separatists
Breakaway movement members
Separatists are people who advocate breaking away from a larger political entity to form an independent state or autonomous region.
The term applies to movements seeking independence based on ethnic, religious, or regional identity: Basque separatists, Quebec separatists.
In historical contexts, Separatists were English Protestants who split from the Church of England, including the Pilgrims who settled Plymouth Colony.
Armed uprising against authority
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- guerrillasIrregular combatants, unconventional warfare
- revolutionViolent governmental overthrow
militants · resistance · mutiny · revolt · radicals · subversion · combatants · armed struggle
Formal withdrawal from union
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- nationhoodStatus as independent country
- statehoodCondition of being sovereign
- liberationRelease from constraint
freedom · self-determination · decolonization · breakaway · emancipation · republicanism · nationalism · partition
Control over one's fate
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- self-ruleGovernance without outside control
- self-governmentRuling oneself independently
- devolutionTransferring power locally
decentralization · federalism · regionalism · localism · subsidiarity · self-governance · provincialism · enfranchisement
Barrier separating spaces
- secessionFormal withdrawal from union
- schismFormal organizational fracture
- disunionState of being divided
- riftCrack or estrangement
polarization · fragmentation · splintering · breakup · balkanization · disintegration · dissolution · bifurcation
Public expression of disapproval
- oppositionActive resistance or dissent
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- defianceOpen resistance to authority
- dissidenceOpposition to prevailing views
nonconformity · activism · boycott · civil disobedience · discontent · objection · refusal · noncompliance
insurgency
Armed uprising against authority
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- guerrillasIrregular combatants, unconventional warfare
revolution · militants · resistance · mutiny · revolt · radicals · subversion · combatants · armed struggle · factions
secession
Formal withdrawal from union
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- nationhoodStatus as independent country
- statehoodCondition of being sovereign
liberation · freedom · self-determination · decolonization · breakaway · emancipation · republicanism · nationalism · partition · self-sufficiency
self-determination
Control over one's fate
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- self-ruleGovernance without outside control
- self-governmentRuling oneself independently
devolution · decentralization · federalism · regionalism · localism · subsidiarity · self-governance · provincialism · enfranchisement · empowerment
partition
Barrier separating spaces
- secessionFormal withdrawal from union
- schismFormal organizational fracture
- disunionState of being divided
rift · polarization · fragmentation · splintering · breakup · balkanization · disintegration · dissolution · bifurcation · cleavage
protest
Public expression of disapproval
- oppositionActive resistance or dissent
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- defianceOpen resistance to authority
dissidence · nonconformity · activism · boycott · civil disobedience · discontent · objection · refusal · noncompliance · agitation
- resistanceresistance, defiance, resistance fighters, civil resistance, resist
- dissentersdissenter, dissenters, dissidents, dissident, nonconformists
- factionsfactions, faction, splinter groups, splinter party, blocs
- insurgentsinsurgent, guerrillas, guerrilla, rebel, resistance fighters
- Plymouth ColonyPlymouth Colony, Pilgrims, Mayflower, Mayflower Compact, 1620
- Ukraine WarUkraine, Kherson, Mariupol, Kyiv, Donetsk
separatistsunionists
Members of worker collectives
federalists · centralists · nationalists · integrationists · loyalists
separatistsintegrationists
Advocates for ending separation
assimilationists · annexationists · globalists · cosmopolitans · pluralists
separatistsloyalists
Faithful to established authority
patriots · statists · constitutionalists · monarchists · imperialists
- separatist movementCampaign for political independence