The faction operates throughout the Northern New Jersey area.

In business, Johnson says, a few companies have already enjoyed unspecified "positive results" by adopting antlike organizational structures; in politics, he notes, certain American radical factions generally operate independently, yet spontaneously band together when necessary.

Since the 1960s a secret faction known as the "Smith Group" and later as the "Party Group" had operated within the CPGB based around the theories of the Italian communist leader Antonio Gramsci.

The faction would lose more power in Quebec and operated in the shadow of the Sicilian faction led by Nicolo Rizzuto.

The vehicles, old and decrepit, have been moving around the city for the last two days, but it was not clear which faction was operating them.

Such a faction would most likely be operating underground, hard to find, suspicious of strangers, and hardly likely to accept him or his companions at the drop of a hat.

The faction operates in Youngstown, Ohio throughout the Mahoning Valley.

The factions are longtime rivals, have backing from Iran and operate militias with members in the Iraqi security forces.

In the region several armed factions operate.

The faction operate a weekly newspaper called Al-Talea.