Europe’s elections saw gains for anti-immigration parties — but the breakthrough act in Finland was the Left Alliance, with 17% support. Its leader, Li Andersson, told Jacobin about why it did so well and how it defeated the far right.
In general, northern Europe bucked this grim trend — and the news from Finland was particularly bright. While the far-right Finns Party has been part of the government for the last year, in Sunday’s vote the big winner was on the other end of the political spectrum. The socialist Left Alliance won 17.3 percent of the vote and elected three MEPs, putting it in second place behind the center-right National Coalition. The Finns Party lost a seat as its vote tumbled from 13.8 to 7.6 percent.
Suprised that Finland, out of all EU countries, would elect Democratic Socialists and Socdems.
they always were socdem-adjacent, like all nordics, and like all nordics their socdems have been drifting rightwards (prolly since 70s). Now old socdem politics is radical new left
lol, wtf is this site? It doesn’t exactly seem reliable, and the idea that Finland has “ended” homelessness is complete horseshit. Sure, there’s public housing, but there’s also a massive queue of people waiting to get those public, relatively cheap apartments. The rest can just try their luck on the free market (read: pay rent or die, just like every other Western nation).
It’s also extremely ironic to bring this up considering our current government is more likely to incinerate the homeless than eradicate homelessness.
They allegedly have eradicated homelessness recently
I hate to sound like some pedantic nerd, but ”eradicate” is a very strong word, and I’ve seen people seriously claim in the pastthat Finland has given all homeless people places to live.
They do love to flaunt this, but they have no actual political power so it’s more like a wish or what they say their goals are, not that it has an impact.
I work with homeless people in my everyday and they are definitely not doing so well so this common Finnish country brand PR they love to say everywhere is an eternal annoyance to me when I see it on social media. It gets thrown around by libs a lot in places like Mastodon.
Suprised that Finland, out of all EU countries, would elect Democratic Socialists and Socdems.
they always were socdem-adjacent, like all nordics, and like all nordics their socdems have been drifting rightwards (prolly since 70s). Now old socdem politics is radical new left
Yeah, but it’s a bit surprising since they didn’t ran on a “LETS KILL ALL IMMIGRANTS” plataform. I think they even want to sanction Israel.
They allegedly have eradicated homelessness recently. Probably a big part of why they won, didn’t sit around twiddling fingers.
They definitely have not done that.
Its what they claim
https://thebetter.news/housing-first-finland-homelessness/
lol, wtf is this site? It doesn’t exactly seem reliable, and the idea that Finland has “ended” homelessness is complete horseshit. Sure, there’s public housing, but there’s also a massive queue of people waiting to get those public, relatively cheap apartments. The rest can just try their luck on the free market (read: pay rent or die, just like every other Western nation).
It’s also extremely ironic to bring this up considering our current government is more likely to incinerate the homeless than eradicate homelessness.
Theres some sort of video that went around with it too, can’t pull it up right now
What video? Do you seriously think there’s no homelessness in Finland?
https://yle.fi/a/3-12409059
no
You wrote
I hate to sound like some pedantic nerd, but ”eradicate” is a very strong word, and I’ve seen people seriously claim in the pastthat Finland has given all homeless people places to live.
They do love to flaunt this, but they have no actual political power so it’s more like a wish or what they say their goals are, not that it has an impact.
I work with homeless people in my everyday and they are definitely not doing so well so this common Finnish country brand PR they love to say everywhere is an eternal annoyance to me when I see it on social media. It gets thrown around by libs a lot in places like Mastodon.
The Left Alliance aren’t socialists, they’re liberal NATO bootlickers.