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The '''Socialist Workers Party''' (SWP) was a [[Trotskyist]] [[political party]] in [[India]].

The party was established in 1965 by activists, mostly in [[Mumbai]]. These included two former leading members of the [[Revolutionary Workers Party (India)|Revolutionary Workers Party]]: [[S. B. Kolpe]], who became editor of the party journal, ''Marxist Outlook'', and [[Murlidhar Parija]], who became the party's general secretary. It aligned itself with the [[United Secretariat of the Fourth International]].<ref name="alexander">Robert J. Alexander, "[http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/alex/works/in_trot/india.htm Trotskyism in India]"</ref>

In 1968 the party recruited [[Gour Pal]], formerly a leading figure in the [[Revolutionary Communist Party of India]] (RCPI), and significant numbers of trade unionists from the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] and the [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]] (RSP). The SWP opposed the [[Naxalite]] rebels, who they criticised for their isolation from the urban working class. It supported the independence movement in [[Bangladesh]].<ref name="alexander" />

The party opposed nominally revolutionary parties, such as the RCP and RSP, which participated in state governments. However, until early 1969, it co-operated with many of those parties in the [[Marxist League of Kerala]]. In the 1970 [[Kerala]] state elections it stood one candidate, but he received only 362 votes.<ref name="alexander" />

In 1971, the SWP renamed itself the '''Communist League'''. Magan Desai became party secretary, and the journal was renamed ''Red Spark''. During [[The Emergency (India)|The Emergency]] of 1975-1977, it lost many long-standing members, some forming the [[Bolshevik Leninist Group]]. The party continued to operate into the mid-1980s.<ref name="alexander" />

In 2012, a party of a similar name, the '''Workers' Socialist Party''' was established in India based on the principles of the [[Fourth International]] of 1938.<ref name="Brownz2012">{{cite web |last1=Brownz |first1=Dave |title=Revolutionary Greetings to Workers Socialist Party of India |url=http://redrave.blogspot.com/2012/11/revolutionary-greetings-to-workers.html |publisher=Redrave |language=English |date=5 November 2012}}</ref> Its platform includes achieving [[Indian reunification]] through a [[proletarian revolution]].<ref name="Tyagi2016">{{cite web |last1=Tyagi |first1=Rajesh |title=Worker Socialist: Running Sore of Kashmir and the Fight for Revolution in South Asia! |url=http://workersocialist.blogspot.com/2016/03/running-sore-of-kashmir-and-fight-for.html |publisher=Workers' Socialist Party |accessdate=22 February 2019 |language=English |date=19 March 2016|quote=The problem of Kashmir emanates from the reactionary communal partition of 1947. The way forward, thus, is not the secession of territories and further balkanization of the region, but to overturn this partition and re-unite the Indian sub-continent, through a socialist revolution. This socialist revolution in the sub-continent would emerge as part of the world socialist revolution to trigger a broader revolutionary offensive of the working class against all capitalist states in South Asia, overturning them and uniting them into a federation of independent socialist republics.}}</ref>

==References==
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== External links ==
*[http://workersocialist.blogspot.com/ Worker Socialist: Central Organ of the Workers' Socialist Party]

[[Category:Defunct communist parties in India]]
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[[Category:Political parties established in 1965]]
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[[Category:Political parties disestablished in the 1980s]]
[[Category:1980s disestablishments in India]]

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