There are still today a few active anarcist groups in the world. Many of these are organized through the web and an online search will get you straight to primary sources, for example Struggle.ws, an Irish site. This artice will give a brief introduction to the general political ideas and actions of modern anarchist groups in general.

The modern anarchists still have nothing to do with vandalists or anything such. This is a misunderstanding commonly accredited misreading of 'the Anarchist Cookbook'. No anarchist, modern or traditional, would support a violent revolution without popular support. Most anarchists disregard violent revolutions at all and argue that if power cannot be obtained peacefully and gradually, then there is no point in obtaining it. Indeed, a violent revolution would intrinsically be based on the use of force and coercion and thus be in violation of the basic principles of anarchism.

Recently, some anarchists have also come to disregard revolution altogether and desire only minor alternations towards minarchist policies. They argue that the few politicians that are elected cannot find the best solution to all our problems and that their influence should therefore be reduced to a minimum. Some modern anarchists also favour the idea of a direct democracy in which every man and woman can directly take part in making decisions rather than merely electing representatives. This would be similar to the classical Greek system of voting and is commonly today refered to as a plebiscite.

Further, as anarchism is an inherently libertarian philosophy, many modern anarchists have been active in anti-discrimination campaigns and gay-rights campaigns, especially in the 1970's and 80's. Modern anarchists have also been active supporters of globalization and aid to the Third World. After all, anarchism, like many other socialist doctrines, is an internationalist movement. This, however, relates to peaceful coexistence and cooperation and hardly ever to the rights to declaration of war. A great majority of anarchists reject the concept of the state and thus also the right to war in a military-pacifist or completely pacifist worldview.

Overall, therefore, anarchism in the modern world has become not so much a revolutionary movement as a framework for analysis and understanding. Anarchism is also commonly considered as an utopia from which ideas and ideals can be extracted.