Bengt ''Robert'' Mathiasson, born
26 February 1979
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January
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in
Lund
Lund (, , ) is a city in the southern Swedish provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, across the Øresund, Öresund strait from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 121,510 . It is the seat of Lund Municipali ...
, is a
Swedish
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politician who served as chairman of Sweden's
Communist Party from 2014 until 2019. He succeeded
Anders Carlsson at the 17th party congress in
Gothenburg
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, held in 2014. He has worked as a removal man in
Stockholm
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and as an industrial worker at a
Volvo factory in Gothenburg. Mathiasson was previously chairman of
Revolutionary Communist Youth Revolutionary Communist Youth may refer to:
* Revolutionary Communist Youth (Argentina)
* Revolutionary Communist Youth (Norway)
*Revolutionary Communist Youth (Sweden)
* ''Jeunesse communiste révolutionnaire'', a French Trotskyist organisation fo ...
between 2002 and 2004.
References
Göteborgs-Posten - Kommunistiska Partiet har fått ny ordförandeParty homepage - ”Vi står starka inför framtiden”Alingsås Tidning - Mathiasson ny KP-ledare – efterlyser revolutionExpressen - Sven Wollter rörd till tårar under hyllningenYouTube - Röd Front 2013 med Robert Mathiasson, Kommunistiska PartietVärmlands Folkblad - Antirasistiskt möte i NaturumFolkbladet - Kommunister kämpar för socialistiskt samhälle
1979 births
Living people
Leaders of political parties in Sweden
Swedish communists
People from Lund
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