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The Revolutionary Workers Party (RWP) was a
Trotskyist
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political party
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Communist League
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and the Mazdoor Communist Party. The party appointed Murlidhar Parija, general secretary of the United Trade Union Congress of Bombay, as its general secretary, and adopted S. B. Kolpe's journal, ''New Perspective'', as the party newspaper. It affiliated with the International Secretariat of the Fourth International.Robert Jackson Alexander, ''International Trotskyism, 1929-1985'', pp. 523–524
In 1960, the party decided to undertake mass
entrism
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in the
Revolutionary Communist Party of India
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(Kumar). They became a majority of the organisation, but it did not adopt distinctively Trotskyist positions. During the
Sino-Indian War
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of 1962, the party gave its support to the
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, 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.