Groups and Movements
- Million Voices Against Corruption, President Chen Must Go, protesters against Chen Shui-bian, President of Taiwan, in 2007
- Redshirts (Italy) (Italian: Camicie rosse) followers of guerrilla leader Giuseppe Garibaldi. The 'Garibaldini' were an international libertarian movement active from the 1830s to WWI, fighting against dictatorships and in wars in South America, Greece, France, Poland, Serbia, South Africa, and were instrumental to the unification of Italy (a period known as 'Risorgimento') from 1848 to 1867.
- Red Shirts (Mexico) (Spanish: Camisas Rojas), a Mexican anti-Catholic paramilitary organization of the 1930s.
- Red Shirts (Southern United States), militant opponents of Blacks, carpetbaggers, and United States troops during and after Reconstruction.
- Red Shirts (Thailand), the National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship, a political pressure group in Thailand, supporting the deposed Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra
- Red shirts, a name for the Abahlali baseMjondolo, a South African shack-dwellers' movement.
- Surkh Posh (Red Shirts), an alternative name for Khudai Khidmatgar, a Pashtun movement against British rule in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
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