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 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 activities of the Revolutionary Workers' Party are based on communist principles. Since the communists are none other than the most class-conscious part of the world army of the proletariat, the Revolutionary Workers' Party pursues the same ultimate goal as the workers of all countries.

This goal is determined by the nature of modern society. The main feature of such a society is capitalist production, in which the most important and significant part of the means of production and circulation of goods belongs to a small class of persons, while the vast majority of the population consists of proletarians. This majority is forced by their economic position to constantly or periodically sell their labor power, that is, to hire themselves out to capitalists and by their labor create income for the upper class of society.

Currently, capitalist production relations have become dominant in the overwhelming majority of countries in the world. Large-scale production has almost completely squeezed out the small independent producers, and the few that remain are constantly under pressure to turn them into proletarians. The proletariat in the modern world also embraces those strata of the population that in the middle of the last century in bourgeois countries were the servants of the ruling class, primarily the creative and technical intelligentsia. Having lost their property, they are forced to enter into the same wage relations as manual workers. Faced with wage slavery, these strata feel solidarity with the interests of the proletariat. Therefore, in the modern world, the working class includes all workers who do not have the means of production at their disposal and create the capitalist's profit, regardless of the nature of their labor.

The situation of workers in developed countries, mitigated by the fear of the ruling class about the revolution, after the destruction of the Soviet Union, is gradually returning to the level of the beginning of the twentieth century. The economic crises of capitalism are recurring more and more often, each time only getting worse. This further aggravates the position of the working and exploited masses and increases their dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs. Capitalism, having created all the technical possibilities for replacing the existing relations of production with communist ones, at the same time itself creates a social force that is capable of overthrowing the existing order.

By replacing private ownership of the means of production and circulation with public ownership and introducing a planned organization of the production process to ensure the well-being and all-round development of all members of society, the social revolution of the proletariat will abolish the division of society into classes and thereby liberate all oppressed humanity, since it will put an end to all types of exploitation of man by man.

A necessary condition for this social revolution is the dictatorship of the proletariat, that is, the conquest by the proletariat of such political power that will enable it to suppress all resistance of the exploiters.

Setting themselves the task of making the proletariat capable of fulfilling its historical mission, the Communists organize it into an independent political party opposing all bourgeois parties, directing all manifestations of the class struggle, exposing to the proletariat the irreconcilable opposition of the interests of the exploiters to the interests of the exploited and explaining to it the historical significance of the impending social revolution. The revolutionary workers' party is calling all strata of the working population into its ranks, since they are going over to the position of the proletariat.

After the counter-revolution and the destruction of the socialist camp, capitalism reached the highest point of its development in just 20 years. Further development of modern society within the framework of capitalism is impossible. The social discontent of the working class is constantly growing. Despite the increasing pressure of the bourgeoisie on labor protests, the labor movement is gaining momentum.

Long live the communist revolution!
Long live world communism!

The program was adopted by the 11th Congress of the Revolutionary Labor Party on May 8, 2016

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