The afternoon sun filters into the living room of Nina Einhorn's home in Stockholm. The 77-year-old doctor sits surrounded by photo albums and memories. A close friend at her side makes her laugh at an old joke. For a moment, the pain of both her cancer and her loss eases. The warmth of friendship brings comfort and the spark of life in Nina's heart.
Category: History
The Liberals – lost in the shadow of the right
A party with a democratic tradition The Liberals carry a historical heritage that few Swedish parties can match. When the party was called the People's Party, liberal forces contributed to voting rights reforms and political modernization. With support from liberal voters, the Social Democrat Hjalmar Branting was able to take a seat in the Riksdag as early as 1896. This history shows that the will to social reform and liberal freedom have long been…
Nobel Prize on Power and Progress
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…
The truth about immigration
Integration is an investment – not a cost. Although it sometimes takes up to 5-8 years for refugee immigrants to get a firm grip on the labor market, it is significantly shorter than for many native Swedes without higher education. Young Swedes often try their luck in their 20s and 30s between temporary jobs, unemployment, and studies before they…
Equality builds power
Equality builds the strong society. Why should low-paid workers, those looking for work, those born with a disability or those whose working life is cut off live significantly differently from ordinary people. And why should ordinary people be significantly worse off than the rich? We red-greens must believe in freedom under responsibility and equality if people are to vote...
"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,…
Campaign to save the archives and library of the Labor Movement
At the time of writing, the shift is running a campaign to save the archives and library of the Workers' Movement. The background to the campaign is proposals for drastic reductions in staff. Read more on the campaign page. Historylessness is the last thing we need. Feel free to sign and share the campaign. Together we are strong.
Red-green election strategy 2018
It would be good if the red-greens before the election could show what kind of society the right wants: Lowest possible social security, contributions and worker wages Easier to fire Unsafe work environment Market rents Fee-based school, health care and university Then I think people would vote for the red-greens. The red-greens should go to the polls on: Raised wages in the wage-lagging...
Yet another company with youth employees is trying to influence how its employees vote
Read more here! This is reminiscent of older times, when subordinates were not completely free but would support their patron in everything. Vote red-green anyway! If a job is lost due to higher employer contributions for young people, new ones will still be created when more people get more money as a result of social democratic policies and can start consuming again and…
The ideological history of the right
The moderates' Swedish history contains an anti-democracy 1904–1918: No to universal suffrage.