List of guerrilla movements

This is a list of notable guerrilla movements. It gives their English name, common acronym, and main country of operation.

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Latin America

• Brigade 2506 – Cuba
• Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG)
• Sandinista National Liberation Front – Nicaragua
• Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) or Zapatistas – Chiapas, Mexico
• Jungle Commando – Suriname
• Contras – Nicaragua
• 26th of July Movement – Cuba
• Morazanist Patriotic Front – Honduras
• Bolivarian Forces of Liberation – Venezuela
• Tupamaros Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Tupamaros – Uruguay

Argentina

• People's Revolutionary Army (Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo – ERP) – Argentina
• Montoneros – Argentina
• Tacuara Nationalist Movement (Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucinario Tacuara – MNRT) – Argentina
• Peronist Armed Forces (Fuerzas Armadas Peronistas – FAP) – Argentina

Bolivia

• Zarate Willka Armed Forces of Liberation (FALZW)
• Ñancahuazú Guerrilla (ELN)
• Néstor Paz Zamora Commission (CNPZ)
• Túpac Katari Guerrilla Army (EGTK)

Chile

• Lautaro Youth Movement (MJL) (1982–1994)
• Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (FPMR) (1983–1997)
• Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) (1965–1987)

Colombia

• Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) (1964–2016)
• National Liberation Army (ELN) (1964–present)
• 19th of April Movement (M–19) (1970–1990)
• Guevarista Revolutionary Army (1992–2008)
• Popular Liberation Army (1967–present)
• Simón Bolívar Guerrilla Coordinating Board (1987–1990s)
• Movimiento Armado Quintin Lame (1984–1991)
• Ernesto Rojas Commandos (1991–1992)
• Indigenous Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Pacific

El Salvador

• Communist Party of El Salvador (PCS) (1930–1992)
• Farabundo Martí Liberation People's Forces (FPL) (1970–1992)
• Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) (1980–1992)
• National Resistance (RN) (1975–1992)
• People's Revolutionary Army (ERP) (1972–1992)

Mexico

• Party of the Poor (PdlP) (1967–1974)
• Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR)
• People's Guerrilla Group (GPG) (1963–1965)
• Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN)

Paraguay

• Paraguayan People's Army (EPP) (2008–present)
• United National Liberation Front (FULNA) (1960–1970)

Peru

• Communist Party of Peru (Shining Path) (PCP (SL)) (1980–present)
• National Liberation Army (ELN) (1962–1965)
• Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) (1962–1965)
• Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) (1980s–1997)

North America

• Atomwaffen Division – Anti-government neo-Nazi terrorist group
• Black Liberation Army – United States
• Caribbean Revolutionary Alliance – Guadeloupe
• Earth Liberation Front – United States
• Nation of Islam's paramilitary security force (Fruit of Islam) – United States
• MEChA's Brown Berets (paramilitary security force) – United States – "Border War"
• Port7Alliance – United States
• 3 Percenters – United States
• The Order (Silent Brotherhood) – white nationalist revolutionary organization active in the United States between September 1983 and December 1984.

Historic

• Symbionese Liberation Army – United States
• Weather Underground – United States
• Black Panther Party – United States
• Quantrill's Raiders led by William Quantrill – United States
• Front de libération du Québec – Canada
• Direct Action – Canada

Europe

• National Liberation Army – North Macedonia
• Albanian National Army – North Macedonia, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece[1]
• Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) – Semi-recognised country of Kosovo
• Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac – Serbia
• Catalan Red Liberation Army – Spain
• Elisabeth Van Dyck Commando – France
• Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist (TKP-ML) – Turkey
• Red Brigades (BR, after split BR-PCC) – Italy
• Chechen guerrillas under nominal leadership of Aslan Maskhadov (who is now deceased) – Chechnya

Ireland

• Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) (1986–present)
• Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) (1974–2009)
• Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) (1969–1998)
• Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA) (1998–present)
• Official Irish Republican Army
• Irish People's Liberation Organisation
• Oglaigh na hEireann (CIRA splinter group) (2009–present)

