Expo Files, The: Articles By The Crusading Journalist

Description: Now almost exclusively known as the author of the bestselling Millennium Trilogy, as a professional journalist Stieg Larsson was an untiring crusader for democracy and equality. As a reporter and editor-in-chief on the journal Expo he researched the extreme right both in Sweden and at an international level. Collected here for the first time are essays and articles on right-wing extremism and racism, on violence against women and women's rights, on homophobia and honour killings. Larsson never ceased to fight for and write about his most firmly held principles; it was his commitment to these which gave his best-selling novels their explosive force.

Review: 'There are keen insights here into the issues that motivated him, including a chillingly prescient piece about the likelihood of terror killings in the Scandinavian countries' Barry Forshaw, Independent. * Independent * 'It's hard not to compare him with Orwell, who comprehended the appeal of fascism, while despising it' Michael Newton, Guardian. * Guardian *

Contents: Preface: Another side of Stieg Larsson - a voice sadly missed. Introduction by Tariq Ali. Terror killings can happen in Stockholm (Expo - 1995). The new popular movement (Expo/Svartvitt - 1999). Democracy in Europe? (Expo - 2003). Living with Pia Kjaersgaard (Expo - 2002). The return of anti-Semitism (Expo/Monitor - 1998). The world picture of superstition (Internationalen - 1983). A defeat for democracy (Expo, previously unpublished). Response to anti-democratic propaganda (Expo - 2002, with Mikael Ekman). Cracks behind a unified facade (www.expo.se - 2003). The party that's over the limit (www.expo.se - 2003). The Sweden Democrats and their defector (www.expo.se - 2004). N.D. sidelined (www.expo.se - 2004). An attack on democracy (www.expo.se - 2003). Dear Expo... (www.expo.se - 2003). The intellectual breakdown of Expressen (www.expo.se - 2003). The pea-brains of nationalism (www.expo.se - 2004). 'The world's most dangerous profession' (From the book 'Overleva deadline'). Gang rape as racist propaganda (www.expo.se - 2003). Exit Paulsson (www.expo.se - 2004). Swedish and un-Swedish violence towards women (From the book 'Debatten om hedersmord'). Terror aimed at homosexuals (Expo - 1997). The assault on Facundo Unia (www.expo.se - 2003). The terror we turn a blind eye to (Expo - 2003). Svenska Motstandsrorelsen (Swedish Resistance Movement) - a Zionist conspiracy? (www.expo.se - 2003). 9,001 kilometres to Beijing (Vagabond - 1987). Biographies.



Author Biography: Stieg Larsson was the Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Expo. He was a leading expert on anti-democratic, right-wing extremist organisations. He died in 2004, soon after delivering the text of the novels that make up the Millennium Trilogy.