 My name is Kaisa Ekisi Ekman. I'm a Swedish author and journalist and I've written about issues such as trafficking, surrogacy, capitalist crisis and the euro crisis. And I am going to participate tonight in a seminar called Time to Get Serious, How to Crush Capitalism and the Far Right with One Blow. The media discussion on why the far right is rising and the function of the far right is erroneous because the media and also the dominant parties have been focusing on this as a kind of ideological populist movement, even explaining it with psychological reasons, whereas from a Marxist perspective, as I have, the function of the far right is to maintain the dominance of capital. And this is true for Sweden because if you see, the big debate we've had in the recent years is the privatization of healthcare and welfare systems where we have one of the most neoliberal systems in the world, even more than Chile right now, where schools, for example, can be run by private equity companies. And this was about to be abolished. This could have been abolished if it wasn't for the far right that came into parliament, taking basically the voters of the old Social Democrats, the crass of left-wing, even of right-wing, and were very lobbied by capitalist organizations into accepting private companies in welfare state, meaning that because of their presence, they were able to keep this, which basically nobody in Sweden wants. So I think in part it's the same idea as in the 30s where you have basically capital speaking new language, speaking a populist language, speaking with a voice of the people. Even you can see this in the case of Donald Trump. But really the point is to maintain the dominance of capital over workers. And also one basic function that the far right has in my country, Sweden, is to pit workers against each other. Newly arrived workers against workers who have been here for a longer time or who are born here. So we don't unite against the capitalist class. The left should become populist in my idea. The left should not be so troubled as it is now. I think the basic ideas, the politics of the left are good. They're not bad as such, but the problem is the left appears every day more and more troubled and has a lot of the time gone into cultural struggles instead of focusing on the main challenges that every country faces. In Sweden, the main challenges right now are of course housing because we have a big housing problem that nobody's taking care of. There's shortage of housing. There is the debt bubble that's growing every day. There is unemployment that we used to have 1% in the 80s stabilizing now at 8%. There is segregation. There is crime and all that needs to be dealt with. And the only way you can deal with that is using the welfare state and taking control again of society, which has been left to neoliberal forces. But I think that the death of the left is starting to get into all these cultural questions and trying to approach the extreme right in the way of ideas, speaking of ideas, because that will never work. You need to get down to basic to what unites people. And what unites most people is that we're all wage earners. Most of us, 90% of Swedes are wage earners. So we need to focus on those questions and have a progressive politics in the cultural questions, but not talk about them so much. You know, rhetoric needs to be focused on main important issues, otherwise you're never going to get all these people back.