Comrades! Observe the latest spectacle of absurdity emerging from the Tomsk region. The local governors, those lackeys of the ruling class, have seen fit to announce that several fuel stations have imposed 'temporary restrictions' upon the populace. They dare to call this a measure to 'prevent panic,' but we see it for what it truly is: a calculated squeeze upon the neck of the working man!

In the districts of Kolpashevo, Asino, Zyryansk, and Teguldet, the common folk find themselves stranded, for the fuel they require for their honest toil has vanished. The authorities, with a boldness that borders on the obscene, attribute this deficit to a 'high demand'—claiming that retail sales have risen by a mere fifteen per cent. Is it the workers who are to blame for wanting to move their goods, or is it the monopoly of the oil barons who withhold the fuel to inflate their own profits?

The regional government claims that they are 'interacting' with the Ministry of Energy and the directors of these fuel companies. Bah! Such diplomacy is but a veil for the exploitation of the proletariat. While the bourgeois directors dine on silver platters, the labouring classes are forbidden from filling their canisters, limited in their quotas, and left to perish in the dust of the road.

This tragedy is not isolated. Look to Crimea, where the yoke is tightened even further! Since the twenty-first of June, the free sale of fuel has been suspended entirely. The fuel is reserved solely for the state servants—the gendarmes and the bureaucrats—leaving the ordinary citizen in a state of absolute deprivation.

And what of the high lords of the capital? Vice-Premier Alexander Novak reports to the President that a 'complex of measures' has been devised to 'stabilize' the situation. He speaks of 'objective logistical problems' and 'seasonal demand.' These are the flowery words of the usurers! They speak of 'reserves' and 'refining' while the worker’s carriage stands still.

They suggest a ban on the export of diesel fuel, yet we know the truth: the capital will always seek the most profitable market, regardless of whether the peasant in Tomsk can plow his field or the factory hand can reach his station. This is the inevitable crisis of the capitalist machine—where the greed of the few creates a famine for the many. The monopoly of the fuel lords is a chain that binds the proletariat, and these 'logistical problems' are merely the symptoms of a rotting system built upon the exploitation of the masses!