| Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party | |
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| Abbreviation: | SRWP |
| Leader1 Title: | National Convener |
| Leader1 Name: | Irvin Jim |
| Founder: | Irvin Jim |
| General Secretary: | Oupa Ralake |
| Spokesperson: | Phakamile Hlubi Majola |
| Founded: | March 2019 |
| Split: | SACP |
| Headquarters: | Gemistone Gauteng Province |
| Ideology: | Communism Marxism-Leninism |
| Position: | Far-left |
| International: | International Peoples' Assembly |
| Colours: | Red Black Yellow |
| Website: | www.srwp.org.za |
| Country: | South Africa |
The Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party (SRWP) is a Marxist-Leninist communist party in South Africa.[1] The party was founded in March 2019 after a pre-launch convention at the end of 2018.[2]
The roots of the SRWP lie in the split between the NUMSA union and the COSATU federation in 2013. The split was mainly caused by the growing discontention of the NUMSA leadership with the ANC, which is supported by the COSATU through the Tripartite Alliance, together with the South African Communist Party. After the split NUMSA general-secretary Irvin Jim announced the formation of a "a new united front".[3] Together with the new SAFTU, the SRWP would be part of this new united front.
The launch in December 2018 was attended by 1,100 delegates from all provinces of South Africa in Boksburg, with delegations from residence associations and members of SAFTU unions in attendance. The party contested in the 2019 South African general election and the provincial elections in all nine provinces, failing to win any seats.[4]
|-! Election! Total votes! Share of vote! Seats ! +/–! Government|-! 2019| 24,439| 0.14%| | –| |}
! rowspan=2 | Election[5] ! colspan=2 | Eastern Cape! colspan=2 | Free State! colspan=2 | Gauteng! colspan=2 | Kwazulu-Natal! colspan=2 | Limpopo! colspan=2 | Mpumalanga! colspan=2 | North-West! colspan=2 | Northern Cape! colspan=2 | Western Cape|-! % !! Seats! % !! Seats! % !! Seats! % !! Seats! % !! Seats! % !! Seats! % !! Seats! % !! Seats! % !! Seats|-! 2019| 0.24% || 0/63| 0.18% || 0/30| 0.13% || 0/73| 0.12% || 0/80| 0.10% || 0/49| 0.15% || 0/30| 0.20% || 0/33| 0.14% || 0/30| 0.15% || 0/42|}
|-! Election! Votes! %! Seats|-! 2021[6] [7] | 5,444| 0.02%| 2|-|}