Radical Party may refer to any of a number of political parties professing the progressive-liberal ideology known as Radicalism: Worldwide Nonviolent Radical Party Transnational and Transparty (1989–present) 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: Radical Left (1902–1940), parliamentary group of the Independent Radicals. Radical-Socialist Party (France) (1901–present) Radical Party of the Left (1971–present) Radical Movement (2017–2021), former merger of the Radical Party and the Radical Party of the Left. 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 Switzerland: the original Radical Party (1830s–1894), see Regeneration (Switzerland) the comparatively left-leaning successor party known as the Radical-Democratic Party (in French) and the Free-minded Democratic Party (German) (1878 to present) the comparatively right-leaning successor party known as the Radical-Liberal Party (1893 to 2009), and its successor the FDP, whose name translates to the Free-minded and Liberal Party in German and the Radical and Liberal Party in French (2009–present) In Luxembourg: the Liberal League (1904–28), although predominantly classical liberal rather than Radical, contained a left-wing faction of Radical ideology; the Radical Socialist Party (1925–1932), founded by the splinter of the left-wing of the old Liberal