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The Democratic Communist Labour Party (DCLP), Abbreviated in Russian as КПСС or KPSS. officialy the All-Union Democratic Communist Labour Party, often shortened as Communist Labour, is a Democratic socialist and Marxist political party in the Soviet Union. The party was founded as a split by reformists from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union due to tensions that arose during the premiership of Mikhael Gorbachev. The tendency existed in various forms, first as informal co-operation between reformist and pro-democracy socialist and communist CPSU politicans, as the Democratic Communist Labour Group which sponsered there own CPSU and independent deputy candidates at the first democratic elections in 1989, and during the 1991 August Crisis, as an indepdent political party.

Russian Socialist Movement The Agrarian Party and the Ecological Party "The Greens" both hold good relationships with the CDLP, having been junior partners in multiple coalitions. Abroad the CDLP maintains a good relationship with similar parties across Europe and Asia such as The Left in Germany, the Italian Communist Party, the Japanese Communist Party, as well as the left of the the British Labour Party. Despite owing it's existance to the initial reforms of the 90s to Mikhael Gorbachev, he is seen a mixed light by the CDLP.

Name
Due to both the Democratic Communist Labour Party and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union having similar and easily confused names, they are shortened as the Labour Party and the Bolshevik Party respectively

Background
The party can trace it's origins back to the reformist faction of the CPSU during it's rule over the USSR as a one-party state. The faction was made up a broad spectrum of liberals, social democrats, socialists, and communists reformists who opposed the vanguardist nature of the CPSU and the USSR, and partiuclarly it's hardliner.

Rising tensions in the party
Through the existance of the DCL Group, it frequently feuded with the Marxist-Leninist old guard of the CPSU. Though originaly increadibly supportive of Gobachev's leadership, this good relationship began to deteriorate after news about the January Massacre was reported by Radio Free Europe. To many of the DCL Group felt like a betrayel to the reformist movements. Despite this, the group still worked with, and relied on Gorbachev

Ideology
Communist Labour is considered to be a left-wing to far-left, and is centre-left to left-wing in Soviet politics.

Economic policy
"Socialism from below"

Constitutional policy
As a part of Communist Labour's Socialism From Below policy, advocate for what they refer to as a "prolitarian democracy" or socialist democracy.

the Party, since it's formation, has been avidly for decentralisation of the Soviet Union away from Moscow and to the SSRs, hoping to make the Union governemnt reliant on the people, instead

Foreign policy
Concerning foreign policy, the Communist Labour Party follows various strands of pro-peace movements such non-agressor policy, détente, and "peace from responsability" mutual disarmament of the two superpowers as a part of it's "Peace from responsabiity" initiative. Over recent years, a contengent of neoconservatives have arisen who advocate for expanding democracy internationaly via military means

not non-interventionist, but anti-militarist. Worked with President Al Gore to massively reduce nuclear arsenals

Social policy
Orginialy, Communist Labour had mainly been indifferencent in regards to social policy, believing that economics and reform was of primary concnern, but after seperation from the CPSU a shift began moving towards progressivism. Article 121 Communist Labour  Pro-LGBT. Slavic Minority Rights