Robert Malecki

Robert Malecki (known as Bob Malecki, born October 27, 1942) is an American activist living in Robertsfors, Sweden.

In the summer of 1968, Malecki, who was now married, began work for General Motors. He received a leaflet one day while at a plant gate showing a napalm victim in North Vietnam. The leaflet stated that Dow Chemicals had produced the napalm and that it was being used in these situations. Malecki soon became involved in both the anti-Vietnam War movement and Trotskyist movement. From 1968 until 1972, Malecki took part in destroying "tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of draft files and orders... I [Malecki] also took responsibility for the destruction of the international computer network of the Dow Chemical Corp. in Washington DC." Malecki served time in prison for these acts and shortly after his release from prison was charged with conspiracy to bomb public buildings and power plants. With funds from other anti-war protesters, Malecki fled in exile to Sweden, where he remains to this day.

Malecki supported the Spartacist League (Sweden). He wrote an autobiography entitled Ha Ha Ha McNamara, Vietnam — My Bellybutton is my Crystalball! in reference to Robert McNamara, United States Secretary of Defense during most of the Vietnam War, and his comments critical of the war in the 1990s, which Malecki saw as hypocritical. A chapter from Ha Ha Ha McNamara was included in the 2007 book Against the Vietnam War: Writings by Activists.

Malecki formerly worked with Straight Facts Radio. In 1998, he debated then-Prime Minister of Sweden Göran Persson on national radio.