Blue Shirts can refer to:
Politics
* The American
National Blue Shirt Minutemen
National Blue Shirt Minutemen was an American anti-fascist organization of New York City from 1936. The National Blue Shirt Minutemen claimed a membership of 10,000 in 1937 around Brooklyn.
In 1936, they interrupted a pro-Nazi rally in Brooklyn, ...
*
Blueshirt (socialist)
* The
British Fascists
The British Fascists (originally called the British Fascisti) were the first political organisation in the United Kingdom to claim the label of fascism, formed in 1923. The group had lacked much ideological unity apart from anti-socialism for mo ...
* The Blueshirts, the paramilitary wing of the
National Unity Party The National Unity Party, National United Party, Party of National Unity or National Unity Front may refer to:
* National United Party of Afghanistan (founded 2003)
* National Unity Party (Albania)
* National United Party (Armenia), defunct
* Natio ...
(''Parti National Social Chrétien du Canada'')
* The Chinese
Blue Shirts Society
The Blue Shirts Society (BSS; ), also known as the Society of Practice of the Three Principles of the People (, commonly abbreviated as SPTPP), the Spirit Encouragement Society (勵志社, SES) and the China Reconstruction Society (中華復興 ...
* Blue shirt, typical uniform for the
HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed
Histadrut HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed (), most commonly translated as Working and Studying Youth and colloquially known as Noar HaOved and abbreviated No'al (), is an Israeli youth movement, a sister movement of Habonim Dror, and affiliated with the ...
Israeli youth organization
* The
Free German Youth
The Free German Youth (; FDJ) is a youth movement in Germany. Formerly, it was the official youth wing of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
The organization was meant for young adults, both male a ...
, the official socialist youth movement of the German Democratic Republic and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
* The French groups:
**
Mouvement Franciste
The Francist Movement (, MF) was a French Fascism, fascist and anti-semitic Far-right leagues, league created by Marcel Bucard in September 1933 that edited the newspaper ''Le Francisme''. Mouvement franciste reached a membership of 10,000 and ...
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Solidarité Française
Solidarité Française ("French Solidarity") was a French fascist, far-right league founded in 1933 by the perfume manufacturer François Coty (1874-1934) as the "Parti national corporatif républicain".
After Coty's death, it was commanded by ...
* The Irish
Blueshirts
The Army Comrades Association (ACA), later the National Guard, Young Ireland and finally League of Youth, known by the nickname the Blueshirts (), was a paramilitary organisation in the Irish Free State, founded in 1932.New Irish Army Arises, Ne ...
* Tal-Ġakketta Blu (Blueshirts), the paramilitary/security services wing of the Maltese
Nationalist Party
*
National Syndicalists (Portugal)
The National Syndicalist Movement ( Portuguese: ''Movimento Nacional-Sindicalista'') was a political movement that briefly flourished in Portugal in the 1930s. Stanley G. Payne defines them as a fascist movement in his typography.
Development
The ...
* The Romanian
Lăncieri
The ''Lăncieri'' ("Lancers", ) were a Romanian fascist paramilitary movement initially attached to the National-Christian Defense League, and following the merger on 16 July 1935 of the NCDL and the National Agrarian Party to form the National Ch ...
* The
Falange Militia
* The Egyptian Blue Shirts (al-Qumsan al-zarqa'), a junior movement of the
Wafd Party
The Wafd Party (; , ''Ḥizb al-Wafd'') was a nationalist Liberalism, liberal political party in Egypt. It was said to be Egypt's most popular and influential political party for a period from the end of World War I through the 1930s. During th ...
* The
Blueshirts (Italian Nationalist Association)
*
National Socialist Workers' Party (Sweden)
The National Socialist Workers' Party (''NSAP''; ) was a Swedish political party that initially espoused Nazism before adopting a more indigenous form of fascism. It was also widely infamous under the name (SSS, 'Swedish Socialist Gathering'), w ...
, version of the SA that had blue shirts
Sports
* The
Toronto Blueshirts
The Toronto Hockey Club, known as the Torontos and the Toronto Blueshirts, were a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto. They were a member of the National Hockey Association (NHA). The club was founded in 1911 and began operations in 191 ...
* "Broadway Blueshirts" or simply "Blueshirts", a common nickname for the
New York Rangers
The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in New York City. The Rangers compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference (NHL), Eastern Conference. The team plays ...
* in American college sports, a colloquial designation for a walk-on assumed to eventually obtain a scholarship; derivative of
redshirt
Redshirt, Red Shirt, or Redshirts may refer to:
Sports
* Redshirt (college sports)
Redshirt, in United States college athletics, is a delay or suspension of an athlete's participation in order to lengthen their period of eligibility. Typically ...
Other
* ''
Les Tuniques Bleues
''Les Tuniques Bleues'' (Dutch: De Blauwbloezen) is a Belgian series of ''bandes dessinées'' (comic books in the Franco-Belgian tradition), first published in '' Spirou'' magazine and later collected in albums by Dupuis."Best of Belgium's Cart ...
'', a Belgian comic about the American Civil War
* Derogatory term for
Transportation Security Administration
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that has authority over the security of transportation systems within and connecting to the United States. It was created ...
Agents comparing them to the Nazi Brown Shirts
See also
*
Blue collar (disambiguation)
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