List of left-wing rebel groups

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This is a list of left-wing rebel groups around the world. These groups are seeking change through armed conflict or illegal protest in opposition to an established government. This list does not contain those legal armed forces in communist states.

List of active groups[edit]

All groups still engaging in armed struggle today.

Country Group Strength Official Ideology
International Animal Liberation Front Animal rights
Earth Liberation Front Environmentalism
 Afghanistan Afghanistan Liberation Organization Maoism
Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
 Bangladesh Purbo Banglar Communist Party Unknown Maoism
Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party Unknown Communism
 Bhutan Bhutan Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) 600–1,000 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
 Bolivia People's Revolutionary Front (Marxist−Leninist−Maoist) Unknown Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
 Canada Résistance internationaliste Unknown Anarchism
 China Maoist Communist Party of China Unknown Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
 Colombia National Liberation Army 1,380–3,000 Marxism
Popular Liberation Army 90–200 Hoxhaism
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army 7,000–10,000 Marxism–Leninism
 Ecuador Communist Party of Ecuador–Red Sun Unknown Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Group of Popular Combatants Hoxhaism
 France ETA 50 Revolutionary socialism
 Greece Anti-State Justice Unknown Anarchism
Black Star Unknown Anarchism
Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei Unknown Anarchism
Revolutionary Nuclei Unknown Far-left politics
Revolutionary Struggle Unknown Anarchist communism
Sect of Revolutionaries Unknown Far-left politics
Thieves in Black Unknown Anarchism
 India Akhil Bharat Nepali Ekta Samaj Unknown Maoism
Communist Party of India (Maoist) 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
Unknown Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
National Socialist Council of Nagaland ~4,500 Maoism
People's Liberation Army of Manipur 3,800 (2008) Maoism
 Iran Communist Party of Iran (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) Unknown Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan Unknown Democratic socialism
Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan 800–900 Revolutionary socialism
Kurdistan Free Life Party Unknown Libertarian socialism
People's Mujahedin of Iran Unknown Islamic socialism
Worker-communist Party of Iran – Hekmatist Unknown Workerism
 Iraq Sinjar Alliance Êzîdxan Protection Force: 2,500[1] – 5,500[2]
Sinjar Resistance Units: 1,500[3]
Democratic Confederalism
 Italy Informal Anarchist Federation Unknown Insurrectionary anarchism
 Japan Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction) Trotskyism
 Mexico Popular Revolutionary Army Unknown Maoism
Zapatista Army of National Liberation Unknown Neozapatismo
 Palestine Abu Nidal Organization Unknown Arab socialism
Palestine Liberation Organization Unknown Socialism
 Paraguay Paraguayan People's Army 50–80 Communism
 Peru Shining Path 4,200 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
 Philippines Communist Party of the Philippines 83 guerilla front all over the country Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Moro National Liberation Front Unknown Egalitarianism
Revolutionary Workers' Party Unknown Marxism–Leninism
Revolutionary Workers Party – Mindanao[4] Unknown Trotskyism
 Russia New Revolutionary Alternative Unknown Insurrectionary anarchism
 Syria Democratic Union Party 50,000[5] Libertarian socialism
International Freedom Battalion Unknown Revolutionary socialism
 Turkey Civil Protection Units 1,000 Democratic Confederalism
Communist Labour Party of Turkey Unknown Marxism–Leninism
Communist Party of Kurdistan Unknown Communism
Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist (Maoist Party Centre) Unknown Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Communist Workers Party of Turkey Unknown Marxism–Leninism
Peoples' United Revolutionary Movement Kurdistan Workers' Party: Over 32,800 active fighters (2015 Turkish claim)[6] Revolutionary socialism
Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey Unknown Hoxhaism
Revolutionary Party of Kurdistan Unknown Marxism–Leninism
Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front Unknown Marxism–Leninism
Revolutionary People's Party Unknown Communism
 Ukraine Borotba Unknown Marxism–Leninism
 United Kingdom Continuity Irish Republican Army 50 or less "hard-core" operatives[7] and fewer than 200 members in total[8] Irish republican socialism
Óglaigh na hÉireann 50 members[9] Irish republicanism
Real Irish Republican Army 250–300[10] Irish republicanism
 United States Black Guerrilla Family 100-300 full members with 50,000 associates Marxism–Leninism[11]
Communist Militia USA Unknown Marxism-Leninism[12]
 Western Sahara Polisario Front 6–7,000 active soldiers Islamic 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.

