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Top feminist takes political gamble on Swedish reality TV

Politics: 3 Dec 09
Gudrun Schyman, spokeswoman for the Feminist Initiative (FI) political party, hopes participating in the Let’s Dance reality television show will help her waltz right into the Swedish parliament. READ »

Pirate Party claims EU booty: confirmed

Politics: 8 Jun 09
Sweden's Pirate Party, on a platform of integrity issues including the legalization of internet file sharing, sensationally claimed a seat in the EU parliament as election results were confirmed on Sunday. READ »

Swedish Pirate Party headed for Brussels

Politics: 7 Jun 09
Sweden's pro-file sharing Pirate Party is on its way to Brussels having secured more than 7 percent of the country's votes in the European Parliament elections, according to early exit polls. READ »

Polling stations open doors for EU vote

Politics: 7 Jun 09
Polling stations across Sweden opened their doors at 8am on Sunday for voting in the EU parliamentary elections. The parties of discontent continue to ride high in the polls as private funding becomes a late election issue. READ »

Abba great's donation to boost feminists' EU bid

Politics: 6 Jun 09
Former Abba star Benny Andersson has given one million kronor ($128,000) to ensure that Swedish voters can vote for Gudrun Schyman’s feminist political party in Sunday's EU parliamentary elections. READ »

Gudrun Schyman's quest for equality

Analysis & Opinion: 27 May 09
Feminist Initiative lynchpin Gudrun Schyman speaks to The Local about her vision for a gender equal Europe. READ »

Schyman: 'I considered taking my life'

Politics: 8 Jun 08
Former Left Party leader and founder of the Feminist Initiative (FI) political party Gudrun Schyman has admitted in an interview that she contemplated suicide. READ »

Kiss me, I'm Swedish

Analysis & Opinion: 14 May 08
Whatever happened to Swedish reticence? David Bartal contemplates a country in which man hugs have become de rigeur and women think little of kissing each other on the mouth. READ »

Feminist Initiative sets sights on EU elections

Politics: 4 May 08
Feminist Initiative (FI) spokesperson Gudrun Schyman announced that the party will contest the Swedish parliamentary elections in 2010 and the EU parliamentary elections in 2009. READ »

'Swedish feminists should embrace free markets'

Analysis & Opinion: 18 Mar 08
Swedish feminists could well secure more support if they decided to embrace free markets rather than left wing ideologies, argues Nima Sanandaji of the Captus think tank. READ »

Feminist Initiative enters election race

National: 28 Jan 08
Feminist Initiative (FI) has announced that it intends putting forward candidates for Sweden's next general election in 2010. READ »

Former politicians live off benefits

Politics: 2 Oct 07
When almost a year had passed since the last general election, more than eight out of ten former members of parliament continued to receive income benefits from the Swedish parliament. READ »

Borg gives more money for Victoria

National: 20 Sep 07
The government is to grant more money to fund the Royal Family, Finance Minister Anders Borg has announced. Crown Princess Victoria is expected to cost more in the coming years, according to the palace. READ »

Schyman in u-turn on EU

Politics: 22 May 07
Former Left Party leader Gudrun Schyman has said she no longer supports Sweden leaving the European Union. The demand is not realistic, she says. READ »

Gudrun Schyman becomes talk show host

Society: 23 Apr 07
For once Feminist Initiative spokeswoman Gudrun Schyman will be asking the questions rather than answering them as she gets her own talk show on TV8. READ »

Why you've got to love Gudrun

Analysis & Opinion: 11 Apr 07
Few Swedish politicians evoke a visceral reaction - but ex-Left Party leader Gudrun Schyman is an exception. Billy McCormac of think-tank Timbro explains that while he might be her ideological opposite, he's still a Gudrun fan. READ »

Documentary was too negative - Persson

Politics: 29 Mar 07
Göran Persson has slammed a television documentary about his time in power as an example of the media's 'clipping' of politics. Only his negative views were shown, he says. READ »

