Equality and indexed resources for the municipalities are the key. Peter Gustavsson writes in the newspaper Rörelsen that the Social Democrats' increased popularity after the election is conditional. The Social Democrats must give the people equality and sufficient resources.
Equality obviously builds power because the many workers and the middle class are so many more than the few rich. Sweden can at the same time afford its people and its global responsibility as well as for those who need asylum. Indexation as Peter Gustavsson writes about is a kind of automated deficit policy. Combining a sufficiently high tax with responsible deficits to keep production going in a socially, ecologically and economically responsible way is the solution that Red Justice has advocated so many times.
Red Justice believes that reducing gaps must be combined with the right to learn throughout life . Freedom under responsibility, good jobs for everyone who can , and the equal value of everyone are interconnected.
At the same time, it should be pointed out that reforms from a social democratic government are equally conditional. They depend solely and exclusively on how mobilized the people are.
The long period of reform after 1932 would never have happened without the mobilizations of the 1920s, which were perhaps the most extensive and widespread that occurred in an industrialized country.
Wise politicians realize that. "I agree with you," Roosevelt used to reply to suitors, "but keep the pressure up so I can carry it out too." Because the resistance is also strong, and a social democratic government, no matter how reform-minded it is, does not dare to do more than it has active support for in the form of independent mobilizations.
Yes, we need a disgruntled grassroots movement with a heart for freedom, equality, equality and solidarity.
Yes, we have to go out and demonstrate. People don't know what this government has done to make things worse for workers and others. Let the first of May be the starting point for demonstrations throughout the country once a month until the election, where we talk about all the deterioration etc. that the right-wing government has brought about. People seem to be quite happy with the way it is, because most people don't know. It's terrible!
Hear, hear!