Political Uniform - List of Parties With Political Uniforms

List of Parties With Political Uniforms

Notable uniformed political groups have included:

• the Brownshirts, or Sturmabteilung, of the Nazi Party.

"Blackshirts":

• the Blackshirts, Fascist paramilitary groups in Italy
• British Union of Fascists, a fascist political party of the 1930s in the United Kingdom.
• the Patriotic People's Movement of Finland
• The Blackshirts, an atheist organisation in India
• Golden Dawn, a neo-Nazi political party in Greece

"Blueshirts":

• The Blueshirts, or Army Comrades Association, an Irish political organisation set up by General Eoin O'Duffy in 1932.
• The British Fascists, the first avowedly fascist organisation in the United Kingdom.
• the Chinese Blue Shirt Society, a secret clique within the Kuomintang
• the National Syndicalists in Portugal
• the Falange in Spain
• the National Unity Party in Canada

"Greenshirts":

• the Green Shirt Movement for Social Credit in the United Kingdom.
• The Romanian Iron Guard movement
• The Greenshirts were a wing of the Irish National Corporate Party
• The Hungarian National Socialist Agricultural Labourers' and Workers' Party

"Redshirts":

• The Redshirts that unified Italy
• The Red Shirts of the Southern United States
• The Red Shirts of Mexico
• The United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship in Thailand

Other:

• The Gold shirts, a Mexican fascist movement
• The Greyshirts, a South African Nazi organisation
• Silver Legion of America, commonly known as the Silver Shirts, an American fascist organization founded by William Dudley Pelley

Political uniforms have sometimes taken the form of headwear:

• Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army and Sinn Féin have worn black berets in demonstrations
• Black berets are also worn over hoods by members of ETA
• The Black Panther Party.

Other uniformed movements:

• Ku Klux Klan in the United States

The youth sections of some political movements have also been uniformed:

• Hitler Youth (the youth wing of the German Nazi Party)
• Komsomol (the youth wing of the Soviet Communist Party)

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