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Swedish "new Left' Discusses Workers' Control

The Week Vol. 3, No. 7, 18 February 1965 · p. 10 of the scan · 121 words

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HE Swedish “New Left” organ- ML isation, ‘Zenit’, has published the special Hull LEFT of Summer, 1964, which contained the papers written for last year’s Nottingham conference on Workers’ Control. In a letter to Tony Topham, their secretary Goran Therborn writes: “Also here in Sweden the campaign for workers’ control is getting under way, although our position is much weaker than yours. Our public sector 1s small, the union cadres are indifferent or hostile, and the Swedish left is notoriously weak. But, the world is changing slowly. Last Autumn Zenit arranged a conference of various groups of the Swedish left, and some form of unity is emerging, especially on the platform of workers’ control. An open conference on this

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