Yester-day the Swedish Magazine Fokus published a long article about both leftwing and rightwing extremism. The conclusion is that they are no longer only fighting each others, there are some new targets. For the left particularly politicians from right wing parties and authorities, mainly staff that are handling employment and migration issues. They also point to the fact that both left and right consists of small independent groups taking action without asking any leaders and often towards local targets. The article describes a situation that I can recognize from my own writings (mainly from the book “Gatans parlament”, 2006). One interesting thing with the article in Fokus is that they have investigated Swedish courts in order to get a picture of how these often very young criminals are described in the police reports. It might not come as a surprise but left wing extremists are generally described as middle class well educated people and right wing extremists more as “white trash” (social problems, drinking, drugs, former criminality etc).
They made an interview with me last night in Channel 4, unfortunately it’s in Swedish, just as the article in Fokus. The picture shows a demonstration in the central of Stockholm January 2006, I’m the photographer.
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To all non-swedish readers, I would like to inform you that this article is biased and slander.
The the vast majority of activist within the autonomous left community in Sweden are working class with working class background.
To fulfill Anna-Lena Lodenious definition of "working class" one has to be unemployed and alcoholic or drug addict.
We have a discussion on my Swedish blog with more than 130 comments. I am not the first one drawing the conclusion that middle class background is quite common amongst autonomous leftist activists. But apparently it seems to be a sensitive thing to say. Of course there are many activists with a different background, as well as right wing extremists from good families with a lot of money. But But it doesn't change the pattern.
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