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Can Radicals still reaquit things like the Crimson Fists and countless IG or did they get there powers revoked after being radical?

Depends on how radical. Some Inquisitors who are radical, like one of the ones who was in the Eisenhorn series, they fought alongside IG and deathwatch marines. But there are so many different kinds of radical.
You could argue that the badass inquisitor who was using the pylons to try and destroy the eye of terror was still a radical inquisitor, in which case no, no one would work with him.
It all depends on the degree they are radical. Hope that helps

YUp like motyak said you can be radical as in you believe its a good idea that you should probably know a bit about your enemy and their methods and reasons or you can be a RADICAL and use hellrifles demonblades and demonhosts. I like the second one

With radicals, it all depends on whose point of view is being used - and how far down the slope the other has gone.

There is centre, left and right.
To the centre, left and right are BOTH radicals.
To left and right, the other is the radical.

Yeah, radical is definitely more a point of view than anything else. You can go so radical you get the boot, but it's pretty rare. (Although the Eisenhorn series seems to imply that it is also inevitable for the best Inquisitors.)

Wait, I thought going Radical was similar to being declared Excomunicate Tratoris, just without everyone trying to kill you

Well no, thats a big step towards the chaos radical. Some of the posters above are saying that, to someone just on the cusp of using chaos against chaos, a hardline puritan seems like a radical. That it is all a matter of perspective.

But yes, Quixos was declared Excommunicate Traitoris, because he went too far to the side of using chaos against chaos. In the Eisenhorn series, it is seen to be the only way that a true Inquisitor can end up. It is really quite good, you should read it. My copy is held together with tape it has seen so much love. You won't regret it

Reminds me of my Age of Darkness, great collection, except for the one with the remembrancer

Also, Radical Insquisitors often do not reveal the fact that they are radical. Even the one's who are aligned with excommunicated factions can act as though they are quite normal and requisition guardsmen.

It also depends on who you are trying to requisition. If you are a radical in the sense that you are using xenos technology, various guardsmen, astartes, and mechanicus will not like you, but Grey knights are okay with using xenos technology (they do it all the time).

So the Inquisitor can still act normally until he is openly declared radical

Radical is a mindset for Inquisitors, not an action. You can be a Radical Inquisitor but never act out on those beliefs. Many Radicals either never act out on those beliefs for fear of being branded or are never discovered for their radical activities, the Galaxy is a big place.

Radicalism is certainly more looked down upon then Puritanism though and nearly all traitor Inquisitors are Radicals. Generally speaking things like Daemonhosts, Xenos contact, or collecting Chaos artifacts is where the line is drawn and an Inquisitor is declared a traitor.

An Inquisitor can be openly declared "radical" and still function within the Inquisition just fine. There's nothing illegal or out-right heretical about being a Radical.... it just depends on how far you push it, and who you piss off in doing it.

Radicals do most often become Excommunicatus Traitorus... but, on the other hand, they're the ones risking the most to learn the most about the weapons of the enemies of Man. The Radicals delve into dark and forbidden lore, study the xeno and the daemon extensively, and may even make use of the one to fight the other, or use weaker examples of a given kind to catch and destroy bigger kinds (like making pacts with Lesser Daemons to learn about ways to fight and destroy Greater Daemons).

Funny thing about Quixos in the Eisenhorn series.... his plan probably would have worked. The Puritans and moderate Inquisitors killed him, though, before his plans could be finished, for tangentially-related crimes.

It's not so much that being a Radical is illegal, for an Inquisitor, it's that Radicals often engage in the actions that get them killed by other Inquisitors.

Remember that an Inquisitor is, quite literally, above the law and above any other mortal authority... other than another Inquisitor.

Theres no rules that the inquisition has to follow, no lines they can't cross. The only thing they have to worry about is doing something that makes their peers nervous enough to have them killed.

There are several stories where radical inquisitors openly show there view usually its gets them in trouble. Like there is one where an inquisitor got himself a full retinue of kroot body guards and went to the tricorn like nothing was wrong, well he got denouced some other inquisitors tried to kill him but he escaped. Often the most successful inquisitor are radical in some way.

People keep saying that, is it from a codex or the BRB or what?

It's all in the Inquisitor and Dark Heresy rulebooks.

Knowledge for frees:
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?community=&catId=cat1290321&categoryId=1100009&aId=4900004

Thanks, i'll give it a read through