Radical_Party_(disambiguation)

Radical Party

Radical Party

Topics referred to by the same term


Radical Party may refer to any of a number of political parties professing the progressive-liberal ideology known as Radicalism:

Worldwide

Europe

In the western Mediterranean European countries, Radicalism was one of the major political movements between 1848 and 1940. Such parties were often labelled 'Democratic', 'Radical democratic', or 'Radical liberal' parties:

  • In France:
  • In Italy:
    • Italian Radical Party (1877–1925)
    • Radical Party (Italy) (1955–1989)
    • Italian Radicals (2001–present)
    • Radical Socialist Movement (2006-present), formed by dissidents members of the Radicals of the Left
    • Liberty and Equality (2010-present), formed by dissidents members of the Radicals of the Left
  • In Spain, Radicalism took the form of various parties labelled 'democratic', 'progressive', 'radical' and 'republican':
    • the Progressive Party (1835–69), formed by former participants in the radical Revolution of 1820;
    • the Democratic Party (1849–69) a Spanish progressive party of Jacobin and 1848er inspiration, active in the 1850s.
    • the Federal Democratic Republican Party (1868–1910)
    • the Democratic Radical Party (1869–80), successor the Progressive Party. It was refounded in 1880, following splinters, as the Progressive Democratic Party (1880–1912)
    • the successor Democratic Party (1876–9) reformed as the Possibilist Democratic Party (1879–90)
    • The Radical-Republican Party (1908–40), a splinter of the Progressive Democratic Party;
    • Its splinter, the Radical-Socialist Republican Party (1928–34). This merged with others to form the Republican Left (1934–59)
    • A second splinter of the Radical-Republican Party formed the Republican Democratic Party and Republican Union (1934–59)

In the Dutch-speaking, German-speaking and Nordic countries, the English or French term Radical was represented by terms that literally translated as 'Free-Minded' (or, alternatively, as 'Freethinker' or 'Rationalist'), including:

In south-eastern Europe, Radicalism was also a historically important political movement:

In Central and Eastern Europe, Radicalism was less potent but nonetheless prominent political force:

United Kingdom

South America

Argentina

Bolivia

Chile

Ecuador

Paraguay

Asia

India

Israel

  • Meri-Israeli Radical Camp (1960s-1970s)

Oceania

New Zealand

See also


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