Per Olsson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Policy coup for capitalist and imperialist interests In an undemocratic, coup-like manner and with the help of a cynical “shock doctrine,” Sweden is to join NATO, a military alliance formed and led by US imperialism. This weekend it became formally clear that the leadership […]
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Per Olsson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). After two weeks, 30,000 delegates, observers and lobbyists are concluding the Global Summit COP26 in Glasgow. The result — empty promises and inaction. The COP26 climate summit in Glasgow is a “global greenwash festival and a failure,” said Greta Thunberg when she spoke at […]
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Per Olsson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). The latest batch of Pandora papers published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reveal a sickening saga of corruption, fraud and outright greed by the world’s elite, that make pale by comparison all the disease, misery and death that spilled out when the […]
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Per Olsson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Largest market collapse since 2008 crisis The collapse on the world’s stock exchanges on March 9 was the largest since the beginning of the global capitalist crisis in 2008. The fall on the US stock market at opening time was so severe that it […]
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Per Olsson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden). After nearly 18 years of devastating war in Afghanistan, the US government has concluded a preliminary settlement with the Taliban which, as a first step, will mean sending home 5,400 US soldiers within 135 days. In exchange, the Taliban is said to have promised […]
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Per Olsson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). The October socialist Revolution in Russia was met with enthusiasm from workers and the oppressed around the world. Not least in neighbouring Finland which was under Russian control since 1809. It was a large principality of the Tsarist Empire, an empire which the Bolsheviks […]
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Per Olsson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden). Sweden once had a reputation as some kind of ‘social-democratic model’ with far-reaching public services and social support. But that has been dismantled by two decades of attacks – what the Economist magazine calls a ‘silent revolution’ Sweden has weathered the crisis and the […]
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