ABSTRACT
In 2011, a series of acts of sabotage were committed in the Helsinki region in Finland. This chapter talks about insurrectionary anarchism that can be understood as a distinct repertoire with certain tactics, organizational forms, and action frames. Insurrectionary anarchism was seen to travel to Finland from Southern Europe, from Greece in particular. The case analysed in the chapter is one of transnational diffusion, that is, the dissemination of influences across national borders. Although radical left movements have long adopted items (tactics, frames, issues, etc.) from their foreign counterparts, the heightened globalization and the development of the Internet and mobile technologies have made the cross-country circulation of ideas among social movements even more common. The chapter discusses the development of the Finnish anarchist movement since 2011 and shows how some traits of insurrectionism seemed to have taken root in Finland as well.
