Resistance movement

A resistance movement is an organized movement by some portion of the civil population of a country to fight against an occupying power and to cause civil disorder. Sometimes they could be a nonviolent resistance (sometimes called civil resistance), or the use of force.

In many cases, as for example in Norway in the Second World War, a resistance movement may have had both violent and non-violent methods.^[1]

Resistance Movement Media

Members of the Norwegian resistance movement Milorg, engaged in supply raids, espionage as well as the sabotage of German heavy water production during WW2
A group of Afghan mujahideen, who were considered to be freedom fighters by Western nations, October 1987
Mugshot of Ants "the Terrible" Kaljurand, a famous Estonian freedom fighter and Nazi collaborator
Ottoman Mamluk lancers, early 16th century
Geronimo (right) alongside his fellow Apache warriors in 1886
Three Filipino Moro rebels hanged by the Americans in Jolo during the Moro Rebellion
Omar Mukhtar led Libyan Mujahidin against the imperialist forces of Fascist Italy
Algerian National Liberation Army during the Algerian War against French occupation
A photo from the Irish Labour History Society used for mass marketing in relation to the Irish Citizen Army. This instance of the photo is a scan of an original from the National Library of Ireland with the names of the soldiers atop the roof pencilled in beside them, including Christopher Poole second in from the left.

Notes

↑ On the relation between military and civil resistance in occupied Norway 1940–45, see Magne Skodvin, "Norwegian Non-violent Resistance during the German Occupation", in Adam Roberts (ed.), The Strategy of Civilian Defence: Non-violent Resistance to Aggression, Faber, London, 1967, pp. 136–53. (Also published as Civilian Resistance as a National Defense, Harrisburg, US: Stackpole Books, 1968; and, with a new Introduction on "Czechoslovakia and Civilian Defence", as Civilian Resistance as a National Defence, Harmondsworth, UK/Baltimore, US: Penguin Books, 1969. ISBN 0-14-021080-6.)

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[1] On the relation between military and civil resistance in occupied Norway 1940–45, see Magne Skodvin, "Norwegian Non-violent Resistance during the German Occupation", in Adam Roberts (ed.), The Strategy of Civilian Defence: Non-violent Resistance to Aggression, Faber, London, 1967, pp. 136–53. (Also published as Civilian Resistance as a National Defense, Harrisburg, US: Stackpole Books, 1968; and, with a new Introduction on "Czechoslovakia and Civilian Defence", as Civilian Resistance as a National Defence, Harmondsworth, UK/Baltimore, US: Penguin Books, 1969. ISBN 0-14-021080-6.)

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