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Lennart Wallster 1944-2024

Håkan Blomqvist — 2025-01-15T10:49:58Z

Lennart Wallster […] was strongly associated with SP's very first days in the late 1960's and the commitment to building the political and organizational center of the Fourth International.

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Sweden, Obituary, Fourth International

Far-right has created a climate of racism, Islamophobia and fear

Farooq Sulehria, Håkan Blomqvist — 2023-10-22T06:24:00Z

“Sweden has been making global headlines owing to a litany of Quran burnings earlier this year. Angry protesters in Baghdad burnt and ransacked the Swedish embassy in July while Iraq expelled the Swedish ambassador. Elsewhere in the Muslim world, agitation was recorded against the burnings of the Quran in Sweden.”

- IV585 - October 2023 / Sweden, Racism and Islamophobia

Sweden's Potato Revolution

Håkan Blomqvist — 2017-11-08T09:09:00Z

It seems unexpected â€” but the effects of the February 1917 revolution in Russia were first felt in neutral Sweden. Together with the other Nordic countries Sweden was spared from the First World War but suffered food shortages and other hardships due to the surrounding conflicts.

- IV514 - November 2017 / Sweden, Historical events and figures

Swedish socialist weekly celebrates 40 years

Håkan Blomqvist — 2014-02-10T12:43:55Z

Two thousand issues since the start and 4 million distributed copies! The Swedish weekly Internationalen – the International – published by the Socialist party, Swedish section of the Fourth International, celebrated its 40th anniversary on February 1st with a revolutionary banquet in Stockholm. More than a hundred comrades and friends – including participants of the party's winter school – gathered to show their commitment to the socialist and internationalist cause of the paper which today has around two thousand weekly subscribers. Among the older and younger activists were former editors, journalists and others who during decades have contributed to the collective effort of publishing news from the global class struggle and socialist analysis week after week.

- IV469 - February 2014 / Sweden, Fourth International

Stieg Larsson in the Struggle

Håkan Blomqvist — 2011-03-28T07:53:09Z

Stieg Larsson is world famous as a result of his “Millennium series” of crime novels, all published since his death in 2004. His less known political history is sketched here by HÃ¥kan Blomqvist, editor of the Swedish revolutionary socialist paper Internationalen from 1979-1999.

- IV434 - March 2011 / Sweden, Far Right, Reviews

Seventy years since the formation of the Fourth International

Håkan Blomqvist — 2008-09-29T20:32:26Z

“Workers – men and women – of the world, unite under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!”

- Features / Fourth International, Features