underground resistance
Secret political rebellion
Underground resistance refers to clandestine opposition movements operating in secret against occupying forces or oppressive regimes.
Members conduct sabotage, intelligence gathering, and aid to persecuted people while evading detection: The underground resistance smuggled downed Allied pilots to safety.
The phrase evokes World War II movements like the French Resistance, though it applies to any covert organized dissent.
- night raidsArmed operations after sundown
- escape routePlanned exit path
- Viet CongVietnamese communist guerrilla force
- ZapatistasMexican revolutionary indigenous movement
- cell structureArrangement of cellular components
Socialism · safe house · coded messages · dead drop · false papers · Feminism · partisans · freedom fighters · occupied territory · maquis · leaflets · clandestine
- Dystopia1984, Nineteen Eighty-Four, dystopian fiction, totalitarianism, Brave New World
- Colonial KoreaJapanese occupation, Japanese rule, colonial rule, occupation period, independence movement
- Czechoslovakia WWIISudetenland, protectorate, Munich, Bohemia, Moravia
- Korea 1960s-80sdemocratization, military coup, military rule, chaebols, economic miracle
- Revolutionrevolt, uprising, insurrection, overthrow, revolutionaries
- social movementscivil rights movement, women's liberation, labor movement, feminist movement, suffrage movement
underground resistancepublic protest
Collective demonstration of dissent
mass demonstration · civil disobedience · parliamentary opposition · loyal opposition · peaceful protest
underground resistancecollaboration
Joint intellectual work
state apparatus · secret police · occupation forces · puppet regime · regime
underground resistanceconventional warfare
Armed conflict using standard military forces
regular army · standing army · frontal assault · pitched battle · declared war
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