I gave a wry smile when I read a leader of the 19 March 2013 edition of Sweden's main national newspaper, Expressen and one from the day before online (1). Having lived through (and seen) the Soviet and East European Communist Era with all its flatulent slogans boasting the great social strides and liberties of the Marxist Paradise, I couldn't help but whince reading the new slogan for the Swedish Liberal Party's program as it tries to shore up its diminishing populariy as a minor partner in the current Reinfeld Colation Government. With public support at only 6 percent a drop from 12 percent at the apex of its popularity in 2002, it may well be going the same way of the British Liberal Democrats who have been made virtually redundant by the emerging libertarian United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) seemingly sweeping it to a long overdue grave. And if there is one thing Sweden needs and by now ought to have, its a Swedish version of UKIP. But that's, as they say, another story.

"Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights for women. This includes seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment." (1)

I cannot begin to understand her sorrow. Yes, I have had glimpses through my own experiences, but to have your child wrongfully removed from you aged 10 and then die in state custody while only 15, the agony of that I cannot begin to imagine. It's a wound that is hard to heal. Memories linger, life stops under the enormous weight of a grieving that will not go away.

The Austrian philosopher, New York parish priest and social critic of Western institutions, Ivan Illich (1927-2002), is perhaps best known for his study of state-sponsored schools and his innovative ideas about education published in his seminal work, Deschooling Society. Though a left/liberal and strong supporter of John F. Kennedy, making observations about what he considered to be a basically industry-dominated educational system in the years before and after the Secoond World War, his ideas are applicable to all kinds of state-controlled schooling systems, as best epitomised by his classical statement:

As I write this continuing examination of the Swedish System, the parents of Domenic Johansson are fighting in one of the highest courts of the land to prevent their state-kidnapped son being forcibly adopted (at the insistence of Social Services) to a foster parent after three years of incarceration and closed appelate courts. For a good summary of their story and the Swedish scene, please see my article published in several papers and magazines, From Sweden Without Love: Domenic Johansson, Homeschooling, Mother India and the Swedish Gulag.

The fanfare which accompanied the announcement of the new Swedish Education Act (2010) — the one that effectively banned homeschooling because, its creators claimed, parents couldn't possibly accomplish the same results as the state-certified teachers — is looking increasingly absurd following the publication of the previous academic year's results in the province (län) of Värmland in which I live.

The decision by a regional court in Sweden to order the termination of a ruling by an oppressive kommun (municipality) in Göteborg (Gothenburg) to stop preventing a religious Lubavicher Jewish family from homeschooling their four children in the way that they see fit, is a major breakthrough in the homeschooling war that has been waged by the Government against home-educating families since introducing its draconian new law virtually making the practice illegal.

Those of us who have been closely following the Domenic Johansson state-kidnapping case and the devastating effect the callousnessness of the Swedish State has had on this destroyed family, and have not been brainwashed by all the lies and propaganda emanating from the Swedish Government and its agencies, have been left stupified and with the burning question, Why? Was this a terrible one-off series of accidents and misjudgments or was this a part of a greater, unseen, and unreported systematic holocaust against anything and anyone who does not conform to the Swedish Utopia that has only come to the public forefont because of foreign sympathisers and a small Swedish homeschooling community who saw what it could possibly mean for them if they didn't do something about it?

Albert Einstein once said: "There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Lithuanian-born American International anarchist Emma Goldman who was involved in left-wing activities from about 1890 to 1917 also said: "The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being."

I am one of those people who likes to dig deep when I do research and to be as thorough as possible. I first read the 1872 edition of The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels (in reality, just Marx) when I was a student at Oxford. Later, as a young teacher, I subscribed to numerous communist periodicals and books including much of the Moscow-based English-language literature of The Novosty Press Agency Publishing House's many books on the Soviet Union. But my greatest interest in the communist world was the German Democratic Republic (GDR or DDR) as the East Germans alone seemed to be able to make communism work, as did their forerunners in the Volga German Autonomous Region of Russia which was held up by Stalin a model of socialist endeavour before he dismantled it following the Nazi invasion of 1941. I was a regular subscriber to an East German English-language periodical and followed East German affairs with great interest to its final demise. This, I believe, was to prepare me for what I would later find in Sweden when I moved there in 1997 for little did I then know that the entire Swedish educational system was modelled on that of the DDR.

The following article was prepared at the request of the Indian National Newspaper, Pravasi Today and covers the Domenic Johansson child abduction case in Sweden.

by Christer Johansson, Father of State-Kidnapped Domenic Johansson & C.C.M.Warren, M.A.(Oxon), Retired Professional Educator

Having consolidated his power by 1960 through his terror machine that had cost the Chinese people tens of millions of lives through methodically planned murder, torture, suicide, starvation and disease, Mao Tse-Tung decided that it was time to export his version of communism to the world. Knowing, as all realistic Marxists know, that in the absence of military might communism would have to deceive and lie to be accepted by the world, Mao resorted to the strategy of not being too aggressive in order, as he put it, not to be seen to be trying to "export our fragrant intestines".

If you ever wanted an example of the totalitarian, anti-liberty and anti-democratic mindset in today's Swedish government, and the lack of tolerance for anything different in the Marxist-Fascist Corporation known as 'Sweden', now you have a prime example. Aware that he was only a hair's breadth away from having his seven year-old son snatched from him for homeschooling, Jonas Himmelstrand, leader of the Swedish Association for Home Education (Rohus), was forced to secretly flee with his family to the safe haven of the Åland Islands in neighbouring Finland. Had he not done so, the Swedish SS (Social Services) in Uppsala would have seized his child just as they did Domenic Johansson in Gotland.

Himmelstrand is, moreover, not your average run-of-the-mill person but an accredited professional. As Alex Newman writes in his latest comprehensive article, Homeschool Leader Flees Swedish Persecution, the leader of the Swedish homeschoolers is a high-callibre academic and experienced researcher:

Coburg is a small Franconian town on the state border between Bavaria (Bayern) and Thuringia (Thüringen) rich in history and cultural tradition. When, following the First World War, Imperial Germany became a Republic on 1 July 1920, Coburg as an independent Duchy came to an end when its ruling prince, Karl Eduard, abdicated.

The people faced a choice. Should they, a tiny city state, retain their old connections with Gotha, or should they become a part of Bavaria? They voted for Bavaria and without knowing it guaranteed their liberty as part of the future West Germany when the German Reich was partitioned following the defeat of the Second World War. For if they had decided to stay with Thuringia, the town would have passed to Communist East Germany.

Indeed, Coburg was to play a noble rôle helping absorb so many refugees streaming from the Oder-Neisse territories (conquered and absorbed by Poland and Russia) and through the Soviet Zone of Germany (the future 'East Germany') in their bid for freedom from communist tyranny. 15,000 expellees from the East swelled the extant population of 30,000, forever altering the character of the town. By flooding West Germany with millions of refugees forced from their homes in the seized eastern Territories, the communist dictator, Stalin, hoped to start a civil war and in the confusion create the conditions for further revolution and thus extend the borders of communism even further westwards. He failed, and cities, towns, and villages like Coburg played their rôle in winning the first round of the Cold War.