Work for all is the goal society must have. Brilliant text on the benefits of full employment and its positive side effects. Niklas Blomqvist questions the idea that the market itself can create full employment. For example, Blomqvist points out that attempts to follow this path in the last thirty years have not produced the desired results. He emphasizes that work for…
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Post-election analysis: communication, freedom under responsibility and equality
According to Red Justice's post-election analysis, the broad left including the Social Democrats must improve on communication, freedom under responsibility and equality.
Workers must be underpaid, but the poor must not exist
News agency Järva interviews a smart woman – the poet Nattalie Ström Bunpuckdee. Based on her story, we are reminded once again that we live in an Ayn Rand era where ordinary people are a burden and solidarity is the highest evil. The poor must only obey and deliver but deserve no socio-economic conditions and no housing they have...
Academic staff cooperatives are not socialism
Just because capital cannot control graduates with a lot of know-how as easily, does not mean that capital is going to relinquish control over and the right to profit from workers with less or no know-how. Marx is not outdated as Bo Rothstein tries to claim.
"Survival" - Book for libertarian left-wing social democracy
Why did welfare in Sweden begin to be dismantled from the 70s? Can everyone get a job? How do we give people housing? The climate - how do we save it? Feel good in a challenging society, okay? The newly published book "Survival - for society and the people" wants to spark discussion about society and life. Read the review by Lars Gahrn,…
Preventive and repressive measures are not enough against gang crime and crime
Against gang crime, criminality and social unrest, school and social services are important preventive and rehabilitative efforts, as well as police and prison significant repressive efforts are important parts. But even more important is to offer good jobs to everyone with long-term employment and good wages. Work is historically one of Sweden's most effective integration and order-creating factors. Unemployment also seems to lead…
Let Sweden learn from Germany and Denmark
Germany and Denmark are fed up with the social problems of high rents and are now introducing various forms of rent regulation. Can't Sweden learn from the experiences of these countries? Can't we refuse to introduce market rents in new production and skip those points in the January agreement?
12-year-old girl explains bank corruption
Unfair proposals from public utility managers
Queuing systems and to some extent social considerations determine who gets a tenancy. However, several managers of the public utility propose radical deteriorations in a debate article in DN. Among other things, exchange bans and lottery systems instead of housing queues.
The Sossarna offer hope
Already exactly four months before the election, the #Social Democrats have presented several major #reforms that will be important parts in building a #stronger society. It is, for example, about a reform with increased #pensions for those who have worked hard in professional life, about big investments in more employees in care to reduce the #care queues and more #police to fight it...