Socialist Workers' Party (Russia)

Socialist Workers' Party
Социалистическая партия трудящихся
AbbreviationSPT (English)
СПТ (Russian)
LeaderAlexander Maltsev
Lyudmila Vartazarova
FoundersRoy Medvedev
Anatoly Denisov
Ivan Rybkin
Evgeny Krasnitsky
Vitaly Sevastyanov
Founded1 October 1991 (1991-10-01)
Registered21 November 1991 (1991-11-21)
Dissolved2001 (2001)
Split fromCPSU
Headquarters8/7th building, Zlatoustinsky Lane, Moscow, Russia. 101000
NewspaperLeft newspaper
Membership (1992)70,000
IdeologyDemocratic socialism
Social democracy
Neocommunism
Political positionCentre-left to left-wing
Colours  Red
Slogan«Socialism, Democracy, Progress»
(Russian: "Социализм, демократия, прогресс»)

The Socialist Workers' Party (SPT; Russian: Социалистическая партия трудящихся; СПТ; Sotsialisticheskaya partiya trudyashchikhsya, SPT), active from 1991 through 2001), was an all-Russian public organization; party of the left social democratic orientation. The SPT Program adopted at the 1st Congress states that the party "defends the interests of employees of mental and physical labor, collective and individual producers, whose source of income is personal labor and property."