The term "Blue Shirts", when used by itself, can refer to several organizations, mostly fascist organizations found in the 1920s and 1930s. Politics The American National Blue Shirt Minutemen The British Fascists Blue Shirts (Canada), the paramilitary wing of the National Unity Party (Parti national social chrétien) The Chinese Blue Shirts Society A blue shirt has been worn by several socialist youth organizations since the early 1920s as a distinctive mark to symbolize their affiliation with the labour movement as blue is a common colour of workwear. These include Hashomer Hatzair, HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed, Socialist Youth Austria, Socialist Youth of Germany – Falcons, and others. The Free German Youth, the official socialist youth movement of the German Democratic Republic and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany The French groups: Mouvement Franciste Solidarité Française The Irish Blueshirts National Syndicalists (Portugal) The Romanian Lăncieri The Spanish Falange; see also Blueshirts (Falange) The Egyptian Blue Shirts (al-Qumsan al-zarqa'), a junior movement of the Wafd Party The Italian Blue shirts National Socialist Workers' Party (Sweden)'s version of the SA had blue shirts Sports 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 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