Societies collapse when the elite refuses to accept the right of the state to demand socio-economic responsibility from them. If the rich also refuse to invest in sustainable production, the problems increase significantly. Progressive taxation and protection for equal working, career and living conditions are needed. Read the article on Gemensam.
Category: Care
Visitation zones instead of competitiveness
In visitation zones, the police must be able to stop and search people without having a specific suspicion of crime. The idea is that it will make the streets safer, but many are against it. Critics believe that it can lead to abuse and violations of people's rights. This is especially true if it is used against certain groups based on skin color…
Everyone works differently – an asset to humanity
Throughout history, humanity has proven to be a neurodiverse species, where brains work in different ways. This is not an accident, but can be a survival advantage. In difficult situations, people become more flexible when different ways of thinking and perspectives meet each other. Evolutionarily speaking, the diversity in how people's cognitive apparatus works has been an asset. The collective strength lies…
S new social analysis a flop
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…
Your vote for a government building subsidy can save society and the climate
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…
The right thinks the poor should eat less
Poor people should eat less. At the same time, 500 people in Sweden cannot afford basic expenses and certainly no greed inflation. In 000, 2022% of households lacked a buffer for unforeseen expenses. But the right's solution to inflation is that low-income earners should reduce their consumption of electricity, heat and food. Therefore, many Swedes now have to lower the temperature...
Food prices require reform
That's what Veronica Palm writes for Tidningen Rörelsen. Statistics Sweden has reported that food prices in Sweden have increased by 22 percent in one year. This leads to difficulties for single parents to buy nutritious food for their families. Food prices are also the biggest factor driving inflation in the country. It increases rents and interest rates and limits contractual requirements….
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…
Financial capitalism and feudalism in the West versus industrial capitalism in the East
Financial capitalism in the United States today is reminiscent of the former feudalism or l'ancien régime in Europe at the end of the 1700th century. In the last years of feudal rule, the money within the elite went mostly to passive, interest-bearing and cike-productive incomes. Industrial capitalism out competed the aristocracy during the 1800th century by delivering goods, albeit brutally. There was also over time in industrial capitalism a…