**Britta Gröndahl** (1914 - 2002) was an
[anarcho-syndicalist](Anarcho-Syndicalism "wikilink"),
[anarcha-feminist](Anarcha-Feminism "wikilink"), teacher, journalist and
[SAC](Central_Organisation_of_the_Workers_of_Sweden "wikilink")
organiser.

## Life

Born in Eskilstuna, she was the daughter of a conservative politician
and was one of the first women in [Sweden](Sweden "wikilink") to get a
grammar school degree (in Latin) in 1931, she married in 1936 and
studied language at [university](university "wikilink"). She became a
passionate musician and befriended many others, and became increasingly
curious about [libertarian socialism](Libertarian_Socialism "wikilink")
in the 1950s, studying [Proudhon](Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon "wikilink"),
the [IWW](Industrial_Workers_of_the_World "wikilink") and [Simone
Weil](Simone_Weil "wikilink"), becoming a respected historian and
journalist.

She helped organise with the SAC and befriended [Augustin
Souchy](Augustin_Souchy "wikilink"), she began traveling in 1962,
smuggling large amounts of money into Spain to the underground
[CNT](National_Confederation_of_Labour_\(Spain\) "wikilink"), and
witnessed the [May 1968 Events in
France](May_1968_Events_in_France "wikilink") and the [Carnation
Revolution](Carnation_Revolution "wikilink") in
[Portugal](Portugal "wikilink") as a journalist in 1974. She later
taught French and translated the works of [Michel
Foucault](Michel_Foucault "wikilink") into Swedish.\[1\]

## References

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1.  [Wikipedia](Wikipedia "wikilink") -
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britta_Gr%C3%B6ndahl>