About the party (who we are, what we want, the history of creation).
The establishment of the RCP(i) is an answer to the actual collapse of the communist movement, when the main left parties, communist by name – the CPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) and others – ook an openly social-chauvinist or centrist position of supporting the ruling class of capitalists of Russia in conducting the SVO, started on 24 febrary 2022- actually imperialism war in Ukraine between Russian Federation and West So we decided we need a new organization with clear communists and internationalists position.
Key event to the formation of the new party was the conference of communist internationalists, held on November 5, 2022, at which the Manifest “The War in Ukraine and Our Tasks” was adopted, and which outlined a clear anti-war, anti-imperialist position within the Russian communist movement.
On September 28, 2023, Organizing Committee of our party for the creation of the new communist party published a statement “For the revolutionary renewal of the communist movement of Russia”, after which the preparation of the draft program and charter of the party, as well as the preparation of the founding congress itself, began.
After that, thanks to the efforts of members of the Committee, Russian Communist Party was founded at the congress on June 22-23, 2024, held in the Moscow region.
The founders of RKP(i) – Russian Communist Party (Internationalists) are five initiative groups, formed mainly from former members of two political organizations of Russia – the Russian Communist Workers’ Party (RCWP) and the United Communist Party (UCP).
The initiative groups for the establishment of a new communist party was:
- the Moscow group of former members of the Russian Communist Workers’ Party (RCWP);
- the “Red Turn” group, which included mainly former members of the Novosibirsk organization of the RCWP;
- the Organization of Perm Communists;
- Communist Initiative, which united mainly communists from St. Petersburg;
- Open Communist Platform of Internationalists (OKPI), consisting of former members of the OKP.
After holding the founding congress and adopting the party program, the main tasks are to gather like-minded people and form regional organizations. We need to build full-fledged activities related to agitation and propaganda, close ties with the labor and trade union movement, which is necessary for the formation of a political entity.
Such an entity, in the context of the inevitable amplification of the socio-economic and political crisis in our country, should be able to act as an organizing and united force of revolutionary democratic and socialist transformations.