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Sweden: Covid devastation as nurses pushed beyond breaking point

January 9, 2021 Edmund Schluessel (CWI in Finland)

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 […]

Coronavirus

Coronavirus: Is Sweden turning vulnerable patients away to die?

April 28, 2020 Edmund Schluessel, Sosialistinen Vaihtoehto (CWI in Finland)

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 […]

Coronavirus

Sweden’s coronavirus catastrophe: a failure of neo-liberalism, accountability and capitalism

April 8, 2020 Edmund Schluessel, Sosialistinen Vaihtoehto (CWI in Finland)

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 […]

Coronavirus

Finland, Sweden, Denmark…Covid 19 and governments’ responses

April 3, 2020 Edmund Schluessel, Sosialistinen Vaihtoehto (CWI in Finland), and Daniel Dyhrberg, Copenhagen

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 […]

Sweden

Sweden: New government attacks workers’ rights

February 4, 2019 senan

The platform of the new Social Democrat-Green government in Sweden, based on an agreement with two parties from the right-wing alliance parties (Centre and Liberals), is extremely neo-liberal and anti-working class. Now it is important […]

Sweden

Swedish elections dramatically bring home need for fight back against neo-liberalism and racism

September 14, 2018 senan

On 9 September, the Social Democrats in Sweden had their worst election result for more than 100 years. The main right-wing party, the Moderates, did even worse. The racist Sweden Democrats increased their vote to […]

Sweden

Sweden: Socialist elected leader of 77,000-strong tenants’ union

May 9, 2018 niall

Kristofer Lundberg, a leading member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (Socialist Justice), was recently elected as leader of the Tenants’ Union in West Sweden. The union has 77,000 members, organised in 13 districts, in six cities, including […]

Sweden

Sweden: Free Zahid Baloch! CWI member threatened with deportation

February 21, 2018 niall

Zahid Baloch is a political refugee and torture victim from Baluchistan and a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden). He was arrested at an “internal border inspection” in Gothenburg on Thursday, 15 February.

Sweden

Sweden : School strike against deportations!

January 2, 2018 senan

Before the seasonal holidays began in Sweden, an historic strike against the deportation of refugees was organised. On December 12, at 12 o’clock, school students across the country – from Boden in the north to […]

Sweden

Sweden: “A milestone in the fight against Nazism”

October 2, 2017 senan

20,000 demonstrators block march of Nordic Resistance Movement

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