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

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
Oath Keepers – United States
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

During 2007

External links

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

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