How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’

The 1% know their time is short, and are fighting to push back the inevitable with all their wealth and influence.
But it’s been done before. The 1% cannot defeat the voices of the people who outnumber them by powers of ten.
It’s time we fire the corrupt and well-fattened bosses, and put the People back in charge.

“Both countries had a history of horrendous poverty. When the 1 percent was in charge, hundreds of thousands of people emigrated to avoid starvation. Under the leadership of the working class, however, both countries built robust and successful economies that nearly eliminated poverty, expanded free university education, abolished slums, provided excellent health care available to all as a matter of right and created a system of full employment. Unlike the Norwegians, the Swedes didn’t find oil, but that didn’t stop them from building what the latest CIA World Factbook calls “an enviable standard of living.”” http://www.commondreams.org/views/2012/01/26/how-swedes-and-norwegians-broke-power-1-percent?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork While many of us are working to ensure that the Occupy movement will have a lasting impact, it’s worthwhile to consider other countries where masses of people succeeded in nonviolently bringing about a high degree of democracy and economic justice. Sweden and Norway, for example, both experienced a…

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