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About Expo
Expo's BackgroundIn 1995, the white-power music scene was at its peak and Sweden was the world's largest producer of hate propaganda. The same year, seven people were murdered in Sweden in Nazi-related violence.The Expo Foundation was established in order to counteract the growth of the extreme right and the white power-culture in schools and among young people. The initiative was taken by teachers, journalists and youths. Expo adopted a platform which was to be free from any links to specific parties or political groups, with the following purpose: to safeguard democracy and freedom of speech against racist, anti-Semitic and totalitarian tendencies throughout society. Expo under AttackAs soon as the first issue of Expo was published, the magazine became the target of an extensive hate campaign from neo-Nazi groups. Staff members and retailers received death threats and the printing factory used by Expo was vandalized. All of this was the subject of much media attention in the summer of 1996, when the largest Swedish national evening newspapers Aftonbladet and Expressen also decided to publish 800,000 copies of Expo as a supplement. Expo as a Supplement in SvartvittThe first group of editorial staff members "retired" in 1998. By then, the reporters – working on a voluntary basis – had pretty much crashed and burned, having been employed full-time elsewhere and dedicating all free time to Expo.In April 1998, three original staff members remained. Together, they made the decision to give the foundation and the magazine a major overhaul. Social commentator Kurdo Baksi stepped in and suggested that Expo become a supplement to his own magazine, Svartvitt ("Black/White"), and thus offered a way forward. It wasn't an ideal solution, but it gave Expo the opportunity to keep making its voice heard. Independent MagazineThe co-publishing with Svartvitt continued until the turn of the year 2003, when Kurdo Baksi cancelled his magazine after 15 years of publishing. Since April 2003, Expo has been published as its own magazine. In 2004, the magazine received an extensive makeover, with the help of magazine design company A4.During the fall of 2004, Expo lost its editor-in-chief Stieg Larsson, who passed away suddenly. Richard Slätt took over as editor-in-chief and was succeded by Daniel Poohl in the turn of the year 2005/2006. Today, Expo is still the only magazine that consistently investigates the Swedish extreme right. |
About Expo
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ContactPostal Address: Box 8165 S-104 20 Stockholm Sweden e-Mail: info@expo.se Website: www.expo.se Phone: +46 (0) 8-652 60 04 Fax: +46 (0) 8-652 62 04 PublisherResponsible publisher for www.expo.se: Daniel Poohl Responsible publisher for Tidskriften Expo: Robert Aschberg © Expo and respective authors |
