Red Guards (disambiguation)

The Red Guards were a student-led paramilitary social movement during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Red Guard(s) or Redguards may also refer to:

Communist and socialist groups

• Worker-Peasant Red Guards, militia in North Korea
• Red Guards (Russia), during the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War
• Red Guards (Finland), during the Finnish Civil War
• Red Guard Party, a militant Chinese-American civil rights group closely modeled after the Black Panthers
• Red Guards (Bavaria), in the Bavarian Soviet Republic
• Red Guards (Hungary), in the Hungarian Soviet Republic (1918–1919)
• Red Guards (Italy), during the Biennio Rosso
• Young Red Guards Cadet Corps, a paramilitary unit in North Korea
• Red Guards (USA), American Marxist–Leninist–Maoist collectives
• Red Guards (Ceylon), military wing of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna

Other groups

• Red Guard of Senegal, a gendarmerie in charge of presidential security

Fictional uses

• Red Guards (Emperor's Royal Guard), fictional elite Imperial corps of the Star Wars universe
• The Red Guard (novel), a 1967 novel in the Killmaster series of spy novels
• Redguards, a fantasy race of The Elder Scrolls universe
• The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard, a 1998 computer game based on The Elder Scrolls universe

See also

• Red Army (disambiguation)
• Red Guardian, fictional character
• Red Scare
• Red Squad