Blue Shirts
Appearance
Blue Shirts can refer to:
Politics
[edit]- 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:
- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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