Of course, it is important not to demonize any political movement, including far-right groups. But helping more extreme right-wing politics by inviting discontent parties on the extreme edge of the right, as The Economist advocates on 2023-09-14 in the editorial "The EU's liberals need better ways to deal with populists" solves nothing. Too often, the right-wing extremists are too…
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Swedish wages are 30 percent too low – The ironclad wage law delivers
Lower Swedish wages. That's what the blue Alliance government wanted in 2006. That's how the Alliance's attack on wages began. Fatally, the Blue Alliance eroded the union affiliation. Another attack was to make it more difficult to get social security and benefits. Consequently, this blue constellation lowered the compensation levels of social security and benefits. The reservation wage would drop. The reservation wage is the lowest…
No government deficits – society's unnecessary straitjacket
Vote for bigger government deficits! Deficits are part of how the state regulates the market and protects citizens and nature. Neoliberalism attacks this. How is money created? Can we afford to work? Sweden's Riksbank's prize in economic science in memory of Alfred Nobel in 2022 suggested that banks have an important role for the social economy even if this can…
Freedom, equality and good jobs for all are needed if the red-greens are to regain power
Freedom and security mean a lot to the people of Sweden. It is disgusting that welfare becomes ethnically demarcated. We can afford and have an ethical responsibility to have refugee immigration, but it must be done in the right way without economic neoliberalism. But the election and the blue-brown's Tidö agreement show so far that if the red-green are to rule again,...
The red-greens must protect freedom and solidarity
Almost as many die in workplace accidents as in gang crime. Hundreds of workers, especially men, kill themselves every year because of the hard working life. The welfare increases of 2014-18 were too weak if wonderful and the slaughter of LAS and the attack on the low rent system and the tax cuts for the rich 2018-2022 horrible. Those who were hit hardest by the…
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…
Market rents do not solve the housing shortage
The Basic Law and the UN state that housing is a human right. The problem with the market solving a constitutionally protected right is, in this case, that housing is expensive to build. For one thing, history shows that capital tends to build too few homes in order to increase rents as much as possible. Market rents are not a solution if…
The Center Party's and the Liberals' LAS proposal lacks scientific support
Ola Bergström, one of the experts in the state inquiry into employment law, is deeply critical of the deterioration. The Center Party refers to him, but he sees the Center Party's plans himself: "The /..../las investigation's proposal changes the balance of power between the parties because the employer can make exceptions to the order of rotation without agreement with the workers' organization. The greater the possibility of exceptions, the less influence from the workers' organization. In addition, the exemptions mean that…
Social economy threatened by the Center and the Liberals
C and L demand from S that it becomes significantly freer for employers to dismiss as they wish. This threatens older employees less strong employees employees with good ideas the boss dislikes the work environment everyone who wants to see reduced stress public health
The Social Democrats and the Left Party want profit-free welfare
The Social Democrats want our tax money to be reinvested in welfare. They are currently running a special campaign against profit taking. You can sign the campaign here. The research shows that patient mortality increases in all forms of care where profit is taken. Even where the for-profit care is paid for by the public sector. The profit must be taken from somewhere in the budget...