This episode is an audio version, read by myself, of an article I recently wrote for Meduza: "Builders in Solidarity - A rambunctious Russian-speaking union shakes up Sweden’s labor movement". It was published earlier in the summer, as part of Meduza's excellent English-language newsletter, The Beet.

Here is a link to the article.

And here is a link to a longer article I wrote for Jacobin in the spring, where I look more closely at the minutia of the so-called Swedish model of labor relations, and how Builders in Solidarity fits into the current crisis it is experiencing.

Ivan Semenov’s channel “Sweden for Dummies” on YouTube and TikTok.

Builders in Solidarity’s homepage.

Music: Supra by INTRNLCMD (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0)