HE Swedish “New Left” organ- will take place in March, and we 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 is 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
SCANDINAVIA :
have got the CP under its new
“revisionist” leadership to propose a
motion in parliament. We are also
pressing on left-of-centre members
in the Social Democratic parliament-
ary group, and the young Liberals.
Direct union work is planned in the
longer run.
“Your work in England is a great
inspiration to us, and we have to a
great extent made your proposals our
own. Here I must confess, that we
are publishing your proposal in
Steelworkers’ Voice in the forth-
coming issue of ZENIT without hav-
ing asked for your permission in ad-
vance. But the issue has been made
in rather extra-ordinary circum-
stances, and you still have time to
stop it. (It is going to print on
Tuesday).*