Schyman storms Investor meeting

Politics: 27 Mar 07
Sweden's best-known feminist, Gudrun Schyman, has started her campaign to get more women appointed to company boards. First stop was the annual general meeting of the Wallenberg family's Investor. READ »

"Persson is lying" - Carl Bildt

Politics: 21 Mar 07
Part two of a documentary on former PM Göran Persson provided further insights into the mind of the man who led Sweden for over ten years. Carl Bildt, Gudrun Schyman and Yasser Arafat all come in for criticism. READ »

Feminists refuse to rule out future elections

Politics: 21 Feb 07
Feminist Initiative spokeswoman Gudrun Schyman has again refused to rule out standing in future elections, despite the organization accepting a grant to which political parties are not entitled. READ »

"Put Pippi on the money," says Schyman

Politics: 12 Feb 07
As part of a campaign to replace the monarchy with a republic, politician Gudrun Schyman suggests replacing the king's head with that of Pippi Longstocking on Swedish coins. READ »

Hennes gets back to bare necessities

Society: 21 Nov 06
Swedish clothing chain Hennes and Mauritz reinstates its traditional Christmas underwear campaign, this year featuring French actress Emmanuelle Béart. "Pornification," says Gudrun Schyman. READ »

Schyman hits moped teen

Politics: 5 Oct 06
Feminist Initiative spokeswoman Gudrun Schyman crashed her car into a 15-year old girl on a moped in Simrishamn, southern Sweden, on Wednesday. The girl was not seriously hurt. READ »

Ulvskog regrets rapist outburst

Politics: 23 Sep 06
The Social Democrats' party secretary Marita Ulvskog has said that she regrets comparing Liberal Party leader Lars Leijonborg to a rapist before last weekend's election. READ »

Hanoi Jane flies in for Schyman

Politics: 15 Sep 06
American actress Jane Fonda is in Stockholm to support Feminist Initiative spokesperson Gudrun Schyman ahead of Sunday's election, in which the party hopes to win its first seat in parliament. READ »

Swedish feminists slam myth of country's equality

Politics: 13 Sep 06
Sweden's fledgling feminist party is for the first time setting its sights on parliament in a general election on Sunday, convinced the Scandinavian country does not deserve its reputation as a bastion of gender equality. READ »

Persbrandt demands record payout from Expressen

National: 13 Sep 06
Swedish actor Mikael Persbrandt is to demand record compensation from the Expressen newspaper after it falsely stated that he had had alcohol poisoning and had checked himself in at a detox clinic. READ »

Schyman wants fund to boost women's pay

Politics: 11 Sep 06
Sweden should set up a fund to iron out the differences between men's and women's salaries. So says Gudrun Schyman, spokeswoman for the Feminist Initiative. READ »

Ulvskog compares Leijonborg to rapist

Politics: 6 Sep 06
Marita Ulvskog, party secretary for the Social Democrats, said Lars Leijonborg is "acting like a rapist who blames the victim." Feminist Initiative spokeswoman Gudrun Schyman criticizes her choice of words. READ »

Schyman enlists Fonda in campaign

Politics: 31 Aug 06
Sweden's feminist party is flying in two American feminists to lend support ahead of the election. Jane Fonda and Vagina Monologues writer Eve Ensler will appear at the party's meetings. READ »

Hägglund booed at Pride festival

Society: 5 Aug 06
Christian Democrat leader Göran Hägglund was jeered as party leaders answered questions at Stockholm Pride gay festival. I'm not going to change my message just because I'm here, he said. READ »

"It's rubbish that we want to abolish marriage"

Lifestyle: 24 May 06
Straight-talking feminist politician Gudrun Schyman will be giving a speech next week in a Stockholm pub next week - in English. READ »

Protagonist or puritan? The truth about Sweden and porn

Lifestyle: 13 May 06
Sweden’s reputation as the first country of filth is one of those lingering stereotypes. Like high taxes. But whilst there’s no denying the latter, what truth really is there in the triple X typecast? The Local’s Christine Demsteader investigates. READ »

