List of guerrilla movements

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

Latin America

• Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) El Salvador
• Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG)
• Sandinista National Liberation Front - Nicaragua
• Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) or Zapatistas - Chiapas, Mexico
• Araguaia guerrilla (PC do B) Brazil
• 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)
• Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army (EGTK)
• Simon Bolivar Guerrilla Commando

Chile

• Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (FPMR) (1983–1997)

Colombia

• Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) (1964–present)
• 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–present)
• Indigenous Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Pacific

Mexico

• Party of the Poor (PdlP)
• Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR)
• People's Guerrilla Group (GPG)

Peru

• Shining Path (1980–present)
• Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement MRTA (1980s-1997)
• National Liberation Army (1962–1965)

North America

• Black Liberation Army - United States
• Caribbean Revolutionary Alliance - Guadeloupe
• FALN (Frente Americano para la Liberación Nacional) also known as The Guerrilla Alliance - United States and The Americas
• Nation of Islam's paramilitary security force (Fruit of Islam) - United States
• New World Liberation Front (NWLF) - United States
• MEChA's Brown Berets (paramilitary security force) - United States - "Border War"
• Port7Alliance - 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 - Republic of Macedonia
• Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) - Spain
• Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) - Semi-recognised country of Kosovo
• Kosovo Republic Armed Forces (FARK) - Semi-recognised country of Kosovo
• Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac - Serbia
• Catalan Red Liberation Army - Spain
• Elisabeth Van Dyck Commando - France
• First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups - Spain
• Communist Party of Kurdistan (KKP) - Turkey
• Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist (TKP-ML) - Turkey
• Group of Communities in Kurdistan (KCK) - Turkey
• Kurdistan Democratic Party/North (KDP/Bakur) - Turkey
• Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK) - Turkey
• Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) - Turkey
• Marxist–Leninist Communist Party (MLKP) - Turkey
• Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK) - Turkey
• Revolutionary Party of Kurdistan (PŞK) - Turkey
• Revolutionary People's Liberation Party–Front (DHKP-C) - Turkey
• Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) - Northern Ireland
• Red Brigades (BR, after split BR-PCC) - Italy
• Chechen guerrillas under nominal leadership of Aslan Maskhadov (who is now deceased) - Chechnya

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;
• 'Old' IRA - Ireland (prior to the establishment of an independent state of Ireland)
• 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 Cypriot intercommunal violence - 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

• Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) - South Africa (armed wing of ANC)
• Mau Mau - Kenya
• National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) – Angola
• Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) – Angola
• National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) – Angola
• 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
• Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) – Mozambique
• South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) – Namibia
• 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
• Sudan Liberation Movement/Army
• Justice and Equality Movement
• Janjaweed
• Niger Movement for Justice
• Green Resistance

Asia

• 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
• JKLF- Kashmir
• Hizbul Mujahideen- Kashmir
• Jaish-e-Mohammed- India
• People's Liberation Army, Nepal- Nepal
• Ta'ang National Liberation Army - Burma

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
• Wingate's Raiders - Burma
• Hermes - Borneo/Malaysia--The Dayak's indigenous guerrilla group which fights against discrimination by the Malaysian Government to their race. They also fight for Free Religions in Malaysia.
• Shivaji - India
• Free Aceh Movement - Aceh, Indonesia

Middle East

• Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
• Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (PDK-I)
• Komalah - Iran
• Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK)
• Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) - Lebanon, Armenia and the USA
• Irgun
• Lehi (group)
• Black September
• Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
• Ansar al-Islam - Iraq
• Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
• Popular Resistance Committees
• Hamas
• Islamic Jihad
• Hezbollah - Lebanon
• Iraqi insurgency - Iraq
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman
• Iranian People's Fadaee Guerrillas- Iran
• Front for the Liberation of the Golan - Syria

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

External links

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