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…
Category: Public transport
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…
How to get people to choose public transport
More people take public transport if the journeys are frequent, even in off-peak hours. I also think trips to local tourist destinations, moving assistance, home delivery of purchases of bulky goods and a certain number of taxi journeys must be included in our public transport. #kollektivtrafik #miljö #journalistik https://www.forskning.se/2022/10/12/det-har-far-fler-att-resa-kollektivt
How to save equality and the environment/nature all over the world
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....
The left party for welfare, climate and industry
First: the public sector must take back control of welfare from the market. It is when politics takes responsibility that we can have functioning care, school and care, full employment and secure jobs. Ever since the 1990s, both s and m governments have privatized and introduced market systems. The Left Party stopped the latest such attempts when they dropped the proposal to…
"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,…
Do not prohibit the necessary freedom of movement of ordinary people
Now during Covid-19, the car is an extra big prerequisite for quality of life and necessary freedom of movement for those who are 70+. In Gothenburg, the governing, bourgeois Alliance has commissioned an investigation to see what would happen if environmental zones were introduced in the city center where cars older than 2009 would be prohibited. The Green Party supports the investigation and…
Some prerequisites for reducing car ownership
Public transport is more than competitive when it comes to getting us to work or downtown to take part in entertainment. Of course, under ideal circumstances it can be a little faster to go to work by car, but usually many motorists make the same analysis and then instead there are traffic jams and longer journey times by car than by public transport....