Åsa Hallström

Fifty years have passed since the end of the Vietnam War—a conflict that played out directly on television screens. Across the streets of Sweden, FNL groups were a common sight; they held demonstrations, raised funds, and sold the *Vietnam-bulletinen* newsletter. Why did so many young people get involved? Those who were there at the time share their recollections of that era, the war, and the protests.

A hundred of Sweden's most radical leftists formed secret Maoist cells in Uppsala and Stockholm in 1968. They called themselves the Rebels. They began to retrain/reform individuals and families to lead Sweden into the Culture revolution. No revolution ever happened, still the rebels managed to shake up both themselves and the entire left movement to a degree that history repressed their existence for almost forty years.