Anders Carlsson | |
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Chairman of the Communist Party (Sweden) | |
In office 1999–2014 | |
Preceded by | Frank Baude |
Succeeded by | Robert Mathiasson |
Personal details | |
Born | 24 January 1951 Hisingen, Gothenburg |
Political party | Communist Party |
Residence(s) | Ringön, Gothenburg |
Anders Carlsson (born 24 January 1951) is a Swedish politician and former chairman of the Communist Party[1] from 1999 until 2014.
Carlsson's mother was one of Sweden's first kindergarten teachers and his father was a sailor and later on a sea captain.[2]
In 1969 he was elected member of KFML and in 1972 he was employed by the newspaper Proletären. He has been working for the party ever since.[3]
He got his first file in the Swedish Security Service's archive in 1968, after participating in a study circle on Marxism.[4]