If the jump - Social Democracy and three major projects. Stefan Löfvens speech in Almedalen, 29 June 2014.

Please note that the spoken word applies!

It was the darkest time of the year. But when we met in Kärrtorp to manifest racism when the sun came out. And across the country, people gathered together with us.

And I heard a subway driver gave speeches in the speaker system. He apologized to the crowd. But he wanted to thank everyone, because they were there for him and his family.

We have all had our moments on earth. That is how we will use it. Against oppression, for the community. We came from all parts of society, from right and left. Different but united in our abhorrence of racism idea. United in our conviction that all people are equal. And we are many!

I saw courage. Determined. Friends, such moments are democracy's most beautiful moments!

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Yesterday bells rang here in Visby. Just as they did in Jönköping on May 1 The call to warn of danger. They are calling for the collection and resistance.

So let the bells ring! Let them call the north and south, and warn, wherever hatred henchmen appear. Let them call for freedom and democracy! Let them call until we have together made us free from fascism!

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Friends, the Russian aggression against Ukraine has changed our security environment. Extremist ISIS advancing in northern Syria and Iraq, and we see horrific abuse of women and children in Nigeria, the Congo and in many other countries.

Sweden should stand up for human dignity and international law, wherever they are being violated - and we'll take clear responsibility for our own security. Therefore, the Swedish military capability strengthened. Therefore, we must increase Swedish support for international cooperation for peace and relaxation, the Baltic Sea, the EU and the UN.

It is not a question of either or. But both. Sweden's voice to be heard in the whole world. Stronger and clearer than today. For common security, for international solidarity and for the inviolability of human value and right.

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And peace can be ensured, fascism can only be tackled by creating hope. A real and tangible hope. That comes on when you can work and live in security and solidarity with your fellow human beings.

And it is that hope, I want to talk about today.

Few countries have as much potential as ours. We have an education traditions, perfect for creating brilliant academic achievement, and put us all in the global economy. We have ideas of equality, ideal for creating such a society of solidarity, it makes other countries' leaders to behold. We have so many innovative people, who want to be with and work for a sustainable society, and to create the climate solutions that the world is hungry for.

We have strength in each other. And I long, I yearn so fervently, to the day when we can begin to realize Sweden's potential together.

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In eight years we have had a government that has put almost all the time awake, and almost all of our new resources, to lower tax rates. They have privatized, located in Phase 3, and performs secured our friends and family members.

It is the very antithesis of the solidarity that made Sweden strongly. It's a damned divided into 'us and them, strong and weak, scapegoats and special interests. And the result can be summed up in six words: Unemployment rose. School results fell. Welfare burst.

This is a memory plaque of the Alliance Government, 2006-2014.

Goodbye.

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Should we take advantage of Sweden's potential - then we need to see each other as sisters and brothers. We must tear down all forms of superiority and subordination between people. Your gender, your ethnicity, functional ability or sexual orientation shall never decide your fate.

We must shape the society that we want a good family to be. Without conservative standards, contempt and alienation. But with love, cooperation and respect - so that we all dare to step forward, in the new, it is challenging, it is free.

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And you never leave your sister in poverty or phase 3 - you help her forward. You give love to your brother's kids a few extra books, so that they become wiser, looks longer and hope more than you ever dared to do.

You make demands, but you also help others, just like you know you will get a helping hand from them. Together we lift each other.

It is modern solidarity. It is the people's home in the twenty first century. It is the community I want to build together with you! Friends, we begin September 14!

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In order to create this society is social democracy for the election of a reform program with three major projects:

We will increase the number of people working and the number of hours worked in the economy, so that we reach the EU's lowest unemployment rate in 2020.

We will create an egalitarian school that within ten years among the top five in the EU.

We will reduce income inequality, and the generation stop the avoidable health inequalities.

It may seem brave. But anyone who knows what we have created together before, never hesitates about what we can do in the future.

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I want to start with jobs. There is a moment, almost every adult's life. I think you've felt it yourself. When you have done something at work, you not only happy with - but even proud.

It can be confirmed in an encouraging word. A good result. A feeling of happiness at the end. What you feel, then, is why a job is more than a salary, more than an important contribution to the social structure, more than prestige and position. What you feel is the value of labor.

Friends, the value of each human being to feel!

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Today there are so very many young people who would like nothing more than to show what they can do on the labor market.

And you're ready to do the job, we will, together, provide you with individual entrance ticket:
the right to work, education or training within 90 days. Do you want to fight, we'll be at your side!

You who are young should never get stuck in long-term unemployment. You should be given the power to shape your future life.

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The Socialist job strategy is built on three pillars: Investments in the Future, working together to create jobs, and a new education initiative.

Firstly Future Investments.

We will build the homes. So that each person can move to work or study, work key in the lock and open the door to a home, a love, a family.

We will build the railway. So that town and country are tied together. So we can feel that we are not sparsely populated and urban neighborhood without a country. For all.

