Clarté (magazine)
| Categories | Political magazine | |
|---|---|---|
| Frequency | Annual | |
| Founded | 1924 | |
| Company | OCLC 470213787 | |
Clarté (Swedish: Clarity) is a leftist magazine which has been in circulation in Stockholm, Sweden, since 1924 with some interruptions. It is the official media out of the Swedish Clarté League, a non-partisan socialist students' organization. The subtitle of the magazine is Tidskrift för socialistisk kultur (Swedish: Journal of socialist culture).[1]
History and profile
Clarté was established by the Swedish Clarté League in 1924.[2] The goal was to critically examine the social ideas, and social institutions.[3] It was first headquartered in Lund and was moved to Stockholm in 1928.[1] The magazine was temporarily closed down between 1941 and 1944.[4] Clarté was published in Hägersten between 1991 and 1995 and was based in Stockholm from 1995 to 2013.[1] It has been headquartered in Bagarmossen, a district of Stockholm, since 2013.[1]
Clarté is a 68-page annual publication, and its circulation is about 1,100 copies.[3]
Clarté became a Maoist periodical from February 1967 when the Maoists assumed the leadership of Swedish Clarté League[5] and therefore, was one of the Swedish media outlets which contributed to the introduction of Maoism.[6] Shortly after this incident the magazine produced a special issue on the Chinese cultural revolution.[5] During this period argued "[Zionism] was a bourgeois-capitalist reaction against antisemitism, that means it neither can nor wanted to abolish antisemitism to achieve its goal – a capitalist society in Palestine in which Jews constituted the majority."[6] However, its political stance changed over time.[3]
Tomas Gerholm was one of the editors-in-chief of Clarté.[7]
References
- ^ a b c d "Clarté (Stockholm)". Libris (in Swedish). Retrieved 7 August 2023.
- ^ "Clarté". Stockholms Stadsbibliotek (in Swedish). Retrieved 7 August 2023.
- ^ a b c "Clarté". Tidskrift.nu (in Swedish). 14 July 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
- ^ "Svenska clartéförbundet (1921–)" (in Swedish). Riksarkivet. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
- ^ ISBN 978-90-47-42881-7.
- ^ a b Alexander Johansson (2022). People, Class, or People as Class?: The Swedish Left, the Jews, and the state of Israel post-1967 (MA thesis). Uppsala University. p. 18.
- ISBN 9789179242978.