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Arthur Neslen – Swedish Dockworkers’ Union leader sacked for Gaza solidarity action asks “whose ‘national security’ is Swedish law really protecting”?

May 12, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Inspiring example of worker solidarity and internationalism. Arthur Neslen writes about the environment for The Guardian. He has previously worked as a correspondent for Thomson Reuters, Politico, Al-Jazeera and others. Cross-posted from Equal Times Security is a funny elixir. The […]

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Kjell Östberg – Sweden’s Welfare State Was a Product of Class Struggle

April 22, 2024 Ben Wray 0

‘Swedish Social Democracy is often idealized as a benign reformist force that delivered welfare to the grateful masses. Yet the Swedish social model was the product of conflict — and a working-class radicalism that the […]

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Piero S. Colla – In Sweden, burning Qur’ans threaten to send the country’s history of tolerance up in smoke

January 10, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Sweden’s far-right has taken advantage of liberal laws on ‘freedom of expression’ to incite Muslims at home and abroad Piero S. Colla is a member of the “Germanic and North European Worlds” laboratory and lecturer […]

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Tatyana Novikova – Rare Earth Mining: Sacrificing the Environment to Save the Planet?

August 23, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The EU Critical Raw Materials Act, supposedly motivated by concern over climate change, may perversely have been about overriding environmental regulations at the national level. Tatyana Novikova reports on issues of nuclear power and sustainable […]

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Al Jazeera: Turkey’s Erdogan defies pressure over Sweden’s NATO application

June 14, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Erdogan continues to play hardball even after his election victory. Read the article HERE.

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Dominique Soguel: Will exiled Kurds pay the price of Sweden’s NATO entry?

March 5, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Exiled Kurds in Sweden fear the government may sacrifice them in a grubby deal with Turkey for NATO entry. Dominique Soguel is a Swiss-based freelance journalist currently filing for the Christian Science Monitor. Cross-posted from […]

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Gig Economy Project – ‘Game over Uber’: Stockholm Uber and Bolt drivers in first-ever strike

January 11, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Greta Thunberg joined the strike protest in central Stockholm demanding improvements to pay and union representation AROUND 500 Uber and Bolt drivers went on strike in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, on Tuesday [10 January], a […]

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Gig Economy Project – Sweden’s election, the Nordic model and the gig economy: interview w/ GigWatch’s Felix Söderberg & Jacob Lundberg

August 17, 2022 Ben Wray 0

With elections forthcoming, Söderberg and Lundberg explain that the Swedish model of industrial relations is being used as an excuse not to regulate the gig economy in Sweden. Available to read and to listen as […]

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Medya News – View from the Swedish Left: Sarah Glynn talks politics with Daniel Riazat MP

July 1, 2022 Ben Wray 0

At least there are some Swedish MPs who have not abandoned the Kurds. Listen here.

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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

June 15, 2025 0

Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

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A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

May 5, 2025 0

Book Review by Chris Green It provides a modicum of relief to one’s mental health to turn from Nicholas Kristof’s lame bothsidesism and Bernie Sanders’s blather about Israel’s “right to defend itself” to reading Chris […]

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