[Via... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . .> The Russian news agency Interfax, monitored by the BBC, reported that > more than 50,000 people took part in May Day rallies in towns and > cities across Siberia and the Far East. > > It said they were demanding higher wages, better working conditions, > improved pensions, price controls and abolition of a single social > tax introduced at the beginning of the year. > > In a report from Radio Ekho Moskvy and monitored by the BBC, > Krasnoyarsk protesters carried banners proclaiming ``We need a second > Stalin'' and ``No to the anti-national policy of the government.''
