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Template:Short description Template:More citations needed {{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B=Template:AmboxTemplate:Main other }} This is a list of notable guerrilla movements. It gives their English name, common acronym, and main country of operation.
Latin America
Argentina
- Template:Flagicon imageTacuara Nationalist Movement (Movimiento Nacionalista Tacuara – MNT) (1955–1966)
- Justicialist National Militia (Milicia Nacional Justicialista – MNJ) (1955–1966)
- File:Logo de las FAP.jpg Peronist Armed Forces (Fuerzas Armadas Peronistas – FAP) (1968–1971)
- Template:Flagicon image People's Revolutionary Army (Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo – ERP) (1969–1976)
- Template:Flagicon image Montoneros (Movimiento Peronista Montonero – MPM) (1970–1981)
- Libertarian Resistance (Resistencia Libertaria – RL) (1974–1978)
- Revolutionary Cells (Células Revolucionarias – CR) (2009–2011)
- Vandalika Teodoro Suárez Gang (Pandilla Vandalika Teodoro Suárez – PVTS) (2010–2011)
- Friends of the Earth (Amigxs de la Tierra – AdlT/FAI) (2011–2014)
Bolivia
- Zarate Willka Armed Forces of Liberation (FALZW)
- Ñancahuazú Guerrilla (ELN)
- Néstor Paz Zamora Commission (CNPZ)
- Túpac Katari Guerrilla Army (EGTK)
- Anarchic Cell For Revolutionary Solidarity (CASR)
- Revolutionary Left Movement
Brazil
- 8th October Revolutionary Movement (Movimento Revolucionário Oito de Outubro – MR8) (1964–1985)
- National Liberation Action (Ação Libertadora Nacional – ALN) (1964–1974)
- Palmares Armed Revolutionary Vanguard (Vanguarda Armada Revolucionária Palmares – VAR PALMARES) (1969–1972)
- Revolutionary People's Vanguard (Vanguarda Popular Revolucionária - VPR) (1966-1971)
- National Liberation Command (Comando de Libertação Nacional - COLINA) (1967–1969)
- Araguaia guerrilla (Guerrilha do Araguaia) (1966–1975)
- Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (Brazil) (Movimento Nacionalista Revolucionário - MNR) (1966–1967)
- Prestes Column (Coluna Prestes) (1925–1927)
Chile
- File:Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (Chile).svg Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) (1965–1987)
- Template:Flagicon image Lautaro Youth Movement (MJL) (1982–1994)
- Template:Flagicon image Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (FPMR) (1983–1997)
- Leon Czolgosz Autonomous and Destructive Forces (FADLC) (2006–2009)
- Template:Flagicon image Revolutionary Anarchist Front (FAR) (2007–2009)
- Severino di Giovanni Antipatriot Band (BASG) (2007–2012)
- Jean Marc Rouillan Armed and Heartless Columns (CAD-JMR) (2008–2012)
- Iconoclastic Caravans for Free Will (CIPLA) (2009–2012)
- Efraín Plaza Olmedo Dynamite Band (BDEPO) (2009–2013)
- File:Logo Weichan Auka Mapu.jpg Weichán Auka Mapu (WAM) (2011–present)
- Template:Flagicon image Antagonic Nuclei of the New Urban Guerrilla (NANGU) (2011–present)
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Colombia
- Template:Flagicon image Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) (1964–2016)
- Template:Flagicon image National Liberation Army (ELN) (1964–present)
- Template:Flagicon image 19th of April Movement (M–19) (1970–1990)
- Guevarista Revolutionary Army (1992–2008)
- Template:Flagicon image Popular Liberation Army (1967–present)
- Template:Flagicon image Simón Bolívar Guerrilla Coordinating Board (1987–1990s)
