Carsten Walfrid Thunborg (2 June 1918, Tyssedal,

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politician. Thunborg was the son of Anders Walfrid Thunborg and Karen Bruvik. He worked as a sailor 1933–1936, then as construction worker between 1936 and 1951, and again from 1953 to 1957. Between 1951 and 1953 he worked as a journalist at ''

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. He was an organizer of the Swedish Construction Workers Union. Between 1957 and 1968 he was a member of the board of Section 36 of the union. Thunborg was a cadre of the Communist Party of Sweden. He served as chairman of Harsprånget Communist Labour Commune 1948 to 1951. He was a board member of the

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Communist Labour Commune 1955–1958, and a member of the national party board 1958–1967 (included in the party Executive Committee 1964–1967). Thunborg became a member of parliament in 1968, following the death of Axel Jansson. Thunborg later became a member of the Workers Party - Communists (APK), being a

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member of the party.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Thunborg, Carsten 1918 births Swedish trade unionists Left Party (Sweden) politicians 2000 deaths 20th-century Swedish politicians