Activism and journalism[edit]
While working as a photographer, Larsson became engaged in far-left political activism. He became a member of Kommunistiska Arbetareförbundet (Communist Workers' League),[9] edited the Swedish Trotskyist journal Fjärde internationalen, journal of the Swedish section of the Fourth International. He also wrote regularly for the weekly Internationalen.[10]
Larsson spent parts of 1977 in Eritrea, training a squad of female Eritrean People's Liberation Front guerrillas in the use of mortars. He was forced to abandon that work, having contracted a kidney disease.[11] Upon his return to Sweden, he worked as a graphic designer at the largest Swedish news agency, Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå (TT), between 1977 and 1999.[10]
Larsson's political convictions, as well as his journalistic
experiences, led him to found the Swedish Expo Foundation, similar to
the British Searchlight Foundation, established to "counteract the growth of the extreme right and the white power-culture in schools and among young people."[12] He also became the editor of the foundation's magazine, Expo, in 1995.
When he was not at his day job, he worked on independent research into
right-wing extremism in Sweden. In 1991, his research resulted in his
first book, Extremhögern (The Extreme Right). Larsson
quickly became instrumental in documenting and exposing Swedish extreme
right and racist organizations; he was an influential debater and
lecturer on the subject, reportedly living for years under death threats from his political enemies. The political party Sweden Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna) was a major subject of his research.[12]
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