Pay and violence head FI manifesto

Politics: 23 Mar 06
The gender pay gap and male violence are the big issues in the Feminist Initiative's election manifesto. Companies with discriminatory pay practices should have their registrations withdrawn and councils should be obliged to provide women's shelters. READ »

Convicted Liberal defects to feminists

Politics: 1 Mar 06
Controversial Euro MP Maria Carlshamre has defected from the Liberals to the Feminist Initiative (FI), blaming a lack of consideration for feminist issues among her former colleagues. READ »

Schyman receives death threats

Politics: 14 Feb 06
A note on the door of a cinema where leading feminist Gudrun Schyman was giving a lecture raises fears for her safety. "I see it as a death threat," says Schyman. READ »

Leave my party, Ohly tells critics

Politics: 5 Jan 06
Troubled Left Party gathers for conference
If you want to criticise the Left Party, then you can't be a member. That was the message from leader Lars Ohly in a speech at the party conference in Gothenburg. He's telling us to go to hell, say rebels. READ »

Troubled Left Party gathers for conference

Smörgåsbord: 5 Jan 06
225 Left Party members descend upon Gothenburg to galvanise for the forthcoming election campaign - and perhaps to reflect upon a dreadful past twelve months. READ »

Rosenberg quits Feminist Initiative

Politics: 13 Oct 05
After weeks of media pressure, hate mail and threats, Tiina Rosenberg, who co-founded Sweden's feminist party, couldn't stand the heat - so she's getting out of the kitchen. READ »

Feminist professor accused of plagiarism

National: 6 Oct 05
Leading feminist politician and academic, Tiina Rosenberg, has been accused of plagiarism. Political science researcher, Johan Tralau, believes that gender politics has been put before academic rigour. READ »

Left Party seizes the Feminist Initiative

Society: 4 Oct 05
Sweden's Left Party proposes a Ministry for Equality, a new agency for equality issues, company board quotas and gender-balanced state funding of associations. Just like the country's feminist party, FI. READ »

Fi ? equality's worst enemy

Analysis & Opinion: 16 Sep 05
Sweden's feminist party is made up of self-serving, politically correct pseudo intellectuals. Gudrun Schyman should sink this initiative before its extremism harms the cause of equality. READ »

Feminist quits party and slams colleague

Politics: 12 Sep 05
Susanne Linde, a founder of Feminist Initiative, has quit the party. She blames colleague Tiina Rosenberg, who said that "women who sleep with men are traitors to their gender." READ »

Feminist party founder quits

Politics: 23 Aug 05
One of the founders of Sweden's Feminist Initiative has quit - before it even becomes a fully-operational political party. There were difficulties in working together, says Ebba Witt-Brattström. READ »

Left Party Secretary quits

Politics: 11 Aug 05
Another high profile figure in Sweden's Left Party announces her resignation. But Pernilla Zethraeus says that it's not due to differences between her and leader Lars Ohly (oh, except that she's not a communist). READ »

Sweden's feminists want a man

Politics: 9 Aug 05
The Feminist Initiative, the focal point of Sweden's feminist movement and soon-to-be-political party, unveils a secret weapon for the next election: a man. READ »

Feminists seize Left Party ground

Politics: 2 Aug 05
A six hour working day, forced paternity leave - just two of the ideas proposed by Sweden's fledgling feminist party, the Feminist Initiative. The trouble is, it all sounds very familiar to the Left Party... READ »

Feminists' support plummets

Politics: 19 Jun 05
Support for Gudrun Schyman's Feminist Initiative has gone down drastically since December. The party has lost one in three of its supporters, a new poll suggests. READ »

A third of Left party MPs to quit

Politics: 9 Jun 05
More bad news for the embattled Left party. A DN survey shows they are in danger of losing a third of their MPs at the end of this parliament. READ »

Comment: Swedish Television cheapens the feminism debate

Lifestyle: 27 May 05
SVT's controversial TV programme on 'extreme feminism' has provoked a week of fierce media debate, with the chairwoman of ROKS, the national women's refuge organisation, portrayed as a man-hating loon. But how much of that was down to selective editing? READ »

Sweden ?world?s most equal country?

