rebel faction
Armed opposition movement
A rebel faction is a group within a larger organization or movement that opposes the established leadership or mainstream position.
The term appears in political contexts—A rebel faction within the party threatened to block the bill—and in military ones, where it describes armed groups fighting against a government or occupying force.
In games and fiction, rebel factions are stock elements of conflict narratives.
- insurgentOne who revolts
- guerrillaIrregular armed fighter
- guerrilla warfareIrregular combat using ambushes
- armed struggleViolent political conflict
- militiaNon-professional armed force
uprising · civil war · resistance · freedom fighter · mutiny · dissident · separatist · revolutionary · splinter · defector · underground · safe house · partisan · junta · liberation · coup · warlord · stronghold
- Dystopia1984, Nineteen Eighty-Four, dystopian fiction, totalitarianism, Brave New World
- armed groupsmilitia, guerrillas, insurgents, paramilitary, militias
- succession crisessuccession crisis, succession dispute, disputed succession, succession war, war of succession
rebel factiongovernment
Authority over a state
central government · ruling party · federal government · regime · state
rebel factiongovernment forces
Military under state control
regular army · armed forces · security forces · state troops · federal troops
rebel, faction, rebels, rebelled, rebelling, rebellion, rebellious, rebelliously, rebelliousness