Spain

• Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) (1959–2017)
• First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups (GRAPO) (1975–2007)
• Free Land (TL) (1978–1991)
• Guerrilla Army of the Free Galician People (EGPGC) (1986–1991)
• Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front (FRAP) (1973–1978)
• Revolutionary Armed Struggle (LAR) (1978–1984)

Historic

• Armia Krajowa (Home Army) (Polish)
• Bataliony Chłopskie (Polish)
• Cursed soldiers (Polish)
• Leśni (Polish)
• Silent Unseen (Polish)
• Battalion Zośka (Polish)
• Uderzeniowe Bataliony Kadrowe (Polish)
• National Armed Forces (Polish)
• Anti-Soviet partisans (Polish)
• Armia Ludowa (communist-ruled Poland)
• Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party (communist-ruled Poland)
• Lisowczycy (Polish)
• Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–46) (Polish)
• Henryk Dobrzański (Polish – the first guerrilla commander of the Second World War in Europe)
• Polish resistance movement in World War II (it was 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).
• Kuva-yi Milliye during Turkish War of Independence – Turkey
• Forest Brothers – Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania (World War II–1952 approx.)
• World War II Resistance movements in various countries sponsored by the United Kingdom and other Western governments;
• Irish Republican Army – Ireland (prior to the establishment of an independent state of Ireland)
• Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Macedonia (region)
• Chetniks – Yugoslavia
• Yugoslav Partisans – Yugoslavia
• Red Brigades (BR, later split, BR-PCC and BR-UCC largest factions) – Italy
• Action Directe (AD) – France
• Snapphane Movement – Sweden, pro-Danish partisans that fought against the Swedes in the 17th century.
• Soviet government-organized Soviet partisans in the Axis-occupied territories during World War II
• Bielski partisans (Jewish from Poland)
• Parczew partisans (Jewish from Poland)
• Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) – Greece
• Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) – Ukraine
• Red Army Faction (RAF) – Western Germany, known also as Baader-Meinhof Gang
• Democratic Army of Greece, Communist partisans during the Greek Civil War – Greece
• 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

Africa

• Abdelkrim al-Khattabi (MK) – Morocco Battle of Annual Abd el-Krim's guerrilla tactics influenced Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, and Che Guevara.[4][5]
• Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) – South Africa (armed wing of the African National Congress)
• Ambazonia Defence Forces – Southern Cameroons/Cameroon (armed wing of the Ambazonia Governing Council)
• Southern Cameroons Defence Forces – Southern Cameroons/Cameroon (armed wing of the African People's Liberation Movement)
• Ambazonia Self-Defence Council – Southern Cameroons/Cameroon (umbrella organization consisting of armed groups loyal to the Interim Government of Ambazonia)
• Mau Mau – Kenya
• National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) – Angola (nationalist guerrillas who first fought the Portuguese and later Angola's communist led regime)
• Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) – Angola (communist guerrillas who fought Portuguese rule and later established a Marxist regime)
• 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)
• Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) – Eritrea
• Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) – Liberia
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro (POLISARIO) – Western Sahara
• Zimbabwe African People's Union – Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
• Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO) – Mozambique (communist guerrillas who won independence from Portugal and established a Marxist regime)
• Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) – Mozambique (anti-communist guerrillas, supported by Rhodesia and South Africa, who fought in the Mozambican Civil War)
• 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
• Azanian People's Liberation Army (earlier known as Poqo) – South Africa (armed wing of the PAC)
• Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) – South Africa
• Islamic Front for the Liberation of Oromia
• Oromo Liberation Front
• 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
• Sudan Liberation Movement/Army
• Justice and Equality Movement
• Janjaweed
• Niger Movement for Justice
• Green Resistance – Gaddafi supporters in Libya post–2011
• Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda or FDLR – Successor to ALiR, Hutu extremists
• 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
• Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition or SPLM-IO (South Sudanese rebels fighting the SPLM led government since 2013. South Sudanese Civil War
• 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
• Somali National Movement (SNM) – Somaliland

