On another thread, and some time ago, I said that current RadFem had more in common with what had been Revolutionary Feminism.
Radical Feminism was basically the feminism of Women's Liberation. That it was possible through shared histories of discrimination whether motherhood, male violence, inequality, it was possible for women to form common links on which to work together.
The Need for Revolutionary Feminism was described by Sheila Jeffreys in this paper finnmackay.wordpress.com/articles-i-like/the-need-for-revolutionary-feminism-by-sheila-jeffreys-1977/ (but important to remember that because WLM was a non hierarchical movement no one woman could claim to have the definitive definition) For instance there is a gaping whole in her paper which ignores the fact that radical feminism led to the setting up of refuges and rape crisis helplines, and it wasn't so much that radical feminism became liberal but that radical feminists got ground down by the struggle to support women. Although the huge issue of accepting state funding which only anarchist feminists rejected led to mission drift and has over the years led to a complete dislocation from the original and primary purpose of women only services. finnmackay.wordpress.com/articles-i-like/the-need-for-revolutionary-feminism-by-sheila-jeffreys-1977/
Also eprints.uwe.ac.uk/23382/1/Reclaiming%20Revolutionary%20Feminism%20UWE%20Research%20Depository%20pre-proof.pdf which suffers from being written by a super fan about her idol rather than a researched and historically correct representation of the ideas and the actions they promoted.
(Other RevFem links on Feminist Archive North feministarchivenorth.org.uk/intro/
The link with current RadFem is through the setting up of the London Feminist Network as a sort of tribute band feminism that turned RtN from a political action into a feminist consumer event. And that those who challenged the bigger the better and forget the politics agenda (ie accepting trans women as being part of the tribute events) led to the split that led to Get the L Out and LRA etc.. (probably closer to RevFem than anything currently around).
No one has explained why Revoluntionary Feminists decided to abandon their name and adopt the name of the more liberal feminism of radical feminism.