Brand is a magazine on anarchism

Anarchism

Anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, or alternatively as opposing authority in the conduct of human relations...

 that has been published since 1898 making it the oldest continuously published anarchist magazine and the second oldest in general. It takes its name from the Swedish

Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...

 word for "fire". Several notable people have written for Brand, examples are Gustav Hedenvind-Eriksson, Hinke Bergegren

Hinke Bergegren

Henrik "Hinke" Bergegren was a Swedish Social Democratic politician.Bergegren was an early member of the newly founded Swedish Social Democratic Party and he represented a revolutionary tendency, best described as Anarcho-syndicalism and wrote articles for Brand...

 (editor 1904-1911), Ivan Oljelund, Moa Martinson

Moa Martinson

Helga Maria Swarts, known as Moa Martinson, was a Swedish author. Helga's ambitions as a writer was to change the society and with her authorship portray the conditions of the working-class but also the personal development of women...

 (as Helga Johansson), Harry Martinson

Harry Martinson

Harry Martinson was a Swedish sailor, author and poet. In 1949 he was elected into the Swedish Academy. He was awarded a joint Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974 together with fellow Swede Eyvind Johnson. The choice for Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson was very controversial as both were on the...

, C.J. Björklund, Carl-Emil Englund, Erik Asklund, Eyvind Johnson

Eyvind Johnson

Eyvind Johnson, was a Swedish writer and author. He became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson in 1974 with the citation: for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom.Johnson was born Olof Edvin...

, Jan Fridegård

Jan Fridegård

Jan Fridegård, born Johan Fridolf "Fride" Johansson, was a Swedish writer of the proletarian school.-Bibliography:*1931 – Den svarta lutan*1933 – En natt i juli*1935 – Jag Lars Hård...

, Ivar Lo Johansson, Artur Lundkvist

Artur Lundkvist

Artur Lundkvist was a Swedish writer, poet and literary critic. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1968....

, Vilhelm Moberg

Vilhelm Moberg

Karl Artur Vilhelm Moberg was a Swedish author and historian, most commonly associated with his four novels known as The Emigrants Series.-Early life:...

, Albert Jensen, Elise Ottesen-Jensen

Elise Ottesen-Jensen

Elise Ottesen-Jensen, also known as Ottar, was a Norwegian-Swedish sex educator, journalist and anarchist agitator, whose main mission was to fight for women's rights to understand and control their own body and sexuality. She was a member of the Swedish anarcho-syndicalist union Central...

, Nils Ferlin

Nils Ferlin

was a Swedish poet.Nils Ferlin was born in Karlstad, Värmland, where his father worked at the Nya Wermlands-Tidningen newspaper. In 1908 the family moved to Filipstad and Nils' father started his own paper...

, Helmer Grundström

Helmer Grundström

Helmer Grundström was an author and poet born in the village of Svanavattnet in Ångermanland, Sweden. Grundström was deeply associated with the Swedish workers’ movement and is characterized as a proletarian author....

 and Eva X Moberg.

Brand have been in trouble with the police on some occasions. The first case was in 1906 and was due to the laws enacted by Karl Staaff

Karl Staaff

Karl Albert Staaff was a Swedish liberal politician and lawyer. He was chairman of the Liberal Coalition Party and served twice as Prime Minister of Sweden ....

 that made it illegal to promote pacifism. The laws were known as Staaflagarna (the Staaff laws) or Lex Hinke (after Hinke Bergegren) who served ten months for breaking the law. In 1908 Einar Håkansson was charged with blasphemy for an article he in Brand, but he died before it was possible to charge him. In 1910 Hinke Bergegren was sent to jail for two months due to an article series on birth control and the brochure Kärlek utan barn (Love without children) on the same subject. He was acquitted three times in Stockholm until he was sentenced in Gothenburg. In 1916 the then editor of Brand Ivan Oljelund was arrested for promoting pacifism, i.e. for violation of the Staaf laws. Oljelund was sentenced to 18 months of hard labour, but the sentence was later reduced to 15 months and then to 8 months when it was appealed. During his time at Långhomen the magazine was edited by C J Björklund. On June 19, 1999 Hans Regner charged the magazine with sedition

Sedition

In law, sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that is deemed by the legal authority to tend toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent to lawful authority. Sedition may include any...

due to an article on female self-defence. The charge was later dismissed. August 31, 2000 Brand was charged again. Also this time for sedition following a humouristic article on how to make your riot a success.