A number of political movements have involved their members wearing uniforms, typically as a way of showing their identity in marches. The wearing of political uniforms has tended to be associated with radical political beliefs, typically at the far-right or more rarely, far-left of politics, and can be used to imply a paramilitary type of organization. Politics is the process and method of decision-making for groups of human beings. ... A uniform is a set of standard clothing worn by members of an organisation whilst participating in that organisations activity. ... A paramilitary organization is a group of civilians trained and organised in a military fashion. ...

Notable uniformed political groups have included:

• Brownshirts
• Blackshirts
• Silver Legion of America
• Blueshirts
• The National Reformer's Party
• Ku Klux Klan
• the Patriotic People's Movement of Finland
• the Green Shirt Movement for Social Credit

The youth sections of some political movements have also been uniformed: Hitler addressing SA members in the late 1920s The Sturmabteilung (SA, German for Storm Division and is usually translated as stormtroops or stormtroopers) functioned as a paramilitary organisation of the NSDAP – the German Nazi party. ... The Blackshirts (Italian: camicie nere or squadristi) were Fascist paramilitary groups in Italy during the period immediately following World War I and until the end of World War II. Inspired by Giuseppe Garibaldis Redshirts, the Blackshirts were organized by Benito Mussolini due to his disgust with the corruption and... The Silver Legion of America, commonly known as the Silver Shirts, was an American fascist organization founded by William Dudley Pelley on January 30, 1933. ... The Army Comrades Association (ACA), better known by its nickname The Blueshirts, was an Irish organisation set up by former police commissioner and army General Eoin ODuffy in the 1930s. ... Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ... The Finnish Patriotic Peoples Movement, Isänmaallinen kansanliike (usually abbreviated to IKL), was the successor to the semi-fascist Lapua Movement. ... The Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was a political party in the United Kingdom. ...

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

A number of countries have legislation banning the wearing of political uniforms, such as the Public Order Act 1936 of the United Kingdom. Many also ban members of their armed forces from taking part in political activity when in uniform. The Hitler Youth (German: Hitler-Jugend, abbreviated HJ) was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party that existed from 1922 to 1945. ... The Nazi swastika symbol The National Socialist German Workers Party ( German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. ... Komsomol (Комсомол) is a syllabic abbreviation word, from the Russian Kommunisticheski Soyuz Molodiozhi (Коммунистический союз молодёжи), or Communist... The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: Коммунисти́ческая Па́ртия Сове́тского Сою́за = КПСС) was the name used by the successors of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party from 1952 to 1991, but the wording Communist Party was present in the partys name since 1918 when the Bolsheviks became the Russian... The Public Order Act 1936 is the name of the UK law passed by the government to control extremist political movements in the 1930s such as the British Union of Fascists. ...

See also

• Armband