Organizations disestablished in 1989

Mexican drug cartel

UK water company

Communist organisation (1948–1989)

youth wing of the Romanian Communist Party

Koevoet (, Afrikaans for crowbar, also known as Operation K or SWAPOL-COIN) was the counterinsurgency branch of the South West African Police (SWAPOL). Its formations included white South African police officers, usually seconded from the South African Security Branch or Special Task Force, and black volunteers from Ovamboland. Koevoet was patterned after the Selous Scouts, a multiracial Rhodesian military unit which specialised in counter-insurgency operations. Its title was an allusion to the metaphor of "prying" insurgents from the civilian population.

political mouvement in the People's Republic Poland (1982-1989), under control of the ruling communist party

Norwegian organization for women (1904-1989)

1989 Chinese group during the Tiananmen Square protests