Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 08:28:34 +0100 (MET)
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: M-G: Sweden-Polarization continues!


The polarization of the Social democracy continues. Every week there is a 
list of new trade union locals that have retracted their economic support to 
the Social Democratic party.

And in Sweden where everything is politisized from the store you by your 
food in to the state church some interesting things are happening. On 
Saturday a priest organised a demonstration against the Social Democratic 
government and its politics. In talking with the press he said that his 
father and 8 brothers had been at Adalen in 31. He said that the Social 
Democracy which has its roots in the workers movement has betrayed every or 
any kind of principle.

The pensioners are also beginning to move and and iniative is being taken to 
organise an independent pensioners party. The common denominater is that the 
Social Democracy has deserted them!

Here up in the North where everybody gossips the discussion topic is not any 
longer *how* the Social Democrats have betrayed but why. However no real 
discussion on alternatives is forth coming as of yet. At least in and 
organised way.

Even the Social democratic Party is getting worried. And some of there 
people in Stockholm held a meeting on party democracy. Saying that before 
the decisions were made after a discussion out in the districts of the party 
and today the decisions are made in the parliment by a little click and then 
sent out to the party districts for approval.

The opinion polls are giving the Euro-Communists 13 to 14 percent of the 
vote in polls. These are historical numbers for a party that always had to 
fight to get over the 4 % level to come into the parliment.

Bob Malecki





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