[1] It seeks to spread anarchist ideas, organize a movement of direct action, and foment a social revolution in Belarus.
The group promotes social anarchism, anarcho-communism, and illegalism, and operates in secret due to laws that criminalize their activities.
The meeting discussed the situation in the Belarusian anarchist movement, an acute lack of organization, discipline and directional vector of actions in it.
As a result of the discussion, it was decided to create an anarcho-communist organization in Minsk, as a branch of "Autonomous Action", which has existed in Russia since 2002.
On 5 March 2010, by an absolute majority of votes, the Belarusian chapter decided to leave Autonomous Action and form an independent organization.
One of the vectors in the development of the Revolutionary Action ideology, in addition to focusing on social revolution and illegalism, is the development of a practical concept, which the organization itself calls "militant-anarchism" – a practice aimed at training organized and disciplined revolutionary anarchists capable of acting in different conditions using different methods to promote anarchist ideas.
In the fall of 2010, after an attack on the Russian embassy in Minsk, the organization was exposed due to the betrayal of some of its members; some of its activists were arrested and sentenced to prison terms in Belarus.
Between 2010 and 2013, the organization's website mainly published local and international news on social and economic issues, as well as information on anarchist prisoners.
Its conduct was associated with the introduction of new taxes and the deterioration of the economic situation of the country's citizens, an alternative to which the anarchists saw the transfer of control over the budget to society.
[23][24][25] Campaigning related to social and economic problems of the Belarusian society, such as tax increases,[26] army conscription,[27] or the manifestation of police brutality,[28] was distributed on a regular basis.
[29] In the same period, actions were published on the RA website in which the buildings of the Ministry of Internal Affairs[30] and the Investigative Committee[31] were attacked with smoke bombs, and billboards with "state propaganda" were damaged with paint.
This tax caused discontent among Belarusian citizens, as a result of which a series of protests took place in the country, some of which were attended by anarchists.
At the end of February, they blocked the carriageway of one of the streets of Minsk, along which they passed with pyrotechnics and a banner "Official is the main parasite".
At the beginning of the year, anarchists have already begun to spread agitation under the slogan "The official is the main parasite" in different cities.
[40] Thus, the activists focused on the fact that the burden on the country's budget is created not by people who have lost their jobs as a result of rising unemployment, but by an excessive administrative apparatus, the effectiveness of which was questioned.
Then a column of 1000–2000 protesters, led by a group of anarchists, chanting slogans, marched along Sovetskaya Street and blocked Masherov Avenue.