It was founded in 2005 as the split from
Socialist Resistance, a Russian group then affiliated with the
Committee for a Workers' International. In February 2008, it obtained permanent observer status in the
Fourth International. In February 2010 it became the Russian section of the Fourth International. VPERED had groups in a few of the country's cities:
Moscow,
Nizhny Novgorod,
Saint Petersburg,
Samara,
Saratov,
Tyumen,
Yaroslavl and others. VPERED was actively involved in campaigns against governmental reform of education. The organisation was active inside some "alternative" trade unions, including the
All-Russian Confederation of Labour and
Defence of Labour. VPERED published a paper under the same name. It participated in publishing trade-union magazine
Svobodny Profsoyuz (
Free Trade-Union) along with the All-Russian Confederation of Labour and left magazine
Levaya Politika (
Left politics) along with
Boris Kagarlitsky and his Institute of Globalization and Social Movements. ==Merger into the RSM==