Ture Nerman

Ture Nerman (18 May 1886, Norrköping – 7 October 1969) was a Swedish socialist. As a journalist and author, he was a well-known political activist in his time. He also wrote poems and songs.

Nerman was a vegetarian and a strict teetotaler. Alcoholism was a major social problem in Sweden in the early 20th century, and Nerman considered alcohol being a drug that made the working class passive instead of fighting for better conditions.

Ture Nerman had younger twin brothers, the artist Einar Nerman and the archeologist Birger Nerman.

Read more about Ture Nerman:  Background, Political Awakening, World War I and Zimmerwald, In America, The Birth of Swedish Communism, In Soviet Russia, Against Stalinism, In Franco's Spain, World War II, The Last Years, Works, References