Nils Holmberg
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Nils Gösta Holmberg (23 December 1902 – 4 August 1981) was a communist leader in
From 1933 to 1958 he was a member of the board of the Communist
During the war Holmberg publicly criticized, in his function as a municipal councilor, the government policy of putting communists into camps (officially these camps were military units to which the communists were drafted, but practice they were prison camps). Holmberg called them 'concentration camps', and highlighted the fact that the government simultaneously had several Nazis as military officers.[2]
In 1944 Holmberg was elected to the
During the period after the Second World War, the party shifted its policy and started favouring more alliances with the Social Democrats. Holmberg, together with fellow Gothenburg party cadre Knut Senander, now formed part of the leftist minority opposed to this development. The opposition to the party leadership was led by Set Persson from Stockholm. However, at the time of the 1953 party congress, Holmberg and Senander were back in the party fold and fiercely denounced Persson as an egoist and saboteur.
He was a member of the Sweden China Association.[3] At the time of the Sino-Soviet split, Holmberg became a leading figure of the small pro-Chinese wing, here the group around him in Gothenburg formed a vital part. In some ways the grouping around Holmberg found common ground with the reformist anti-Soviet elements in the party, albeit only on a superficial level.
In 1967 Holmberg took part in a split away from SKP. His group and a somewhat larger faction (in relative terms) of young party members and sympathizers launched a new organization, the Communist League Marxist-Leninists (KFML). Holmberg became a member of the Central Committee of KFML. He was appoint Secretary of Studies in the Central Committee. Holmberg had an important role in the organization, being the only member with roots in the traditional communist leadership. He held his position in the Central Committee until 1973.
In the late 1950s Holmberg was hired by the Chinese authorities to translate the propaganda magazine China Pictorial into Swedish.[3] Following his return to Sweden he translated the 'Great Polemic' and texts of Mao Zedong into Swedish.[3] Holmberg also published various literary and political works, like Per Stigmans äventyr, Till kamp för Sveriges kommunistiska parti, Fredlig kontrarevolution, Hur ungdomen arbetar samt varför den bör ansluta sig till Sveriges Kommunistiska Ungdomsförbund and Mot rådande vind: kommunistiska texter (edited by Robert Aschberg).
References
- ^ Papers
- ^ Documents 29 April 2005
- ^ ISBN 978-90-04-22639-5.
External links
- Media related to Nils Holmberg 1902 at Wikimedia Commons