SWEDEN’S SOCIAL DEMOCRATS STRUGGLE IN TRADITIONAL BLUE-COLLAR HEARTLANDS
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09.12.2024


Politico (9 December 2024)

Charlie Duxbury

 

Like other socialist parties in Europe, Sweden’s center left has lost ground to the far right. It’s hoping to turn that around.

The downward slide of the Social Democrats in the Swedish town of Uddevalla arguably started at 1:19 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 1986.

With a crash, the mighty gantry crane that had long loomed above the town’s shipyard came down in a plume of dust as thousands of mournful locals watched on. The shipyard was replaced with a Volvo car plant — which itself closed in 2013, taking with it what was left of the town’s industrial heart. 

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