Sweden
Tesla workers strike in Sweden
In an unexpected turn of events, the Law Courts in Sweden ruled against Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, when he sued to make the Swedish postal workers handle the new number plates for the new Tesla […]
Sweden
Sweden
Gang shootings and bomb attacks in the suburbs of Sweden
In supposedly peaceful Scandinavia, we have recently been witnessing mafia-like shootings, gang killings and even bombs exploding in the suburbs of Sweden. Many right-wing commentators are blaming refugees fleeing from war-torn countries. Socialists must put […]
Sweden
Sweden: Covid devastation as nurses pushed beyond breaking point
As 2020 came to a close, the Swedish health care system reached a point many feared. Nurses in Sweden’s hospitals, strained from months of 13-hour shifts and with no end in sight to the rampant […]
Covid-19 Pandemic
Coronavirus: Is Sweden turning vulnerable patients away to die?
On 3 April Sweden’s Radio P3’s news programme ran an article relating reports from anonymous medical workers who claimed that covid-19 patients who would have survived with intensive care were being denied it. Johan Styrud […]
Covid-19 Pandemic
Sweden’s coronavirus catastrophe: a failure of neo-liberalism, accountability and capitalism
Over five hundred people in Sweden have now died from COVID-19, more than in Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland, combined. Far too late, the Swedish government is slowly planning to implement lockdown of the kind […]
Covid-19 Pandemic
Finland, Sweden, Denmark…Covid 19 and governments’ responses
The popular myth about Finland is that of a socialist paradise. It is true that, unlike in other countries in Europe, much of the social-democratic welfare state has been preserved. The coronavirus pandemic, however, has […]
Denmark
SAS walkout disrupts Nordic air travel
Hundreds of flights in Norway, Sweden and Denmark have been canceled as 1400 pilots for Scandinavian carrier SAS began strike action this Friday. Pilots took the step of escalating to strike action after collective bargaining […]