The editorial page was supportive of campaigns for free speech, workers' rights to unionize, male-female equality, and universal suffrage.
A. Selander's strong anti-Nazi stance brought the paper into conflict with Swedish coalition government policy of the time, which sought to appease Berlin in order to avoid a German invasion.
Editor in chief Eva Burman linked the accusation to the fact that the paper had investigated a Swedish far-right group involved in systematic harassment of journalists and politicians, which, according to a previous investigation by Dagens Nyheter, had financial links to Russian and Ukrainian businessmen.
[10] The two papers represented rival political tendencies, with Eskilstuna-Kuriren promoting liberal politics and Folket being linked to the Swedish Social Democratic Party Folket suffered a steady decline from the mid-1980s: "For one hundred years, the newspapers carried on a local struggle, but over time it became increasingly unequal," noted a 2006 Swedish government investigation of the situation for print media in the country.
[15] It carried on in this form for some time, but finally ceased publication in 2015, after 110 years of independent existence, with a print run of less than 3000 and only three remaining employees.
Eskilstuna-Kuriren also acquired a minority share in Mittmedia AB, a major publisher of regional dailies in Sweden, in the mid-2000s.
Despite the preceding years of expansion, the paper suffered from the structural transformation of the news market, leading to declining subscription rates and cutbacks.