The following is from Labor Notes (January 14, 2025,Katy Fox-Hodess and Rafeef Ziadah) (https://labornotes.org/blogs/2025/01/swedish-dockworkers-vote-block-military-shipments-and-israel?fbclid=IwY2xjawH198RleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHYBqKDOzrnyPWhG71A02_ZzzcEEBTBYmXRnIvI7KawSOgIbXYB0MjLfU3A_aem_KVJWpcV5T6JiIC6owJG-2Q),I stated a long time ago that only a coordinated effort to stop arming Israel (in various ways) could stop the genocide. Had this and other efforts occurred much earlier, in a coordinated international effort, then the genocide may have halted in … Continue reading Swedish Dockworkers Vote to Block Military Shipments to and from Israel
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A Private Employer’s “Humanism” in Sweden: The Dream of Social Democrats Everywhere
As I pointed out in my critique of Jane McAlevey's reference to Sweden's so-called 'leveling of the playing field for children's opportunity for success from birth onward," (see Review of Jane McAlevey’s “A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy”: Two Steps Backward and One Step Forward, Part Two), social democrats tend to … Continue reading A Private Employer’s “Humanism” in Sweden: The Dream of Social Democrats Everywhere
A Short List of the Largest Swedish Employers by the Number of Employees, Profits and the Profits per Worker
The following provides a few statistics about the number of employees, the profit produced by the Swedish workers and the profit produced per worker of the largest employers in Sweden--often one of the idealized countries of the social-democratic left, where free public services are more extensive than in many other developed capitalist countries. It can … Continue reading A Short List of the Largest Swedish Employers by the Number of Employees, Profits and the Profits per Worker
Review of Jane McAlevey’s “A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy”: Two Steps Backward and One Step Forward, Part Two
This is the continuation of a post that reviews Jane McAlevey's latest book entitled A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy. In the last post, I showed that Ms. McAlevey exaggerates the extent to which strikes and collective bargaining can offset the power imbalance between the class of employers and the working … Continue reading Review of Jane McAlevey’s “A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy”: Two Steps Backward and One Step Forward, Part Two
The Abolitionary 