Attending the same school were later academics and politicians Knut Kjeldstadli, Steinar Stjernø, Helge Rønning and Theo Koritzinsky.
Among the radical students, Linné Eriksen was preceded and succeeded by two conservatives; Georg Apenes and Halvor Stenstadvold respectively.
Originally a member of the Socialist Youth League (SUF), together with some of the later founders of the Workers' Communist Party, Linné Eriksen was excluded in 1969.
The 2000 Norway and National Liberation in Southern Africa[7] was followed by a 2002 book on Nelson Mandela, which received a prize from the Norwegian Ministry of Culture.
[8] In addition to the Socialist Left Party, Linné Eriksen has been involved in Nei til EU and the Norwegian Council for Africa, and has been a member of the board of the Development Fund.