Continuities and Changes in Radical Left Party Rhetoric

To articulate resistance and fuel mobilisation a political vocabulary is employed within a broader public sphere of diverse, more or less predominant discourses. This chapter inspects how RLPs have been framing their electoral and political mobilisation since the 1960s and during each episode of the New Left examined in the book. The chapter starts by considering the names and labels of CPs and RLPs, their ways of addressing allies or competitors and the key rhetorical signifiers of their identity. Ideological aspects of their operation such as their (de)legitimising impact on the wider political system can be fruitfully addressed in terms