Sweden has been making global headlines owing to a litany of Quran burnings earlier this year. To find out what is behind these incidents, Green Left’s Farooq Sulehria spoke to Swedish leftist Håkan Blomqvist.
Hakan Blomqvist
Swedish author Stieg Larsson is world famous as a result of his “Millennium series” trilogy of crime novels, all published since his death in 2004.
Less known is that Larsson was also a long-time activist and socialist, who worked as an editor for the anti-fascist Expo magazine. This history is sketched below by Hakan Blomqvist, editor of the Swedish revolutionary socialist paper Internationalen from 1979 to 1999.
It is reprinted from US socialist magazine Against the Current.