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Release Antiimperialistiska Sånger
Year 1970
Label Befria # BS 2
Format LP · Album
Country Sweden
Language Swedish
Songs here 15 in the archive
Citation: Justin A. Brummer, Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) — Freedom Singers, Antiimperialistiska Sånger; cite each song by its SongID

Antiimperialistiska Sånger

1970 · Album · Befria # BS 2 · Sweden
15 songs from this release are in the archive, listed below in catalogue order. Track positions are not recorded; the release may carry other songs that do not reference the war. Most common themes: Anti-War, Nixon, LBJ.
Annotation
"Visan Om Gunnar Myrdal" ( "Song of Songs for Gunnar Myrdal" ) - (He opposed Vietnam and chaired the International Commission of Inquiry Into U.S. War Crimes in Indochina).
"Vårt Sagoland" - reference to LBJ, Nixon, Spiro.
"Rövarvisan" ( "Robber's Song of Solomon" )
"Bläckfisken" ( "The Octopus" )
"Hur Ser Friheten Ut?" ( "How Does Freedom Out" )
"Visa Om Olof Palme" ( "See About Olof Palme" ) - Swedish politician critical of US and Vietnam War, took part in demonstrations against the war).
"Kafferepet" - reference to LBJ, Nixon
"En Liten Quisling" ( "A small Quisling" ) - reference to Diem, Saigon. About Vietnamese "traitors".
"Rickard Dollarhjärta" ( "Richard Dollar Heart" ) - protest against Nixon and Vietnam. Kent State reference
"CIA-Visan" ( "CIA Song" )
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Collections
Songs from this release appear in these 3 curated collections.
The songs
1.
1970 · Album · Befria # BS 2 · Sweden · Antiimperialistiska Sånger

BS 2 A-B, issued by De Förenade FNL-grupperna, Husargatan 13, 411 22 Göteborg; printed by Miletryck AB. The front cover reads "Antiimperialistiska sånger" and "Freedom Singers 1970" on a red, white, blue and black grid, with a drawing of a blindfolded horse in a stars-and-stripes band beside a caricatured figure, captioned "Nu har det amerikanska monopolkapitalet tvingats byta ut en enögd häst mot en blind" [now American monopoly capital has had to swap a one-eyed horse for a blind one], and a red-toned photograph of an armed woman wading through water. The back, headed "Bekämpa USA-imperialismen", shows photographs captioned as Britta Calamnius, a teacher on Gotland selling the Vietnambulletinen and collecting for the FNL in Slite with her son, and 10,000 demonstrators outside the US embassy in Stockholm on 6 May 1970 protesting the US move into Cambodia, "Sweden's largest Vietnam demonstration to date". The text describes the FNL groups' work (the Vietnambulletinen at 50,000 copies, the Vietnam collection for the FNL at over 2,700,000 kr, only 0.92 per cent going to administration) and states that the song groups exist in Stockholm and Gothenburg and that all their songs on the record were written by FNL activists. Tracklist under "Freedom Singers 70": Sida A "Wall Street", "Å sentab å ja", "Visan om Gunnar Myrdal", "Vårt sagoland", "Rövarvisan", "Vi sår vårt ris", "Visan om Ho Chi Minh"; Sida B "Befria Södern", "Bläckfisken", "Hur ser friheten ut?", "Visa om Olof Palme", "Kafferepet", "En liten quisling", "Richard Dollarhjärta", "CIA-visan". [From the record sleeve and labels]

Theme: Anti-War
2.
1970 · Album · Befria # BS 2 · Sweden · Antiimperialistiska Sånger

