liberation front
Revolutionary fighting group
A liberation front is an organization, typically a militant or guerrilla movement, fighting to free a territory or people from what it considers foreign occupation or oppressive rule: the Palestine Liberation Front, the National Liberation Front of Vietnam.
The term carries revolutionary connotations and is used by groups across the political spectrum, from Marxist insurgencies to nationalist movements.
- Mau Mau UprisingKenyan anticolonial insurgency, 1950s
- Black Panther PartyRevolutionary socialist organization
- secessionFormal withdrawal from union
- activismDirect effort for reform
- guerrillaIrregular armed fighter
freedom fighter · people's army · protest · Viet Cong · guerrilla warfare · revolution · emancipation · militia · insurgent · solidarity · equality · human rights · anti-colonial · sabotage · sovereignty · autonomy · ideology · manifesto
- armed groupsmilitia, guerrillas, insurgents, paramilitary, militias
- factionsfactions, faction, splinter groups, splinter party, blocs
- insurgentsinsurgent, guerrillas, guerrilla, rebel, resistance fighters
- nonstate actorsmilitia, insurgent, rebel group, guerrilla, paramilitary
- EritreaSahel, Nara, independence movement
- Revolutionary MovementsMaoism, guerrilla warfare, armed struggle, class struggle, manifesto
liberation frontcolonial administration
Governance of conquered territories
state apparatus · authoritarian regime · ruling party · imperial power · military junta
liberation, front, liberate, liberated, liberating, liberator, liberators, liberal, liberals