Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union


The Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, or RCWP-CPSU, is a currently unregistered communist party in Russia. It is considered the republican branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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 and the journal Sovetskij Sojuz.
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 , 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 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 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, which is led by Viktor Tyulkin. In April 2012, the party took its current name.