- Movimiento Armado Quintin Lame (1984–1991)
- Indigenous Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Pacific
- Brigada Clandestina Anarquista (BCA)
Cuba
- Template:Flagicon image Revolutionary Directorate of 13 March Movement (DR-13-M) (1954–1966)
- Template:Flagicon image 26th of July Movement (M-26-7) (1955–1962)
- Template:Flagicon image Second National Front of Escambray (SFNE) (1959–1964)
- Template:Flagicon image Brigade 2506 (1960–1962)
- Template:Flagicon image Alpha 66 (1961–present)
El Salvador
- Communist Party of El Salvador (PCS) (1930–1992)
- Template:Flagicon image Farabundo Martí Liberation People's Forces (FPL) (1970–1992)
- Template:Flagicon image Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) (1980–1992)
- Template:Flagicon image National Resistance (RN) (1975–1992)
- People's Revolutionary Army (ERP) (1972–1992)
Mexico
- People's Guerrilla Group (GPG) (1963–1965)
- File:Partido de los Pobres.png Party of the Poor (PdlP) (1967–1974)
- Template:Flagicon image Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) (1994–present)
- Template:Flagicon image Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) (1996–present)
- Template:Flagicon image Práxedis G. Guerrero Autonomous Cells of Immediate Revolution (CARI-PGG) (2009–2014)
- Mariano Sánchez Añón Insurrectional Cell (CI-MSA) (2010–2014)
Paraguay
- Template:Flagicon image Paraguayan People's Army (EPP) (2008–present)
- United National Liberation Front (FULNA) (1960–1970)
Peru
- National Liberation Army (ELN) (1962–1965)
- Template:Flagicon image Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) (1962–1965)
- Template:Flagicon image Communist Party of Peru (Shining Path) (PCP (SL)) (1980–present)
- Template:Flagicon image Militarized Communist Party of Peru (MPCP) (1992–present)
- Template:Flagicon image Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) (1982–1997)
- Template:Flagicon image National Socialist Tercios of New Castile (2004–2009)
Venezuela
- Template:Flagicon imageFALN
- Template:Flagicon imageBolivarian Forces of Liberation
- Template:Flagicon image Bandera Roja
- Template:Flagicon imageRevolutionary Left Movement
Other Countries
- Template:Flagicon image Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG)
- Template:Flagicon image Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) – Nicaragua
- Jungle Commando – Suriname
- Contras – Nicaragua
- Morazanist Patriotic Front – Honduras
- Template:Flagicon image Tupamaros Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Tupamaros – Uruguay
- National Union of Freedom Fighters (NUFF) May 1972 – November 1974 – Trinidad and Tobago
North America
- Atomwaffen Division – Anti-government neo-Nazi terrorist group
- Black Liberation Army – United States
- Template:Flagicon image American Indian Movement – United States – South Dakota
- Caribbean Revolutionary Alliance – Guadeloupe
- Earth Liberation Front – United States
- MEChA's Brown Berets (paramilitary security force) – United States – "Border War"
Historical
- Template:Flagicon image Symbionese Liberation Army – United States
- Weather Underground – United States
- Port7Alliance – United States
- Black Panther Party – United States
- Quantrill's Raiders led by William Quantrill – United States
- Template:Flagicon image Front de libération du Québec – Canada
- Direct Action – Canada, Know by the media as Squamish Five. An Anarchist and Feminist self styled urban guerrilla group.
