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This chapter examines the development and role of the anarchist movement in Sweden during the 1980s. In relation to many other parts of Northern Europe — which had seen an upsurge in radical left-libertarian activism, squatting and urban unrest at the turn of the 1980s — such social movements and confrontations remained a marginal phenomenon in Sweden, at least until the end of the decade. However, by the late 1980s a new generation of younger activists, often with roots in the anarchist milieu, formed the basis for a radical squatter and autonomist movement, which proved very similar to the movements that had developed throughout Europe almost a decade earlier.
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Jämte, J., Sörbom, A. (2016). Why Did It Not Happen Here? The Gradual Radicalization of the Anarchist Movement in Sweden 1980–90. In: Andresen, K., van der Steen, B. (eds) A European Youth Revolt. Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-56570-9_7
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