Workers
Arbetaren (Eng: the worker) is a weekly Swedish anarcho-syndicalist newspaper.
The magazine was founded in 1922 and is published by the Swedish trade union Sveriges Arbetares Centralorganisation (SAC). It has an edition of 3800 copies (2007).
history
After the SAC was founded in 1910, it was planned to publish a newspaper. After initial difficulties, the union newspaper Syndikalisten was published in 1911 with a circulation of 5000 copies. From 1913 the newspaper appeared weekly, from 1917 twice a week and in 1920 had a circulation of 14,000 copies.
At the beginning of 1920 it was decided to found a daily newspaper that should also appeal to non-unionists. On January 2, 1922, the first edition of the Arbetaren appeared and immediately became the second largest newspaper in Stockholm . The circulation rose to 23,000 copies in the 1920s, partly due to the strengthening of the trade union movement. In the 1920s, the Sacco and Vanzetti affair was the main theme, and Benito Mussolini and the Soviet Union were criticized. Many well-known Swedish writers wrote worker poems for the workers, including Harry Martinson , Nils Ferlin and Eyvind Johnson . Stig Dagerman became the cultural editor and wrote a weekly verse until his death in 1954 - den Dagers dagsedlar - for the newspaper. Many authors later started their writing careers with contributions in the Arbetaren , including Per Wästberg .
In 1933 Arbetaren journalist Frid Nordin had to go to prison for three months after calling Hermann Göring a "bloodhound" in an edition of the Arbetaren . The newspaper was common with Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning and Trots allt! the leading anti- Nazi voice in Sweden. The Arbetaren was confiscated about 40 times by the authorities and had its highest circulation of almost 30,000 copies in the war year 1941.
In the post-war period the newspaper lost many readers and from the 1950s onwards it could only appear weekly. In the 1970s, the fight against nuclear power plants was very important. Today, in addition to labor disputes, the climate problem is also discussed. Die Arbetaren had a print run of around 3800 copies in 2007. In addition, the Radar newspaper has been published since 2002 , which is intended to provide space for theoretical discussions.
Editors-in-chief
- Frans Severin (January 2, 1922)
- Albert Jensen (September 17, 1928)
- Evert Arvidsson (January 2, 1951)
- Ahto Uisk (January 3, 1969)
- Leif Hallstan (July 1, 1983)
- Ulf B. Andersson (June 22, 1990)
- Martin Nilsson (December 21, 1990)
- Ulf B. Andersson (September 25, 1998)
- Anna-Klara Bratt (January 1, 1999)
- Rikard Warlenius and Rebecka Bohlin (November 24, 2004)