Sweden
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More than just an electoral upwind? Nordic left-wing parties after the EU elections
Record results for (Centre-)Left parties in the Nordic countries, with far-right parties losing ground. Ada Regelmann gives a sober assessment of the European elections results in Denmark, Finland and Sweden.
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Sweden’s Left Party celebrates its biggest win in 20 year
John Hörnquist — After winning over 11 percent of the vote in June’s European Parliament elections, the Swedish Left Party Vänsterpartiet is celebrating its best election results in twenty years.
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After the 2024 European elections: Rightward shift with slight headwinds
Cornelia Hildebrandt — The few successes cannot conceal the continued defensive posture of leftist parties in Europe and the existential crisis faced by individual parties.
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The resistible rise of the far right in Europe
NPA Anti-Fascist Commission — A relatively large number of far right parties are now on the winning side in national elections, and are even taking part in national governments.
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Hanna Gedin (Left Party, Sweden): ‘We need to give people hope’
An interview with Hanna Gedin from the Left Party (Vänsterpartiet) on the priorities and challenges of the Swedish Left ahead of the European elections.
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Sweden: Assessing Socialistisk Politik and Internationalen’s position on the Russo-Ukrainian war
Jan Czajkowski — The war against Ukraine is not just one more political issue among others, where it is possible to have different opinions within the left. Rather, it is a watershed moment.
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Sweden in NATO — And then what?
Jonas Sjöstedt — The Left is correct to oppose the military alliance, but must now stake out a position within it
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Sweden’s four messy months of right-wing government
John Hörnquist — Why far-right populism won the Swedish election, but is making the right lose its credibility.
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Sweden’s new government – a dystopian nightmare
Petter Nilsson - The political results of the Swedish election are in, and they bear all the hallmarks of a bad dystopian novel. The new government will be composed of the Moderates, the Christian Democrats and the Liberals, and – in all ways except appointed ministers – the far-right Sweden Democrats.
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Left Party (Sweden) on elections: Right-wing coalition wins election by the narrowest of margins
With almost all votes counted from Sunday’s election, it looks like Sweden’s right-wing parties are set to take power with a razor-thin majority, ending eight years of social democratic government. For the first time, this conservative coalition also includes the far-right Sweden Democrats, who have emerged as the country’s second largest party, despite their roots in Sweden’s neo-Nazi movement.
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Swedish left’s perspectives on the war in Ukraine
The Swedish left has come a long way since 2014. Though the tumultuous events that shook Ukraine that year never became a top priority for left debates in Sweden, the antifascist rhetoric mobilized by Russia did appeal to some. In March of that year, a near-fatal assault on a group of leftists in the city of Malmö by far-right activists galvanized the Swedish left around the antifascist cause.