ABSTRACT
The European radical left can be described as a heterogeneous political field in a state of profound transformation and adaptation. The European radical left takes the form of a political family similar to a mosaic, made up of many different tiles of various shapes and colours. After the crisis of communist ideology and the fall of real socialist regimes, in Western European countries the left-wing parties acquired three different political forms. The major family of post-1989 progressive parties remains that of the so-called reformist left. With this expression, intend to indicate all the political organizations interested in strengthening the democratic institutions inside which they habitually operate through gradual political and institutional reforms. From the point of view of identity, the post-twentieth-century radical left parties steered clear of previous tradition. Instead of being distinguished for their homogeneity in ideology, they are recognizable for a plurality of ideas that make them unique.
