Born out of the Korean diaspora in Manchuria escaping brutal Japanese colonial rule and in the power vacuum left in the wake of the assassination of the local warlord, the Korean Anarchist Federation existed against all odds.

The Korean Anarchist Federation would go on to merge with the Now People’s Government to form the Korean People’s Association in Manchuria which at it’s peak organized 2 million people according to the anarchist principals of collective farming, arms training, free education and mutual aid.

The experiment survived for 2 years in the face of attacks by the Japanese, the Soviets and Marxist-Leninist Korean factions.