The news has been filled with articles about the FBI expecting violence from protesters at the Republican convention in New York next week. The New York Times reports on the anarchists--and on the tactics police will use to try and prevent violence.

Even anarchists who are against violence are warning of trouble and admit that they are planning acts of civil disobedience, including blocking intersections, staging "chaos on Broadway'' when the delegates attend Broadway shows on Sunday night, holding a "die-in'' near Madison Square Garden, sneaking into parties and other functions and generally harassing the 4,853 delegates and alternate delegates.

What do the anarchists believe in?

Definitions vary but most see anti-capitalism as the bedrock of their ideology. They question and disdain authority and hierarchal government as corrupting and intrusive in personal affairs. "Neither slave nor master'' is a common slogan. Some are zealots; others see anarchism as a way to raise awareness of problems like hunger, greed and materialism.