C. N. Carleson

Carl Natanael Carleson (1865–1929), often referred to as C.N. Carleson, was a

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politician. As a student in

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, Carleson became a radical participant of the working-class movement. From 1888 he wrote frequently in different socialist papers under the

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''Spartacus''. Carleson became a prominent leader in the Swedish Social Democratic Party and sided with the left-wing in the party split of 1917, and joined

Zeth Höglund Carl Zeth "Zäta" Konstantin Höglund (29 April 1884 – 13 August 1956) was a leading Swedish communist politician, anti-militarist, author, journalist and mayor (''finansborgarråd'') of Stockholm (1940–1950). Höglund can be credited as t ...

Ture Nerman Ture Nerman (18 May 1886, in Norrköping – 7 October 1969) was a Swedish socialist. As a journalist and author, he was a well-known political activist in his time. He also wrote poems and songs. Nerman was a vegetarian and a strict teetotale ...

Kata Dalström Anna Maria Katarina "Kata" Dalström, née Carlberg (18 December 1858 – 11 December 1923), was a Swedish socialist and writer. She belonged to the leading socialist agitators and leftist writers in contemporary Sweden, and has been referred to as ...

and

Karl Kilbom Karl Kilbom (8 May 1885 – 24 December 1961) was a Sweden, Swedish politician and one of the founders of the Left Party (Sweden), Communist Party of Sweden. Youth As the son of a blacksmith, Karl Kilbom grew up in a working class family of Wall ...

as one of the leaders in what developed into the

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. However, he never fully agreed to the most radical communist policies and retired from politics in 1923 after internal disputes within the party. 1865 births 1929 deaths Swedish Social Democratic Party politicians Swedish communists {{Sweden-SocialDemocratic-politician-stub