Workers' Party of Ethiopia

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Workers' Party of Ethiopia የኢትዮጵያ ሠራተኞች ፓርቲ
General Secretary	Mengistu Haile Mariam
Founded	10–12 September 1984
Dissolved	21 May 1991
Preceded by	COPWE
Headquarters	Addis Ababa
Newspaper	Serto Ader
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism
Political position	Far-left
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The Workers' Party of Ethiopia (Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ሠራተኞች ፓርቲ, romanized: Ye'Ityopia Serategnoch Parti, WPE) was a Marxist–Leninist communist party in Ethiopia from 1984 to 1991 led by General Secretary Mengistu Haile Mariam.^[1] The Workers' Party of Ethiopia was founded in 1984 by the Derg, the ruling provisional government of Ethiopia, as the vanguard party for a planned future socialist state. In 1987, the WPE became the ruling party after the establishment of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, and the only legal political party until it was disbanded in 1991. A party was attempted to be formed with the same name in August 2022, but the application was rejected.^[2]