liberation movements
Struggles for independence
Liberation movements are organized efforts by oppressed groups to achieve political independence, civil rights, or freedom from domination.
The term covers anticolonial struggles, civil rights campaigns, and revolutionary movements: African liberation movements of the 1960s, the women's liberation movement.
The phrase often implies collective action against systemic oppression rather than individual advancement.
- decolonizationEnding imperial control
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- anti-imperialismOpposition to foreign domination
- anti-colonialismOpposition to foreign domination
independence · suffrage · anti-capitalism · abolitionism · revolution · pan-Africanism · feminism · resistance · guerrilla warfare · emancipation · civil rights · labor rights · intersectionality · human rights · self-determination · land back · indigenous rights · self-rule
- resistanceresistance, defiance, resistance fighters, civil resistance, resist
- advocacy groupsadvocacy group, lobbying groups, lobby group, NAACP, lobby groups
- Balkans WWIIYugoslavia, Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania
- Black DiasporaAfrican American, African Americans, African diaspora, African heritage, African roots
- decolonizationanticolonialism, freedom fighter, anti-colonialism, liberator, decolonization
- Dissentprotest art, civil disobedience, dissidents, protest songs, protest poetry
liberation movementsoppression
Unjust exercise of power
subjugation · tyranny · enslavement · fascism · authoritarian regimes
liberation movementsstatus quo
Existing condition of affairs
conservatism · establishment · loyalism · traditionalism · appeasement
liberation movementscounterinsurgency
Combating armed rebellion tactics
crackdowns · secret police · death squads · paramilitary groups · security apparatus