RESISTANCE is a strong word, evoking clandestine struggle against overwhelming odds: underground networks, such as the Dutch and French Resistance, refusing to accept occupation. Such movements attain near-mythical status, become hard-wired into national psyches. Resistance conjures an opaque world of subterfuge, valour and loyalty. It entails sober acknowledgement of usurped power, and daring, sometimes uncompromising, methods to wrest it back.