Asia

• National Democratic Front of Bodoland – India
• Northern Alliance – Afghanistan
• Taliban – Afghanistan
• Haqqani Network – Afghanistan
• Jundallah – Iran/Pakistan
• Al-Qaeda – has been based in Afghanistan
• Khmer Rouge – Cambodia
• Mujahedin – (generic grouping) Afghanistan, Middle East
• People's Mujahedin of Iran
• Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor (FRETILIN) East-Timor
• Pathet Lao – Laos
• Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) – Philippines
• Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF, a break away group of the MNLF) – Philippines
• Hukbalahaps – Philippines
• New People's Army (NPA) – Philippines
• Abu Sayyaf – Philippines
• Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers) – Sri Lanka
• Lashkar-e-Toiba – based in Pakistan
• United Liberation Front of Asom – India/Bangladesh
• Balochistan Liberation Army – Pakistan
• Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front – Kashmir
• Hizbul Mujahideen – Kashmir
• Jaish-e-Mohammed – Pakistan
• Naxalite Movement – India
• People's Liberation Army, Nepal – Nepal

Historic

• Chushi Gangdruk – Tibet, China
• Communist Party of China – China
• Katipunan (KKK) – Philippines
• Righteous army - Korea
• National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam (NLF) – Vietnam
• Viet Minh – Vietnam
• Communist Party of Malaya – Malaya/Malaysia
• Shivaji – India
• Free Aceh Movement – Aceh, Indonesia
• Saqqawists – Kingdom of Afghanistan

Middle East

• Mesopotamia National Council
• People's Defence Forces (HPG)
• Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) – Greater Kurdistan
• Kurdistan Democratic Party/North (KDP/Bakur) – Turkey
• Eastern Kurdistan Units (YRK)
• Women's Defence Forces (HPJ)
• Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI)
• Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK)
• Revolutionary Party of Kurdistan (PŞK) – Turkey
• Communist Party of Kurdistan (KKP)
• National Liberation Front of Kurdistan (ERNK)
• People's Protection Units (YPG)
• Women's Protection Units (YPJ)
• Euphrates Volcano
• Jabhat al-Akrad
• United Freedom Forces (BÖG)
• Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) – Lebanon, Armenia and the USA
• Irgun
• Lehi
• Black September
• Ansar al-Islam
• Popular Resistance Committees
• Hezbollah – Lebanon
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman
• Front for the Liberation of the Golan – Syria

Iran

• Iranian People's Fadaee Guerrillas (IFPG) (1979–present)
• Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KŞZK) (1969–present)
• Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) (2004–present)
• People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) (1965–present)
• Union of Iranian Communists (Sarbedaran) (UIC (S)) (1976–2001)

Palestine

• Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (2000–present)
• Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) (1968–present)
• Hamas (1987–present)
• Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) (1987–present)
• Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (1964–present)
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) (1967–present)

Turkey

• Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist (TKEP/L) (1990–present)
• Communist Party of Kurdistan (KKP) (1982–present)
• Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist (TKP/ML) (1972–present)
• Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) (2004–present)
• Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) (1978–present)
• Maoist Communist Party (MKP) (2002–present)
• Marxist–Leninist Armed Propaganda Unit (MLSPB) (1975–present)
• Marxist–Leninist Communist Party (MLKP) (1994–present)
• Revolutionary Headquarter (DK) (2009–present)
• Revolutionary People's Liberation Party–Front (DHKP-C) (1994–present)
• Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H) (2013–present)
• People's Liberation Army of Turkey (THKO) (1971–1972)
• People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey (THKP-C) (1970–1972)
• Dawronoye (1980–present)

Oceania

• Bougainville Revolutionary Army

See also

• List of guerrillas
• Guerrilla warfare
• List of active rebel groups
• List of active communist armed groups
• List of designated terrorist organizations

References

1. During 2007

External links

• Complete List of Terrorist and Insurgency Groups Worldwide (about 371 in all)