National Blue Shirt Minutemen was an American anti-fascist organization of New York from 1936. The National Blue Shirt Minutemen claims a membership of 10,000 around Brooklyn.
The National Blue Shirt Minutemen are not related to The Blueshirts, a semi-fascist Irish political organization that arose out the Irish Civil War division to oppose the IRA.
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