Is there not a hypocrisy in expelling the far right but still allowing the far left ?

Has no one rin the union ead hsitory to see hwo many innocent people communist regimes have killed

This is illegal.

His political membership should be nothing to do with his membership and representation by a union.

I hope he takes that union to court, all the way to the European Court of Justice if necessary.

I personally detest the Sweden Democrats and everything about them, but they have the right to be a union member like everyone else.

I agree with Nem on this.

I detest the SD, but this type of expulsion is counter productive and what I believe is very wrong.

2 wrongs, dont make a right.

I totally agree with you, Nemesis and Byke! This is real racism and i think the European Court of Justice would agree with us.

I applaud this decision, there is no place for xenophobes in any respectable union. it is the right decision and others should follow to narrow the opportunities of these bigots.

And another one down and another one down and another one bites the dust.....

This is good Keep them out of public business,let them work among the blue eyed Swedes.

assign the member of Sverige democrat to those sort of jobs where no immigrants are involved. I dont want the buss driver tell me " this bus goes to Baghdad not centerum LOL"

We all know that they hate immigrants and transport is public thing which mostly immigrants use it because Swedes have cars :) and if these guys work in transport section they would make it like hell for immigrants. keep them outside business where no immigrates are involved.

"equality for everyone"? The Transport Union have always been on the "red side" (I was a member very much against my will many years ago so I met up w/ some of their agents brrr). It should not be allowed to discriminate against someone for his/her political believes but some of us are more equal than others. Also, I happen to know that the Swedish democrats have a lot of sympathizers among all parties. Do not forget the Swedes are very devious and there are a lot of things going on in the shadows. How is this for doom and gloom?

The union is going to lose this one and I don't detest the Sweden Democrats. They are the only honest politicians in Sweden.

How strange. The Union exists to serve their dues-paying members and protect their industrial interests. Since when did unions exist for the purpose of their membership carrying out the political interests of the union?

union is a group - if everyone in the group gets together and says they dont want a particular person, theres nothing no one can do about it. this is perfect! a taste of their own medicine.

This should leave no doubt of where the unions stand. They are nothing more than marxist strongholds, who would like nothing better than to raise taxes and redistribute income and punish success. Their ideals are closer to Walter Ulbricht and Lenin than to freedom, industriousness, inspiration and initiative. I say bust the unions!! They serve no meaningful purpose in today's Sweden, and most union workers are insalubrious, lazy and have a constipative effect on economic progress. The unions win. Tax payers lose. Swedish society has enoughh civil rights laws in place that the unions' efforts are only hubristic and self serving. Get rid if them! Now! - I'm voting SD next time.

Shame on the Swedish Neo-Stalinists who expelled a Union member because of his political affiliation! The Neo-Bolsheviks are showing their true colours and the whole world is watching! My sympathy goes to the SD's.

@Syftfel

''This should leave no doubt of where the unions stand. They are nothing more than marxist strongholds, who would like nothing better than to raise taxes and redistribute income and punish success''.

Sorry to rock your love for the SD, you sound like the SD are conservatives whose bread and butter issue is talking about the tax rate. Extreme right groups like the SD are not new, take a look at the extreme right wing tea party in the States and you find that you all sound the same. Everyone who fails to share your extreme views is either marxist, communist, freedom haters or just foreign. It is always the idea of ''they are not like us''.

Isn't this discrimination?

Nothing new about the hypocrisy of the Socialist left.

"Our struggle is about equality for everyone .."

As long as we agree with your politics that is that is. If we don't, equality goes straight out the window - along with your membership.

so, one does not have freedom of thought in Sweden? It is possible to hold private opinions and not have them affect one's job performance. Most of us do it one way or the other every day if we are honest with ourselves.

1º this is illegal, 2º Just because they are from far right party the union expelled him, 3º This is hyprocrasy because if they allowed comunism/socialism or other left party why don t allowed right party?, 4º Common! The SD is the only party that tell the truth about immigration and because the transport sector has more immigrants the union is affraid. Unbeliveble. I hope the local don t erase my comment.

Thank you Buccaneer. I know you know best. Like all socialists it's: "Do as I tell you. I know what's best for you." - Thank you for helping me confirm my point.

Clearly, some members are more equal than others.

This is clearly the best way to make SD go away...

I LOVE IT.

It just amazes me that there are still people on this forum who don't see these SD parasites for what they are.

Just a bunch of adolescent racists.

All they have going for them is a convenient, temporary support for Israel and Jews.

"All they have going for them is a convenient, temporary support for Israel and Jews. "

So they are much better than the scumbag immigrant bigots in Malm?I agree!

@ Muslims (i.e. the only ones who agree with decision)-

I expect that you would agree with this since you seem to specialize in discriminatory and bigoted behavior.

@Cowboykodp

"It just amazes me that there are still people on this forum who don't see these SD parasites for what they are. just a bunch of adolescent racists."

Simple because the SD supporters on this forum are:

just a bunch of adolescent racists.

@Rick;

Much agreed.