- The Order—United States
- Template:Flagicon image 3 Percenters – United States
Europe
Cyprus
- Template:Flagicon image National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA) during Cyprus Emergency – Cyprus
- National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters-B (EOKA-B) during Cypriot intercommunal violence and Turkish invasion of Cyprus – Cyprus
- Turkish Resistance Organisation (TMT) during Cypriot intercommunal violence and Turkish invasion of Cyprus – Cyprus
Germany
- Tupamaros West-Berlin (TW) (1969–1970)
- Red Army Faction (RAF) (1970–1998) – known also as Baader-Meinhof Gang
- Template:Flagicon image 2 June Movement (1972–1980)
- Revolutionary Cells (RZ) (1973–1995)
- National Task Force (NEK) (1991)
- Anti-Imperialist Cell (AIZ) (1992-1995)
- National Socialist Underground (NSU) (1999–2007)
Ireland
- Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) (1986–present)
- Template:Flagicon image Irish Citizen Army (1913–1947)
- Template:Flagicon image Army Comrades Association (ACA) (1932–1935)
- Irish People's Liberation Organization (1986–1992)
- Template:Flagicon image Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) (1974–2009/present)
- Official Irish Republican Army (1969–1990s)
- Oglaigh na hEireann (CIRA splinter group) (2009–present)
- Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) (1969–1998)
- Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA) (1998–present)
Spain
- Template:Flagicon image Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) (1959–2017)
- Template:Flagicon image First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups (GRAPO) (1975–2007)
- Template:Flagicon image Milícia Catalana (1976–1990s)
- Template:Flagicon image Free Land (TL) (1978–1991)
- Template:Flagicon image Armed Guanche Forces (FAG) (1976–1979)
- Guerrilla Army of the Free Galician People (EGPGC) (1986–1991)
- Template:Flagicon image Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front (FRAP) (1973–1978)
- Revolutionary Armed Struggle (LAR) (1978–1984)
France
- Template:Flagicon image National Liberation Front of Corsica (FLNC) (1976–1990)
- FLNC Split Organizations (1990–Present)
- Template:Flagicon image Resistenza (1989–2003)
- Fronte Ribellu (FR) (1996–1999)
- Armata Corsa (AC) (1999–2001)
Other
- Template:Flagicon image Iparretarrak (IK) (1972–2000)
- Template:Flagicon image Breton Liberation Front (FLB) (1963–1990)
- Template:Flagicon image Breton Revolutionary Army (ARB) (1971–Present)
- Template:Flagicon image National Liberation Front of Provence (2012–Present)
Other
- Template:Flagicon image Action Directe (AD) – France
- Template:Flagicon image Democratic Army of Greece, Communist partisans during the Greek Civil War – Greece
- National Liberation Army – North Macedonia
- Albanian National Army – North Macedonia, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece<ref>During 2007</ref>
- Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) – Kosovo
- Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac – Serbia
- Template:Flagicon image Chechen guerrillas under nominal leadership of Aslan Maskhadov (who is now deceased) – Chechnya
- Combatant Revolutionary Communist Party (PCRC) - Italy
- Template:Flagicon image Red Brigades (BR, later split, BR-PCC and BR-UCC largest factions) – Italy
- Lisowczycy (Polish)
- Snapphane Movement – Sweden, pro-Danish partisans that fought against the Swedes in the 17th century.
- Template:Flagicon image Template:Flagicon image Guerrilla warfare in the Peninsular War (Spain, Portugal)
- Template:Flagicon Briganti (Italy)
- Template:Flagicon image Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party (Congress Poland, particularly active during the Polish events of the 1905 Russian Revolution)
- Template:Flagicon image Irish Republican Army – Ireland (prior to the establishment of an independent state of Ireland)
- Template:Flagicon image Kuva-yi Milliye during Turkish War of Independence – Turkey
- Template:Flagicon image Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Macedonia (region)*
- World War II Resistance movements in various countries, many sponsored by the Allied governments:
- Soviet partisans in the Axis-occupied territories during World War II
- Template:Flagicon image Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) – Greece
- Template:Flagicon image Freies Deutschland – German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union and Germany (East Prussia, Cologne)
- Template:Flagicon image Polish resistance movement in World War II (many of these groups were a part of the Polish Underground State, the large guerrilla movement that initiated the Warsaw Uprising, as well as some other anti-Nazi partisan-warfare-based actions like the Zamość Uprising, the Battle of Osuchy, the Raid on Mittenheide, Operation Tempest, or Operation Heads).
- Henryk Dobrzański (Polish – the first guerrilla commander of the Second World War in Europe)
- Template:Flagicon image Armia Krajowa (Home Army) (Polish)
- Leśni
- Silent Unseen
- Battalion Zośka
- Template:Flagicon image Uderzeniowe Bataliony Kadrowe
- National Armed Forces
- Template:Flagicon image Bataliony Chłopskie (Polish)
- Template:Flagicon image Armia Ludowa (communist-ruled Poland)
- Bielski partisans (Jewish)
- Parczew partisans (Jewish)
- Template:Flagicon image Yugoslav Partisans – Yugoslavia
- Template:Flagicon image Chetniks – Yugoslavia
- Anti-Soviet partisans and pro-Axis partisans
- Forest Brothers – Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania (World War II–1952 approx.)
