Serto Ader (, 'Toilers') was an Amharic-language newspaper in Ethiopia, published from Addis Ababa.Aussenpolitik: Zeitschrift für internationale Fragen, Volume 32. 1981. p. 192Europa Publications Limited. The Europa Year Book. London: Europa Publications, 1988. p. 1000African studies in the Soviet Union: yearbook. 1986. p. 77 The newspaper was founded in June 1980, as the organ of the Central Committee of the Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia (COPWE).Banks, Arthur S., and William Overstreet. Political Handbook of the World, 1981: Governments, Regional Issues and Intergovernmental Organization As of January 1, 1981. New York: McGraw-Hill for the Centre for Social Analysis of the State University of New York at Binghamton and the Council on Foreign Relations, 1981. p. 177Great Soviet encyclopedia, Volume. 1982. p. 348 The newspaper sought to popularize Marxism-Leninism amongst the Ethiopian masses.
Serto Ader had a circulation of around 100,000.New African, Edition 184–195. 1983. p. 34 The newspaper was initially published fortnightly, but was converted into a weekly. Tesfaye Tadese served as editor of the newspaper, Gezahegn Gebre as deputy editor.
When the Workers' Party of Ethiopia was founded, replacing COPWE, Serto Ader became the central organ of the new party.Langer, Emil. Revolutionäre Vorhutparteien in Asien und Afrika: Formierung und Kampf. Berlin: Dietz, 1986. p. 137
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