Soviet Republic of Naissaar 1917 Revolutionary socialism File:Petropavlovsk-Krondstadt flag.svg
 Finland
Red Guards 1905 Revolutionary socialism
 France
File:Action Directe.svg 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 File:Vive la Commune flag.svg
 Germany
Alsace Soviet Republic 1918 14 Soviet republicanism File:Flag of the Republic of Alsace-Lorraine.svg
Anti-Imperialist Cell 1992 2 Anti-imperialism
Bavarian Council Republic 1918 Unknown Socialism
File:Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, Logo um 1920.svg Communist Party of Germany 1918 360,000 in 1932 Marxism File:Flag of the Communist Party of Germany.svg
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
File:Emblem of the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas.svg Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas 1980 3,000 (estimate) Marxism–Leninism File:Flag of the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas (Red).svg
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 File:Flag of the Brigate Rosse.svg
 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 File:Lebanese National Resistance Front.jpg
 Mexico
Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre 1973 Unknown Marxism–Leninism
File:Partido de los Pobres.png Party of the Poor 1967 Unknown Socialism
 North Yemen
National Democratic Front (1976)
  • 1970
  • 1968
Unknown Socialism
 Oman
Dhofar Liberation Front 1965 Unknown Marxism File:Flag of the Dhofar Liberation Front.svg
Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman 1974 Unknown Marxism File:Flag of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman.svg
Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf 1968 Unknown Marxism File:Flag of the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf.svg
 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 File:Peru MIR flag.jpg
Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement 1982 Guevarism File:Flag of the MRTA.svg
 Russia
Black Guards 1917 Unknown Anarchist communism
Green armies 1918 Unknown Vague Leftism
Kronstadt rebels 1921 17,961 at highest Leftist Anti-Leninism File:Petropavlovsk-Krondstadt flag.svg
Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1917 Unknown Socialism
Mensheviks 1903 Unknown Socialism
New Revolutionary Alternative 1996 Unknown Insurrectionary anarchism
File:SR (and Revolyutsionnaya Mysl') electoral symbol, November 1917 election.svg Socialist Revolutionary Party 1902 Unknown Agrarian socialism File:Eser flag (Въ борьбѣ обрѣтешь ты право свое!).svg
 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 File:Flag of National Liberation Front of Southern Korea.svg
 Spain
Andecha Obrera 1980s Marxism–Leninism
Canary Islands Independence Movement 1964 Left-wing nationalism File:Bandera del Movimiento por la Autodeterminación e Independencia del Archipiélago Canario.svg
Catalan Liberation Front 1969 Marxism–Leninism
Catalan Red Liberation Army 1987 Marxism–Leninism
Communist Party of Spain (international) (1975) 1975 Communism File:Estelada roja-variant.png
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 File:Flag of the Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front (FRAP).svg
Segi Socialism
Spanish National Liberation Front 1964 Marxism–Leninism File:Flag of the Second Spanish Republic (military).svg
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 File:THKP-C flag.svg
 Ukraine
Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic 1918 Unknown Revolutionary socialism File:Flag of the Donets-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic.svg
Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine 1918 103,000 (December 1919) Anarchist communism File:Death to oppressors of workers.svg
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 File:Flag of the UNIA.svg
Boricua Popular Army 1976 1,100–5,700 Left-wing Nationalism File:Ejército Popular Boricua logo.png
Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña 1950 Marxism-Leninism
File:George Jackson Brigade.png 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 File:Symbionese Liberation Army Flag.svg
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
File:Logo Bewegung 2. Juni.svg 2 June Movement 1972 14 Left anarchism
Central Council of the roving Hashrebels Unknown Far-left politics
File:RAF-Logo.svg Red Army Faction 1970 Marxism–Leninism
File:Revolutionäre Zellen.svg 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
File:Emblem of the Yemeni Socialist Party.svg Yemeni Socialist Party 1978 Arab socialism, Social democracy Factions: Marxism, Democratic socialism File:Yemeni Socialist Party Flag.svg
 Zimbabwe
Front for the Liberation of Zimbabwe 1971 Communism

List of inactive groups

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 File:FPMR Chile.SVG
File:Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (Chile).svg Revolutionary Left Movement 1965 Unknown Marxism File:Flag of the MIR - Chile.svg
 El Salvador
File:Logo of the FMLN.svg Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front 1980
  • 1970
  • 1970
  • 1975
  • 1930
  • 1980
Marxism–Leninism File:Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional.svg
 Lebanon
Al-Mourabitoun 1957 1,000 regular fighters and 2,000 reservists Nasserism File:Flag of Mourabitoun.gif
Communist Action Organization in Lebanon 1970 Unknown Marxism–Leninism
Lebanese Communist Party
  • Popular Guard
1924
  • 1970
2,000 Marxism–Leninism File:Flag of the Lebanese Communist Party.svg
Nasserist Unionists Movement 1982 Unknown Nasserism
Popular Nasserist Organization 1973 Unknown Nasserism File:Flag of the Popular Nasserist Organization.svg
Progressive Socialist Party 1949 5,000 Socialism File:Flag of the Progressive Socialist Party.svg
Toilers League 1968 Unknown Nasserism File:Flag of the Toilers League (Lebanon).svg
 Lesotho
Basutoland Congress Party 1952
  • 1979
Left-wing nationalism
 Spain
File:Pce 2014.svg Communist Party of Spain 1921 Unknown Communism
File:Logo of the PCE(r).png Communist Party of Spain (Reconstituted) 1975
  • 1975
Marxism–Leninism File:Bandera del GRAPO.svg
File:Logo CNT.svg Confederación Nacional del Trabajo 1910 Unknown Anarcho-syndicalism
File:ETA BASQUE.png ETA
  • Segi
1959
  • 2002
50 in the year 2011 Revolutionary socialism
 United Kingdom
File:Cumann na mBan.png Cumann na mBan 1914 Irish republicanism
Irish National Liberation Army 1974 Marxism–Leninism
File:Provisional IRA badge (crop).png Provisional Irish Republican Army (1969)
  • 1969
Irish republicanism
 Uruguay
Tupamaros 1967 Communism File:Bandera dels Tupamaros.svg
 Venezuela
Communist Party of Venezuela 1939 Marxism–Leninism
Red Flag Party 1970 Marxism–Leninism

See also

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