Anders Carlsson (politician)

Not to be confused with Anders Karlsson (politician).
Anders Carlsson
Chairman of the Communist Party (Sweden)
In office
1999–2014
Preceded byFrank Baude
Succeeded byRobert Mathiasson
Personal details
Born24 January 1951
Hisingen, Gothenburg
Political partyCommunist Party
Residence(s)Ringön, Gothenburg

Anders Carlsson (born 24 January 1951) is a Swedish politician and former chairman of the Communist Party[1] from 1999 until 2014. Carlsson's mother was one of Sweden's first kindergarten teachers and his father was a sailor and later on a sea captain.[2]

In 1969 he was elected member of KFML and in 1972 he was employed by the newspaper Proletären. He has been working for the party ever since.[3]

He got his first file in the Swedish Security Service's archive in 1968, after participating in a study circle on Marxism.[4]

References

  1. ^ Communist Party: Partistyrelsen, accessed on March 21, 2010 (in Swedish)
  2. ^ ""Det är missnöjet som är revolutionärt"".
  3. ^ ""Det är missnöjet som är revolutionärt"".
  4. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: FRA Demonstration - Anders Karlsson (kp). YouTube.