BS 2 A-B, issued by De Förenade FNL-grupperna, Husargatan 13, 411 22 Göteborg; printed by Miletryck AB. The front cover reads "Antiimperialistiska sånger" and "Freedom Singers 1970" on a red, white, blue and black grid, with a drawing of a blindfolded horse in a stars-and-stripes band beside a caricatured figure, captioned "Nu har det amerikanska monopolkapitalet tvingats byta ut en enögd häst mot en blind" [now American monopoly capital has had to swap a one-eyed horse for a blind one], and a red-toned photograph of an armed woman wading through water. The back, headed "Bekämpa USA-imperialismen", shows photographs captioned as Britta Calamnius, a teacher on Gotland selling the Vietnambulletinen and collecting for the FNL in Slite with her son, and 10,000 demonstrators outside the US embassy in Stockholm on 6 May 1970 protesting the US move into Cambodia, "Sweden's largest Vietnam demonstration to date". The text describes the FNL groups' work (the Vietnambulletinen at 50,000 copies, the Vietnam collection for the FNL at over 2,700,000 kr, only 0.92 per cent going to administration) and states that the song groups exist in Stockholm and Gothenburg and that all their songs on the record were written by FNL activists. Tracklist under "Freedom Singers 70": Sida A "Wall Street", "Å sentab å ja", "Visan om Gunnar Myrdal", "Vårt sagoland", "Rövarvisan", "Vi sår vårt ris", "Visan om Ho Chi Minh"; Sida B "Befria Södern", "Bläckfisken", "Hur ser friheten ut?", "Visa om Olof Palme", "Kafferepet", "En liten quisling", "Richard Dollarhjärta", "CIA-visan". [From the record sleeve and labels]

Theme: Anti-War
3.
1970 · Album · Befria # BS 2 · Sweden · Antiimperialistiska Sånger

BS 2 A-B, issued by De Förenade FNL-grupperna, Husargatan 13, 411 22 Göteborg; printed by Miletryck AB. The front cover reads "Antiimperialistiska sånger" and "Freedom Singers 1970" on a red, white, blue and black grid, with a drawing of a blindfolded horse in a stars-and-stripes band beside a caricatured figure, captioned "Nu har det amerikanska monopolkapitalet tvingats byta ut en enögd häst mot en blind" [now American monopoly capital has had to swap a one-eyed horse for a blind one], and a red-toned photograph of an armed woman wading through water. The back, headed "Bekämpa USA-imperialismen", shows photographs captioned as Britta Calamnius, a teacher on Gotland selling the Vietnambulletinen and collecting for the FNL in Slite with her son, and 10,000 demonstrators outside the US embassy in Stockholm on 6 May 1970 protesting the US move into Cambodia, "Sweden's largest Vietnam demonstration to date". The text describes the FNL groups' work (the Vietnambulletinen at 50,000 copies, the Vietnam collection for the FNL at over 2,700,000 kr, only 0.92 per cent going to administration) and states that the song groups exist in Stockholm and Gothenburg and that all their songs on the record were written by FNL activists. Tracklist under "Freedom Singers 70": Sida A "Wall Street", "Å sentab å ja", "Visan om Gunnar Myrdal", "Vårt sagoland", "Rövarvisan", "Vi sår vårt ris", "Visan om Ho Chi Minh"; Sida B "Befria Södern", "Bläckfisken", "Hur ser friheten ut?", "Visa om Olof Palme", "Kafferepet", "En liten quisling", "Richard Dollarhjärta", "CIA-visan". [From the record sleeve and labels]

Theme: Anti-War
4.
1970 · Album · Befria # BS 2 · Sweden · Antiimperialistiska Sånger

BS 2 A-B, issued by De Förenade FNL-grupperna, Husargatan 13, 411 22 Göteborg; printed by Miletryck AB. The front cover reads "Antiimperialistiska sånger" and "Freedom Singers 1970" on a red, white, blue and black grid, with a drawing of a blindfolded horse in a stars-and-stripes band beside a caricatured figure, captioned "Nu har det amerikanska monopolkapitalet tvingats byta ut en enögd häst mot en blind" [now American monopoly capital has had to swap a one-eyed horse for a blind one], and a red-toned photograph of an armed woman wading through water. The back, headed "Bekämpa USA-imperialismen", shows photographs captioned as Britta Calamnius, a teacher on Gotland selling the Vietnambulletinen and collecting for the FNL in Slite with her son, and 10,000 demonstrators outside the US embassy in Stockholm on 6 May 1970 protesting the US move into Cambodia, "Sweden's largest Vietnam demonstration to date". The text describes the FNL groups' work (the Vietnambulletinen at 50,000 copies, the Vietnam collection for the FNL at over 2,700,000 kr, only 0.92 per cent going to administration) and states that the song groups exist in Stockholm and Gothenburg and that all their songs on the record were written by FNL activists. Tracklist under "Freedom Singers 70": Sida A "Wall Street", "Å sentab å ja", "Visan om Gunnar Myrdal", "Vårt sagoland", "Rövarvisan", "Vi sår vårt ris", "Visan om Ho Chi Minh"; Sida B "Befria Södern", "Bläckfisken", "Hur ser friheten ut?", "Visa om Olof Palme", "Kafferepet", "En liten quisling", "Richard Dollarhjärta", "CIA-visan". [From the record sleeve and labels]

