I was standing on the ass when I heard her. It was among the djävligaste I ever heard, ” says LO-the union Paper, the chairman, Matts Jutterström of the Work.
He had holiday on the Canary islands and listened via the web at Annie Lööf press conference about the new deal she just made with the S, MP, and L.
the ministry of Trade chairman, Susanna Gideonsson was also shocked. ” First, I wanted to just scream no, I don’t want to.”
for the first time since 2017, it was with a new government program with tax cuts for the wealthiest, liberalised labour laws and more market-oriented hyrespolitik.
the social democrats have taken the consequences of the worst election results in over a hundred years. The party leadership has compromised away key parts of its policies in order to break the logic of blocs and stay in power.
Also the internal critics are defending, that’s made up, the alternative was worse.
But the settlement has put the party in a political bind. A disproportionately large part of the lost voters are workers. A lot of the new policies going against their beliefs. Broadly, they want to according to the different measurements to see a tighter, not more liberal, policies. They want, as well as the LO, to the gaps in income will reduce and that it should be harder, not easier, for companies to terminate employees.
in principle, the seizure in the economic scope for reform for the coming term of office. Thus, there is no money to compensate those with lower incomes or those who live outside the big cities and are dependent on the car.
The great framtidsprojektet that the social democrats long sought appears to be further away than in a long time. The party leadership argues instead in the ”not-terms”. S do not want to give power to the SD, not to allow the formation of the government become chaotic.
A partkongress is the social Democrats ‘ highest decision-making body, it shall tear and significant conflicts in the party and establish the direction of travel. It had been natural to discuss the new political situation, the reason for the decline of the elections and the issues that led up to it.
But this is a party that does not have the energy some new, heartbreaking conflicts.
election assessment statement explained a large part of the väljartappet is migration policy, and more specifically, the government’s proposal to give the unaccompanied minors who have been refused their application for asylum a new chance to stay in Sweden. Valanalysgruppen criticized the lack of anchoring in the party of the policy and ambiguity when Stefan Löfven and the then minister for migration Heléne Fritzon later presented a much tighter policy. However, the S-leader, beating away the criticism when he was asked questions about valanalysen at a press conference.
Kongressombuden had to devote himself to the issues that unite. More outreach and collaboration with the unions. Training and staff education for broad groups in society. It is not controversial of anyone in the party.
The overall question of what the social democrats really want to left it to the side. But it could be answered by the agitator August Palm already in the 1880s. In 1884, he published the booklet ”What will the social democrats?” ”The fruits to those who work is the social democrats ‘ core,” he wrote. Palm demanded universal suffrage and the eight-hour day. The scanian folktalaren was a founding member of the Socialist workers ‘ party in 1889. But he later came into conflict with Hjalmar Branting and large parts of the party. Palm was internationalist and antimilitärist and ended up on the side. Already at the party’s birth, there were questions at the side of the left and right with explosive force to divide.
today it is, above all, migration policies that are pulling apart. There are socialists who are fighting for a liberal policy, and others who want to tighten as much as possible. At the congress in Örebro, sweden, got the discussions to be held elsewhere than in the pulpit. The party chose the calm.
