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In Sweden, we have become accustomed to the employer side – not workers – pushing the frontline forward. The ability of unions…
Rasmus Hästbacka
A labor union can either invest time, effort and resources into growing or shrink and disappear. Below, Rasmus Hästbacka of the Swedish SAC discusses…
According to the latest statistics, 69 percent of Sweden’s wage earners are unionized. This can be compared with the peak of 86…
It’s a truism that capitalism is not a democracy; capitalism means economic dictatorship, which is most evident in our workplaces. But truisms…
Article written for workers new to on-the-job organizing. Translated from the Swedish magazine Syndikalisten. The English version (below) contains more examples of successful…
In Sweden, as in many other countries, employers are attacking the collective agreements (or the labor contracts, as it’s called in North…
I believe the only force capable of improving workers’ living conditions – and ultimately the force to abolish class society – are…
Can syndicalism and the vision of economic democracy rally popular movements again? In this article, Rasmus Hästbacka of the SAC makes a…
The word syndicalism is borrowed from French. Directly translated it simply means a movement of labor unions, but syndicalism is not just…