The Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (RCWP-CPSU; russian: Российская коммунистическая рабочая партия в составе Коммунистической партии Советского Союза; РКРП-КПСС; ''Rossiyskaya kommunisticheskaya rabochaya partiya v sostave Kommunisticheskoy partii Sovetskogo Soyuza'', ''RKRP-KPSS'') is an
anti-revisionist
Anti-revisionism is a position within Marxism–Leninism which emerged in the 1950s in opposition to the reforms of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Where Khrushchev pursued an interpretation that differed from his predecessor Joseph Stalin, ...
Marxist–Leninist communist party in
Russia. It is considered the
republican branch of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (2001).
The RCWP-CPSU is led by
Viktor Tyulkin, who was co-chairman with Anatolii Kriuchkov until the latter died in 2005). It publishes a
newspaper called ''Trudovaja Rossija'' (; ''Working People's Russia'') and the journal ''Sovetskij Sojuz'' (; ''Soviet Union'').
The RCWP-CPSU claims to have supported all the biggest
occupations and strikes in Russia. It has links to the Russian
trade union Zashchita. As of 2007, it claims about 50,000 members. The Revolutionary Communist Youth League (Bolshevik) (RCYL(B)), the youth organization of the RCWP-CPSU, is considered one of the most active communist youth organizations in Russia.
History
The party was established in October 2001 under the name Russian Communist Workers' Party – Revolutionary Party of Communists (; abbreviated , ) through the unification of the
Russian Communist Workers' Party, the Russian Party of Communists and the Union of Communists with the aim of resurrecting socialism and the
Soviet Union.
In the
1999 Duma election, the party won 2.2% of the total vote, getting 1,481,890 votes overall. The RCWP-CPSU considers the
Communist Party of the Russian Federation
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(CPRF) to be
reformist, but for the occasion of the
2003 Duma election the party leaders decided to make an agreement with the CPRF in order not to disperse the communist vote.
In 2007, the party was de-registered by the
Justice Ministry. In 2010, the RCWP-CPSU co-founded
Russian registered political party Russian United Labour Front (ROT Front), which is led by
Viktor Tyulkin. In April 2012, the party took its current name.
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