And we will take our climate responsibility. Within ten years, Sweden will be one of the most successful exporters of climate friendly technology.

We will take the global lead, and show the world that you want to see how a sustainable society will be built - make it smart, solidarity land of the north. There is no better way to invest for the future, than the way that gives hope for a sustainable freedom to our children.

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Second: We must work together to create jobs.

All this has probably gone by a train pulled by an Rc locomotive. You just have not thought about it. It's a simple, burly box - but under the surface there is technology that can shine. As a journalist Jorgen Stävje wrote: "As it usually go when the Swedish company dealing with something innovative, so it became a world-class product"

When I worked at Hägglunds we built such locomotives in constant competition. Our only chance to keep the mission was to be the best at it. So we twisted and turned everything. Streamlined, struggled and worked. Suddenly we had saved a third of production time.

And we had to continue to build this electro-technical, box-shaped diamond.

Here in lies Sweden's strength: In inventiveness. That is why we want to increase investment in research and innovation. In collaboration. That is why we want to invest in cooperation between entrepreneurs, researchers and elected representatives. In vogue. That is why we want to increase export support, and invest in entrepreneurs and small business owners who aim high.

Swedish companies are not special interests in anticipation of the next tax cut. They require collaboration, because they know Sweden surest truth: We can never be the cheapest. But if we work together we can become the best.

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And third: We will fill the vacancies.

There are lot of successful businesses in Sweden, who would like nothing more than to hire more and embark on new markets. They have customers. They have stores. But they lack trained personnel. And while going hundreds of thousands of people without jobs. It's totally bizarre.

There is a huge potential to realize. Only here is the key to upwards of 80 000 new jobs today. Sweden can not afford to let so many people go unemployed in vain!

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We will create a new Noste. With adult education, vocational and professional colleges. Investments in colleges and universities, and eventually a competence insurance for all, so that you can constantly evolve.

Anyone who thinks that unemployment is an individual problem - it does as moderates. Cut down on training, and see unemployment rail.

But do you know that the challenges are common - do like us. In investing in each other's expertise. You should never have to lower your labor price, but always able to increase your knowledge value. Friends, we choose the path that creates hope and optimism!

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Oh, it's wonderful to talk about hope! Fredrik Reinfeldt usually pay these rates to the attacks, it is also fun - but it's not the same. But now I would like to talk seriously. Should we reach the EU's lowest unemployment, we can not have a labor market created by men, for men. That undervalues ​​women's work, and wear out, break down, leaving the sick and wounded behind.

Sweden therefore needs a gender reform of the entire working life. That makes full time to the norm, even in female-dominated occupations. That settles SMS employments, shared tours and stacking of fixed-term contracts. That stops away quotas of competent women in business, creating an equal use of parental insurance, and shapes a world-leading work environment.

And we will end the theft of 3.6 million who today pay gap means, and stop undervaluing of women's work!

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The American writer Marie Shear said: "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people."

And to meet hatred, threats, violence and humiliation, living with a constant fear, obsessive gaze over your shoulder - it should no man have to do. Learning to hesitate their own opinions, to criticize her own body - it should be no human need to learn. You see the places and items denied to you, just because of other people's standards - it should be no human need to feel.

But this is our own society places women. This is a big task for the feminist government we will form. Sweden to be a feminist role model in the world. People should be treated as people. It is not just our promise. It is our duty.

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Friends, I read the other day about a woman described how her daughter become a buffer Girl - a quiet child who is added as a buffer between children who fights at school. Buffer Girl! Have you heard such dreadful expressions?

I want to create a school that is a battering ram against the class and gender hierarchy, and a rock solid guarantee for every human knowledge and education.

Therefore, our second major project to create equal schools that belong to the top five in the EU. The school is the heart of the egalitarian society - why the school is in the heart of the social democratic ideology.

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You, the student needs to have more time with your teacher, whether you want to run before or if you have lagged behind. You will get early support, so your small problems never have time to grow to large.

Therefore we reduce classes with up to five children during the first years of school, and hire more specialized teachers and special education teachers. That is why we invest so that schools with the toughest conditions receive the greatest support, and the best teachers are attracted. And therefore salmon RUT replaced by homework help for all. In our school, support will be provided as needed - do not pay.

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And we will put a stop to win the chase, and create order in the Wild West who become Swedish schools.

No child should receive less teacher time, snuvas the school library, put on bread and water, only to be an owner to make a profit. This may be tolerated by a bourgeois government, but it will never be accepted by a social democratic government.

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And it is the meeting - between teacher and pupil - that is the learning center. It is in meeting each child's power and thirst for knowledge can get crack out. Therefore, it is time to learn from Finland, and the creation of a national unity to give teachers opportunities to develop as a teacher.

We will strengthen the opportunity for professional development, to pursue a career and raise his salary. We must reduce bureaucracy and increase the freedom of teaching, so that teachers can see the kids behind the forms. We put our children's future in the teachers' hands, the hands should be strongest Sweden can create.

