"The feud is a tragicomic public breakdown"

The feud surrounding Kajsa

Ekis Ekman's acting editor-in-chief at Arbetaren is like a satirical comedy: the big plan goes awry, the chief's catastrophic misjudgment of the positions of power, the brutal leadership in the middle of the most liberal of the left-wing movements, frenzy in positions that seem incomprehensible to the outside world.

All this with a flamboyant, always controversial star in the lead role. 

"They can forget that," Ekman said of the attempts to terminate her employment, sending out a picture of her being welcomed to the new job by a single person. 

But now it looks like it

will be a short battle that Ekis Ekman is losing.

A new company board has been appointed (that the previous one resigned in protest instead of using his power is one of the strangest things in the course of events) and its first task is to screw up the contract with Ekman. 

Beyond the tragicomics of this public breakdown at the long-standing left-wing newspaper Arbetaren, there are, of course, more serious matters.

Partly, Ekman's over-flattering attitude to Putin-Russia, which already cost her the assignment as lead writer in Dagens ETC. 

But even more

so what increasingly looks like a threatening meltdown within the left-wing radical West: the fight over the trans issue.

An embittered fight that is waged with equally unclear and twisted arguments on both sides.

Where the feminist who, like Ekman, says that gender is a biological fact can, for example, in the columns of Arbetarens, be accused of having entered into an alliance with extreme right-wing transphobes.

And where the trans movement, in return, can be accused of joining the ranks of treatment-happy pharmaceutical capitalism (which Ekman did in his in many ways debatable treatise "On the existence of sex").

It is such positions that have made left-handed slugger Kajsa Ekis Ekman persona non grata within large parts of the left.

As usual, the battles within one's own movement are fought with more frenzy and resentment than those with outside opponents.

And with greater farcical qualities.