Militant

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(Wikipedia) - The word militant, which is both an adjective and a noun, usually is used to mean vigorously active, combative and aggressive, especially in support of a cause, as in 'militant reformers'. It comes from the 15th Century Latin "militare" meaning "to serve as a soldier". The related modern concept of the militia as a defensive organization against invaders grew out of the Anglo-Saxon "fyrd". In times of crisis, the militiaman left his civilian duties and became a soldier until the emergency was over, when he returned to his civilian occupation and life. However, the current meaning of militant does not usually refer to a registered soldier: it can be anyone who subscribes to the idea of using vigorous, sometimes extreme, activity to achieve an objective, usually political. For example, a "militant [political political] activist" would be expected to be more confrontational and aggressive than an activist not described as militant. Militance may or may not include physical violence, armed combat, terrorism, and the like. For example, the political Militant Tendency (later Militant Labour) published a newspaper, intervened in labour disputes, moved resolutions in political meetings, but was not based on violence, although some confrontations might lead to unarmed fighting. The purpose of the Christian Church Militant is to struggle against sin, the devil and ".. the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places", but it is not a violent movement. Among organisations that describe themselves as militants, the Ulster Young Militants are an example of a group resorting to violence (intimidation, arson, and murder) as a deliberate tactic. The word "militant" is very frequently used to describe groups that do not name or describe themselves as militants, but that advocate extreme violence; for example in the early twentyfirst century members of groups involved in Islamic terrorism such as al Qaida are usually described as militants. Militant

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Militant is usually used to describe a person engaged in aggressive verbal (or physical) combat.

Militant may also refer to:

• The Militant, an international communist newsweekly first published in November 1928
• Militant faction, an organized radical grouping in the Socialist Party of America during the 1930s
• Militant Group, a British Trotskyist group of the 1930s
• Militant tendency, an entryist group within the UK Labour Party which emerged in 1964

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