Jonas Petter Dahlén (also called ''"Dahlén i Kiruna"'', meaning 'Dahlén in

Kiruna (; ; ; ) is the northernmost Stad (Sweden), city in Sweden, situated in the province of Lapland, Sweden, Lapland. It had 17,002 inhabitants in 2016 and is the seat of Kiruna Municipality (population: 23,167 in 2016) in Norrbotten County. The c ...

'; 14 November 1881 in Ragunda – 23 January 1938 in

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) was a Swedish mine worker and politician.''Tvåkammarriksdagen 1867-1970'' (Almqvist & Wiksell International 1992), band 5, pp. 411-412 Dahlén was elected to the second chamber of the Swedish parliament, from the northern constituency of

Norrbotten Norrbotten (), sometimes called North Bothnia, is a Swedish province (''landskap'') in northernmost Sweden. It borders south to Västerbotten, west to Swedish Lapland, and east to Finland. Administration The traditional provinces of Swede ...

, representing the Social Democratic Left Party. He was one of seven members of parliament belonging to the Social Democratic Left Party. When the party metamorphosed into the Communist Party of Sweden upon adopting the

twenty-one conditions The Twenty-one Conditions, officially the Conditions of Admission to the Communist International, are the conditions, most of which were suggested by Vladimir Lenin, to the adhesion of the socialist parties to the Third International (Comintern) cr ...

of the

Communist International The Communist International, abbreviated as Comintern and also known as the Third International, was a political international which existed from 1919 to 1943 and advocated world communism. Emerging from the collapse of the Second Internationa ...

, Dahlén was the sole parliamentarian that remained in the party. He was re-elected in 1921 as a Communist Party candidate. He remained in parliament until 1932.Henningsson, Börje.
Det röda Dalarna: socialdemokrater, anarkosyndikalister och kommunister inom Dalarnas arbetarrörelse 1906-1937 = Dalarna became red : Social Democrats, Anarcho-Syndicalists, and Communists of the labour movement in Dalarna 1906-1937
'. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2004. p. 126 In October 1929, the Communist Party went through a major split. The group led by

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

and Nils Flyg was expelled by the

Executive Committee of the Communist International The Executive Committee of the Communist International, commonly known by its acronym, ECCI (Russian acronym ИККИ - for ), was the governing authority of the Comintern between the World Congresses of that body. The ECCI, established by the Fo ...

. The expelled grouping reorganized themselves as a separate Communist Party of Sweden. All communist parliamentarians, except for Dahlén, sided with Kilbom. Dahlén did however, after a few months of vacillating, join the Kilbom-led Communist Party.Kennerström, Bernt.
Mellan två internationaler - Socialistiska Partiet 1929-37
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dahlen, Jonas 1881 births 1938 deaths People from Ragunda Municipality Members of the Riksdag from the Left Party (Sweden) Socialist Party (Sweden, 1929) politicians Swedish trade unionists Members of the Andra kammaren Swedish communists Swedish miners