anarchists

plural of anarchist
as in revolutionaries
a person who believes that government and laws are not necessary The anarchists decided to move to a remote location that was, for all intents and purposes, lawless.

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Recent Examples of anarchists Notable inmates once held at the jail include Boston Mayor James Michael Curley, anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, civil rights leader Malcolm X and mobster Whitey Bulger, according to records. Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025 Tara could fall into that category, just like the Abbotsfield shooter and the trio of eco-anarchists who are deployed later in the episode. Scott Tobias, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025 Prosecutors said members of that group engaged in digital extremism with the explicit goal of dismantling societal order, much in the way the anarchists of the pre-internet era used to operate. Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025 The attack, which resulted in considerable destruction and numerous fatalities, remains unsolved; however, it is widely attributed to the actions of Italian anarchists. Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 16 Sep. 2025 In 1909, anarchists burned several churches. D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025 Throughout the late nineteenth century and much of the twentieth, Jewish socialists, liberals, anarchists, and Zionists all saw their respective political programs as offering a remedy for anti-Semitism. Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025 As political scientist Krzysztof Wasilewski writes, in the 1880s, tarring immigrants as anarchists became a convenient way for American media to smear labor organizing. Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 9 Aug. 2024
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Noun
  • At the time, the French people reporting on the ground and from abroad held Dessalines and other Haitian revolutionaries to a different standard.
    Julia Gaffield, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The Mexican actor plays revolutionaries in both season 2 of Star Wars series Andor and new movie musical, Kiss of the Spider Woman.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Romans were masters at using rewards and punishment to manage foreign states, from grants of citizenship to massacres of rebels.
    Barry Strauss, Time, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Currently Colombia’s security forces are facing their biggest threat since the 2016 peace deal with FARC rebels, fighting a slew of powerful armed groups tied to the narcotics trade.
    Alfie Pannell, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
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  • Power to the People is a portrait of John and Yoko as a young married couple splashing down in New York City, making friends with the local radicals and con men and boho scenesters.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Before our very eyes, left-wing radicals toppled his statues, vandalized his monuments, tarnished his character, and sought to exile him from our public spaces.
    Addy Bink, The Hill, 12 Oct. 2025

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