Type Daily newspaper Founded 1969 Headquarters Oslo, Norway | Editor Bjørgulv Braanen Political alignment Socialism | |
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Owner(s) Red Party (Norway) (20%)
Foreningen Klassekampens venner (17%)
Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees (15%)
Mater AS (5%)
Oktoberstiftelsen (5%)
Industri Energi (5%)
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Klassekampen (English: The Class Struggle) is a Norwegian daily newspaper, which styles itself as "the daily left-wing newspaper".
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Its circulation is 21,648 (2015). Since the year 2000 Klasskampen has more than trebled its circulation, in a period where most Norwegian newspapers have been in sharp decline.
Klassekampen's owners include Norway's Red Party, the association Klassekampens venner ("Friends of Klassekampen"), and several trade unions.
History and profile
Klassekampen was founded in 1969 with a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist platform, but has developed into a radical-left newspaper with the following mission statement:
The newspaper Klassekampen shall do serious, critical journalism, with versatile political and economical disclosures of exploitation, suppression and environmental damage - as well as inspire and contribute to ideological criticism, organizing and political struggle against such conditions, on the basis of a revolutionary, socialistic view.
The paper is based in Oslo. Until recently Klassekampen was owned by The Workers' Communist Party, but it is today owned by Rødt, Fagforbundet, OktoPax and Industri Energi among others.
Bjørgulv Braanen has been the editor of Klassekampen since 2002, succeeding Jon Michelet in the post. Weekly columnists include Paul Bjerke, Arild Rønsen and Dag Seierstad, and cartoonist Hallvard Skauge contributes on Saturdays.
On Saturdays the newspaper features a book magazine. Editors of this section have been Bendik Wold (2006–2008) and Karin Haugen (2008–present).
Klassekampen did not support the EU membership of Norway.
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