- Template:Flagicon image Werwolf – Germany
- Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–1953) – Poland
- Template:Flagicon image Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) – Ukraine
Africa
- Template:Flagicon image Republic of the Rif– Morocco Battle of Annual Abd el-Krim's guerrilla tactics influenced Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, and Che Guevara.
- Template:Flagicon image Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) – South Africa (armed wing of the African National Congress)
- Template:Flagicon Ambazonia Defence Forces – Southern Cameroons/Cameroon (armed wing of the Ambazonia Governing Council)
- Template:FlagiconAmbazonia Restoration Forces (ARF) – Southern Cameroon/Ambazonia (armed wing of the Interim Government of Ambazonia /IG)
- Template:Flagicon Southern Cameroons Defence Forces – Southern Cameroons/Cameroon (armed wing of the African People's Liberation Movement)
- Template:Flagicon Ambazonia Self-Defence Council – Southern Cameroons/Cameroon (umbrella organization consisting of armed groups loyal to the Interim Government of Ambazonia)
- Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA or Mau Mau) – Kenya
- Template:Flagicon image National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) – Angola (nationalist guerrillas who first fought the Portuguese and later Angola's communist led regime)
- Template:Flagicon image Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) – Angola (communist guerrillas who fought Portuguese rule and later established a Marxist regime)
- Template:Flagicon image National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) – Angola (anti-communist guerrillas backed by the United States and Apartheid South Africa. Angolan Civil War)
- Template:Flagicon image Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) – Eritrea
- Template:Flagicon image Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) – Eritrea (communist split group of the ELF)
- Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) – Liberia
- Template:Flagicon image Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro (POLISARIO) – Western Sahara
- Template:Flagicon image Zimbabwe African People's Union – Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
- Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO) – Mozambique (communist guerrillas who won independence from Portugal and established a Marxist regime)
- Template:Flagicon image Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) – Mozambique (anti-communist guerrillas, supported by Rhodesia and South Africa, who fought in the Mozambican Civil War)
- Template:Flagicon image South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) – Namibia (an independence movement that fought South African rule during the Apartheid era)
- Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) – Nigeria
- Lesotho Liberation Army (LLA) – Lesotho
- Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) – Uganda
- Uganda People's Democratic Army – Uganda
- National Resistance Army – Uganda
- Template:Flagicon image Azanian People's Liberation Army (earlier known as Poqo) – South Africa (armed wing of the PAC)
- Template:Flagicon image Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) – South Africa
- Template:Flagicon image Islamic Front for the Liberation of Oromia
- Template:Flagicon image Oromo Liberation Front
- Template:Flagicon image Sudan People's Liberation Army – SPLA. South Sudanese based rebel group that fought against the Islamist and Arab dominated regime in Khartoum during the Second Sudanese Civil War. They now control the independent nation of South Sudan
- Template:Flagicon image Sudan Liberation Movement/Army
- Template:Flagicon image Justice and Equality Movement
- Janjaweed
- Niger Movement for Justice
- Patriotic Liberation Front (FPL) - Niger
- Template:Flagicon image Green Resistance – Gaddafi supporters in Libya post–2011
- Template:Flagicon image Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda or FDLR – Successor to ALiR, Hutu extremists
- Template:Flagicon image Army for the Liberation of Rwanda or ALiR – Hutu nationalists who fled Rwanda after the 1994 Genocide and took up arms in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo
- Template:Flagicon image Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition or SPLM-IO (South Sudanese rebels fighting the SPLM led government since 2013. South Sudanese Civil War
- Template:Flagicon image Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire or the AFDL. These were anti-Mobutu rebels in the former Zaire during the First Congo War
- Rally for Congolese Democracy – RCD, anti-government forces backed by Rwanda during the Second Congo War
- Movement for the Liberation of Congo – anti-government forces backed by Uganda during the Second Congo War
