Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (RCWP-CPSU) is a currently unregistered 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

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.

On April 22, 1991, the Communist Initiative Movement emerged, on April 14, the Marxist Platform in the CPSU. On their basis, on November 23, 1991, the RCWP was founded, and on December 14, the Russian Party of Communists, respectively. The main difference between the two parties was the attitude towards the Soviet constitutional reform of 1936 (the change of the production principle of the formation of councils to the territorial one). In the opinion of [whom?], This made it difficult to recall the deputies; as a result, the degeneration of the nomenklatura intensified, and against the background of a decrease in the level of political education of the communists (as a result of the renewal of the party ranks during the Great Patriotic War), the restoration of capitalism became possible.

Since 1994, the main printed organ of the RCWP has been published - the newspaper Trudovaya Rossiya.

In 1995, the RCWP took part in the elections to the State Duma of the 2nd convocation as part of the "Communists - Labor Russia - For the Soviet Union" bloc, which received 4.53% of the vote.

In 1995, Viktor Anpilov's movement “Labor Russia” separated from the RCWP.

In the 1999 elections to the State Duma of the 3rd convocation, the RCWP and the PKK formed an electoral bloc "Communists, Workers of Russia - for the Soviet Union", which received 2.22% of the vote (most of all from the lists that did not overcome the 5% threshold).

On October 27-28, 2001, the unifying Congress of the RCWP-RCP took place: the RCWP (headed by V.A.Tulkin) and the Revolutionary Party of Communists (headed by A.V. Kryuchkov) united into one party. At the same time, its Leningrad branch separated from the PKK, which founded the Regional Party of Communists.

In 2003, Viktor Tyulkin was elected to the State Duma of the 4th convocation on the list of the electoral bloc "Communist Party of the Russian Federation".

In May 2007, the Supreme Court made a decision on the formal liquidation of the party on the basis of its insufficient number. The party unsuccessfully tried to challenge the relevant provisions of the Law "On Political Parties" in the Constitutional Court, and the decision of the Supreme Court - in its Cassation Board.

In February 2010, the RCWP took part, together with the Left Front, trade union activists (MPRA, Zashchita, etc.) and other organizations in the establishment of a new political party "Russian United Labor Front" ("ROT FRONT"). Documents were submitted to the Ministry of Justice [11], but registration took place almost 3 years after numerous refusals.

In July 2011, the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union approved the entry of the RCWP-RCP into the CPSU as the Russian Republican Party. In this regard, on April 21-22, 2012, the VIII Congress of the RKWP-RPK made a decision [12] to rename the party to the RKWP-KPSS.

On December 5, 2012, the Ministry of Justice officially registered the political party Russian United Labor Front (ROT FRONT), which is co-founded by the RCWP [13]. Much of the work is done through the ROT FRONT structures, although the RCWP has not "dissolved" in it.

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