Sweden has been making global headlines owing to a litany of Quran burnings earlier this year. To find out what is behind these incidents, ΒιΆΉΣ³»βs Farooq Sulehria spoke to Swedish leftist HΓ₯kan Blomqvist.
Hakan Blomqvist
Swedish author Stieg Larsson is world famous as a result of his βMillennium seriesβ 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 .