Sweden – Communist League: May 1st 2026 – Don’t Legitimize the System! Boycott the Electoral Farce!

We hereby share an unofficial translation of the May Day report from the Communist League (KF) of Sweden published by Kommunisten.

The Communist League’s May Day celebration in 2026 marked the initiation of an active electoral boycott campaign against the bourgeois spectacle that is this fall’s parliamentary election. In honor of this day, the Communist League chose to expose this spectacle and instead emphasized the necessity of organization and struggle. Marxism teaches us that the core of the State is its apparatus of violence for the domination of one class and the oppression of another. Hence, KF chose to point to a different path than placing its faith in the possibility of reforming the bourgeois State from within. The belief in a “democracy for the whole people” is a burden on the consciousness of the masses that ideologically binds them to the bourgeoisie’s apparatus of violence, which serves to uphold capitalism and the bourgeois dictatorship. Consequently, KF chose to highlight the path of revolution and thus emphasized the necessity of revolutionary violence to combat counterrevolutionary violence. It was this political message that KF chose to distribute through its apparatuses in honor of this day.

The Communist League therefore decided to raise the following slogans:

Don’t legitimize the system! Boycott the electoral farce!

Bourgeois democracy is a capitalist dictatorship!

Fight for a new world! Reconstitute the Communist Party of Sweden!

Throughout the day, the Communist League held several demonstrations in Stockholm. Some of the demonstrations took place in proletarian suburbs, where the communists chose to expose the farce of the election and instead championed the path of struggle. In addition, a march was held on Drottninggatan—Sweden’s busiest pedestrian street—where slogans were chanted against the election spectacle. The demonstrations went exactly according to plan, and the masses responded with great enthusiasm. Leaflets featuring the Communist League’s propaganda were also distributed at all major May Day demonstrations. In addition, posters denouncing the electoral farce were put up around all the major demonstrations. The evening concluded, of course, with comradeship, speeches, theater, and, naturally, festivities.

Below is a video of KF’s demonstrations and marches.