A struggle or conflict that occurs in opposition to another struggle; competing efforts or resistances.
From counter- + struggle (from Middle English struglen, of unknown origin). A compound describing competing or opposed struggles or conflicts.
In labor history, counterstruggle describes when management struggles against workers' struggles—but it also describes internal tensions within movements themselves, like how anti-war movements struggled internally while countering government policies.
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