Young Bolsheviks in Action!

Russia was covered by social storms of protests against the trampling down by the present regime of the rights and benefits of the people. These actions of protests took place in Moscow region, Petersburg, Samara, Togliatti, Ufa, Kaliningrad, Stavropol, Penze, Tomsk, Izhevske, Barnaule, Krasnodar, Kazan, Kursk, Perm, Nizhny Novgorod, Pskov and in many other cities and towns across Russia.

ALTAY: The pensioners here joined the protests against the drastic cut in their social services. All over the city, and then in front of the administrative building. They demanded - as was in the USSR - free transport in the city and the elimination of the 100% hike in the cost of rent and all social services.

BASHKARIN: Here on January 9^th was a protest, dedicated to the 100^th anniversary of the Sunday Massacre by the Czars police. The protesters demanded a change in the policies of the Putin Government, guaranteed social services, more money towards pensions, free transportation for the pensioners and the elimination of all tariffs.

On January 11th the pensioners, workers were joined by the war veterans, over 7,000 protestors and, demanded social benefits as was during Soviet times.

BELOGORODSKAYA REGION: On January 10^th the protestors stopped all traffic in the city, all transport to make their demands known to the administration.

IZHEVSK: Hundreds of pensioners, workers and other people, with placards demanding the social service costs not be raised. Police tried to stop the protestors but they broke through their lines. The militia were not able to stop the protests. They arrested a youth and then the pensioners encircled the wagon and started to rock it back and forth. After 20 minutes the young protestor was freed to the cheers of the people. The meeting of protest was attended by over 5,000 people strong.

KRASNODAR: The meeting of protest against rising prices and curtailing of social services was effective and there were demands for the resignation of the Putin government.

MOSCOWSKAYA OBLAST: There took place many protests with thousands of workers and pensioners demanding social services be reinstated as before. Streets and squares were blocked to traffic. Police were on hand but the people did not move. The authorities used police, security forces, fire hose was trained on the protestors, but to no avail, People stood firm.

PENZE: Over 1000 people marched and closed the streets in protests and would not budge when told by the police to move.

On January 15^th over 5,000 people gathered for a demonstration against social security cuts, demanding resignation of the government. They started to storm the administration buildings and the police re-enforcements had a hard time containing the people. The city administration was forced to promise the people what they demanded.

The main results of all these demonstrations across Russia was the fact that at last the government of Putin came face to face with the reality of people taking their anger to the streets and not willing any longer to believe the promises and lies. We must take special care to make sure that these demonstrations are turned around into the demands of a return to socialism and to the resurrection of the Soviet Union.

I know that NSC has published and is publishing much about the counterrevolution through the "orange revolution" in Ukraine. I would just like to add the following:

The contemporary form of the bourgeois "democracy" has taken on a new twist, different from historic struggles against globalization. The whole effort of imperialism now is the hoodwinking and buying-off the young people with promises of a glorious future in capitalism, as seen by the corporate power in its support for American dream of the New World Order.

The national bourgeoisie is not capable to control their economic or political processes inside it’s "own country" More and more elections in these so-called "independent countries" become the battleground between imperialist powers. It is the multinational power and finances that control the mass media and thus the influence.

This new struggle is called "bringing democracy" and it is not the high financiers in each country that control these elections, it is the imperialist powers, vying for influence and raw resources plus cheap labour, that do the controlling. This brings forward, as Marxist terminology states – "Peoples Revolution"!