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[Star Wars: The Force Awakens] Why are there still Rebels...?

If the Rebel Alliance won in Episode VI and the Republic was restored then why are there still Rebels? Is that just what they're called? Or do they exist outside the Republic's command structure? Are they fighting the Republic AND the First Order?
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The resistance is a non-government insurrection run to oppose the First Order. Officially it is not run by, or backed by the Republic, but they do get support from them occasionally. 

The following from the Force Awakens Visual Dictionary
> Many thought Leia Organa was unreasonably suspicious of the peace process that defanged the Galactic Empire. She argued that the New Republic was not doing enough to secure the safety of it's citizens, and she was estranged from the Senate for her refusal to let the ghosts of the last war stay dead. Leia's words of warning regarding the First Order's mobilization for war prove tragically prophetic. 

And this one concerns the Resistance itself. 

> The upper levels of the Resistance consist primarily of veterans of the Galactic Civil War who have remained loyal to Princess Leia Organa. Many of the New Republic politicians who rebuilt the senate thought the best way to preserve peace was to disband the galactic scale military forces that had become the norm since the Clone Wars. This left many skilled veterans without commands. When Leia began organizing a Resistance to stand watch against the militarized rise of the First Order, these old rebels were ready for the fight.