The police in Stockholm have been tasked with checking the ID documents of people on the streets who may be suspected of having a foreign background, i.e. have a foreign appearance and may happen to lack a valid residence permit. This smacks of structural racism and the police state. Read more here! Of the checks the police made in January, these amounted to 716 checks, of which 670 were completely...
Month: February 2013
Why work hard?
Employers and many politicians want you to work hard. Yes, not only that, but constantly harder. Why is that? The more you make for each kroner salary paid, the less that kroner is worth to you. Productivity increases are hidden wage cuts. If you work harder, more people can be exempted. So work just enough, so that there are enough jobs...
Equality creates the most stable economic development
The documentary "Lönesänkarna" shows that, since the bourgeois governments of the 70s, Sweden's governments have relied on business propaganda that in order to maintain companies' investment capacity and ability to create full employment, wage earners' share of GDP must be held back. The wage increase has since been held back. Profits have skyrocketed. But investment and employment have fallen short of what...
Maximum profit for the capitalists is the distorted goal of society
The goal of your workplace is to create maximum profit for its owner or, if you work in the public sector, to create maximum service at the lowest possible cost so that taxes can ideally be reduced. The effect of this is not only that you constantly have to be on top. Next year you have to do significantly better than in…
Not even the middle class is safe for the Alliance
The citizens want only a small fraction of the people, the owners of Big Capital, to be well off. Right-wing debaters in Sweden are now beginning to realize this and propagate for more welfare, more security in the public sector and more permanent employment on the labor market. Read everything here! Also read my post about how right-wing capitalism doesn't work for anyone.