pro-democracy movement
Push for representation
A pro-democracy movement is an organized effort to establish, restore, or expand democratic governance—typically involving protests, civil disobedience, and political organizing.
Such movements arise under authoritarian rule or where democratic institutions are threatened: the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, pro-democracy movements swept Eastern Europe in 1989.
The term emphasizes popular participation and often implies resistance to entrenched power.
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- revolutionViolent governmental overthrow
- freedomAbsence of constraint
- free speechProtected verbal liberty
human rights · dissent · civil disobedience · rally · march · candlelight vigil · Tiananmen · solidarity · activist · reform · resistance · demonstration · square · tanks · tear gas · students · hunger strike · banner
- resistanceresistance, defiance, resistance fighters, civil resistance, resist
- protestsprotest, demonstration, protest march, demonstrations, rallies
pro-democracy movementcommunist party
Marxist-Leninist political organization
strongman politics · dictatorship · authoritarianism · autocracy · totalitarianism
democracy, movement, democratic, democrat, democracies, democratize, democratization, democratically, undemocratic