New left party challenges V

Published 25 October 2024 at 06.53

Domestic. Two former profiles from the Left Party have founded a new political party which they call Solidarity. They describe the party as a force against capitalism and war, and sharply criticize their former party – which they say has abandoned its socialist ideals.

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Björn Alling, who was previously a municipal politician in Linköping, and Jeanette Escanilla, a former Member of Parliament for the Left Party, write in a debate article in Expressen that the Left Party has “abandoned the red socialist vision” and that Solidarity is a response to the void that has arisen.

The duo explains that the party is a reaction to the “destructive driving force of capitalism” and should function as a broad, anti-capitalist movement. The party's program puts “justice, climate and peace at the center”.

Solidarity also demands an end to what they call “a genocide against the Palestinian people” and advocates a one-state solution where everyone in Palestine, regardless of religion or ethnicity, has equal rights.

“We see today's Israel as an apartheid state and demands that the countries of the world intervene to end the occupation,” they write.

Escanilla left the Left Party in June this year, along with about twenty other members, when they felt that the party had become centralized and that critical voices were being silenced . Alling was expelled from the party about a year ago due to “gross abuse”, according to the Left Party. He had then demanded the resignation of party leader Nooshi Dadgostar and accused her of “licking Zionist ass”.

In their debate article, the founders of Solidarit also emphasize that they say no to Swedish arms exports, demand an exit from NATO and want to see a immediate ceasefire in Ukraine.

“Sweden must stay out of superpower conflicts and focus on diplomacy and peacebuilding”, they write, and also question the Swedish rearmament driven by the parties in the Riksdag.

Solidarity plans to stand in the 2026 parliamentary election.