Theme: Anti-War
5.
1970 · Album · Befria # BS 2 · Sweden · Antiimperialistiska Sånger

BS 2 A-B, issued by De Förenade FNL-grupperna, Husargatan 13, 411 22 Göteborg; printed by Miletryck AB. The front cover reads "Antiimperialistiska sånger" and "Freedom Singers 1970" on a red, white, blue and black grid, with a drawing of a blindfolded horse in a stars-and-stripes band beside a caricatured figure, captioned "Nu har det amerikanska monopolkapitalet tvingats byta ut en enögd häst mot en blind" [now American monopoly capital has had to swap a one-eyed horse for a blind one], and a red-toned photograph of an armed woman wading through water. The back, headed "Bekämpa USA-imperialismen", shows photographs captioned as Britta Calamnius, a teacher on Gotland selling the Vietnambulletinen and collecting for the FNL in Slite with her son, and 10,000 demonstrators outside the US embassy in Stockholm on 6 May 1970 protesting the US move into Cambodia, "Sweden's largest Vietnam demonstration to date". The text describes the FNL groups' work (the Vietnambulletinen at 50,000 copies, the Vietnam collection for the FNL at over 2,700,000 kr, only 0.92 per cent going to administration) and states that the song groups exist in Stockholm and Gothenburg and that all their songs on the record were written by FNL activists. Tracklist under "Freedom Singers 70": Sida A "Wall Street", "Å sentab å ja", "Visan om Gunnar Myrdal", "Vårt sagoland", "Rövarvisan", "Vi sår vårt ris", "Visan om Ho Chi Minh"; Sida B "Befria Södern", "Bläckfisken", "Hur ser friheten ut?", "Visa om Olof Palme", "Kafferepet", "En liten quisling", "Richard Dollarhjärta", "CIA-visan". [From the record sleeve and labels]

6.
1970 · Album · Befria # BS 2 · Sweden · Antiimperialistiska Sånger

BS 2 A-B, issued by De Förenade FNL-grupperna, Husargatan 13, 411 22 Göteborg; printed by Miletryck AB. The front cover reads "Antiimperialistiska sånger" and "Freedom Singers 1970" on a red, white, blue and black grid, with a drawing of a blindfolded horse in a stars-and-stripes band beside a caricatured figure, captioned "Nu har det amerikanska monopolkapitalet tvingats byta ut en enögd häst mot en blind" [now American monopoly capital has had to swap a one-eyed horse for a blind one], and a red-toned photograph of an armed woman wading through water. The back, headed "Bekämpa USA-imperialismen", shows photographs captioned as Britta Calamnius, a teacher on Gotland selling the Vietnambulletinen and collecting for the FNL in Slite with her son, and 10,000 demonstrators outside the US embassy in Stockholm on 6 May 1970 protesting the US move into Cambodia, "Sweden's largest Vietnam demonstration to date". The text describes the FNL groups' work (the Vietnambulletinen at 50,000 copies, the Vietnam collection for the FNL at over 2,700,000 kr, only 0.92 per cent going to administration) and states that the song groups exist in Stockholm and Gothenburg and that all their songs on the record were written by FNL activists. Tracklist under "Freedom Singers 70": Sida A "Wall Street", "Å sentab å ja", "Visan om Gunnar Myrdal", "Vårt sagoland", "Rövarvisan", "Vi sår vårt ris", "Visan om Ho Chi Minh"; Sida B "Befria Södern", "Bläckfisken", "Hur ser friheten ut?", "Visa om Olof Palme", "Kafferepet", "En liten quisling", "Richard Dollarhjärta", "CIA-visan". [From the record sleeve and labels]

