Sweden

A Swedish Answer To Labor’s $8 Trillion Question

February 9, 2026 Otto Barenberg, On Labor. Strategize! Labor Movement, Pensions, Sweden, Unions, wealth inequality, Worker Rights

It may come as a surprise that a substantial portion of America’s economy is worker- and union-owned — technically. Private sector and public sector union members’ pension funds collectively manage roughly $8 trillion in worker savings. That’s nearly 15% of Wall Street. But those funds — comprising the monthly contributions of millions of workers and enabled (in part) by union organizing and collective bargaining — are often invested in (and by) firms that harm workers. The labor movement has long tried to harness the economic power tied up in its vast stores of capital: labor’s “last best weapon.”

How Stockholm Is Sprouting Healthy Trees From Concrete

January 20, 2026 Peter Yeung, Next City. Create! climate crisis, Environment, Sweden, Trees, Urban Design

When Stockholm’s Traffic Office conducted a general assessment of street traffic in the Swedish capital in 2001, it came to the shocking conclusion that two-thirds of all trees in the city center were dead or dying. City authorities agreed that an urgent response was needed to nurse these leafy urban ecosystem pillars back to health. Enter Björn Embrén, Stockholm’s first “tree officer.” Under his leadership, various technologies and materials were tested in an attempt to create a more suitable living space for trees in the urban environment.

Major Actions In Support Of Palestine Mark The New Year

January 1, 2026 Middle East Monitor. Resist! International Solidarity, New Years Eve, Palestine, Sweden, Türkiye

Over half a million people gathered early Thursday at Istanbul’s Galata Bridge for a massive march in support of Palestine, organized under the umbrella of the Humanity Alliance and the National Will Platform, Anadolu reports. The New Year’s Day demonstration, held with the participation of more than 400 civil society organizations and led by the Turkish Youth Foundation (TUGVA), was carried out under the slogan “We won’t cower, we won’t keep quiet, we won’t forget Palestine.” At the event, around 520,000 participants called for an end to the genocide in Gaza.

Julian Assange Files Criminal Complaint Over 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

December 17, 2025 Al Mayadeen English. Resist! Julian Assange, Legal System, Maria Corina Machado, Nobel Peace Prize, Sweden

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange filed a criminal complaint on December 17, accusing 30 individuals linked to the Nobel Foundation of serious offenses under Swedish law, including gross misappropriation of funds, facilitation of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and financing the crime of aggression. The complaint, submitted to both the Swedish Economic Crime Authority and the Swedish War Crimes Unit, demands the immediate freezing of the SEK 11 million ($1.18 million USD) Nobel Peace Prize funds awarded to Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado.

Across Europe, People Urge Intervention To Stop Gaza Genocide

May 25, 2025 Emad Almarshahi, Hodhod Yemen News Agency. Resist! Europe, France, Genocide, Germany, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Sweden

Thousands of protesters in Berlin, Paris, and Stockholm have demanded their governments break silence on Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, urging immediate international intervention and sanctions against the regime. In Berlin, thousands of people assembled at Oranienplatz on Saturday to protest Israel’s intensified airstrikes and ground invasion of Gaza. The demonstrators chanted slogans like “Freedom for Palestine,” “Germany finances, Israel bombs,” “Israel is a terrorist state,” and “Stop the genocide.” German protesters asserted that no person or state has the right to deny an entire people their rights, displace them, or commit acts of violence against them. Some German protesters of Jewish descent also joined the rally.

Swedish Dockworkers’ Union Leader Sacked For Gaza Solidarity Action

May 16, 2025 Arthur Neslen, Equal Times. Resist! Dockworkers, Gaza, Palestine Solidarity, Sweden, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Security is a funny elixir. The more of it that you have, the less there is for someone else… or that’s the conventional wisdom anyway. Erik Helgeson’s experience, however, proves otherwise. Erik, 42, is the vice-chair of the Swedish Dockworkers’ Union and he cared deeply for the security of his members – and also for the safety of Gazan civilians, some of whom have been killed by weapons which may have passed through the port of Gothenburg, where he has worked for 20 years. Erik cared so much in fact that in February of this year, he led a symbolic six-day blockade of 20 Swedish ports against military cargos destined for Israel. His employer – DFDS – responded by sacking him, claiming that he had broken Sweden’s Security Protection Act.

Europe’s Path To War And Self-Destruction

July 27, 2024 Fabian Scheidler, Scheer Post. Educate! Europe, European Union (EU), Hungary, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine

Brussels is working hard to boycott Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s EU Council Presidency. The background: Orbán’s trips to Kiev, Moscow and Beijing, which were aimed at negotiating a ceasefire agreement, are infuriating EU leaders and the governments in Berlin, Paris and other capitals. There is certainly a lot that can be said against the right-wing Hungarian head of state and Trump friend, who is responsible for a whole series of rule of law deficits in his home country. But to accuse him of a diplomatic initiative that other member states have so far been unwilling or unable to take shows how far the EU has moved away from its former claim to be a force for peace.

Sweden Closing Nordsteam Investigation Is A Shocking Coverup

March 19, 2024 Max Blumenthal, Scheer Post. Resistance Report Accountability, Nordstream pipeline, Pipelines, Sweden

The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal interviews Swedish engineer Erik Andersson, who led the first independent investigation to the site of the Nordstream pipelines blast sites, on the Swedish government’s sudden closing of the investigation into the terror attack on the eve of joining NATO. Andersson also addresses US meddling in Swedish politics, and the potential consequences of Stockholm surrendering its traditional neutrality to the anti-Russian alliance.

