The Expo files and other articles : Larsson, Stieg, 1954-2004
https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781623650643 With an introduction by Tariq Ali. Now almost exclusively known as the author of the bestselling [Millenium] Trilogy, as a professional journalist Stieg Larsson was an untiring crusader for democracy and equality. As a reporter and editor-in-chief on the journal Expo he researched the extreme right both in Sweden and at an international level. Collected here for the first time are essays and articles on right-wing extremism and racism, on violence against women and women's rights, on homophobia and honour killings. Included also is an account written for Vagabond magazine of his travels aboard the Trans-Siberian Express from Moscow to Beijing. His most important writings - perceptive, learned and committed texts - illustrate the breadth of his journalistic and political activities in connection with matters that were closest to his heart, and to which he devoted his life. Despite death threats and financial difficulties, Larsson never ceased to fight for and write about his most firmly held principles; it was his commitment to these which gave his best-selling novels their explosive force.- https://sv-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Stieg_Larsson?x_tr_sl=sv&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en _Larsson spent part of 1977 in Eritrea , where he taught a company of female guerrillas in the Marxist Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) how to fire grenade launchers. After suffering from inflammation of the kidneys, he decided to leave the country. [ 10 ] Back in Sweden, he worked as a news graphic artist at Tidningarnas telegrambyrå (TT) between 1977 and 1999.
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From 1982, Larsson worked as the Scandinavian correspondent for the British anti-fascist newspaper Searchlight.
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Stieg Larsson was one of the founders of the Hill Foundation, which in 1995 was renamed the Expo Foundation , and worked as editor-in-chief of the magazine Expo from 1999.
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Larsson published the book Extremhögern together with Anna-Lena Lodenius in 1991. He also wrote The Sweden Democrats: the national movement together with Mikael Ekman , and was co-author of the book The Sweden Democrats from the inside.
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According to journalist Jan Stocklassa, Larsson had investigated the Palme assassination his entire life, especially the possible involvement of the Swedish far right. - https://fi-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Stieg_Larsson?x_tr_sl=fi&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en _Karl Stig-Erland Larsson was born in Västerbotten, Sweden , on 15 August 1954. Larsson's parents gave him up to his mother's parents as an infant. Larsson's grandfather was a leftist and had been sent to a labor camp during World War II . Larsson absorbed his grandfather's experiences as a child and eventually became a leftist himself. His grandfather died in the early 1960s, at which point Larsson returned to his parents, who lived in Umeå.
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Larsson is particularly known in Sweden for his fight against the far right and racism . He co-wrote the book Extremhögern with Anna-Lena Lodenius and also co-authored two other books on the subject.
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Neo-Nazis committed several murders in Sweden in the mid-1990s. In 1995, Larsson and a couple of friends founded the Expo Foundation, an anti-extremism organization . The foundation focuses on solving the problems caused by far-right extremism, neo-Nazism and racism. Its mission is to promote research, organize lectures and publish books. By 1999, the foundation had become Larsson's full-time job. Larsson was the editor-in-chief of the foundation's magazine Expo. - Expo (magazine)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_(magazine)
Expo is a Swedish anti-racist magazine started in 1995 by Stieg Larsson. It is issued by the non-profit Expo Foundation (Stiftelsen Expo). The magazine, issued four times a year, contains investigative journalism focused on nationalist, racist, anti-democratic, antisemitic, and far-right movements and organisations.
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