Country Group Strength Official Ideology
 Albania National Liberation Movement 70,000 Marxism–Leninism
 Belgium Front de l'Indépendance Communism
 Cambodia Khmer Rouge Maoism
 China Communist Party of China 2,285,000 active and 510,000 reserve (as government army) Marxism–Leninism
 Cuba 26th of July Movement Unknown Revolutionary socialism
 Eritrea Eritrean People's Liberation Front Marxism–Leninism
 Greece National Liberation Front Communism
National Republican Greek League ca.12,000 (October 1944) Socialism
 Laos Pathet Lao Marxism–Leninism
 Poland Gwardia Ludowa Communism
 Russia Bolsheviks Unknown Leninism
 South Vietnam Viet Cong Marxism–Leninism
 South Yemen National Liberation Front Unknown Marxism
 Yugoslavia Yugoslav Partisans 80,000 – 800,000 Communism

List of failed groups[edit]

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

Country Group Strength Official Ideology
 Bahrain Popular Front for the Liberation of Bahrain Unknown Marxism–Leninism
 Belgium Partisans Armés Communism
 Bolivia Ñancahuazú Guerrilla 29 Bolivians 25 Cubans 3 Peruvians 1 Argentine-Cuban (Che) 1 Argentine-German (Tania) Revolutionary socialism
 Canada FLQ Left-wing nationalism
 Estonia Soviet Republic of Naissaar Revolutionary socialism
 Finland Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic Revolutionary socialism
 France Action directe Libertarian socialism
Paris Commune On paper, 200,000; in reality, probably between 25,000 and 50,000 actual combatants Revolutionary socialism
 Germany Alsace Soviet Republic 14 Soviet republicanism
Anti-Imperialist Cell 2 Anti-imperialism
Bavarian Council Republic Unknown Socialism
Communist Party of Germany 360,000 in 1932 Marxism
European Union Socialism
Free Workers' Union of Germany Unknown Anarcho-syndicalism
Militante gruppe (mg) Unknown Communism
Revolutionary Cells New Left
Spartacus League Unknown Luxemburgism
 Italy Armed Proletarians for Communism Communism
Autonomia Operaia Autonomism
Lotta Continua Communism
October 22 Group Marxism–Leninism
Political-Military Communist Party Communism
Potere Operaio Workerism
Prima Linea Marxism–Leninism
Red Brigades Unknown Marxism–Leninism
 Lebanon Arab Communist Organization Unknown Communism
Front of Patriotic and National Parties Unknown Left-wing nationalism
Lebanese National Movement 18,700 in 1976 Arab socialism
Lebanese National Resistance Front 1,000–2,000 Arab socialism
 Mexico Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre Unknown Marxism–Leninism
Party of the Poor Unknown Socialism
 North Yemen National Democratic Front Unknown Socialism
 Oman Dhofar Liberation Front Unknown Marxism
Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman Unknown Marxism
Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf Unknown Marxism
 Palestine Arab Palestine Organization Unknown Nasserism
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – Special Command Unknown Marxism–Leninism
 Peru Puka Llacta Maoism
Revolutionary Left Movement Marxism
Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement Marxism–Leninism
 Russia Black Guards Unknown Anarchist communism
Green armies Unknown Vague Leftism
Kronstadt rebels 17,961 at highest Leftist Anti-Leninism
Left Socialist Revolutionaries Unknown Socialism
Mensheviks Unknown Orthodox Marxism
Socialist Revolutionary Party Unknown Agrarian socialism
 Saudi Arabia Arab Socialist Action Party – Arabian Peninsula Unknown Nasserism
Arabian Peninsula People's Union Unknown Nasserism
 Spain Andecha Obrera Marxism–Leninism
Canary Islands Independence Movement Left-wing nationalism
Catalan Liberation Front Marxism–Leninism
Catalan Red Liberation Army Marxism–Leninism
Communist Party of Spain (international) (1975) Communism
Exército Guerrilheiro do Povo Galego Ceive Revolutionary socialism
First of May Group Left anarchism
Iberian Liberation Movement Council communism
Liga Armada Galega Marxism–Leninism
Loita Armada Revolucionaria Marxism–Leninism
Los Solidarios About 11 Anarcho-syndicalism
Organización Obreira 100+[13] Marxism–Leninism
Popular Liberation Front New Left
Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front Marxism–Leninism
Segi Socialism
Spanish National Liberation Front Marxism–Leninism
Terra Lliure Marxism
Workers' Front of Catalonia Socialism
 Ukraine Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic Unknown Revolutionary socialism
Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine 103,000 (December 1919) Anarchist communism
Odessa Soviet Republic Unknown Revolutionary socialism
 United Kingdom Irish People's Liberation Organisation Unknown Irish republican socialism
Irish Republican Army 14,500 (at maximum) 1,000 (at minimum) Marxism (later)
King Mob Unknown Situationism
Official Irish Republican Army Unknown Marxism
Saor Éire Unknown Irish republican socialism
Saor Uladh Unknown Irish republicanism
The Angry Brigade Unknown Left anarchism
 United States Black Liberation Army Unknown Socialism
Black Panther Party Unknown Marxism–Leninism
Black Revolutionary Assault Team Unknown African-American leftism
Boricua Popular Army 1,100 - 5,700 Left-wing Nationalism
Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña Marxism-Leninism
George Jackson Brigade 5 at highest Communism
John Brown Anti-Klan Committee Unknown Radical left
May 19th Communist Organization Unknown Communism
MOVE Most famous the "MOVE 9" Anarcho-primitivism
National Black Antiwar Antidraft Union African-American leftism
Seattle Liberation Front Most famous the "Seattle Seven". New Left
Symbionese Liberation Army 16 in total Communism
The Camden 28 28 Christian left
United Freedom Front Known as the "Ohio 7" Marxism
Weather Underground Unknown Marxism–Leninism
Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers Left anarchism
White Panther Party Unknown Revolutionary socialism
 West Germany 2 June Movement 14 Left anarchism
Red Army Faction Marxism–Leninism
Rote Zora New Left
Tupamaros West-Berlin Unknown Marxism
 Venezuela Revolutionary Left Movement Unknown Marxism

