Revolutionary Workers Party (India)
The Revolutionary Workers Party (RWP) was a Trotskyist political party in India.
The party was founded in 1958 with the merger of the Socialist Party (Marxist), the and the . The party appointed , general secretary of the United Trade Union Congress of Bombay, as its general secretary, and adopted 's journal, New Perspective, as the party newspaper. It affiliated with the International Secretariat of the Fourth International.[1]
In 1960, the party decided to undertake mass entrism in the Revolutionary Communist Party of India (Kumar). They became a majority of the organisation, but it did not adopt distinctively Trotskyist positions. During the Sino-Indian War of 1962, the party gave its support to the Indian Army, leading most of the RWP members to resign. However, they did not re-establish a party until the Socialist Workers Party was established in 1965.[1]
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- Defunct communist parties in India
- Political parties established in 1958
- Political parties disestablished in 1960
- Trotskyist organisations in India
- 1958 establishments in India