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Lars Ohly: Seven years at the helm of Sweden's Left Party

Analysis & Opinion: 10 Aug 11
Lars Ohly on Tuesday said that he is to step down as leader of Sweden's Left Party. While widely respected as a person and as a skilful debater, his tenure will be remembered more for his stance on Communism and electoral decline. READ »

Swedish feminists push for Midsummer 'mayhole' revolution

Lifestyle: 22 Jun 11
While most Swedes look forward to dancing around a traditional maypole this Midsummer, one group of gender-conscious revellers is pushing Swedes to celebrate the holiday by gathering around a vagina instead, contributor Lina Sennevall discovers. READ »

Reduce abortions by promoting adoption: Christian Democrat

Politics: 30 May 11
Rather than abort unwanted children, women in Sweden should give birth and put the children up for adoption, a Christian Democrat politician has argued, hoping the measure would reduce the number of abortions in Sweden. READ »

Low turn out fears in Swedish election re-run

Politics: 12 May 11
As a county council election re-run beckons in western Sweden, there are fears that a record low proportion of the electorate will bother to cast their votes. READ »

Swedish feminists elect leadership triumvirate

Politics: 27 Mar 11
Swedish political party the Feminist Initiative has elected two women and a man to succeed the outgoing founder and spokesperson Gudrun Schyman. READ »

Swedes vote for Harry Potter, James Bond and Your Mum

Society: 23 Sep 10
As the Alliance government stands to miss out on an overall majority by a whisker, handwritten ballots for parties such as Joy Division, Pull Yourself Together and Djingis Cat have had an unlikely impact on Swedish politics. READ »

Abba stars sue Denmark's far-right

Politics: 23 Sep 10
Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, the Abba stars behind the hit musical Mamma Mia have instructed their lawyers to contact the Danish People's Party after the far-right party used and changed one of their songs to honour its leader. READ »

Live Blog: election night in Sweden

Politics: 20 Sep 10
The Local's correspondents bring you all the latest news from the Swedish election, live from the main parties' headquarters in Stockholm. See the drama unfold live here. READ »

The Local's guide to the 2010 Swedish elections

Analysis & Opinion: 17 Sep 10
Still confused about who's who and what's what ahead of Sweden's September 19th elections? Check out The Local’s Guide to the 2010 Swedish Elections for information on the parties, what they stand for, and what seats are up for grabs. READ »

Election outcomes – the lowdown

Analysis & Opinion: 16 Sep 10
With four days to go before Swedes go to the polls in what promises to be an historic election for one of Europe's oldest democracies, The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson has had a look at the possible outcomes. READ »

Introducing the Feminist Initiative

Analysis & Opinion: 13 Sep 10
Here's a look at the Feminist Initiative, bidding to enter parliament for the first time. READ »

Feminist cash burning provokes backlash

Politics: 7 Jul 10
The Feminist Initiative's controversial burning of 100,000 kronor ($13,000) in Visby on Tuesday in a demonstration for equal pay between the sexes, has come in for criticism from allies and opponents alike. READ »

Swedish feminists burn 100,000 kronor in wage protest

Politics: 6 Jul 10
The Feminist Initiative carried out its promise to burn 100,000 kronor ($13,000) on Tuesday morning, claiming that a half-page ad would never have had the same impact in the fight for equal pay between the sexes. READ »

Feminists plan 100,000 kronor bonfire for 'fair pay'

Politics: 5 Jul 10
Gudrun Schyman has announced that Feminist Initiative is to hold a Tuesday morning bonfire, with plans to burn 100,000 kronor in 20 kronor notes as a demonstration for equal pay between the sexes. READ »

Schyman complains of Fi media isolation

Politics: 5 Jul 10
The leader of the Feminist Initiative (Fi), Gudrun Schyman, has said that the Almedalen Week in Visby on Gotland is a perfect opportunity to promote the party's message, complaining of isolation by the media and polling institutes. READ »

Pirate Party sees membership slashed

Politics: 18 Apr 10
Sweden's Pirate Party is shedding members rapidly as enthusiasts who signed up in conjunction with last year's high profile Pirate Bay case fail to renew their membership. READ »

'Feminists have better sex': Swedish party

Politics: 17 Dec 09
Sweden's feminist political party is hoping logo items featuring a bold claim about their supporters’ supposed prowess in the bedroom will raise awareness about the party during the holiday shopping season. READ »

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 »

'Taxpayers should not have to fund feminist porn'

Analysis & Opinion: 3 Sep 09
The idea of feminist porn may be attractive to some but there is no reason for the state to cough up half a million kronor to fund its production, argues Beatrice Fredriksson, a member of the Moderate Party's youth organisation and author of the Anti-Feminist Initiative blog. READ »

Publicly funded ‘feminist porn’ to premiere

Society: 1 Sep 09
'Feminist porn' movie Dirty Diaries, which received 500,000 kronor ($69,000) in public funding, is to premiere this Thursday in Stockholm. 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 »

Women's rights on downward turn: anti-globalization activists

Analysis & Opinion: 19 Sep 08
Anti-globalization activists have warned of a downward turn for women's rights across Europe, citing growing religious extremism and neo-liberalism as contributory factors. READ »

Record Stockholm Pride parade despite rain

Society: 2 Aug 08
Saturday’s Stockholm Pride parade may have started with heavy rainfall, but it´s set to be the biggest Stockholm Pride parade ever, with over 80,000 participants, thanks in large part to huge numbers of international guests. 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 »

