Nazis tried to kill union activists and their child

1999 Nazis killed the Syndicalist Björn Söderberg. Now they tried again. Two Syndicalists from Stockholm – one of them the former chair of the Stockholm chapter of the Syndicalist union – and their two year old daughter were forced to climb down from the balcony of their third floor apartement when Nazis sat fire to their flat.

Half a year ago, our union members were exposed on the Nazi webpage Info-14. The Nazis behind Info-14 are the same people who arrange the annual Nazimarch in Salem.

Just before nine p.m. on Monday night, 1st December 2008, our members heard a splashing sound from the hallway. “I saw someone pour a clear fluid through the mail slot and understood from the scent that it was gasoline”, one of them says. “I shouted so loud that they can’t have missed it: We have children in here! Only seconds later they lit the fire.”

In the hall hung the family’s winter clothes and in a couple of seconds the fire had spread to the kitchen and the living room. To exit through the front door was impossible.

“We had to lower our daughter down to the neighbours’ balcony one floor below”, our member explains. “We live on the top floor. Had she slipped out of our hands, she would have died.” The couple then climbed down the same way. Behind them the fire ravaged all their belongings, memories and future plans.

Our members and their daughter miraculously remained unharmed, but it doesn’t change the fact that one, or several, people deliberately and in cold blood tried to take their lives. Six months ago the openly National socialist homepage info14 published names and pictures of our members. The police work from the theory that the deed was politically motivated, performed by the same offenders who two days earlier burnt down the libertarian socialist cultural centre The Cyclops in Högdalen. The case is classified as arson.

Our targeted members’ union work focused on antiracism and deminishing class divides. Because of this they were to be punished by death according to the Nazis.

The Nazis behind Info-14 are the same people who run the organisation Salemfonden, that every year on the first Saturday in December arrange the biggest Nazi march in Northern Europe. “The people arranging the Salemmarch are not harmless individuals with a slightly dissenting opinion. They are ideologically convinced Nazis, evidently capable of murder in the pursuit of their cause”, Ola Brunnström from SAC’s working committee states.

This Saturday the people who tried to kill our members arrange a march in Salem, a suburb of Stockholm. SAC, the Syndicalists, urges everyone to join in the counter demonstration by the Network Against Racism at 12 o’ clock in Salem Centre.

If we let the Nazis stand unchallenged we never now who they’ll attack next.

/SAC’s working committee
www.sac.se

16 kommentarer till “Nazis tried to kill union activists and their child”

1. Jackson Bollock skriver:
   Onsdag 3 December, 2008 kl. 10:52 em

   keep the resistance strong!
   solidarity greetings from Berlin!

2. j skriver:
   Torsdag 4 December, 2008 kl. 12:06 fm

   much solidarity to you!
   keep up the fight! =>:)
   j
   berlin

3. E skriver:
   Torsdag 4 December, 2008 kl. 2:57 fm

   Cowardly nazi amateurs! Mumbai terrorists and sthlm nazis can NEVER silence our common fight! A lot of solidarity and strenght through diversity from Oslo

4. that_is skriver:
   Torsdag 4 December, 2008 kl. 6:04 fm

   keep on fighting, comrades!
   solidarity from Siberia

5. Workers Solidarity Alliance (WSA) skriver:
   Torsdag 4 December, 2008 kl. 8:02 fm

   Solidarity across the ocean from your American and Canadian comrades!

6. wobblie skriver:
   Torsdag 4 December, 2008 kl. 8:56 fm

   solidarity from a IWW member in california USA

   never forget!
   never again!

   Solidarity forever!

7. Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici (Italia) skriver:
   Torsdag 4 December, 2008 kl. 3:51 em

   From the comrades in Italy, we send our solidarity. Also in this countries we are working hard to stop the fascists spreading hate and death!

8. CNT skriver:
   Torsdag 4 December, 2008 kl. 9:51 em

   Antifascist solidarity from French CNT !

   An injury to one in an injury to all !

9. J. Rogue skriver:
   Torsdag 4 December, 2008 kl. 10:06 em

   Solidarity from the Northwest United States!!!

10. Fin skriver:
    Fredag 5 December, 2008 kl. 8:29 em

    Do not ever let them shut us up!

    Solidarity from Poland

11. Karine From Common Cause skriver:
    Fredag 5 December, 2008 kl. 10:05 em

    Solidarity from all the members of Common Cause Ontario, Canada. Stay strong and keep fighting against the Nazi.

12. Switzerland skriver:
    Lördag 6 December, 2008 kl. 1:54 em

    Solidarity from switzerland. The fight goes on. See you in salem!

13. Pat Murtagh skriver:
    Lördag 6 December, 2008 kl. 9:34 em

    Solidarity from the frozen Canadian plains.
    Mollymew

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