Meaning of insurrectionalist | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A member of the insurrectional faction of the FSLN that defeated Anastasio Somoza García on 1979.
2. A proponent of insurrectionalism

Examples

“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...”

“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.”

“Power-sharing between the Sandinista left and other groups was an important factor in creating a nationwide insurrectionalist alliance in early 1978.”

“...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, ...”

“The Sawanans brought the insurrectionalists to trial.”

“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.”

“For this reason the proletarians of our country have been so long divided in revolutionary syndicalists or insurrectionalists and reformists or evolutionarists.”

“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.”

“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."”

“The Insurrectionalists faction, led by brothers Daniel and Humberto Ortega and Mexican-born Victor Tirado, gradually assumed international prominence as the group most capable of waging direct war against Somoza.”

“While the Insurrectionalists did seek aid from various sectors, their reputation as moderates was an illusion.”

“The GPP and the Insurrectionalists were particularly influenced by Sandino's nationalist and moral (not scientific) movement.”

“The situation changed in 1976 when a third distinct faction within the FSLN emerged, the Terceristas or Insurrectionalists.”

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