Society: 16 May 05
Women in Sweden benefit from the world's most equal society, says a major new report. But Gudrun Schyman isn't satisfied: “Swedish society is formed by a patriarchal gender system”, she says. READ »

Votes trickle away from Social Democrats

Politics: 29 Apr 05
Fredrik Reinfeldt's Moderate Party benefits as voters desert the Social Democrats. The centre-right opposition now has a ten point lead over Sweden's governing coalition, says a new poll. READ »

Feminists could clinch it for the Right

Politics: 7 Apr 05
Gudrun Schyman’s feminist movement could knock the Greens and Left Party out of parliament, according a new poll. And this could lead to a right-wing government, says a political expert. READ »

Schyman launches "Feminist Initiative"

Politics: 4 Apr 05
Amidst much fanfare, Gudrun Schyman finally launches her feminist party "Feministiskt initiativ" at a press conference in parliament. There was no official leader, no manifesto and it isn't really a proper party yet, but nobody seemed to care. READ »

Feminist party "could undermine government"

Politics: 8 Mar 05
International Women's Day brings intensified rumours of a new feminist party - much to the dismay of Sweden's social democrats, whose party secretary Marita Ulvskog marked the occasion by launching a new feminist network. Plus: what kind of feminist are you? READ »

Reinfeldt most popular party leader

Politics: 20 Feb 05
Of all the main party leaders, the Swedish public has the greatest confidence in the Moderates' Fredrik Reinfeldt. But prime minister Göran Persson is less popular now than at any time since September 2000. READ »

Persson finally pushes Swedish defence cuts through

Politics: 16 Dec 04
Massive cuts in the Swedish armed forces have been approved by the Riksdag. But Prime Minister Göran Persson's concessions to the Left Party have met with a barrage of criticism. READ »

One in five Swedes could vote for feminist party

Politics: 14 Dec 04
A new poll adds credibility to rumours that Left Party black sheep Gudrun Schyman is planning her own feminist party. And then another unpaid bill undermines that credibility. READ »

Why is Sweden so hot on gender equality?

: 8 Dec 04
True enlightenment or a veil hiding old-fashioned values? The way forward or stuck in the past? Answers please. READ »

Media glee as Schyman quits Left Party

Politics: 8 Dec 04
Why is Sweden so hot on gender equality?
First she stopped drinking, then she stopped reporting her taxes correctly. Then she stepped down as leader of the Left party, and now she's leaving the party entirely. Every time Gudrun Schyman calls it quits, the headlines just get bigger. READ »

Domestic violence kills 16 women a year

Society: 26 Nov 04
Many thousands of women are assaulted each year by husbands or boyfriends, in what Amnesty calls "The human rights scandal of our time". But the measures being taken by Sweden's councils are woefully inadequate. READ »

Silvia: every man must take responsibility

National: 22 Nov 04
With the supposedly conservative queen starting to sound almost feminist, the Bernadottes are doing their best to look like a modern monarchy. Even Prince Carl Philip is showing that he’s a royal with talent – but those contacts still help. READ »

Schyman: my husband assaulted me

National: 28 Oct 04
"No I didn't," says her husband. Anyway, it may be too late for Schyman but a new initiative in Västerås is leading to more convictions for violence against women - by leaving examination to experts rather than the police. READ »

Schyman in equality policy shock: tax men

Politics: 5 Oct 04
The former leader of the Left Party proposes to tax men because they're violent and earn more than women. The question is, should it be based on income or some other measurement? READ »

Moderate drinker in drunken brawl

Politics: 15 Sep 04
The Moderate Party's alcohol spokesman, Per Bill, is arrested after researching his area of responsibility a little too thoroughly. READ »

Schyman cagey on feminist party

Smörgåsbord: 13 Aug 04
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All's fair in love and Swedish politics

Politics: 6 Aug 04
A new pair of scandals for the government this week. One black sheep returns to the ministerial fold after her business fails and Bosse Ringholm forgets to collect some taxes - from the football club where he is the chairman. READ »