Seven months before the Swedish election, something has happened within the Social Democratic lineup.

Well ahead of the election, the party released what is known as a test balloon, when it allowed Lawen Redar to present the Social Democrats’ plans to forcibly integrate Swedes.

It was then revealed that the Social Democrats, together with the Social Democratic–affiliated Swedish Union of Tenants (Hyresgästföreningen), had developed far-reaching plans to “break segregation” by building rental housing for low-income earners (read: migrants) in Sweden’s most stable and tranquil villa neighborhoods.

Even though the 50 years that have passed since Olof Palme decided that Sweden should become multicultural have shown that birds of a feather flock together—and that we therefore want to live near those who resemble ourselves—free will is not something the Social Democrats intend to accept. Multiculturalism is to be implemented using the only tool socialists and communists have in their toolbox: coercion.

“An analysis model has been developed to identify residential areas with the greatest potential for densification. The result is a top list of Sweden’s most developable residential areas, with Djursholm in Stockholm, Långedrag in Gothenburg and Bellevue in Malmö, for example, coming in at the top.

If half of the best residential areas in these urban areas are converted into garden cities, 600,000 new homes could be created”, writes the Tenants’ Association’s partner Spacescape.

At the same time, it is stated that “Sweden’s residential areas should not continue to be segregated unsustainable housing locations for a few, but should develop into mixed garden cities for everyone”.

This is how the Tenants’ Association intends to achieve integration – by building apartment buildings in the homeowners’ gardens. Illustration: Tenants’ Association/Spacescape.

Who will live in these 600,000 homes? Migrants (legal and illegal), welfare dependents, criminals, and other residents of the country’s “vulnerable areas” are therefore meant to “enrich” the (few) areas in Sweden that are still relatively calm and safe.

The brain behind this maneuver is named Lawen Redar. Redar was born in Sweden to Kurdish parents and describes herself as a Swedish Kurd. When it comes to nationalism, however, Redar’s position is crystal clear: she is pro-Kurdish and anti-Swedish.

She became a full member of parliament in October 2015 and is today a regular member of the Committee on Culture.

In November 2023, Redar presented the report “Increased social cohesion by sharing a common language: The emergence of parallel societies.” In the report, Redar criticized the Social Democrats’ previous migration policy, which she argued had been far too passive. The report arrives at the following conclusion:

“Economic, ethnic, and linguistic segregation needs to be broken at a structural level, which requires that the population be mixed. Society will need to carry out measures we have not previously undertaken, on a scale we have not previously seen.”

For this effort, Lawen Redar was rewarded by being appointed the party’s spokesperson on integration policy.

The initiative clearly revealed how the Social Democrats’ vision of equality in practice means that everyone should have it equally bad. One cannot accuse the Social Democrats of lying—misery for all is also a form of equality.

The protests did not take long to appear. Even though those who currently live in vulnerable areas such as Tensta, Rinkeby, and Fittja were enthusiastic about soon being offered a newly built apartment in Smedslätten, Djursholm, or on Lidingö, the villa owners in those areas were not equally enthusiastic about getting new neighbors. It took them only seconds to realize that the value of their homes would fall just as dramatically as insecurity would rise.

It didn’t fly.

So now the Social Democrats speak quietly—or rather not at all—about the forced integration that constitutes the party’s only remaining measure to bring about the “multiculturalism” that none of the cultures in fact want.

And Lawen Redar has suddenly become invisible. The reason is simple: forced integration does not win any votes for the Social Democrats among the segment of the population that engages in political debates or reads Dagens Nyheter and Expressen. On the other hand, it secures votes among the current core voters—namely migrants, illegal immigrants, and welfare recipients—and therefore the country’s exclusion areas have now become the only arenas where the Social Democrats still market their promise.

In other words, the Social Democrats adapt their message to achieve maximum impact in every camp. The Swedish voters the party still has can now convince themselves that all claims about a rental complex in the garden were merely malicious, right-wing extremist rumors—and therefore vote for the Social Democrats in the election. The new voters the party recruits among immigrants can at the same time hope for the promise of a new home (paid for by Swedish taxpayers) in one of Sweden’s most exclusive areas—and therefore vote for the Social Democrats in the election.

Power must be secured. How it is then to be retained remains to be seen. But for a power-focused party with coercion as its working tool, anything is possible.

P.S. Wondering where Lawen Redar lives? She lives in an exclusive villa area—in Copenhagen. In the neighboring country of Denmark, that is, where she will never risk being affected by the “measures” she is planning for Swedes.