Theme: Anti-War
7.
1970 · Album · Befria # BS 2 · Sweden · Antiimperialistiska Sånger

BS 2 A-B, issued by De Förenade FNL-grupperna, Husargatan 13, 411 22 Göteborg; printed by Miletryck AB. The front cover reads "Antiimperialistiska sånger" and "Freedom Singers 1970" on a red, white, blue and black grid, with a drawing of a blindfolded horse in a stars-and-stripes band beside a caricatured figure, captioned "Nu har det amerikanska monopolkapitalet tvingats byta ut en enögd häst mot en blind" [now American monopoly capital has had to swap a one-eyed horse for a blind one], and a red-toned photograph of an armed woman wading through water. The back, headed "Bekämpa USA-imperialismen", shows photographs captioned as Britta Calamnius, a teacher on Gotland selling the Vietnambulletinen and collecting for the FNL in Slite with her son, and 10,000 demonstrators outside the US embassy in Stockholm on 6 May 1970 protesting the US move into Cambodia, "Sweden's largest Vietnam demonstration to date". The text describes the FNL groups' work (the Vietnambulletinen at 50,000 copies, the Vietnam collection for the FNL at over 2,700,000 kr, only 0.92 per cent going to administration) and states that the song groups exist in Stockholm and Gothenburg and that all their songs on the record were written by FNL activists. Tracklist under "Freedom Singers 70": Sida A "Wall Street", "Å sentab å ja", "Visan om Gunnar Myrdal", "Vårt sagoland", "Rövarvisan", "Vi sår vårt ris", "Visan om Ho Chi Minh"; Sida B "Befria Södern", "Bläckfisken", "Hur ser friheten ut?", "Visa om Olof Palme", "Kafferepet", "En liten quisling", "Richard Dollarhjärta", "CIA-visan". [From the record sleeve and labels]

8.
1970 · Album · Befria # BS 2 · Sweden · Antiimperialistiska Sånger

BS 2 A-B, issued by De Förenade FNL-grupperna, Husargatan 13, 411 22 Göteborg; printed by Miletryck AB. The front cover reads "Antiimperialistiska sånger" and "Freedom Singers 1970" on a red, white, blue and black grid, with a drawing of a blindfolded horse in a stars-and-stripes band beside a caricatured figure, captioned "Nu har det amerikanska monopolkapitalet tvingats byta ut en enögd häst mot en blind" [now American monopoly capital has had to swap a one-eyed horse for a blind one], and a red-toned photograph of an armed woman wading through water. The back, headed "Bekämpa USA-imperialismen", shows photographs captioned as Britta Calamnius, a teacher on Gotland selling the Vietnambulletinen and collecting for the FNL in Slite with her son, and 10,000 demonstrators outside the US embassy in Stockholm on 6 May 1970 protesting the US move into Cambodia, "Sweden's largest Vietnam demonstration to date". The text describes the FNL groups' work (the Vietnambulletinen at 50,000 copies, the Vietnam collection for the FNL at over 2,700,000 kr, only 0.92 per cent going to administration) and states that the song groups exist in Stockholm and Gothenburg and that all their songs on the record were written by FNL activists. Tracklist under "Freedom Singers 70": Sida A "Wall Street", "Å sentab å ja", "Visan om Gunnar Myrdal", "Vårt sagoland", "Rövarvisan", "Vi sår vårt ris", "Visan om Ho Chi Minh"; Sida B "Befria Södern", "Bläckfisken", "Hur ser friheten ut?", "Visa om Olof Palme", "Kafferepet", "En liten quisling", "Richard Dollarhjärta", "CIA-visan". [From the record sleeve and labels]