In the name of democracy I suppose one must employ fascism -- hey, that would b e a great new motto for modern Sweden!!!!

+"It just amazes me that there are still people on this forum who don't see these SD parasites for what they are. just a bunch of adolescent racists."+

Yeah. That's the kind of attitude which has led to a doubling of SD's support in each election since their inception. Think about it. Primarily a 1-issue party doubling their support every 4 years. That means one of two things: 1. There is a doubling of "adolescent racists" in Sweden every 4 years (as Cowboy and Rick Meth suggest) OR 2. Their 1 issue is pretty damn important and of extreme concern to more and more Swedes. Now either one can bury their head in the sand and go with the first option or they can partake in some logical thought and go with option 2.

As an aside, SD is pretty much anti-Islam and that's it. They are not anti-immigration at all. Stop distorting the truth.

Furthermore, it's the lefties who call SD supporters "racist" while supporting the most bigoted group of people that this planet has ever know. Talk about reaching the heights hypocrisy! LOL.

@Ravioli

Concern about immigration and despising SD can and often do go hand in hand.

Both the left, right and center despise SD, precisely because they are adolescent racists.

Please tell me you are not that blind.

He needs to sue the pants off them.

Then, SvD, needs to get there sh_t together, so they can do what they're supposed to... Get rid of the muslim insurgent terrorists!

Otherwise, the Scandinavians will have to get there hands dirty, and take to the streets themselves...

It's amazing how the left is so tolerant of intolerance on their own part...

Muslims can preach anything from the hate filled koran about killing infidels and subjugating women. No problem.

But criticize them for it and and you will be called all sorts of hateful slurs, excluded from the debate, fired and called a "Nazi". Free speech doesn't exist if you question the cult of multiculturalism in any way.

Anyone see any irony here?

+Concern about immigration and despising SD can and often do go hand in hand.+

This is absolutely un-true. And let's be clear, we are talking about Muslim immigration and nothing else. When was the last time that we've seen any of our resident lefties criticize Muslim immigration? Or Muslims themselves? No matter how much the statistics indicate that Muslim immigration has obviously been a disaster, you will hear not one peep against it from the left. Heck, even after the suicide bombing in STH there was one lefty in particular talking about how, "hopefully now Sweden will appease it's Muslim immigrants."

The difference is, Cowboy, that you on the left handle obvious problems with Muslim immigration by way of appeasement. The left thinks that by building another mosque somewhere, these people will suddenly stop bombing, raping, disrespecting women, committing violence, etc. That's the left's manner of dealing with the problem and it's a far cry from how it should be handled.

@rick @cowboykod

Have you considered that the aggressive persecution by the left of opposing views is why SD was elected in the first place?

You say SD is a just bunch of racists which is akin to saying Muslims are just a bunch of terrorists.

This is the epitome of adolescent thinking if there ever was any.

There are definitely some racist idiots in SD, but there are also normal people who don't know where else to turn for a change in immigration poicy who voted for SD because of a genuine concern about the effects of immigration on their country, not racism, because they saw NO OTHER POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE because no party wants to be labelled "racists" by radical throwback leftists for addressing the problems bluntly.

Where else are non-racist people going turn when no party will take REAL action for fear of being labelled "racists"? They end up turning to SD.

You basically force people interested in real reform who aren't racists to the fringes where they end up having to associate with ACTUAL racists if they want to be heard. If there were a more moderate non status quo solution, I'm sure it would quickly put SD out of business.

As a result you now have a GROWING right wing party, which we probably all agree, is not the best solution.

The radical tolerance extremists CREATED a radical right to counter it. Your shrill rhetoric has backfired.

Your tactics are really no different than the racists you supposedly hate so much. You just call people different names like racist or Nazi, persecute those you don't agree with and force people in the middle of the debate to turn to the hard right for a solution because SD are the only people willing to endure the name calling involved in critiquing immigration openly, whatever their legitimate flaws may be.

BTW - I didn't vote for SD and would rather not, but if a moderate REAL alternative doesn't present itself, I would seriously consider it next outing. As ravioli said, appeasement clearly isn't working.

@Techno;

You obviously have a clue, unlike Ravioli.

I agree with much of what you say, however; I still believe that "The Problem" is very exaggerated by the right wing extremists, to get attention.

It is true that there are Muslims who have difficulty accepting a different culture than their own. But The majority do well in assimilating.

An extremely small percentage of these "non assimilators" do cause problems, not much different than other minorities in other countries. Mostly do to a feeling of non acceptance from the native population.

What is the solution? I sincerely do not know. Maybe a complete stop to immigration, maybe more funding for education?

One thing is certain and that is ridiculing and belittling an entire minority group will undoubtedly "backfire".

One must always choose the right path, and that path is not always the easy path.

This is the difference between a civilized group and a savage group. Not what country, or culture or religious affiliation one belongs to.

This is why over 95% of Swedes would never ever vote for SD.

Civility and compassion does not belong to the left, the right or the center.

Try to find a better alternative to SD. Its really not that difficult.