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Sweden: Arbetarmakt, Swedish section of the League holds its annual conference.

One important item on the agenda was the adoption of an updated version of the political actions programme of the section. Most of the earlier action programme, adopted with additional changes to it in 2003, remains relevant, but we felt that we now needed an updated version taking its starting point in the current situation in Sweden and internationally.

We have now a government headed by the traditional party of the Swedish bourgeoisie; Moderaterna (“The Moderates”). A lot of the discussion around the action programme, and also the perspectives, did focus on the attacks from the government, and how to respond to these. In the last year we have seen some emerging resistance against attacks on the unions and the unemployed, resistance which did carry the potentiality to grow into a mass movement. There is also resistance against the privatisation and attacks on council flats from tenants in working class areas, and at the moment health workers are preparing for strike in order to increase their relatively low wages.

However, the current leadership of the leftist organisations, the unions and the social democratic party do not provide any coherent strategy to fight back these attacks. When they do not seek an immediate compromise, they only call for demonstrations at the most. Strikes are not called for by the leaders, and when the more radical left call for it, they do it in the form of politely asking the leaders, while not directly appealing to grassroots activists to organise action themselves. This causes defeats, and it prevents the movement from growing. Revolutionaries need to fight alongside with the workers and youth and expose these betrayals in practice, arguing for a consistent strategy aiming to win our struggles and patiently explaining the need for revolutionary politics as a part of this struggle.

Future plans for the work of Arbetarmakt in the coming year centred on intervening into the resistance against the attacks of the bourgeoisie. We also discussed the need to keep involving ourselves in the antiwar movement, antifascist movement as well as in the struggle against women’s oppression and sexism. One key event, with the possibility to have a radicalising effect in Sweden , is the European Social Forum event in Malmˆ 18-21 of September, where an estimated 20 000 activists (unionists, youth, women, ecologists etc) will gather to discuss and debate the important political questions of our time. There, we will intervene together with comrades from other sections of the League, taking our programme with us and attempt to expose the current reformist leadership of the working class and anti capitalist movement.

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