This is how racism & right-wing politics were normalized despite voters wanting equal welfare: deregulation and healthcare choices created insecurity; surplus labor kept wages down; “winner-takes-all” in the Riksdag; S shot at the market in 2010. The anxiety became the fuel for the right. M attracts voters who like insecurity and SD attracts voters who like security. S is outmaneuvered when they don’t want to go…
Month: October 2025
Social media and public concern are turning public opinion on Russia
When the people's voice turns the tide in security policy Is a neutral Ukraine at peace preferable to a country where bombs continue to fall? The question is appearing more and more often in Swedish feeds on social media and in topics of conversation back home. In Ukraine too, people are tired of the war and 70% want peace now as soon as possible through negotiations….
Strikes, knowledge and demonstrations drive society
History shows that almost all major reforms have started with ordinary people rising up. Kjell Östberg's book People in Motion describes how the right to vote, the eight-hour day and welfare did not come from above but grew out of strikes, demonstrations and union struggles. Workers, women, students and soldiers in uniform took to the streets together and demanded dignity,…