> >From: Jim Farmelant
> >
> >And one might add this relatively egalitarian income distribution that is
> >characteristic of Scandinavia is in large part the legacy of vociferous and
> >even violent class struggles that were fought by Scandinavian workers back
> >in the 1920s and 1930s. Given the fact that the USSR was not too far away,
> >the ruling classes there saw that the negotiation of compromises with the
> >workers was in their best long term interests.
>
> - -Could you give us more information on these struggles, please? And how
> - -the left parties take part in them?
> Alexandre
"Adalen 1931" is a great Bo Widerberg film about the strike wave that brought the Social Democrats to power in Sweden. It's the kind of movie that I like to cry at, like "Germinal" and "1900."
john mage