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By Patrik Olofsson in Stockholm - www.socialisten.se
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Wednesday, 21 February 2007 |
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The new Conservative government in Sweden immediately
launched a programme of cuts and attacks on the working class upon coming to
power. With a massive
round of contract negotiations coming up this spring, however, the stage is being set for
a major explosion of the class struggle.
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By Martin Lööf - www.socialisten.se
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Tuesday, 16 January 2007 |
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Over
the weekend of the January 6-7 a Northern
European Marxist
School was held in Stockholm, Sweden. There
were around 40 people present from Sweden,
Denmark, Poland and Great Britain. The school was
organised by the Marxist tendency in the Swedish Labour Movement gathered
around the paper Socialisten.
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By Jonathan Clyne in Sweden
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Thursday, 28 September 2006 |
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For only the third time in 84 years the Social
Democracy lost the recent parliamentary elections in Sweden, leading to the
resignation of its leader Göran Persson. Now a bourgeois four party “alliance”
will govern the country. But anyone who thinks that the workers of Sweden have
voted for more attacks on their living conditions is ignoring reality. The
alliance announced the very opposite of what they are going to do. So a new
period of conflict is being prepared.
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By Socialisten
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Tuesday, 15 November 2005 |
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The Swedish Marxists of the Socialisten
journal have sent us this appeal which is taken from the website of
the underground drivers’ trade union branch (www.klubb119.org).
It describes a very important trade union struggle in Sweden that
involves the rights of all trade union activists. Their next
demonstration/strike will take place on Friday, November 18, but the
struggle will continue after that. The union is asking for messages
of support.
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By Jonathan Clyne, Kerstin Alfredsson and Lena Höijer in Stockholm
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Thursday, 15 April 2004 |
In 1905, one hundred years ago, when Sweden looked set to go to war to
stop Norway breaking away, the anti-war campaign was organised by the
labour movement and the war was stopped. The Swedish labour movement
directed its struggle against the Swedish establishment. The methods
used were effective and would work today.
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By Our Swedish correspondent
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Tuesday, 16 September 2003 |
The referendum held in Sweden on Sunday (September 14) on whether or not to
join the euro has upset the plans of Swedish big business. But its impact goes
beyond the borders of Sweden and is being discussed seriously in other
countries, especially in Britain where Blair is finding it difficult to convince
the people of the "benefits" of adopting the euro.
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By Johan Johansson
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Sunday, 08 June 2003 |
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The municipal workers' strike is now over. It came to a humiliating end when
the union leadership decided to sign an agreement with the employers over the
heads of the membership. This agreement will only give the workers a relatively
low settlement, far lower than the modest 5,5% originally demanded. It is
nothing less than a betrayal against those workers who were ready to struggle.
Why did the union leaders call off the strike, when the opinion polls told us
that there was a massive (over 80%) support for the struggle? And why did they
back down when one union after another (the electricians, the bus-drivers, the
commuter-train personnel and the builders for example) declared their intention
to strike in solidarity with the municipal workers? |
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By Johan Johansson
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Thursday, 15 May 2003 |
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The municipal workers in Sweden have come out on strike. All over the
country day-care centres, schools, refuse-processing plants and other public
services have been shut down. This strike marks an important turning point for
the class struggle in Sweden. |
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By Editorial Board of the Swedish Marxist journal Socialisten
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Friday, 20 September 2002 |
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This is a report of the recent elections in Sweden. |
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By Martin Oscarsson
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Sunday, 03 February 2002 |
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In this article Martin Oscarsson, from the Editorial Board of the Swedish Marxist journal
Socialisten,
illustrates how the deepening worldwide crisis of capitalism
is affecting Swedish society. A radical mood is developing among
the youth in the Social Democratic Party (SSU) and the unions are being
placed in a position where they will have to come out into open opposition to the party.
The old "Swedish model" once fondly referred to by all the right-wing
leaders of the labour movement internationally has definitely broken down.
Sweden faces an intensification of the class struggle. |
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By Lena Ericson Hoijer and Pia Hallgren
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Saturday, 14 July 2001 |
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The Swedish media has been taken by surprise by the groundswell of opposition to the US
military adventure. Now the opposition to the US attacks has begun to be expressed in
demonstrations. Opinion polls reveal that 6 out of 10 Swdes are against any US attack if
any innocent civilians were put at risk. Only 3 out of 10 favour such attacks. In addition
56% have little or no confidence in Bush and only 32% have confidence in him.
By Lena Ericson Hoijer, Editor Socialisten,
the Swedish Marxist Journal. In addition we
publish a report on an anti-war demonstration in Stockholm by Pia Hallgren. |
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By Martin Oscarsson in Gothenburg
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Wednesday, 20 June 2001 |
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Three huge demonstrations (particularly for a city with only half a million
inhabitants) took
place during the EU summit in Gothenburg. 10,000 marched against
president Bush on
Thursday 14 June, 20,000-25,000 against EU/EMU on the Friday and
10,000-15,000
against the policies of the EU on the Saturday. These was the largest
demonstrations in
Gothenburg since the big strike and lockout of 1980. It also reflects a
growing discontent
amongst young people and workers. |
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By Simon Lundin
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Saturday, 12 May 2001 |
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The ECOFIN - all the
Finance Ministers of the EU member states - held a meeting in
Sweden's third largest
city, Malmo, in the early part of May, which was met with a
countre-demonstration, similar
to the many demonstrations around the world againts the IMF, the
WTO, World Bank, etc.
The police used brutal methods to break up the demonstration. |
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