Swedish Social Democracy
1881 — 1918
Sons of Workers, Anthem of Swedish Social Democracy
August Palm's speech in Malmö, September 1881
August Palm Archive [Biography]
Hjalmar Branting Archive [Biography]
Program of Swedish Social-Democracy, 1882
May Day, 1890
Program of Swedish Social-Democracy, 1897
The Red Thread by Håkan Blomqvist
Norway-Sweden 1905. How the labour movement prevented war by Jonathan Clyne, Kerstin Alfredsson and Lena Höijer
Correspondence between the Social Democratic Party of the Left and the Social Democratic Party, 1918
Major Dates
- 1889; Party is constituted officially. Attends the first meeting of the Second International.
- 1890: Celebrates 1st of May for the first time, with a big demonstration.
- 1896-97: Branting elected to Riksdag as first Social Democrat MP.
- 1897: First party program after Gotha program, written by Danielsson. Program is based on Erfurt program.
- 1902, 1909: Major strikes, after which SDLP ceases its tactic of the Mass General Strike.
- 1911: New party program.
- 1917: Split with Communists.