Social Democratic Students of Sweden

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

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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 1200 members spread out over the country, most of them being students at either universities or poly-technics. The organisation is today run by Kajsa Borgnäs, 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. The Social Democratic Students of Sweden was the first social democratic organization to argue for a Swedish EU (EC) membership and also the first to call for a common European currancy. The organization has also a strong engagement in the movement for democracy in Burma.

[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]