Autonomous Action, Avtonomnoe Deystvie, (AD) is a revolutionary anarchist federation in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine that was founded in January 2002.
AD is composed of anarcho-communists, syndicalists, autonomist-marxists, and radical ecologists. Autonomous Action also had members in Armenia - "Proryv", the group been terminated in the end of 2005.
Autonomous Action utilizes direct action "to create a tradition and basis for a new humanist culture, social self-organisation and radical resistance against militarism, capitalism, sexism and fascism".
Autonomous Action publishes a zine called Autonom and a newspaper titled Situation.
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