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And each child's knowledge journey should begin early. Should school results reversed, we must begin in nursery school. But today over 23 000 of our smallest children in too large groups.

A mother in Solna told the local newspaper: "Sometimes I ask Axel if he has been out for the day. Then he will answer: No, it was not my turn to go out. "

For a child, it becomes an insecurity: Not seen in the collection. Alone in the swing, again. For a parent, it becomes a concern. For preschool staff: frustration. For society - it is a shame!

Therefore, we today present a social democratic commitment of a ceiling in preschool. Groups of children for the smallest will be a maximum of 15 children. All children should be able to get the good play and educational starting as a safe nursery means. No child should disappear in large groups.

Small groups provide greater hope for the children, the parents, the preschool staff - for Sweden!

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Friends, it blows a welfare wind over Sweden. It is natural. As the expression goes: "You do not lack the cow, until the Conservatives have privatized her."

Our third project is to reduce income inequality, and within a generation stop the avoidable health inequalities. This is a goal the World Health Organization, WHO, has stated. They know it is a challenge. But it is also a call we have to address.

Today, it can distinguish up to seven years to life, just between different parts of the same city. Therefore we need to look at the whole picture - welfare, jobs, education - so that all people have equal opportunities in life. Friends, the right to health is too valuable to ever denied anybody.

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And did you Vårdförbundet call a while ago? It was simple but terrifying: "Do not get sick in the summer!"

Sweden has the lowest number of hospital beds per capita in the EU. In Stockholm, tells a nurse how she delivered a woman on a disabled toilet. In Skåne, parents and children come into the emergency room, and met the chaos. And across the country, people who receive information on cancer have had to wait, not knowing when they will be able to start treatment.

This should never have to confirm. When you are weakest, will our society be strongest.

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We need to take all the power and all the knowledge available in the Swedish health care, making it Sweden's pride - and the external ideal. We must provide the resources so that care not only get more hands, no more hearts and minds, skilled, proud, strong, nurses, assistant nurses and doctors.

Who are not forced to assessments of patients' profitability, but is governed by its excellence and ethics. All cancer patients in all county councils to ensure adequate care as soon as possible and no later than within four weeks. And care should never be given after the wallet, but necessary. Whoever you are, wherever you are, be your equal in dignity and rights are respected.

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We should highlight public health efforts, an end to privatization and sell-offs, and put a stop to win the pursuit of well-being that allows people to market the goods. The national quality laws, requirements so that it can never be silenced on quality or manning, and also a complete transparency so that we can ensure that every penny goes to where they were intended.

Earnings Hunting is not worthy of our prosperity. Therefore social democracy simple, strong message: the human dignity should always go before the fair.

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And you should be able to face old age secure and free. According PRO is over 200 000 pensioners who have a pension below the EU poverty threshold. A majority of them are women.

Therefore, pensions should be strengthened. As more young people are working, and payments currently go to an expensive PPM systems will in the future go to the income pension, so that the brakes do not hit very often. We should end the unfair tax gap between pensioners and wage earners that the government created.

And we will create an elderly care that give you the power to shape your own everyday life - where you get to have the same staff will be with you in your most vulnerable moments.

We never know how long lasting health. We never know what life will be. But we know we can be there for each other. With the heat. With one hand on your arm. Always.

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This: Reaching the EU's lowest unemployment, the creation of an egalitarian school that belongs to the top five in the EU and to reduce income disparities and within a generation completely closing health gaps - is social democracy three major projects for the coming years.

This is the path towards a society without superiority and inferiority, which we see each other as sisters and brothers, but class inequalities, sexism and racism.

Government parties have adopted new policies, with a sixth-work tax credit, reduced corporate income tax, abolish the temporary austerity tax, etc., and more. As the papers usually write: We have the whole list! In total there will be tax cuts of 70 to 100 billion. The only thing they fight about is when.

When you start again? 2015? 2016 2018? When will you tell it to the Swedish people?

It's time to choose. New large tax cuts or new solidarity community investments?

And I'm proud of the social democracy elections. Friends - this we shall fight until election day, and every day thereafter: Sweden's future projects will not be a sixth, seventh, eighth-work tax credit,
but a better Sweden. For all.

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And for this we are ready to form an energetic government. We will never give power to the solidarity biggest pests: Sweden Democrats. A racist party with Nazi roots.

It may require collaboration across block boundaries. I'm ready to take that responsibility. I know that you are also there. No blocks prestige may be more important than the future of Sweden!

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And we will carry with us the essence of optimism, as it was described by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a priest in World War II Germany.

He was executed by the Nazis, but he managed to save these words for posterity.

"Optimism is in its essence
not an opinion about the current situation
without a life force,
a force for hope where others resigned,
a force to bear setbacks,
a power that does not emit the future, to the pessimist,
without taking the space for hope. "

Friends, more do not really need to be said.

Now we take the future of time!

For solidarity.
For hope.
For all.
