Revolutionary Workers' Party (Russia)

The origins of the RWP lie in a series of splits in an earlier Russian Troskyist organisation, the Committee for Workers' Democracy and International Socialism (CWDIS, Russian: Комитет за рабочую демократию и международный социализм, or КРДМС). At the seventh congress of the CWDIS in January 1999, in light of the recent splits, a decision was taken to reform the organisation as the 'Revolutionary Workers' Party', and to join the Committee for a Marxist International.{{in lang|ru}} «РД»#47: ИНФОРМАЦИОННОЕ СООБЩЕНИЕ o VII съезде КРДМС [http://www.1917.com/WD/47/Inf.html Announcement from the Seventh Congress of the CWDIS] www.1917.com, accessed 10 March 2022{{in lang|ru}} U. G. Korgunyuk, S. E. Zaslavskii. Глава 5. Коммунистическое движение (Chapter 5: communist movement) [http://www.partinform.ru/ros_mn/rm_5.htm The Russian multi-party system: formation, operation, development], (1996) www.partinform.ru, accessed 10 March 2022{{in lang|ru}} КОМИТЕТ ЗА РАБОЧУЮ ДЕМОКРАТИЮ И МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫЙ СОЦИАЛИЗМ (КРДМС)

("партия Биеца") [http://www.labyrinth.ru/content/card.asp?cardid=796 Committee for Workers' Democracy and International Socialism] (Database «Лабиринт») www.labyrinth.ru, accessed 10 March 2022 In 2002 the RWP split into three organisations: RWP Moscow, RWP Perm, and a Marxist group called 'Workers' Democracy'. The latter group was the only one to remain a member of the Committee for a Marxist International.

The RWP in Perm primarily focused on tenants' movements. Activists from the RWP participated in the creation and operation of the Coordinating Council of Protest Actions in the City of Perm and the Perm Council of Hostels, as well as actively participating in the opposition All-Russian Union of Coordinating Councils.{{in lang|ru}} В Пермь съедутся оппозиционеры со всей России [http://www.permoboz.ru/news0.php?n=2048 The opposition movement from all over Russia are to gather in Perm] (Newspaper «Пермский обозреватель», 18 April 2005) www.permoboz.ru, accessed 10 March 2022{{in lang|ru}} A. Smolin. Кто-то бродит по Перми [http://www.permoboz.ru/txt.php?n=7370 A spectre is haunting Perm] (Newspaper »Пермский обозреватель», No5: 13, February 2010) www.permoboz.ru, accessed 10 March 2022 The RWP also worked closely with the 'Defence of Labour' Association of Trade Unions.{{in lang|ru}} В Перми создан рабочий профсоюз [https://archive.today/20120909195908/http://www.revkom.com/rabochee_dvizenie/20070405avtovokzal.htm A new trade union has been established in Perm] www.revkom.com, accessed 10 March 2022 The party published a newspaper called Workers' Democracy.

In 2007, a number of student activists left the organisation to form a new Marxist group, the 'Communist Initiative'. In December 2007, members of the CI joined Sotsialisticheskoye Soprotivleniye (Socialist Resistance), becoming its branch in Perm. On 1 April 2011, both the RWP Perm and Sotsialisticheskoye Soprotivleniye joined the Russian Socialist Movement, uniting to become the Perm regional branch of the RSM.{{in lang|ru}} Российское социалистическое движение (РСД) [https://archive.today/20120716052634/http://revkom.com/rsd.htm The Perm branch of the Russian Socialist Movement created on 1 April 2011] archived from revkom.com, accessed 10 March 2022

The headquarters of the organisation are based in Moscow; however, branches also exist in Saint Petersburg, Togliatti, Pskov and Voronezh, as well as in Moldova and Kyrgyzstan. The organisation participates in workers' and tenants' movements. In the labour movement, RWP Moscow works inside the official Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia and maintains a critical stance towards 'alternative' trade union associations.{{in lang|ru}} M. Doronenko. [http://revkom.com/index.htm?/voprosi_teorii/profsouz.htm Revolutionary parties and trade unions]revkom.com {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304102131/http://revkom.com/index.htm?%2Fvoprosi_teorii%2Fprofsouz.htm |date=4 March 2016 }} The party publishes the newspaper Workers' Democracy, as well as a number of regional and factory-based newspapers.

At its XIII Congress on 3–4 May 2019, a split occurred in the party over support for the Communist Party candidate for mayor of Moscow. The majority voted to fuse with the Russian section of the International Marxist Tendency and affiliate to the IMT {{Cite web|url=http://www.1917.com/XML/LN-p4RqRftj7O130PhdFXP9jpa4.xml|title=XIII съезд Революционной Рабочей партии |trans-title=XIII Congress of the Revolutionary Workers' Party |website=Враг капитала|access-date=8 May 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.marxist.com/forces-of-russian-trotskyism-unite-around-international-marxist-tendency.htm|title=Forces of Russian Trotskyism unite around the International Marxist Tendency!|website=In Defence of Marxism|date=8 May 2019 |access-date=8 May 2019}}

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