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“If you look at the bigger picture, isn’t this growing fear of immigrants showing the lack of confidence of Western societies?”
Part, even if not all, of this "lack of confidence" in Sweden and other western societies can be traced to the impasse of social Democratic movements in the 1970s. In Sweden, this took the form of...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/opinion/sweden-migration-policy.html
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...the failure of the Meidner plan. In the UK, we started to talk about "the forward march of labour halted".
Although we cannot turn the clock back, understanding what was and was not possible in those years should help social democrats forge a path ahead now.
https://jacobin.com/2017/08/sweden-social-democracy-meidner-plan-capital