Anti-Vocationist League

The Anti-Vocationist League are a guerilla group from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

"We are the Judean People's Front crack suicide squad. Suicide squad! Attack!"

The Anti-Vocationist League (AVL) stands in opposition to the Functionist Council, supporting the freedom of the oppressed. Many of them have "redundant" alt-modes, such as data-sticks, the Lunabots from the astro class, and those who have altered themselves to look like the fabled Useless One.

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

Several members of the Anti-Vocationist League were attracted to the growing Decepticon movement in the days before the Great War. Patternism

The Functionist Universe

In a universe where Megatron never came to exist, the Great War never occurred. The AVL grew into a massive dissident movement and a perpetual thorn in the side of the Functionist Council. Twelve-of-Twelve and his Functionaries were rounding up AVL dissidents when they encountered the universally-displaced crewmembers of the Lost Light and naturally assumed they were simply more or the rabble-rousers to be arrested. Other AVL members, led by Clicker, attempted a rescue, but only succeeded in proving they were terrible at the whole resistance-fighter thing, needing to be saved by the Lost Light crew. Clicker then revealed the AVL's base of operations was Cyberutopia. Anomie

Or at least, that's what it was called—in actuality, it was the city of Kalis. A World Misplaced