Comrades! Citizens! Cast your eyes upon the latest decree from the halls of power, where the interests of the great Capital are served with a flourish of bureaucratic ink. The Government of Russia has seen fit to reduce the mandatory quota of petrol sales on the exchange from fifteen percent down to a mere ten. They call this 'stabilization'—ha! I call it a strategic retreat to better protect the coffers of the bourgeoisie!

From the first of July until the thirtieth of September, the oil lords shall be permitted to withhold their product from the open market, thereby tightening the noose around the neck of every honest laborer who relies on fuel for his livelihood. To believe that such a measure serves the common good is to be blind to the very nature of exploitation.

'The decision is aimed at stabilizing the internal market of petroleum products,' claims the official press service. What a wretched euphemism! In truth, it is a shield for the monopoly, allowing these financial usurers to manipulate supply and demand to their own advantage while the proletariat weeps at the pump.

Is it any wonder that we now see a sudden influx of fuel from the distant shores of India and the neighbouring plains of Belarus? The exchange sales of Belarusian petrol have surged threefold, for the domestic capitalists have created a void through their own greed. These desperate imports are but a pale shadow of a functioning economy, a mere band-aid upon a wound inflicted by the rapaciousness of the ruling class. Mark my words: as long as the means of production remain in the hands of the few, the many shall continue to suffer under this relentless yoke!