ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the mobilizing activities and ideational development within this movement milieu in two Scandinavian countries, Sweden and Denmark. In order to analyse the ideational work done within the radical anti-fascist movement, and the connection between ideational development and changes in the political context, this chapter takes its theoretical point of departure in the schools of framing theory and political opportunity structures and in the concept of repertoires of action. In In both Sweden and Denmark, the roots of the anti-fascist movement go back to the struggle against fascist and Nazi movements during the 1930s and 1940s. Sweden and Denmark, the alter-globalization mobilizations culminated with the riots in Gothenburg in 2001 and at the EU summit in Copenhagen the following year. The electoral success of the far right often constitutes a prominent part of the activists' c, something that is used in radical anti-fascist rhetoric in order to mobilize public support.