9.
1970 · Album · Befria # BS 2 · Sweden · Antiimperialistiska Sånger

BS 2 A-B, issued by De Förenade FNL-grupperna, Husargatan 13, 411 22 Göteborg; printed by Miletryck AB. The front cover reads "Antiimperialistiska sånger" and "Freedom Singers 1970" on a red, white, blue and black grid, with a drawing of a blindfolded horse in a stars-and-stripes band beside a caricatured figure, captioned "Nu har det amerikanska monopolkapitalet tvingats byta ut en enögd häst mot en blind" [now American monopoly capital has had to swap a one-eyed horse for a blind one], and a red-toned photograph of an armed woman wading through water. The back, headed "Bekämpa USA-imperialismen", shows photographs captioned as Britta Calamnius, a teacher on Gotland selling the Vietnambulletinen and collecting for the FNL in Slite with her son, and 10,000 demonstrators outside the US embassy in Stockholm on 6 May 1970 protesting the US move into Cambodia, "Sweden's largest Vietnam demonstration to date". The text describes the FNL groups' work (the Vietnambulletinen at 50,000 copies, the Vietnam collection for the FNL at over 2,700,000 kr, only 0.92 per cent going to administration) and states that the song groups exist in Stockholm and Gothenburg and that all their songs on the record were written by FNL activists. Tracklist under "Freedom Singers 70": Sida A "Wall Street", "Å sentab å ja", "Visan om Gunnar Myrdal", "Vårt sagoland", "Rövarvisan", "Vi sår vårt ris", "Visan om Ho Chi Minh"; Sida B "Befria Södern", "Bläckfisken", "Hur ser friheten ut?", "Visa om Olof Palme", "Kafferepet", "En liten quisling", "Richard Dollarhjärta", "CIA-visan". [From the record sleeve and labels]

Theme: Anti-War
10.
1970 · Album · Befria # BS 2 · Sweden · Antiimperialistiska Sånger

BS 2 A-B, issued by De Förenade FNL-grupperna, Husargatan 13, 411 22 Göteborg; printed by Miletryck AB. The front cover reads "Antiimperialistiska sånger" and "Freedom Singers 1970" on a red, white, blue and black grid, with a drawing of a blindfolded horse in a stars-and-stripes band beside a caricatured figure, captioned "Nu har det amerikanska monopolkapitalet tvingats byta ut en enögd häst mot en blind" [now American monopoly capital has had to swap a one-eyed horse for a blind one], and a red-toned photograph of an armed woman wading through water. The back, headed "Bekämpa USA-imperialismen", shows photographs captioned as Britta Calamnius, a teacher on Gotland selling the Vietnambulletinen and collecting for the FNL in Slite with her son, and 10,000 demonstrators outside the US embassy in Stockholm on 6 May 1970 protesting the US move into Cambodia, "Sweden's largest Vietnam demonstration to date". The text describes the FNL groups' work (the Vietnambulletinen at 50,000 copies, the Vietnam collection for the FNL at over 2,700,000 kr, only 0.92 per cent going to administration) and states that the song groups exist in Stockholm and Gothenburg and that all their songs on the record were written by FNL activists. Tracklist under "Freedom Singers 70": Sida A "Wall Street", "Å sentab å ja", "Visan om Gunnar Myrdal", "Vårt sagoland", "Rövarvisan", "Vi sår vårt ris", "Visan om Ho Chi Minh"; Sida B "Befria Södern", "Bläckfisken", "Hur ser friheten ut?", "Visa om Olof Palme", "Kafferepet", "En liten quisling", "Richard Dollarhjärta", "CIA-visan". [From the record sleeve and labels]

