resistance movement
Organized defiance campaign
A resistance movement is an organized effort to oppose and undermine an occupying power or oppressive regime, typically through clandestine activities.
The term evokes World War II underground networks that fought Nazi occupation: Her grandmother was active in the French resistance movement.
Resistance movements may use sabotage, intelligence gathering, propaganda, or armed guerrilla tactics.
The phrase implies moral legitimacy—one side's resistance movement is the other's insurgency.
- freedom fighterArmed rebel against tyranny
- rebellionDefiance of established power
- armed struggleViolent political conflict
- noncooperationRefusing to work together
- revolutionViolent governmental overthrow
guerrilla warfare · liberation · maquis · activism · civil disobedience · insurgency · conscientious objection · war of attrition · partisan · samizdat · cultural revival · anti-colonialism · sit-in · hunger strike · clandestine operations · sabotage · grassroots organizing · hideout
- NorwayOslo, Bergen, Trondheim, fjord, fjords
- social movementswomen's liberation, abolition, feminism, disability rights, LGBT rights
- TibetTibet, Lhasa, Dalai Lama, Tibetan Plateau, Tibetan Buddhism
- armed groupsmilitia, guerrillas, insurgents, paramilitary, militias
- German MovementsNazism, Bauhaus, White Rose, denazification, neo-Nazism
- rebellionrevolt, rebel, mutiny, insurgency, insurrection
resistance movementestablishment
Founded organization or venue
loyalists · royalists · government forces · ruling party · authoritarian regime
resistance movementacquiescence
Unresisting acceptance
submission · capitulation · compliance · resignation · docility
resistance movementcollaboration
Joint intellectual work
collaborators · quislings · puppet government · fifth column · turncoats
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