Comrades! Pray, cast your gaze upon the latest reports from the Federal Antimonopoly Service. It is claimed that forty-seven regions have entered into 'agreements' with the captains of industry to restrain the galloping prices of sugar. But let us be clear: why must the honest labourer enter into a bargain for the mere right to afford a basic necessity?

Consider the cold, hard facts of this exploitation! Since the dawn of the year, the price of sugar has surged by twenty-two per cent. Contrast this, if you will, with the negligible increase of zero-point-zero-four per cent in the preceding year. Such a leap is not the result of nature, but the calculated whim of the money-lenders and the great monopolies who seek to fatten their purses by starving the masses!

Now, the great trading houses—the high priests of the bourgeoisie—profess a sudden benevolence, agreeing to limit their mark-ups to a mere five or ten per cent. Do they do this out of the goodness of their hearts? Ha! It is a desperate charade to stave off the righteous anger of the proletariat!

The Ministry of Agriculture attempts to soothe us with talk of 'seasonal fluctuations,' claiming that as the new beet harvest arrives, the prices shall descend. They speak of the summer demand and the tradition of canning as if these were laws of physics and not opportunities for profit. Even the Association of Omnichannel and Retail Trade, led by Mr. Bogdanov, maintains that we must simply wait for the autumn for the yoke to loosen.

And what of the global stage? The speculators point to 'El Niño' and the plight of India, predicting a shortfall of millions of tonnes. I ask you: is it not the eternal song of the capitalist? Whether it be a storm in the East or a drought in the West, the result is always the same—the exploitation of the working man by the international capital!

We see here the true face of the market: a cruel machine where the hunger of the many serves the luxury of the few. The struggle continues!