PARTISAN

'Partisan' may refer to:

Contents

Political matters

Paramilitary forces

Music

Sports

Other uses

Political matters

In politics, 'partisan' literally means organized into political parties. The expression "Partisan politics" usually refers to fervent, sometimes militant support of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea. Although this is typically an appellation with negative connotations, some supporters embrace the term, as can be seen by the names of the following publications:

★ Partizan Press, a UK publishing company.

★ ''Partisan Review'', a US political and literary quarterly.

★ ''Southern Partisan'', a US political magazine.

Paramilitary forces

As a name for irregular forces or detached light troops, engaged behind the front line.

★ Partisan (military), in general terms.

★ People's Liberation Army (Yugoslavia), the Partisans in the Balkans during World War II.

★ Soviet partisans, for the USSR in World War II.

★ Jewish partisans, among the Jewish resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Europe.

★ Italian partisans in World War II.

★ Polish partisans (Leśni) during World War II

★ Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian partisans after World War 2 against the Soviet Union

★ Armenian partisans, referring to Armenian guerrillas from World War I

★ Germany's World War II Werwolf movement.

★ Germany's World War II Alpine National Redoubt.

Music

★ Chant des Partisans, a song about the French resistance.

★ The Partisan, a song about the French resistance written by Anna Marly and Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie.

★ The Partisans, a Welsh punk band from Bridgend.

★ The Partisan But He's Got To know, a song by the Canadian trio Swan Lake.

Sports

★ Partizan - Serbian 'football' club.

★ Partizan - Serbian 'basketball' club.

Other uses

★ partisan (weapon), a pole weapon.

★ ''Partisans (novel)'', a novel by Alistair MacLean about the Yugoslav partisans.

★ Partisan game, in combinatorial game theory.