Letter to the editor. SD has some to learn from other parties’ openness

The Swedish Democrats party leader Jimmie Åkesson and party secretary Mattias Bäckström Johansson apparently lack the historic background to how a party with popular movement origin is emerging (DN Debate 12/6).

At the beginning of the last century, a labor movement was born that gave the basis for a trade union branch in the form of LO, a political in the form of the Social Democrats, but also consumer co -operations in Konsum and OK, folk education in ABF and a number of other activities. In some cases, there is an ideological link that between SAP and LO, but cooperation, insurance and funeral activities have gone their own way.

In the same way, farmers have organized themselves in LRF and the Farmer’s Association, now the Center Party, and various affiliated education and youth associations. From the Free Churches, the Christian Democratic Collection emerged on the initiative of Lewi Pethrus, and contemporary Christian Democrats recruit leading representatives from the Word of Life.

Other parties Have grown with roots in other interest groups. Precisely the Swedish Democrats may be more open about their own roots and what ideological connections you have to contemporary counterparts.

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