Anarchist and feminst parties in the 2006 election in Sweden

Under the last 8 months Sweden has seen the birth of more new parties than in the last ten years.

First of all a party called Vägval vänster(could be translated into a question: Where should the left goes from here ?).

It was a mixture of people from the leftist party that did not like that the leader of the party alienated people by calling himself a communist as well as people who wanted a more updated neoliberal leftism shaped after the needs of the capitalist market(no need for that we already have the social democrat party for that) as well as some group that either wanted to work with autonomous movements and anarchists and syndicalists as well as people that defined themself as such. The first meeting of the party was realy intresting beacuse i have newer heard so many politicans call themself syndicalists or libertierian soicalists before or talked good about such movements as well as autnomous socialism and humanitarianism.

Recently the party got divided and a new party was created with only liberterian socialists(and therefore most likely fewer authorian socialists and neoliberal socialists in it). i will go to the first meeting and report more in detail after that. Right now there are not specific agenda for that group and it will be formed during that meeting.

The creation of FI a feminist aliance that might become a party with a huge mixture of feminists from diferent political backgrounds(right left queer radical) worked as something of a shock-theraphy for the social democrats that was already in power. The wages for nurses was quickly raised and the women houses where promised huge amounts of money for the next two years.

After that a huge smearcampaign against feminists was started up in the stateist and private media. It had poltical effects as well with right wing politicians demanding that the woman shelters should be closed down or at least not finansialy suported by the state but after a while the effects of the documentary died away, exspecialy after the documentaries main and only witnes was acording to DN(a major swedish newspaper) interviewed in a insane asylum and later regret all the things that she siad and tried to stop the interview from being aired. Acording to the documentary she had also been kidnaped by a woman shelter and not had the permision to talk with the police but there is material from when the police in Stockholm interviewed her as the first thing that happened and they told them that it would not be safe to stay in sweden so first after that they escaped to norway. During the time that the documentary claimed that the person was hold hostage and kept from contact with the police she was in interviews with the police.

After a huge amount of anti-feminist articles in the press that was not aimed at specific people articles have now been published aimed specificaly at the FI.

In a smear-campaign the not so radical queer-feminist and member of FI Tiina Rosenberg has been attacked. A line of her from a performance where she says "kill all Neoliberals" has been quoted(which makes as much sense as quoting an actor reciting macbeth and call him or her a murder) and in most of the swedish media there has been a statement that she has called all women who lives with men traitors, something that she claims that she has newer said and there is no certainity where the rumor came from.

Tiina Rosenberg has had a background of being a tool for male homosexuals(which almost lead to the woman shelter in stockholm being closed down beacuse of her) so that she would be some female-separatist sounds pretty unlikely. She has also a background in mixed groups in the german communist movement. Of what i know of her the statement sounds totaly ludacrise.

It is intresting to see that it came just after FI was divided beacuse the right wing did not feel that the party was neutral and therefore left. It is no suprise that most members of a feminist party will be left tough(since most of the working class is females) and that it will affect a democratic non-hierarchal organisations decisions that the majority is left.

Finaly the swedish guru-hippie-musician Tomas Dileva(known for his beatifull skirts, long hair and jesus like beard and his song Everyone is jesus) has started a party called Det andliga partiet(the spiritual party) that seem to be somewhere between seriousnes and performance, as most of the things that he participates in.

Most likely the left will be divied enough in this election for the right wing to win. On the other hand the huge amount of people that dont vote usualy might be caught up in some of the new parties...

In any case it might be the begining of feminist and anarchist parties that might become stronger in time. It might if nothing less be an intresting experiment for how long the anarchist and feminist movement can go in state-ist organisations and what goals that are posible to achieve as a part of the state in a capitalist stateist democracy.

Would you vote for an anarchist party ?

Would you vote for a feminist party ?

Do you think that you will ever get such a posiblity in your country ?