{{Short description|Weekly political youth magazine in Sweden (1908–1985)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}} {{Infobox magazine | image_file = Fredsmanifestet.jpg | image_size = | image_caption = Cover page of issue 14 dated 1916 | editor = | editor_title = | previous_editor = | frequency = Weekly | circulation = | category = Political youth magazine | company = | founder = | founded = 1908 | firstdate = December 1908 | finaldate = 1985 | country = Sweden | based = Stockholm | language = Swedish | issn = 0039-1980 | oclc = 225833427 }} '''''Stormklockan''''' ({{langx|sv|The alarm bell}}) was a political youth magazine published in Stockholm, Sweden, between 1908 and 1985.
==History and profile== ''Stormklockan'' was launched in December 1908 in Stockholm.<ref name=ewins>{{cite journal|author=Kristin Ewins|title=Swedish communism in print, 1917–45|journal=Twentieth Century Communism: A Journal of International History|date=April 2017|volume=12|issue=12|pages=200–234 |url=https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/lwish/tcc/2017/00000012/00000012/art00008}}</ref> Zeth Höglund was instrumental in the establishment of the magazine which was started as a weekly social democratic publication.<ref name=ewins/> Soon after its start the magazine was made the official media outlet of the Social Democratic Youth.<ref name=ewins/> Höglund served as its editor-in-chief.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Emma Sofia Flood|url=https://skbl.se/en/article/EmmaFlood|publisher=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon}}</ref> One of the contributors in this period was Allan Wallenius, a Swede from Turku.<ref>{{cite news|author1=Annvi Gardberg |author2=Martin Huldin|title=Allan Wallenius – en "rödfinne" i Stockholm och hans illegala resor|url=https://svenska.yle.fi/a/7-1517136|access-date=30 January 2023|work=Yle|date=20 February 2021|language=sv}}</ref>
Over time the magazine left its original ideology and adopted a socialist stance.<ref name=ewins/> During its existence it was published by different groups, including Social Democratic Youth, Young Left, Marxist–Leninist Struggle League and Red Youth.<ref name=libris/> In 1917 ''Stormklockan'' was seized several times due to its close alliance with the Social Democratic Party.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Gavin Orton|author2=Philip Holmes|title=Memoirs of an idealist: Vilhelm Moberg's Soldat Med Brutet Gevar|issue=1|journal=Scandinavian Studies|date=Winter 1976|volume=48|pages=43–44|jstor=40917576}}</ref> The magazine folded in 1985.<ref name=libris>{{cite web|title=Stormklockan (Stockholm)|language=sv|publisher=Libris|url=http://libris.kb.se/bib/3428125|access-date=13 October 2022}}</ref>
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