Anarchism in Sweden

As with the movements in Germany and the Netherlands, Swedish anarchism had a strong syndicalist tendency,[1] which culminated in the establishment of the Central Organisation of the Workers of Sweden (SAC) following an aborted general strike.

[2] Following the defeat of the Great Strike of 1909, a number of Young Socialists participated in the foundation of an anarcho-syndicalist trade union, the Sveriges Arbetares Centralorganisation (SAC).

[4] During World War I, the SAC received support from the German syndicalist Augustin Souchy, while in the United States, the Swedish labor organizer Joe Hill was executed.

[2][5] The Swedish anarchist movement experienced a resurgence as a result of the protests of 1968, although by this time the Young Socialist Party had ceased to exist.

Further attempts to rekindle a national organisation were largely short-lived, with anarchist presence instead taking root in the rising counterculture of the 1970s, particularly within the punk subculture and nascent intentional communities.

Anarchists besieged by police during the 2001 Gothenburg EU summit
Anti-war demonstration by the Lund's Anarchist Group in the late 1960s.