Extinction Rebellion Protested Around The Entire North Sea

March 18, 2024 The Canary. Resist! Denmark, Extinction Rebellion, Fossil Fuels, Germany, North Sea, Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands, United Kingdom (UK)

In an unprecedented act of coordinated international climate protest, Extinction Rebellion activists from the UK, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands protested in solidarity with each other against new North Sea fossil fuels extraction. Under the campaign North Sea Fossil Free acts of civil disobedience happened all around the North Sea. The governments of these six countries are permitting new fossil extraction infrastructure, harming not only the North Sea ecosystem, but also committing the whole world to dangerous levels of warming.

Sweden: Production Of ‘Palestine Cola’ Starts In Malmo

March 7, 2024 Middle East Monitor. Resist! Israel, Palestine, Sweden

Two Palestinian brothers in the Swedish city of Malmo have started production of a soft drink called “Palestine Cola” that is intended to be an alternative to Coca Cola and Pepsi for those who do not wish to buy products from companies which support Israel. Both of the well-known brands are subject to a boycott campaign due to their support for the occupation state. Social media pages dedicated to solidarity with Palestine posted a video clip showing the two brothers producing the drink in solidarity with the Palestinians.

Nordic Countries Surrender Their Historic Neutrality

December 27, 2023 Muhammed Shabeer, People's Dispatch. Educate! Denmark, Finland, NATO, NATO expansion, Nordic Neutrality, Norway, Russia, Russophobia, Sweden, Ukraine, US Imperialism, War in Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

Most of the Scandinavian countries especially Sweden and Finland had pursued a policy of neutrality towards the US and the erstwhile Soviet Union, and later Russia, since the onset of the Cold War. Despite significant pressure from centrist and center-right sections to join NATO, Finland and Sweden had been committed to formal neutrality for a long time. However the ongoing war in Ukraine has led to a rise in militarism and Russophobia in the region, and sections within the social democratic parties called for NATO membership and an enhanced defense cooperation with the US. NATO has already increased its military footprint in the Baltic region in the garb of aiding Ukraine in the war against Russia.

Elon Musk’s Swedish Problem

December 21, 2023 Les Leopold, Portside. Strategize! Elon Musk, Sweden, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Unfortunately for Elon Musk, the lord and master of the Tesla electric automobile company, the Swedish peasants have grabbed their pitchforks. One hundred twenty Tesla mechanics in seven service centers are demanding a collective agreement with the company, one that aligns with all other labor-management agreements in this heavily unionized country. Approximately 90% of the Swedish workforce falls under such agreements. Musk isn’t having any of it. How dare a union tell him what he can and cannot do with his workers! For the first time in his life, however, he may be learning a lesson in labor solidarity. The 120 peasant-mechanics are not alone.

Tesla Faces Scandinavian Labor Revolt

December 8, 2023 Elliot Smith, Portside. Resist! Scandinavia, Sweden, Tesla, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Tesla faces a growing revolt in Scandinavia after Danish dockworkers joined a sympathy strike with Swedish mechanics, heaping pressure on the electric vehicle giant to grant collective bargaining rights to employees. Members of Swedish trade union IF Metall have been at loggerheads with Tesla for six weeks, and have garnered support via a secondary strike action from fellow workers across a range of industries in Sweden, including postal workers, painters, dockworkers and electricians. Tesla CEO Elon Musk bemoaned the blockage of license plate deliveries by postal workers as “insane” and late last month filed lawsuits against both the Swedish Transport Agency and the postal service.

Tesla Union Pressure Increases In Sweden As Dockworkers Escalate Strike

November 18, 2023 Marie Mannes, Portside. Resist! Strikes, Sweden, Tesla, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Dockworkers in Sweden pledged on Friday to refuse to offload Tesla (TSLA.O) cars at any of the country's ports as they expanded their industrial action in sympathy with Tesla workers' demands for collective bargaining agreements. Tesla, co-founded by billionaire Elon Musk, does not manufacture in Sweden, but its electric cars are serviced by more than 120 mechanics affiliated with Swedish union IF Metall, which began a strike on Oct. 27. Dockworkers joined the strike by mechanics on Nov. 7, blocking Sweden's four largest ports to Tesla cars. That was expanded to all ports on Friday at 12 a.m. (1100 GMT)

How Swedish Love For The US Turned Deadly

August 3, 2023 Eleanor Goldfield, Project Censored. Educate! American Culture, Militarization, NATO, Russia, Sweden

Generally speaking, Swedes really love the US. And I don’t just mean, oh we love the Brad Pitt movies and the whimsical images of Sunset Blvd (which by the way is way less whimsical in real life). No, I mean that Swedes really love the whole propagandized packaged-with-a-bloody-bow-on-top United States. There are more than a few cowboy-themed bars and restaurants in Stockholm. Hell, there’s even a TGI Friday’s. Some stores aim to peddle only American goods, which ultimately means they sell pop-tarts and peanut butter. Younger Swedes will adopt US slang, folding it into their Swedish sentences as awkwardly as one might try to fit a TGI Friday’s into a cobblestone and tree-lined promenade.

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