An ideology in power that favors workers must guide technological development. It determines whether we get a fairer world. Technological progress has not always meant better working conditions or higher wages for everyone. We need to develop innovations that help workers become better at their tasks, not just replace them with automation. Then the technology would…
Category: Renewal
"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,…
President Obama and many other (social) democrats listen too much to the middle
Obama said he didn't have much power. That is why he did so little to tax the richest and regulate financial capital. That claim is now rapidly being undermined by Trump with all his executive orders in a short period of time. Trump's commands show how much power the US president really has. Obama's, the Democrats' and the rest of the world's democratic…
Fossil fuels are a deadly as well as an economic dead end
Investing in the staff paid off
Walmart invested in staff conditions, internal training opportunities and wages. The result was increased sales, better stocked shelves and clean stores. Read more here!
The Economist: ISDS favors big capital at the expense of the people without being necessary for growth
According to The Economist magazine, ISDS clauses that allow companies to sue states for profit-reducing decisions favor the short-term profit interests of big business at the expense of people's trust and welfare. ISDS clauses make it more difficult to e.g. abolish nuclear power, improve consumer protection and discourage smoking. However, they do not favor growth very much. The companies could have received equivalent protection against…
Kind managers produce kinder and more efficient employees
The tyrannical boss who publicly incites and judges does not produce more efficient but only more stressed and sick employees, two new surveys show. Kind managers make more productive and healthier employees. And teams that show security and concern for each other are in turn the best performers of different team types.
Civilian protests out of necessity and works
Right now the US is negotiating to get Canada, the Pacific countries and the EU to join a new type of free trade agreement which is really a type of capitulation of democracy to today's big corporations. They are called i.a. TPP, TTIP and CETA. CETA between Canada and the EU is the closest to being successfully realized and would indirectly join us...
Free trade agreements for corporate control of societies may fall
American presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has said that she intends to put an end to the TPP free trade agreement that concerns the United States and the countries of the Pacific Ocean. Then the sister agreement TTIP between the US and the EU will probably also fall. Both free trade agreements are really just free trade agreements in name. What they are actually doing is a huge transfer of power from democratic, popularly elected power holders to today's corporate owners.
Swedish record economy with challenges under the Social Democrats
The bourgeois mass media portray the Swedish economy as in crisis. Presumably they do this not just to maintain power. The citizens do not want the people to realize that good national economy and solidarity and tolerant ethics usually go hand in hand. If the people are sufficiently rich but it still pays to get an education, then the purchasing power increases...