Topic summary
Autonomen
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Autonomism.
German and French autonomist movements: generalization to Western Europe (late 1970s-1989)
By the 1980s, while of the K-Group activists had been drawn into terrorism, others had been drawn into formal politics through the Green Party. Those who remained involved in autonomous, horizontal activism became known as the Autonomen. The Black bloc tactic emerged among German Autonomen in the early 1980s in response to state repression of squatting. The peak of the German movement occurred in the latter half of the 1980s, with the growing integration of Autonomen into German anti-nuclear and anti-imperialist struggles; they had by then consolidated bases of action in Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam, and Copenhagen, spreading throughout Western Europe.