Blue Shirts

The term "Blue Shirts", when used by itself, can refer to several organizations, mostly fascist organizations found in the 1920s and 1930s.

Politics

• The American National Blue Shirt Minutemen
• The British Fascists
• The Blueshirts, the paramilitary wing of the National Unity Party (Parti National Social Chrétien du Canada)
• The Chinese Blue Shirts Society
• Blue shirt, typical uniform for the HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed Israeli youth organization
• The Free German Youth, the official socialist youth movement of the German Democratic Republic and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
• The French groups:
  • Mouvement Franciste
  • Solidarité Française
• The Irish Blueshirts
• National Syndicalists (Portugal)
• The Romanian Lăncieri
• The Falange Militia
• The Egyptian Blue Shirts (al-Qumsan al-zarqa'), a junior movement of the Wafd Party
• The Blueshirts (Italian Nationalist Association)
• National Socialist Workers' Party (Sweden), version of the SA that had blue shirts

Sports

• The Toronto Blueshirts
• "Broadway Blueshirts" or simply "Blueshirts", a common nickname for the New York Rangers
• in American college sports, a colloquial designation for a walk-on assumed to eventually obtain a scholarship; derivative of redshirt

Other

• Les Tuniques Bleues, a Belgian comic about the American Civil War
• Derogatory term for Transportation Security Administration Agents comparing them to the Nazi Brown Shirts

See also

• Blue collar (disambiguation)