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"JNIM pursues a political-religious agenda, centred on the establishment of sharia law and the rejection of foreign forces, whilst the FLA champions a territorial and autonomist agenda, centred on Azawad," he said.

From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026

“What we see is that a lot of these anarchist and autonomist affinity groups conduct actions for a variety of what we would call policy reasons,” Mr. Schideler said.

From Washington Times • Jan. 31, 2023

The Black bloc movement has its roots in the autonomist protests of Germany in the 1980s.

From The Guardian • May 27, 2018

Its main successes have been on the regional council of Brittany - though in 2012, Paul Molac was elected to the French National Assembly - the first Breton autonomist to take a national seat.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2014

The autonomist party may not appeal to us and apparently it did not appeal to Nicolo Tommaseo.

From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 by Baerlein, Henry