Definitions of militant on the Web:
- disposed to warfare or hard-line policies; "militant nations"; "hawkish congressman"; "warlike policies"
- competitive: showing a fighting disposition; "highly competitive sales representative"; "militant in fighting for better wages for workers"; "his self-assertive and ubiquitous energy"
- a militant reformer
- belligerent: engaged in war; "belligerent (or warring) nations"
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn - The Militant tendency, founded in 1964, was a Marxist entryist group within the UK Labour Party, its philosophy descended from Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militant_(Britain) - The word militant is both an adjective and a noun.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militant - The Militant is an international communist newsweekly connected to the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and the Pathfinder Tendency. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Militant - an aggressive or fighting person; one who serves as a soldier; one who supports a Trotskyite political view or engages in aggressive left-wing politics; aggressive or combative; fighting or warlike; belligerent; Active in an aggressive way in support of a political or social cause (often ...
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/militant - militancy - combativeness: a militant aggressiveness
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn - militancy - The quality of being militant
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/militancy - Aggressive and violent behaviour in pursuit of a political cause, favouring extreme or confrontational campaign methods.
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