insurrectionalist
nounEtymology From insurrectional + -ist.
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Alternative Alternative form of Insurrectionalist.
- ModestIy-armed insurrectionalists battled in the streets against Somoza's 7,500-member National Guard — 4,200 of which have been trained by the U.S. in Nicaragua or at military bases in the Panama Canal Zone and the United States — and...1978, Canadian Dimension - Volume 13, page 25:
- Differing on the means, but with agreement established on the ends of opposition activity, both the subversion of public order as advocated by the insurrectionalists and the institutional conflict favored by the Frei camp continued to bring pressure on the armed forces to take sides.1989, Ricardo Israel Zipper, Politics and Ideology in Allende's Chile, page 256:
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- Power-sharing between the Sandinista left and other groups was an important factor in creating a nationwide insurrectionalist alliance in early 1978.1984, UFSI Reports:
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Alternative Alternative form of insurrectionist.
- ...on October 5, 1795, the 13th Vendémiaire, an IV, the insurrectionalists were up and assembling bright and early ; but they found the rue Saint-Honoré guarded from the Place de la Révolution to the Palais-Royal, ...1929, Henry Dwight Sedgwick, France, page 309:
- The Sawanans brought the insurrectionalists to trial.1970, Alexander Philip Lessin, Phyllis June Lessin, Village of the conquerors: Sawana: a Tongan village in Fiji:
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- Few nations in the world endure such insecure frontiers, guarded as they mostly are by a ramshackle gangs of insurrectionalists feeding on narcotics and contraband, united only in their smouldering resentment of the government in Rangoon.1987, The Contemporary Review - Volume 251, page 233:
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A proponent of insurrectionalism
- For this reason the proletarians of our country have been so long divided in revolutionary syndicalists or insurrectionalists and reformists or evolutionarists.1910, International Federation of Trade Unions, International Report of the Trade Union Movement:
- Furthermore, it is rather artificial to try to make a clear distinction between 'putschists' and 'insurrectionalists' (the two tendencies were often merged together in individual leaders); the real line of demarcation should perhaps be drawn between those who saw the countryside as the proper theatre of the armed struggle, and those who attributed that role to the cities.1978, Régis Debray, A critique of arms - Volume 2, page 43:
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- It was introduced by the prosecutor, however, in evidence against the defendants at the Haymaket trial — in part because the police must have known that Most and Parsons had collaborated on the anarchists' "Pittsburgh Manifesto" at the convention of anti-authoritarian radicals that took place in that city following the Chicago meeting of anarchists, social revolutionaries, and other "free speech insurrectionalists."2006, Law and Literature - Volume 18, page 298: