----- Original Message ----- From: "Viktor V. Bourenkov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *************************************************************** > From: the Central Committee of Russian Communist Workers� Party > *************************************************************** > Dear comrades! > On October 19�22, the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist > Workers� Party (RKRP) will be convened in the city of Cheliabinsk > (Urals). It will be mainly addressing the inner-party questions. > Nevertheless, we shall be pleased to receive any greetings, wishes and > proposals from fraternal and friendly parties. Messages can be sent in > one of the ways listed below by October 15. > > By mail: RKRP Central Committee, St. Petersburg 193 060, Russia > By fax: +7 812 2742818 > By e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ________________________________________________________________ > > Brief information: The Russian Communist Workers� Party (RKRP) > emerged from the anti-revisionist and anti-Gorbachov Movement of > Communist Initiative. Established in November 1991 with the aims of > resurrecting socialism, Soviet power and the USSR, the party indulged > into the struggle without delay and took the lead of mass anti-Yeltsin > demonstrations and rallies. Its actions in October 1993 to resist the > abolition of the last remaining gain of socialism � the system of > people�s deputies � resulted in a temporary state ban on the party. By > a special order, Yeltsin made the RCWP the only organisation not be > allowed to contest in the 1993 Duma elections. By combining the > revolutionary work with the legal work, the party stood in Duma > elections of 1995 and of 1999 within a wider left-wing bloc, which > received the highest vote amongst those blocs not to enter the > parliament on both occasions. However, between 1995 and 1999, one > deputy represented RCWP in the Duma, as a result of getting the highest > vote in his local constituency. The party opted to boycott both > presidential elections in 1996 and in 2000. One of the co-chairs of > militant trade union Zashchita is on the Central Committee of RCWP. The > party supported and assisted all the biggest workers� occupations and > strikes. Russian CWP has close relations with a number of communist and > workers� parties from around the world, including the Communist Party > of Greece. In November 1997, it ran an international conference in > Leningrad titled �Teachings and Assessments 80 years after the Great > October Socialist Revolution�, where 38 participating delegations > passed October Declaration (which was later signed by some 40 other > parties). RCWP took an active part in the Athens International Meetings > in 1998, 1999 and 2000. The party�s main theoretical document is the > Programme, which was last amended at the 8th Congress in November 1998. > �Trudovaja Rossija� (�Working people�s Russia�) is party�s biweekly > newspaper and official organ. Also published is the theoretical journal > �Sovetskij Sojuz� (�The Soviet Union�), and the party largely > contributes to international Russian-language magazine �Marksism i > Sovremennost� (�Marxism and the Modern Times�). Being the biggest > political organisation to the left of parliamentary and reformist > Communist Party of Russian Federation, the Russian Communist Workers� > Party is determined to lead the country�s proletariat to the victorious > end of achieving its own political power. > Some English-language materials by RCWP are available through > the Solidarity Network; HTTP://WWW.SolidNet.ORG/ . > > _______________________________________________
