Radical Party (Italy)

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See Italian Radicals (disambiguation).

The Radical Party (Partito Radicale) was an Italian political party founded in 1955 by the progressive wing of the Italian Liberal Party. For decades it has been a bastion of liberalism and radicalism in Italy. Since 1955 the party changed its name numerous times and in 1989 it was transformed into the Transnational Radical Party. One of the current incarnations of the party is called Italian Radicals, after that for all the 90s Radicals presented electoral lists for Italian general elections, without having a structured party.

[edit] The civil rights campaigns

It was the Radical Party that first voiced the transformations of Italian society towards more liberal behaviours. Its first victorious campaign was the creation, already in the mid ‘60s, of the Italian League for Divorce which was the first to succeed in marshalling together all the non-religious political forces into a unified political line-up thus getting the law on divorce approved. During the ‘70s, the Radical Party succeeded in starting up a vast movement in favour of civil rights by setting up the Women’s Liberation Movement (Movimento di liberazione della donna), by supporting the activities of the Italian Centre for Sterilization and Abortion (Centro italiano sterilizzazioni e aborti), by giving its support to Fuori, the first Italian gay movement, and by promoting the popular referendum to legalize abortion.^{[citation needed]}

 

Historical Italian political parties (active parties: simple version, complete version)

Communist: Communist Party of Italy, Italian Communist Party, Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary Party of Italy, Union of Italian Communists (Marxist-Leninist), Proletarian Unity Party, Organisation of Communists of Italy (Marxist-Leninists), Movement of Unitarian Communists, Popular Democracy (United Left) Socialist and social-democratic: Italian Socialist Party, Italian Reform Socialist Party, United Socialist Party (1922), Labour Democratic Party, Italian Socialist Workers' Party, United Socialist Party (1949), Italian Democratic Socialist Party, Unified Socialist Party, Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity, Democratic Party of the Left, Movement for Democracy – The Net, Italian Socialists, Socialist League, Reform Socialist Party, Social Christians, Socialist Party, Socialist Unity Green: Rainbow Greens Social liberal: Action Party, Radical Party, Democratic Alliance, Democratic Union, The Democrats Liberal: Italian Liberal Party, Uomo Qualunque Front, Centre Union, Liberal Party Centrist: Patto Segni, Italian Renewal Regionalist: Fronte Marco Polo Christian democratic: Italian People's Party (1919), Christian Democracy, Italian People's Party (1994), Christian Democratic Centre, United Christian Democrats, Christian Democrats for the Republic, Democratic Union for the Republic, European Democracy Conservative: Monarchist National Party, People's Monarchist Party, Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity, National Democracy Fascist and neo-fascist: Fascist National Party, Italian Social Movement, National Vanguard, National Front Leftist coalition: Popular Democratic Front, Proletarian Democracy, Alliance of Progressives, Socialists United for Europe, New Country, The Sunflower, Together with the Union Liberal coalition: National Democratic Union, National Bloc Christian democratic coalition: Pact for Italy, Whiteflower Centre-right coalition: Pole of Freedoms, Pole of Good Government, Pole for Freedoms, Abolition of Deduction Conservative coalition: National Bloc of Freedom