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The school building is important Once upon a time, schools were built to be schools. Back then, they planned for the school building to fulfill its purpose. Of course, there are old schools that included an apartment for the teacher. So, these are not the ones I mean. I am referring to the schools that have everything needed to…
S's new social analysis is for immigration but is it and everything else it is in a way that is most repressive. The class analysis and the workers' needs are absent. S is the big red-green society-supporting party. It must abandon the idea of "saving-in-the-barns". This austerity goal is only focused on subsidizing the wealth of the very few at the expense of…
Construction subsidies build the economy and housing. Now even the really big companies and construction companies are starting to risk bankruptcy due to austerity policies and the cutbacks in construction subsidies. Vote for the state to reinstate construction subsidies https://agera.skiftet.org/campaignsr/aterinfor-byggstodet To increase the state's construction subsidies to build cheap, good and beautiful housing as well as increase housing subsidies and implement regulations to lower…
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…
Global equality and the environment - how do we save these? Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a macroeconomic theory that proposes that governments with their own currency have the ability to spend unlimited amounts of money on desirable sectors of the economy. Sustainably productive investments increase budget space According to MMT, government spending is limited by inflation and not by public debt....
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...
Every vote counts. One of the most powerful pieces of advice I received was from the end of my university studies, when a PhD student or researcher said: Don't be afraid to do what you believe in, because whatever you do, many people do the same thing.
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,…
We must develop residential areas where people enjoy and can afford to live. Where all the different groups of society can live together, side by side. Certainly the architect Fredrik Rosenhall has a point in his article in GP that modernist architecture and classicist can learn from each other. But certainly not in that modernist architecture would be allowed to continue…