Breivik survivors keep fighting for vision of progressive Norway

Women carry flowers as they arrive for a memorial service at Oslo Cathedral in the aftermath of the bombing and shooting in 2011 (AP)

As the 10th anniversary of Norway’s worst peacetime mass murder approaches, survivors worry that the racism which nurtured anti-Islamic killer Anders Behring Breivik is re-emerging in a nation known for its progressive politics.

Most of Breivik’s 77 victims on July 22 2011 were teenage members of the Labour Party – idealists enjoying their annual camping trip on the tranquil wooded island of Utoya, in a lake north-west of the capital, Oslo.