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

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. It is considered the

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branch of the

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. The RCWP-CPSU is led by Viktor Tyulkin, who was co-chairman with Anatolii Kriuchkov until the latter died in 2005). It publishes a

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called ''Trudovaja Rossija'' (; ''Working People's Russia'') and the journal ''Sovetskij Sojuz'' (; ''Soviet Union''). The RCWP-CPSU claims to have supported all the biggest

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s and strikes in Russia. It has links to the Russian

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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 Communist Workers' Party (in Russian language, Russian: Российская Коммунистическая Рабочая Партия; transcription: ''Rossiyskaya Kommunisticheskaya Rabochaya Partiya'' or ''RKRP'') was a communist ...

, the Russian Party of Communists and the Union of Communists with the aim of resurrecting socialism and the

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. 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

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(CPRF) to be

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, 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

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. 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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