List of former groups[edit]

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

Country Group Strength Official Ideology
 Algeria National Liberation Front 300,000 Arab socialism
 Angola MPLA Unknown Left-wing nationalism
 Ethiopia All-Ethiopia Socialist Movement Unknown Marxism–Leninism
Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front Unknown Marxism
Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party Unknown Marxism–Leninism
 Guinea-Bissau African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde 10,000 Marxism
 Lebanon Al-Mourabitoun 1,000 regular fighters and 2,000 reservists Nasserism
Communist Action Organization in Lebanon Unknown Marxism–Leninism
Lebanese Communist Party 2,000 Marxism–Leninism
Nasserist Unionists Movement Unknown Nasserism
Popular Nasserist Organization Unknown Nasserism
Progressive Socialist Party 5,000 Socialism
Toilers League Unknown Nasserism
 Lesotho Basutoland Congress Party Left-wing nationalism
 Mozambique FRELIMO 10,000–15,000 Marxism–Leninism
 Namibia SWANU Unknown Democratic socialism
SWAPO Unknown Democratic socialism
 Nicaragua Sandinista National Liberation Front Sandinismo
 South Africa African National Congress Unknown Left-wing nationalism
Azanian People's Organisation Unknown Socialism
Pan Africanist Congress of Azania Unknown African socialism
 Spain Communist Party of Spain Unknown Communism
Communist Party of Spain (Reconstituted) Marxism–Leninism
Confederación Nacional del Trabajo Unknown Anarcho-syndicalism
ETA 50 in the year 2011 Revolutionary socialism
 United Kingdom Cumann na mBan Irish republicanism
Irish National Liberation Army Marxism–Leninism
Provisional Irish Republican Army Irish republicanism
 Venezuela Communist Party of Venezuela Marxism–Leninism
Red Flag Party Marxism–Leninism

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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  2. ^ With the Islamic State gone from Sinjar, Kurdish groups battle for control, Al-Monitor. 27 March 2016
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