11.
1970 · Album · Befria # BS 2 · Sweden · Antiimperialistiska Sånger

BS 2 A-B, issued by De Förenade FNL-grupperna, Husargatan 13, 411 22 Göteborg; printed by Miletryck AB. The front cover reads "Antiimperialistiska sånger" and "Freedom Singers 1970" on a red, white, blue and black grid, with a drawing of a blindfolded horse in a stars-and-stripes band beside a caricatured figure, captioned "Nu har det amerikanska monopolkapitalet tvingats byta ut en enögd häst mot en blind" [now American monopoly capital has had to swap a one-eyed horse for a blind one], and a red-toned photograph of an armed woman wading through water. The back, headed "Bekämpa USA-imperialismen", shows photographs captioned as Britta Calamnius, a teacher on Gotland selling the Vietnambulletinen and collecting for the FNL in Slite with her son, and 10,000 demonstrators outside the US embassy in Stockholm on 6 May 1970 protesting the US move into Cambodia, "Sweden's largest Vietnam demonstration to date". The text describes the FNL groups' work (the Vietnambulletinen at 50,000 copies, the Vietnam collection for the FNL at over 2,700,000 kr, only 0.92 per cent going to administration) and states that the song groups exist in Stockholm and Gothenburg and that all their songs on the record were written by FNL activists. Tracklist under "Freedom Singers 70": Sida A "Wall Street", "Å sentab å ja", "Visan om Gunnar Myrdal", "Vårt sagoland", "Rövarvisan", "Vi sår vårt ris", "Visan om Ho Chi Minh"; Sida B "Befria Södern", "Bläckfisken", "Hur ser friheten ut?", "Visa om Olof Palme", "Kafferepet", "En liten quisling", "Richard Dollarhjärta", "CIA-visan". [From the record sleeve and labels]

Theme: Anti-War
12.
1970 · Album · Befria # BS 2 · Sweden · Antiimperialistiska Sånger

BS 2 A-B, issued by De Förenade FNL-grupperna, Husargatan 13, 411 22 Göteborg; printed by Miletryck AB. The front cover reads "Antiimperialistiska sånger" and "Freedom Singers 1970" on a red, white, blue and black grid, with a drawing of a blindfolded horse in a stars-and-stripes band beside a caricatured figure, captioned "Nu har det amerikanska monopolkapitalet tvingats byta ut en enögd häst mot en blind" [now American monopoly capital has had to swap a one-eyed horse for a blind one], and a red-toned photograph of an armed woman wading through water. The back, headed "Bekämpa USA-imperialismen", shows photographs captioned as Britta Calamnius, a teacher on Gotland selling the Vietnambulletinen and collecting for the FNL in Slite with her son, and 10,000 demonstrators outside the US embassy in Stockholm on 6 May 1970 protesting the US move into Cambodia, "Sweden's largest Vietnam demonstration to date". The text describes the FNL groups' work (the Vietnambulletinen at 50,000 copies, the Vietnam collection for the FNL at over 2,700,000 kr, only 0.92 per cent going to administration) and states that the song groups exist in Stockholm and Gothenburg and that all their songs on the record were written by FNL activists. Tracklist under "Freedom Singers 70": Sida A "Wall Street", "Å sentab å ja", "Visan om Gunnar Myrdal", "Vårt sagoland", "Rövarvisan", "Vi sår vårt ris", "Visan om Ho Chi Minh"; Sida B "Befria Södern", "Bläckfisken", "Hur ser friheten ut?", "Visa om Olof Palme", "Kafferepet", "En liten quisling", "Richard Dollarhjärta", "CIA-visan". [From the record sleeve and labels]

Theme: Anti-War
13.
1970 · Album · Befria # BS 2 · Sweden · Antiimperialistiska Sånger

BS 2 A-B, issued by De Förenade FNL-grupperna, Husargatan 13, 411 22 Göteborg; printed by Miletryck AB. The front cover reads "Antiimperialistiska sånger" and "Freedom Singers 1970" on a red, white, blue and black grid, with a drawing of a blindfolded horse in a stars-and-stripes band beside a caricatured figure, captioned "Nu har det amerikanska monopolkapitalet tvingats byta ut en enögd häst mot en blind" [now American monopoly capital has had to swap a one-eyed horse for a blind one], and a red-toned photograph of an armed woman wading through water. The back, headed "Bekämpa USA-imperialismen", shows photographs captioned as Britta Calamnius, a teacher on Gotland selling the Vietnambulletinen and collecting for the FNL in Slite with her son, and 10,000 demonstrators outside the US embassy in Stockholm on 6 May 1970 protesting the US move into Cambodia, "Sweden's largest Vietnam demonstration to date". The text describes the FNL groups' work (the Vietnambulletinen at 50,000 copies, the Vietnam collection for the FNL at over 2,700,000 kr, only 0.92 per cent going to administration) and states that the song groups exist in Stockholm and Gothenburg and that all their songs on the record were written by FNL activists. Tracklist under "Freedom Singers 70": Sida A "Wall Street", "Å sentab å ja", "Visan om Gunnar Myrdal", "Vårt sagoland", "Rövarvisan", "Vi sår vårt ris", "Visan om Ho Chi Minh"; Sida B "Befria Södern", "Bläckfisken", "Hur ser friheten ut?", "Visa om Olof Palme", "Kafferepet", "En liten quisling", "Richard Dollarhjärta", "CIA-visan". [From the record sleeve and labels]

