Russia brings back May Day! Good job VV Putin!
More than two million people will take part in May Day labor union demonstrations throughout Russia. A festive march will occur on Red Square in central Moscow for the first time since 1991.
Mikhail Shmakov, head of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions, told a news conference at ITAR-TASS, “Russia is reviving a tradition to celebrate May Day at the Kremlin walls. We’ll hold demonstrations in 1,100 cities and district centers. More than two million people will take part and I hope that they’ll hear our voices. Regional branches of trade unions will add their demands along with common slogans with their requirements. Despite the more than 100-year history of May Day, the fight for an eight-hour labor day remains topical”.
Here’s another revival of past Soviet practices by V V Putin. Can’t American leftists see that he’s a new NEPman, NOT a neoliberal swine like Willy Romney? There’s none so blind as those who WILL not to see.
Interesting idea. Putin not as radical neoliberal but instead as a latter day Lenin doing his own version of the NEP 90 years later. Has a nice ring to it.
