Editing Political movement (section)

== Examples ==
Some political movements have aimed to change government policy, such as the [[Peace movement|anti-war movement]], the [[ecology movement]], [[alter-globalization]] and the [[anti-globalization movement]]. With [[globalization]], [[global citizens movement]]s may have also emerged.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Global Citizens Movement. A New Actor For a New Politics|url=https://www.tni.org/en/article/the-global-citizens-movement-a-new-actor-for-a-new-politics|last=George|first=Susan|date=2001-10-18|publisher=Transnational Institute|access-date=2020-05-13}}</ref> Many political movements have aimed to establish or broaden the rights of subordinate groups, such as [[abolitionism]], the [[women's suffrage]] movement, the [[civil rights movement]], [[feminism]], [[LGBT social movements|gay rights movement]], the [[disability rights movement]], the [[animal rights movement]], or the inclusive [[human rights]] movement. Some have represented class interests, such as the [[labour movement]], [[socialism]], and [[communism]], while others have expressed national aspirations, including both [[Anticolonialism|anticolonialist]] movements, such as [[Rātana]] and [[Sinn Féin]], as well as [[Colonialism|colonialist]] movements such as [[Manifest destiny]].  Political movements can also involve struggles to decentralize or centralize state control, as in [[anarchism]], [[fascism]], and [[Nazism]].

Famous recent social movements can be classified as political movements as they have influenced policy changes at all levels of government. Political movements that have recently emerged within the US are the [[Black Lives Matter|Black Lives Matter Movement]], and the [[Me Too movement|Me Too Movement]]. While political movements that have happened in recent years within the Middle East is the [[Arab Spring]]. While in some cases these political movements remained movements, in others they escalated into revolutions and changed the state of government.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Bendix|first1=Reinhard|last2=Huntington|first2=Samuel P.|date=March 1971|title=Political Order in Changing Societies.|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2147388|journal=Political Science Quarterly|volume=86|issue=1|pages=168|doi=10.2307/2147388|jstor=2147388|issn=0032-3195|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Movements may also be named by outsiders, as with the [[Levellers]] political movement in 17th century England, which was named so as a [[term of disparagement]]. Yet admirers of the movement and its aims later came to use the term, and it is this term by which they are most known to history.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Levellers|url=http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/glossary/levellers.htm|last=Plant|first=David|date=2005-12-14|work=British Civil Wars and Commonwealth website|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513163351/http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/glossary/levellers.htm|archive-date=13 May 2008|access-date=2020-05-11}}</ref>