Olof Palme was born in Stockholm in 1927 within a banking family of upper class, conservative and deep Christian convictions.
After doing military service, went to America to study secondary. After several months of backpacking was the United States and Europe. In Prague she would marry a girl for this gain citizenship and could flee the country (communist dictatorship) after they divorced in Sweden as they had agreed. The trips made throughout the world, in which directly contemplate the ravages of poverty and injustice , will determine in its ideological evolution. He returned home to study law. He joined the Social Democratic Party and became leader socialist student movement. From this position reduced the communist hegemony in academia.
Since 1954, he began a meteoric political career, helped by its affinity with Prime Minister Tage Erlander social , started as his secretary, was already at 57 MP. Strong capacity for dialogue and public speaking. From the beginning defends social projects and the principle of international solidarity. In 1963 he joined the government as a minister and in 1969 became prime minister with only 42 years to win the elections of 70 and 73. In 1976 he lost the election, take the opportunity to work for UN, as a spokesman for the commission of disarmament and security. Her mediation Iraq-Iran conflict, but will not get the end of the war, it achieved that the contestants are committed to avoid civilian targets. In 1982, at the failure of the center-right government to tackle the economic crisis, Olof Palme will win the election without changing the party program.
pornography will be permissive and at the same time supporter of restrictions on the display of violence on television. Sweden will give international stage following its principle of neutrality active, active against war and against the regimes that violate human rights that distinguish it from other countries, respecting the rules of formal diplomacy. Both condemn U.S. imperialism (in Vietnam) and the USSR (in Czechoslovakia). Give political asylum to deserters from the army as the United States, as refugees from the fleeing communism. Funded the liberation movements in Third World countries and harshly criticized countries that systematically violated human rights, as the Ibero American dictatorships and apartheid South Africa. From the International Institute for Peace, established in Stockholm in 1966, resources will be devoted to peace research, the call peace research (Science for Peace).
wanted to maintain, as far as possible a normal life. He maintained his habits of reading and sports. Also wanted to have a normal family life with his wife Lisbeth and her three children, who had to watch football every Sunday. For this reason never had bodyguards.
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lead to welfare state to its maximum development with a great social protection while keeping the budget deficit contained high taxes. In what was called Olof Palme social democratic, the state agreed to guarantee a citizen's rights including services (education, health, pensions, unemployment, child care and more ....) and also included the right to basic income, which is now called basic income (although this legal right, was far to get an application total). The tax burden was that wealth is distributed more evenly than any other country. Through its social policies, Sweden became the second richest country in the world. The maintenance of these policies and their refusal to accept the new neo-liberal ideas, was that Sweden withstand the crisis better than others, holding on to the 70, with the highest unemployment rate lowest in the OECD. The big losers were the owners of big capital. They saw as their profits increased slowly, while in Europe, new measures of a neoliberal, getting rich quickly to many. Outside Sweden, the oligarchies of the rest of the world feared the possibility of infection, so they did their best to hide the results of its management.
To meet the crisis, defended what he called industrial democracy, which involved a gradual increase democracy within the economic structure, with increasing participation of workers in the management and direction of their companies is ie the self . The economic results of their actions, were better than those of other countries implementing neoliberal policies to overcome the crisis. The international economic oligarchies saw it with concern, and that put in serious jeopardy its plan for global application of neoliberal policies (globalization).
To meet the crisis, defended what he called industrial democracy, which involved a gradual increase democracy within the economic structure, with increasing participation of workers in the management and direction of their companies is ie the self . The economic results of their actions, were better than those of other countries implementing neoliberal policies to overcome the crisis. The international economic oligarchies saw it with concern, and that put in serious jeopardy its plan for global application of neoliberal policies (globalization).
The February 29, 1986 was shot dead as he left the cinema with his wife. Never found out who was behind his murder ..
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