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By Vladimir Radyuhin
MOSCOW, SEPT. 26. Hundreds of young left-wing radicals marched in Moscow on Sunday to protest the `bourgeois' policy of the Russian Government. Young people from a dozen of pro-Communist and anarchist groups waved red flags and chanted "Lenin, Stalin, Socialism," "Down with (the President, Vladimir) Putin," and "Death to the Bourgeois." Organisers said the march was part of a nation-wide campaign "Anti-Capitalism-2004," which they described as a Russian version of the anti-globalist movement in the West. About a dozen members of the Vanguard of Communist Youth were detained by the police when they veered away from the authorised route of the demonstration into the Red Square, where they picketed the Lenin Mausoleum chanting anti-Putin slogans.
Radical movement
This is the biggest manifestation organised by a rapidly growing radical youth movement in Moscow yet. Experts estimate the membership of left-wing political groups at 50,000 to 70,000. "The left-wing movement in Russia has grown dramatically younger," says Mr. Alexander Tarasov of the New Sociology Centre. "Today young people account for 50 per cent of all left-wingers, compared to 15 to 18 per cent 10 years ago." The sociologist predicts a further swelling of the ranks of radicals if the Government pushes ahead with its policy of social security cuts and a shift towards paid higher education.
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