Social Democratic Students of Sweden

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Social Democratic Students of Sweden


Chairperson	Kajsa Borgnäs
Chairman	Kajsa Borgnäs
Secretary General	Daniel Gullstrand

Founded	1990
Headquarters	Ringvägen 100A, Stockholm

Mother party	Swedish Social Democratic Party
International affiliation	International Union of Socialist Youth, IUSY
European affiliation	Young European Socialists, ECOSY

Website	S-studenter.se

The Social Democratic Students of Sweden (Swedish: Socialdemokratiska studentförbundet, or S-Studenter) is the student organization of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. Created again in 1990, the organisation today has about 900 members spread out over the country, most of them being students at either universities or poly-technics. The organisation is today run by Kajsa Borgnas, previously a student at Uppsala University, and Daniel Gullstrand, a student at Lund University. The Social Democratic Students of Sweden mainly focuses at questions connected to higher education but also organises seminars and debates on various topics such as: international affairs, gender equality, discrimination and equality at the labour market.

[edit] Controversy

In November 2005 the Social Democratic Students of Sweden together with the Swedish Association of Christian Social Democrats and the Muslim Council of Sweden invited the Palestinian-British academic Azzam Tamimi to hold a speech at a seminar at the Stockholm Mosque on the topic "Islam and Democratic Development". This led to strong criticism.^[1] Tamimi has referred to Israel as a "cancer" and is especially known for his support for suicide bombings against Israeli civilians.^[2]