40 hours working week is enforced. Strong laws against arbitrary sacking of workers are decided and the unions get the right to participate in board meetings for companies. Matriculation examination is abolished, as are apprentices. All secondary schools give access to higher studies, the mark system is debated and changed. The king loses the last executive power.
Princesses get equal rights with princes to inherit the throne.
The Swedish Social Democratic governments are eager to act in international politics. Olof Palme belonged to the Swedes who were strongly engaged against the Vietnam war, which led to the US ambassador leaving Sweden for some years. Jan Guillou became some 15 years later Sweden's most famous novel writer with his series about the super-hero baron Carl G Hamilton in the Swedish secret service. In elections to the parliament 1973 the left block and the anti-Socialist block got 175 seats each. Olof Palme remained as prime minister.