- Template:Flagicon image Somali National Movement (SNM) – Somaliland
- Lakurawa - Nigeria
- 25 January Revolutionary Movement - Egypt
Asia
- Template:Flagicon imageTurkistan Islamic Party (ETIP) – Xinjiang, China
- Template:Flagicon image Northern Alliance – Afghanistan
- Template:Flagicon image Taliban – Afghanistan
- Template:Flagicon image Haqqani Network – Afghanistan
- Jundallah – Iran/Pakistan
- Template:Flagicon image Free Joseon – North Korea
- Template:Flagicon image Al-Qaeda – has been based in Afghanistan
- Mujahedin – (generic grouping) Central Asia, Middle East, Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia
- Template:Flagicon image Free Papua Movement – Indonesia
- Template:Flagicon image Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) – Philippines
- Template:Flagicon image East Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT) – Indonesia
- Template:Flagicon image Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF, a break away group of the MNLF) – Philippines
- Template:Flagicon image New People's Army (NPA) – Philippines
- Template:Flagicon image Abu Sayyaf – Philippines
- Template:Flagicon image Khmer National Unity Front (KNUF) – Cambodia
- Template:Flagicon image Cambodian Freedom Fighters (CFF) – Cambodia
- Template:Flagicon image Lashkar-e-Toiba – based in Pakistan
- Template:Flagicon image United Liberation Front of Asom – India/Bangladesh
- Template:Flagicon image Balochistan Liberation Army – Pakistan
- Balochistan Liberation Front – Pakistan
- Baloch Nationalist Army – Pakistan
- PJAK-PKK —Kurdistan
- Template:Flagicon image Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front – Kashmir
- Hizbul Mujahideen – Kashmir
- Template:Flagicon image Jaish-e-Mohammed – Pakistan
- Template:Flagicon image Naxalite Movement – India
- Template:Flagicon image People's Liberation Army, Nepal – Nepal
- Template:Flagicon image People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (India) – India (Andhra Pradesh)
Historical
- Template:Flagicon image Chushi Gangdruk – Tibet, China
- Template:Flagicon image Chinese Communist Party – China
- Template:Flagicon image Pathet Lao – Laos
- Template:Flagicon image Katipunan (KKK) – Philippines
- Righteous army – Korea
- Template:Flagicon image Korean People's Guerrilla Army – Korea
- Template:Flagicon image Khmer Rouge – Cambodia
- Template:Flagicon image National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam (NLF) – Vietnam
- Template:Flagicon image Hukbalahaps – Philippines
- Template:Flagicon image Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor (FRETILIN) East-Timor
- Template:Flagicon image Viet Minh – Vietnam
- Template:Flagicon image Communist Party of Malaya – Malaya/Malaysia
- Shivaji – India
- Template:Flagicon image Free Aceh Movement – Aceh, Indonesia
- Template:Flagicon image Saqqawists – Kingdom of Afghanistan
- Template:Flagicon image People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (Andhra Pradesh) – India
- Template:Flagicon image Mukti Bahini - East Pakistan (Bangladesh)
- Template:Flagicon image Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) – Sri Lanka
Middle East
- Template:Flagicon image Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria (TIP-S) – Syria
- The Islamic Resistance Front in Syria - Syria
- Muqdad Coastal Shield Brigade - Syria
- Irgun
- PKK — Kurdistan
- PKK - YPG — Kurdistan
- PKK - PJAK — Kurdistan
- Lehi
- Template:Flagicon image Ansar al-Islam
- Popular Resistance Committees
- Hezbollah – Lebanon
- Template:Flagicon image Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman
- Front for the Liberation of the Golan – Syria
Iran
- Iranian People's Fadaee Guerrillas (IFPG) (1979–present)
- Template:Flagicon image People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) (1965–present)
- Union of Iranian Communists (Sarbedaran) (UIC (S)) (1976–2001)
- PJAK-PKK
Iraq
Palestine
- Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (2000–present)
- Template:Flagicon image Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) (1968–present)
- Template:Flagicon image Hamas (1987–present)
- Template:Flagicon image Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) (1987–present)
- Template:Flagicon image Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (1964–1993)
- Template:Flagicon image Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) (1967–present)
- Mujahideen Brigades
- Internationalists Brigades for the Palestinian Liberation
See also
Further reading
- Kreiman, Guillermo (2024). "Revolutionary days: Introducing the Latin American Guerrillas Dataset". Journal of Peace Research.
References
External links
- Complete List of Terrorist and Insurgency Groups Worldwide (about 371 in all)