Anti-communist organizations

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an intergovernmental military alliance between 32 member states—30 in Europe and two in North America. Founded in the aftermath of World War II, NATO was established with the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949. The organization serves as a system of collective security, whereby its independent member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any outside party. This is enshrined in Article 5 of the treaty, which states that an armed attack against one member shall be considered an attack against them all.

The Taliban, officially known as the Islamic Movement of Taliban, also referring to themselves by their state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is an Afghan political and militant organization with an ideology comprising elements of the Deobandi movement of Islamic fundamentalism and Pashtun nationalism. It ruled approximately 90% of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, before it was overthrown by an American-led invasion after the September 11 attacks carried out by the Taliban's ally al-Qaeda. Following a 20-year insurgency and the departure of coalition forces, the Taliban recaptured Kabu

international organization of states in the Americas

United States-funded international media outlet

former international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia

The Irgun (), officially the National Military Organization in the Land of Israel, often abbreviated as Etzel or IZL (), was a Zionist paramilitary organization that operated in Mandatory Palestine between 1931 and 1948. It was an offshoot of the older and larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah.

major faction in the Russian Civil War

South Korean new religious movement

European unification movement founded in 1923

The Bureau for Intelligence and Security of the State (), shortened to SAVAK () or S.A.V.A.K. (), was the secret police of the Imperial State of Iran. It was established in Tehran in 1957 by national security law, and continued to operate until the Iranian Revolution in 1979, when it was dissolved by Iranian prime minister Shapour Bakhtiar.

French royalist far-right movement

military operation

international alliance of right-of-centre political parties

civil rights movement in former Czechoslovakia

semi-autonomous part of the Russian Orthodox Church

The , was the military police of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). The organization also shared civilian secret police that specialized in clandestine and covert operation, counterinsurgency, counterintelligence, human intelligence (HUMINT), interrogated suspects who might be Allied soldiers, spies or members of a resistance movement, maintained security of prisoner of war camps, raided to capture high-value targets, and provided security at important government and military locations at risk of being sabotaged within Japan and its occupied territories. It was notorious for its brutality and r

Masonic lodge founded in 1877

Islamic extremist organization in China

designation given by the United States government to close allies

museum of Soviet occupation in Tbilisi

RENAMO (from the Portuguese '''''', ) is a Mozambican political party and militant group. The party was founded with the active sponsorship of the Rhodesian Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) in May 1977 from anti-communist dissidents opposed to Mozambique's ruling FRELIMO party. RENAMO was initially led by André Matsangaissa, a former senior official in FRELIMO's armed wing, and was composed of several anti-communist dissident groups which appeared immediately prior to, and shortly following, Mozambican independence. Matsangaissa, who died in 1979, was succeeded by Afonso Dhlakama, who l

Skrewdriver were an English punk rock band formed by Ian Stuart Donaldson in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, in 1976. Originally a punk band, Skrewdriver changed into a white power skinhead rock band after reuniting in the 1980s. Their original line-up split in January 1979 and Donaldson reformed the band with different musicians in 1982. The new iteration of the band played a leading role in the Rock Against Communism movement.

1991–1992 paramilitary arm of the Croatian Party of Rights during the first stages of the Yugoslav wars. During the Croatian War of Independence; after August 1992, disbanded absorbed by the Croatian Army

The Heimwehr (, ) or Heimatschutz (, ) was a nationalist, initially paramilitary, group that operated in the First Austrian Republic from 1920 to 1936. It was similar in methods, organization, and ideology to the Freikorps in Germany. The Heimwehr was opposed to parliamentary democracy, socialism and Marxism and fought in various skirmishes against left-wing and foreign groups during the 1920s and 1930s. Some of its regional groups also opposed Nazism while others favored it. In spite of its anti-democratic stance, the Heimwehr developed a political wing called the Heimatblock ('Homeland Bloc'

unified armed forces of Couronian and Livonian nobility, allied with Latvia from 1918 to 1919

Serbian paramilitary group

The Betar Movement (), also spelled Beitar (), is a Revisionist Zionist youth movement founded in 1923 in Riga, Latvia, by Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky. It was one of several right-wing youth movements that arose at that time and adopted special salutes and uniforms influenced by fascism.

Argentine political terrorist group (1973–1976)

government in exile

The International and State Defense Police (; PIDE) was a Portuguese security agency that existed during the Estado Novo regime of António de Oliveira Salazar. Formally, the main roles of the PIDE were the border, immigration and emigration control and internal and external state security. Over time, it came to be known for its secret police activities.

Secret police of Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship

Belarusian pro-democracy political organization

Online democratic solidarity movement

treaty

The OVRA, unofficially known as the Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism (), was the secret police of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign of King Victor Emmanuel III. It was founded in 1927 under the regime of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. The OVRA was the Italian precursor of Nazi Germany's secret police. Mussolini's secret police were assigned to stop any anti-fascist activity or sentiment. Approximately 50,000 OVRA agents infiltrated most aspects of domestic life in Italy. The OVRA, headed by Arturo Bocchini, never appeared in any official document, so th

The Army Comrades Association (ACA), later the National Guard, Young Ireland and finally League of Youth, known by the nickname the Blueshirts (), was a far-right paramilitary organisation in the Irish Free State, founded in 1932. The group provided physical protection for political groups such as Cumann na nGaedheal from intimidation and attacks by the IRA. Some former members went on to fight for the Francoist faction in the Spanish Civil War.

military unit

Italian expeditionary force, Army Corps of the side that rebelled during the Spanish Civil War

Russian White movement organization

Turkish-Cypriot paramilitary organisation

international organization

Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1921)

former government body in Republic of China

1936-1939 air warfare branch of the Italian expeditionary forces in the Spanish Civil War

centre-right political international in Asia Pacific

political party

alliance of intelligence services

youth organization

Argentine intelligence agency

The Union of Warriors for the Advancement of Bulgarianness (, Sayuz na ratnitsite za napredaka na balgarshtinata), commonly known as just the Ratniks (, Ratnitsi) was a far-right Bulgarian nationalist organization founded in 1936. Its ideas were close to those of Germany's Nazis, including antisemitism and paramilitarism, but also loyalty to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. The Ratniks wore red uniforms in outright competition with the communists for the hearts and minds of the Bulgarian youth, and also badges bearing the Bogar: a Bulgarian sun cross, which became the organisation's symbol.

underground Ukrainian nationalist organization, 1920s–1930s

clandestine resistance organization

Serbian paramilitary unit

Belarusian youth organisation

political organization

organization

Indonesian far right paramilitary organization established by General Abdul Haris Nasution

Government in exile of Laos

Colombian crime gang

international anti-communist organization