List of guerrilla movements

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

Latin America

Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG)
Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) – Nicaragua
Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) or Zapatistas – Chiapas, Mexico
Jungle Commando – Suriname
Contras – Nicaragua
Morazanist Patriotic Front – Honduras
Tupamaros Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Tupamaros – Uruguay

Argentina

Tacuara Nationalist Movement (Movimiento Nacionalista Tacuara – MNT) (1955–1966)
Justicialist National Militia (Milicia Nacional Justicialista – MNJ) (1955–1966)
Peronist Armed Forces (Fuerzas Armadas Peronistas – FAP) (1968–1971)
People's Revolutionary Army (Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo – ERP) (1969–1976)
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

Chile

Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) (1965–1987)
Lautaro Youth Movement (MJL) (1982–1994)
Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (FPMR) (1983–1997)
Leon Czolgosz Autonomous and Destructive Forces (FADLC) (2006–2009)
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)
Weichán Auka Mapu (WAM) (2011–present)
Antagonic Nuclei of the New Urban Guerrilla (NANGU) (2011–present)

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

Cuba

Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE) (1954–1966)
26th of July Movement (M-26-7) (1955–1962)
Second National Front of Escambray (SFNE) (1959–1964)
Brigade 2506 (1960–1962)
Alpha 66 (1961–present)

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

People's Guerrilla Group (GPG) (1963–1965)
Party of the Poor (PdlP) (1967–1974)
Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) (1994–present)
Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) (1996–present)
Práxedis G. Guerrero Autonomous Cells of Immediate Revolution (CARI-PGG) (2009–2014)
Mariano Sánchez Añón Insurrectional Cell (CI-MSA) (2010–2014)

Paraguay

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

Peru

National Liberation Army (ELN) (1962–1965)
Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) (1962–1965)
Communist Party of Peru (Shining Path) (PCP (SL)) (1980–present)
Militarized Communist Party of Peru (MPCP) (1992–present)
Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) (1982–1997)
National Socialist Tercios of New Castile (2004–2009)

Venezuela

North America

Atomwaffen Division – Anti-government neo-Nazi terrorist group
Black Liberation Army – United States
Caribbean Revolutionary Alliance – Guadeloupe
Earth Liberation Front – United States
MEChA's Brown Berets (paramilitary security force) – United States – "Border War"

Historical

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
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
3 Percenters – United States

Europe

National Liberation Army – North Macedonia
Albanian National Army – North Macedonia, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece^[1]
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) – Kosovo
Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac – Serbia
Chechen guerrillas under nominal leadership of Aslan Maskhadov (who is now deceased) – Chechnya

Ireland

Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) (1986–present)
Irish Citizen Army (1913–1947)
Army Comrades Association (ACA) (1932–1935)
Irish People's Liberation Organization (1986–1992)
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

Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) (1959–2017)
First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups (GRAPO) (1975–2007)
Milícia Catalana (1976–1990s)
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

Lisowczycy (Polish)
Snapphane Movement – Sweden, pro-Danish partisans that fought against the Swedes in the 17th century.
Guerrilla warfare in the Peninsular War (Spain, Portugal)
Briganti (Italy)
Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party (Congress Poland, particularly active during the Polish events of the 1905 Russian Revolution)
Irish Republican Army – Ireland (prior to the establishment of an independent state of Ireland)
Kuva-yi Milliye during Turkish War of Independence – Turkey
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Macedonia (region)
World War II Resistance movements in various countries, many sponsored by the United Kingdom and other Allied governments:
- Soviet partisans in the Axis-occupied territories during World War II
- Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) – Greece
- 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)
  - Armia Krajowa (Home Army) (Polish)
  - Leśni
  - Silent Unseen
  - Battalion Zośka
  - Uderzeniowe Bataliony Kadrowe
  - National Armed Forces
  - Bataliony Chłopskie (Polish)
  - Armia Ludowa (communist-ruled Poland)
  - Bielski partisans (Jewish)
  - Parczew partisans (Jewish)
- Yugoslav Partisans – Yugoslavia
Chetniks – Yugoslavia
Anti-Soviet partisans
- Forest Brothers – Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania (World War II–1952 approx.)
- Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) – Ukraine
- Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–1953) (Polish)
  - Cursed soldiers (Polish)
Democratic Army of Greece, Communist partisans during the Greek Civil War – Greece
Red Brigades (BR, later split, BR-PCC and BR-UCC largest factions) – Italy
Red Army Faction (RAF) – Western Germany, known also as Baader-Meinhof Gang
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
Action Directe (AD) – France

Africa

Republic of the Rif– Morocco Battle of Annual Abd el-Krim's guerrilla tactics influenced Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, and Che Guevara.
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)
Ambazonia Restoration Forces (ARF) – Southern Cameroon/Ambazonia (armed wing of the Interim Government of Ambazonia /IG)
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)
Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA or 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

Turkistan Islamic Party (ETIP) – Xinjiang, China
Northern Alliance – Afghanistan
Taliban – Afghanistan
Haqqani Network – Afghanistan
Jundallah – Iran/Pakistan
Free Joseon – North Korea
Al-Qaeda – has been based in Afghanistan
Mujahedin – (generic grouping) Afghanistan, Middle East
Free Papua Movement – Indonesia
Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) – Philippines
East Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT) – Indonesia
Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF, a break away group of the MNLF) – Philippines
New People's Army (NPA) – Philippines
Abu Sayyaf – Philippines
Khmer National Unity Front (KNUF) – Cambodia
Cambodian Freedom Fighters (CFF) – Cambodia
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
Balochistan Liberation Front – Pakistan
Baloch Nationalist Army – Pakistan
PJAK-PKK —Kurdistan
— Kurdistan
Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front – Kashmir
Hizbul Mujahideen – Kashmir
Jaish-e-Mohammed – Pakistan
Naxalite Movement – India
People's Liberation Army, Nepal – Nepal
People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (India) — India (Andhra Pradesh)

Historical

Chushi Gangdruk – Tibet, China
Chinese Communist Party – China
Pathet Lao – Laos
Katipunan (KKK) – Philippines
Righteous army – Korea
Korean People's Guerrilla Army – Korea
Khmer Rouge – Cambodia
National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam (NLF) – Vietnam
Hukbalahaps – Philippines
Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor (FRETILIN) East-Timor
Viet Minh – Vietnam
Communist Party of Malaya – Malaya/Malaysia
Shivaji – India
Free Aceh Movement – Aceh, Indonesia
Saqqawists – Kingdom of Afghanistan
People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (Andhra Pradesh) – India

Middle East

Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria (TIP-S) – Syria
Irgun
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PKK — Kurdistan
PKK - YPG — Kurdistan
PKK - PJAK — Kurdistan

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Iran

Iranian People's Fadaee Guerrillas (IFPG) (1979–present)
People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) (1965–present)
Union of Iranian Communists (Sarbedaran) (UIC (S)) (1976–2001)
PJAK-PKK

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)

References

↑ During 2007

See also

External links

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

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