Theme: Anti-War
14.
1970 · Album · Befria # BS 2 · Sweden · Antiimperialistiska Sånger

BS 2 A-B, issued by De Förenade FNL-grupperna, Husargatan 13, 411 22 Göteborg; printed by Miletryck AB. The front cover reads "Antiimperialistiska sånger" and "Freedom Singers 1970" on a red, white, blue and black grid, with a drawing of a blindfolded horse in a stars-and-stripes band beside a caricatured figure, captioned "Nu har det amerikanska monopolkapitalet tvingats byta ut en enögd häst mot en blind" [now American monopoly capital has had to swap a one-eyed horse for a blind one], and a red-toned photograph of an armed woman wading through water. The back, headed "Bekämpa USA-imperialismen", shows photographs captioned as Britta Calamnius, a teacher on Gotland selling the Vietnambulletinen and collecting for the FNL in Slite with her son, and 10,000 demonstrators outside the US embassy in Stockholm on 6 May 1970 protesting the US move into Cambodia, "Sweden's largest Vietnam demonstration to date". The text describes the FNL groups' work (the Vietnambulletinen at 50,000 copies, the Vietnam collection for the FNL at over 2,700,000 kr, only 0.92 per cent going to administration) and states that the song groups exist in Stockholm and Gothenburg and that all their songs on the record were written by FNL activists. Tracklist under "Freedom Singers 70": Sida A "Wall Street", "Å sentab å ja", "Visan om Gunnar Myrdal", "Vårt sagoland", "Rövarvisan", "Vi sår vårt ris", "Visan om Ho Chi Minh"; Sida B "Befria Södern", "Bläckfisken", "Hur ser friheten ut?", "Visa om Olof Palme", "Kafferepet", "En liten quisling", "Richard Dollarhjärta", "CIA-visan". [From the record sleeve and labels]

15.
1970 · Album · Befria # BS 2 · Sweden · Antiimperialistiska Sånger

BS 2 A-B, issued by De Förenade FNL-grupperna, Husargatan 13, 411 22 Göteborg; printed by Miletryck AB. The front cover reads "Antiimperialistiska sånger" and "Freedom Singers 1970" on a red, white, blue and black grid, with a drawing of a blindfolded horse in a stars-and-stripes band beside a caricatured figure, captioned "Nu har det amerikanska monopolkapitalet tvingats byta ut en enögd häst mot en blind" [now American monopoly capital has had to swap a one-eyed horse for a blind one], and a red-toned photograph of an armed woman wading through water. The back, headed "Bekämpa USA-imperialismen", shows photographs captioned as Britta Calamnius, a teacher on Gotland selling the Vietnambulletinen and collecting for the FNL in Slite with her son, and 10,000 demonstrators outside the US embassy in Stockholm on 6 May 1970 protesting the US move into Cambodia, "Sweden's largest Vietnam demonstration to date". The text describes the FNL groups' work (the Vietnambulletinen at 50,000 copies, the Vietnam collection for the FNL at over 2,700,000 kr, only 0.92 per cent going to administration) and states that the song groups exist in Stockholm and Gothenburg and that all their songs on the record were written by FNL activists. Tracklist under "Freedom Singers 70": Sida A "Wall Street", "Å sentab å ja", "Visan om Gunnar Myrdal", "Vårt sagoland", "Rövarvisan", "Vi sår vårt ris", "Visan om Ho Chi Minh"; Sida B "Befria Södern", "Bläckfisken", "Hur ser friheten ut?", "Visa om Olof Palme", "Kafferepet", "En liten quisling", "Richard Dollarhjärta", "CIA-visan". [From the record sleeve and labels]

Theme: Anti-War