Fthe olk campaign for common welfare had their first meetings in ten different cities yesterday. Red Justice was at the meeting in Gothenburg. The campaign has three messages: No to profit in welfare. Stop the cuts and defend and develop the common welfare. It wants to get both bourgeois and red-green voters to push the politicians to expand and defend the collective welfare.
High school teacher Karin Berg from Schillerska gymnasium in Gothenburg said that the independent schools, which not only drain municipal schools of resources, also have a profit goal that is superior and is in conflict with the curriculum's goal that the school should do everything it can for every individual student to reach their full potential potential.
One nurse told of 18 hour shifts with no time to go to the toilet which led to high risk of fatal wrong decisions and long, deeply inhumane care queues.
A doctor talked about how private care is always worse than public care. In private care centers, they see patients with real care needs as mere costs and try to transfer them to municipal care or to the public emergency hospitals. Red Justice has also written about how all private care, even publicly funded private care, has a greater mortality rate for patients than pure public care according to international, scientific studies.
At the same time, a broad majority of both red-green and bourgeois voters want more resources and an end to the privatization of collective welfare.
So listen now politicians! Do again do right!
I was also at the demonstration for common welfare yesterday. How wonderful that so many gather around this but how sad that it is needed! Hope everyone is thinking about what kind of society we should have before the election next year. I recognized myself in Claes Malmberg's words about solidarity and that we have to decide what kind of society we want to give future generations. And that everyone has the right to a good life whether I'm rich, poor, sick or healthy. Tax according to ability, not the other way around!
Thank you to all of you who started the campaign!
Let's work for a solidary, fair society where everyone can have a dignified life as a result of the election next year!