I was born in Norway in 1942 and have lived in Sweden since 1950. I've worked as a welder in relatively big industries for 24 years and also have had jobs in various other fields. I was brought up as an intellectual and have a university degree with mathematics and physics as main subjects. On the web, there are some mentions of me in connection with chess. I was Swedish champion at that game in 1967 and later, after I had learned some Marxism, made some "shocking" discoveries in its opening theory.

In the late 1960s, I was influenced by that student and youth movement of opposition to the ruling circles in the world which arose in many countries including Sweden then. In 1972, I started engaging in political activities, first in the anti-Vietnam-war movement. I soon joined an organization in Sweden which pretended to support the political line of Marx, Lenin and Mao Zedong. In the summer of 1974 I discovered, and later that year publicly pointed out, that it was a fraud and in reality was helping the really big-time reactionaries in the world, at that time in particular Soviet social-imperialism. I was expelled from that fraudulent group but, more importantly, also exposed its true nature, this above all with a pamphlet in November 1974. Under a changed name, that organization still exists today, as "Kommunistiska Partiet", after another and recent namechange, then from "KPML(r)".

My eventually seeing through that relatively "well-camouflaged" fraud was due above all to discussions which I had with some representatives of a tiny but then genuinely Marxist-Leninist, and very advanced, party in Germany, the KPD/ML (NEUE EINHEIT) (or "NE" for short), who were in exile in Malmö, Sweden, at the time due to persecution in West Germany and Berlin(West) then.

For me, that new knowledge which I gained in 1974 and a small but intensive political struggle which I was involved in here in Malmö in that year was an important turning-point.

From 1974 until April 1990 I remained in close contact and co-operation with the "NE", and learned very much from that party. I endeavoured, and still am endeavouring, to act as an individual representative of Marxism in Sweden, of course always striving to contribute towards the creation of a genuinely Marxist-Leninist party in this country. In May 1975, I started publishing a series of leaflets (mainly) in Swedish, the INFORMATIONSBLAD series, which still runs. Also, from late 1974 on, I've participated in various organizations and coalitions of a united-front type, for causes which I've held it important to support.

After socialism was overthrown in China, in 1976-78, the KPD/ML (NEUE EINHEIT) during several years continued consistently to uphold the political line of Marx, Lenin and Mao Zedong. Apparently, it was the only party in Europe (at least) that did this. However, at some point or other in the 1980s, it too started to degenerate. Eventually it turned into an utter fraud, an in fact bourgeois party, as I discovered in early 1990. I broke with that party in April 1990 and in August/September of that year wrote a public criticism of it. This too was a certain turning-point for me. In 1997-98, the degenerated "NE" liquidated itself as a party and was replaced by an equally fraudulent "Group Neue Einheit", which still exists.

From late 1995 on, I've been posting to Internet newsgroups and mailing lists, in English, Swedish and some other languages, among other things publishing my "UNITE! (etc) Info" series. I've taken part in several international discussions via the Net. Since long of course I've needed a homepage. Here at last the present one has been set up.

(Former e-mail address, Oct 1995 - Feb 2005:
rolf.martens@mailbox.swipnet.se)

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