Top feminist's four-letter outburst stuns university

Society: 2 Jun 08
A formal dinner honouring new PhDs at Lund University was interrupted on Friday when a leading feminist erupted into a profanity-laced tirade. 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Feminists get illegal state funding

National: 19 Feb 07
Feminist Initiative has received a 400,000 kronor 'establishment grant' from a state body. Political parties are not normally entitled to the grant but a state delegation managed to bend the rules to accommodate the feminist party. 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 »

Sweden's Pirate Party targets EU Parliament

Politics: 29 Sep 06
Sweden's Pirate Party says it will coordinate copycat parties around Europe in an attempt to win seats in the EU Parliament in the 2009 elections. "It is a realistic goal," the party's vice chairman tells The Local. READ »

Feminist rift wider than ever

Politics: 27 Sep 06
Tiina Rosenberg quit the Feminist Initiative party last summer after publicly falling out with another founder. Now she says she'd punch Ebba Witt-Brattström if she saw her again. 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 »

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 »

Sweden's youth politics comes of age

Analysis & Opinion: 30 Aug 06
With Sweden's closest general election in more than a decade looming, the country's political future is, more than ever before, in the hands of the fickle youth. Eddie de Oliveira talks to the young pretenders. 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 »

Liberal support weakens

Politics: 18 Jun 06
Support for the Liberal Party has fallen by 2.5 percentage points since May, according to a new poll. READ »

Political blocs neck and neck

Politics: 15 Jun 06
A new poll shows that Sweden's political blocs are closer than they have ever been in the May prior to a general election. READ »

Feminist "was entitled to sick pay"

Politics: 12 Jun 06
A founding member of the Feminist Initiative who claimed sick pay while working for the party was entitled to do so, a court has ruled. 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 »

Alliance maintains election advantage

Politics: 31 Mar 06
The opposition Alliance continues to lead in the run-up to the September election, buoyed by increased support for the Christian Democrats, according to the latest survey of voters' intentions. 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 »

Frugal election year for Sweden's new parties

Politics: 25 Jan 06
As the June List and the Feminist Initiative scrape and scrounge their way to the September the election, Sweden's established parties are preparing to flash the cash. 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 »

"Pirate Party" targets Swedish election

Politics: 3 Jan 06
A new political party focused on making copyrighted material free for all is planning to run in Sweden's next general election. "We are not red, blue or green. We are just pirates," says leader Rickard Falkvinge. READ »

Neck and neck between political blocks

Politics: 15 Dec 05
If an election were held in Sweden today, the result would be too close to call. The latest poll shows a drop in support for the conservative parties, while the Social Democrats are fighting back. READ »

New Swedish party to target healthcare reform

Politics: 4 Dec 05
Euro-sceptics have the June List and feminists have the Feminist Initiative. The latest group to declare its intention to stand at the election in September 2006 is the Healthcare Party. READ »

Right increases lead in poll

Politics: 28 Oct 05
A new poll shows the centre-right opposition drawing ahead of the government and its coalition partners. Good news too for the June List, which would win seats in parliament. READ »

No investigation into Rosenberg

National: 18 Oct 05
Feminist professor Tiina Rosenberg will not be investigated for cheating in her research, a board at Stockholm University decides. She had been accused of plagiarism. READ »

June List ?Swedish Tories? ? Persson

Politics: 18 Oct 05
The Swedish prime minister says he could cooperate in parliament with the Feminist Initiative, but not with the June List. They're too much like the British Conservatives, he reckons. READ »

Too many cooks?

Analysis & Opinion: 14 Oct 05
With healthcare parties, Eurosceptic parties, communists and feminists competing for their 4% of the vote, are we losing sight of the main question: who do you want to lead you? 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 »

Rosenberg denies research cheating

Politics: 10 Oct 05
Controversial feminist professor Tiina Rosenberg has denied cheating in her research, and plagiarising other researchers. Rosenberg, a leading member of Feminist Initiative has also been backed by her university. READ »

Six hour work day does not work

Society: 7 Oct 05
Sweden's feminist and left parties are pushing for a six hour work day. But one of the pioneers of the policy, Kiruna council, is scrapping it after 16 years saying that it does not improve workers' health. 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 »

Opposition lead over government grows

Politics: 17 Sep 05
Less than a year until the election and two new polls are poles apart in their analysis of Swedish voters' intentions. One has the Christian Democrats close to losing their place in parliament, while the other says the Greens are as good as gone. 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 party loses another founder

Politics: 14 Sep 05
To lose one founder is understandable. To lose two is worrying. But to lose three - amid much mudslinging - in as many weeks is a PR disaster for Sweden's Feminist Initiative. 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 »

Feminists call for abolition of marriage

Society: 9 Sep 05
Couples are so passé. Sweden's Feminist Initiative wants to replace marriage and gay partnerships with a cohabitation law that applies to more than two people. A man with eight wives is not the target, says founder Tiina Rosenberg. 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 »

Women "don't face wage discrimination"

Society: 22 Jun 05
The difference between women and men's wages is not down to discrimination, but due to the different jobs they choose. That's according to a new report by Sweden's leading business interest organisation. 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 »

Green Party split on feminist approach

Politics: 5 May 05
The F-word looms large over the Greens' national congress, with an all-female group calling for greater status within the party. But the leadership disagrees. 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 »

Feminist party founder accused of benefits fraud

Politics: 8 Apr 05
Feminists could clinch it for the Right
After a triumphant launch on Monday, Sweden's new femininist party, Feminist Initiative, has hit its first snag. For the last five years one of its founders and most active participants has been claiming sickness benefit for being "burnt out". 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 »


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