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Tune to Out-FM on Tuesday November 22^nd at 8pm EST on WBAI/NY 99.5FM and wbai.org. On September 11th this year the Sweden Democrats, a far right party with a history of leaders with Neo-Nazi roots stunned the world by winning 20% of the vote and thus will be the kingmaker as it forms a government with center and right parties.

This is a seismic shift in the politics of Sweden occurred with the end of the rule of the Sweden Social Democratic party, which since the 1930s has held power and created a much more humane capitalist social democracy than exists anywhere else in the world. What caused it to lose power and what lessons does it teach?

Rightwing parties are winning state power in several countries in Europe, including the far-right Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party. Out-FM is preparing a mini series about this trend in Europe to address essential questions. What will these governments mean for working people and what will it mean for LGBTQ+ people there? We want to see what can be learned about politics from the experience of these countries.

As background, on July 29, 2015, Aljazeera.com reported that a rightwing gay march called Pride Järva (phonetic: Yarva, a suburb of Stockholm) was planned to take place in this community, which is home to many Muslim immigrants. The so-called pride march was organized by the former editor of the right-wing Sweden Democrats. At the time, Jan (phonetic: Yawn) Sjunnesson (phonetic: Hoonison), the Pride Järva organizer, estimated 100 would attend the rightwing march, but only 30 actually did. Meanwhile the local LGBTQ+ community mobilized and hundreds attended their antiracist counter-demonstration.

Joining us to discuss some of these issues is Goran Therborn. Professor Emeritus Göran Therborn is a Swedish professor of sociology at Cambridge University and is amongst the most highly cited contemporary Marxian-influenced sociologists. Therborn in 2018 wrote a paper called "Twilight of Swedish Social Democracy," detailing the electoral decline of the Sweden Social Democratic party.

Also joining us is Katharina Kehl of the Gender Studies Department at the University of Lund in Sweden. Professor Kehl authored a 2018 paper published in the journal Sexualities titled "‘In Sweden, girls are allowed to kiss girls, and boys are allowed to kiss boys’: Pride Järva and the inclusion of the ‘LGBT other’ in Swedish nationalist discourses."