uprisings
Populace against power
Uprisings are rebellions or revolts against authority, typically involving collective action by groups seeking political change.
The word suggests organized resistance that rises up from below—citizens against a government, workers against employers, colonized peoples against occupiers: The Arab Spring sparked uprisings across the Middle East.
An uprising may be violent or peaceful, successful or crushed.
Abrupt seizure of power
- overthrowForcible removal from power
- regime changeReplacement of governing power
- liberationRelease from constraint
- radicalismPursuit of sweeping change
ideology · junta · insurgents · revolutionaries · Bastille · Bolshevik · French Revolution · Arab Spring
Armed uprising against authority
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- mutinyRevolt against authority
- guerrillaIrregular armed fighter
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
sedition · defiance · upheaval · riot · agitation · dissent · struggle · unrest
coup
Abrupt seizure of power
- overthrowForcible removal from power
- regime changeReplacement of governing power
- liberationRelease from constraint
radicalism · ideology · junta · insurgents · revolutionaries · Bastille · Bolshevik · French Revolution · Arab Spring · barricades
insurgency
Armed uprising against authority
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- mutinyRevolt against authority
- guerrillaIrregular armed fighter
resistance · sedition · defiance · upheaval · riot · agitation · dissent · struggle · unrest · militants
demonstration
Public display of opinion
- rallyGathering for a cause
- marchRhythmic group walk
- civil disobediencePeaceful refusal to obey
boycott · sit-in · picketing · chanting · placards · banners · megaphone · crowd · solidarity · petition
- Caribbean historyJamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Cuba, Trinidad
- historic momentsturning points, heroic act, triumphs, sacrifice, victories
- independencefreedom, liberty, Independence Day, autonomy, sovereignty
- resistanceresistance, defiance, resistance fighters, civil resistance, resist
- civil unrestriot, riots, rioting, mob, revolt
- rebellionrevolt, rebel, mutiny, insurgency, insurrection
uprisingspeace
Freedom from disturbance
stability · order · tranquility · calm · status quo
uprisingselections
Formal choosing of officials
reforms · negotiations · constitutional amendments · evolutionary change · ballots
uprisingssubmission
Yielding to another's will
obedience · compliance · acquiescence · subjugation · docility
- slave uprisingsRebellions by enslaved people
- popular uprisingCollective revolt against authority
- robot uprisingMachines overthrowing human masters
- armed uprisingViolent revolt against authority
- peasant uprisingRural lower-class rebellion
- student uprisingCollective protest by learners