Anders Carlsson | |
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| Chairman of the Communist Party | |
| 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. [2]
He got his first file in the Swedish Security Service's archive in 1968,after participating in a study circle on Marxism. [3]
