List of Anarchist Societies

A list of societies which follow libertarian socialist models of governance or economics. (Note: Hunter-gatherer societies, intentional communities, protest camps and squatter networks are not included).

• 7500BCE - 5700BCE: Catal Huyuk
• 7300BCE - 4300BCE: Cayonu Tepesi
• 5700BCE - 3500BCE: Cucuteni-Trypillia Civilization
• 5000BCE - 1930s: Highland New Guinea
• 4000BCE - 1900s: Aboriginal Australia
• 3300BCE - 1300BCE: Indus River Valley Civilization
• 3000BCE - 1100BCE: Minoan Crete Civilization
• 1000BCE - Present: Zomia
• 1000BCE - Present: Tikopia
• 594BCE - 322BCE: Athenian Polis
• 150BCE - 66: Essenes
• 993 - 1500s: Free Frisia
• 1142 - Present: Haudenosaunee Confederacy
• 1180 - 1897: Igodomigodo
• 1291 - 1798: Old Swiss Confederacy
• 1358 - 1862: Hanseatic League
• 1419 - 1452: Táborite Towns
• 1440 - 1826: Republic of Cospaia
• 1629 - 1783: New England
• 1650 - 1812: Caribbean Pirates
• 1700s - 1868: Seminoles
• 1789 - 1793: Parisian Sections
• 1868 - 1874: South Carolina Commune
• 1871: Paris Commune
• 1903: Strandzha Commune
• 1909 - Present: Kibbutzim
• 1911: Baja California
• 1918 - 1921: Free Territory of Ukraine
• 1920 - 1927: Guangzhou City Commune
• 1929 - 1931: Shinmin Autonomous Zone
• 1936 - 1939: Revolutionary Spain
• 1945: Saigon Commune
• 1953: East Germany
• 1956: Hungary
• 1968: Czechoslovakia
• 1979 - Present: FEJUVE
• 1979 - Present: Marinaleda
• 1980: Gwangju Commune
• 1987 - Present: Puerto Real
• 1992 - Present: Spezzano Albanese
• 1994 - Present: Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities
• 2006 - Present: Consejos Comunales
• 2006:Oaxaca City Commune
• 2006 - Present: Zaachila
• 2011 - Present: Cherán
• 2012 - 2018: Free Syria
• 2012 - Present: Democratic Federation of Northern Syria
• 2012 - Present: Barbacha