Klassekampen

Klassekampen
Type	Daily newspaper
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%); Others
Editor	Mari Skurdal
Founded	1969
Political alignment	Socialism
Headquarters	Oslo, Norway
Circulation	118 000 (2020)
Website	www.klassekampen.no

Klassekampen (English: The Class Struggle) is a Norwegian daily newspaper, which styles itself as "the daily newspaper of the left".

Its circulation is 118,000 (2020). Since the year 2000, Klassekampen has more than tripled 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.^[1] It was founded and initially owned by the Workers' Communist Party, AKP(m-l), but today ownership is shared by AKP(m-l)'s successor, the Red Party, as well as Fagforbundet, , Industri Energi, and others.

Mari Skurdal has been the editor of Klassekampen since 2018, succeeding Bjørgulv Braanen and Jon Michelet. Columnists include Olaug Nilssen, Åsa Linderborg, Sandra Lillebø, , and Sylfest Lomheim. Comedian Knut Nærum contributes as a cartoonist on Saturdays.

On Saturdays, the newspaper also features a book magazine. Editors of this section have been (2006–2008) and Karin Haugen (2008–present).

Chief editors[]

Jon Michelet, chief editor 1997–2002

Anders M. Andersen 1969
Anders M. Andersen and Finn Aasheim 1969
Finn Aasheim 1969
Sigurd Allern and Finn Aasheim 1969–1970
Sigurd Allern 1970–1972
Finn Sjue 1973–1977
Egil Fossum 1977–1978
Egil Fossum and Sigurd Allern 1978–1979
Sigurd Allern 1979–1995
Paul Bjerke 1995–1997
Jon Michelet 1997–2002
Bjørgulv Braanen 2002–2018
Mari Skurdal 2018–

Circulation[]

Circulation 1980–2015

1980: 7219
1981: 7633
1982: 7920
1983: 7920
1984: 8008
1985: 7780
1986: 8020
1987: 8110
1988: 8185
1989: 8449
1990: 8206
1991: 9232
1992: 10042
1993: 9692
1994: 9822
1995: 9103
1996: 7796
1997: 8087
1998: 6506
1999: 6477
2000: 6557
2001: 6648
2002: 6929
2003: 7178
2004: 7512
2005: 8759
2006: 10109^[2]
2007: 11386^[3]
2008: 12109^[4]
2009: 13265^[5]
2010: 14390
2011: 15390
2012: 16353
2013: 17648
2014: 19253
2015: 21648
2016: 23414
2017: 25019
2018: 27855
2019: 30076

References[]

^ Gisle Andersen (2012). Exploring Newspaper Language: Using the Web to Create and Investigate a Large Corpus of Modern Norwegian. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 197. ISBN 978-90-272-0354-0. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
^ «Avisenes leser- og opplagstall for 2006» Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine from Mediebedriftenes Landsforening, 12 February 2007
^ «Avisenes leser- og opplagstall for 2007» Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine from Mediebedriftenes Landsforening, 14 February 2008
^ «Avisenes leser- og opplagstall for 2008» Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine from Mediebedriftenes Landsforening, 17 February 2009
^ «Avisenes leser- og opplagstall for 2009» Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine from Mediebedriftenes Landsforening, 16 February 2010

https://klassekampen.no/utgave/2020-09-26/leder

External links[]

Klassekampen (in Norwegian)

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[1] Gisle Andersen (2012). Exploring Newspaper Language: Using the Web to Create and Investigate a Large Corpus of Modern Norwegian. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 197. ISBN 978-90-272-0354-0. Retrieved 21 May 2016.

[2] «Avisenes leser- og opplagstall for 2006» Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine from Mediebedriftenes Landsforening, 12 February 2007

[3] «Avisenes leser- og opplagstall for 2007» Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine from Mediebedriftenes Landsforening, 14 February 2008

[4] «Avisenes leser- og opplagstall for 2008» Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine from Mediebedriftenes Landsforening, 17 February 2009

[5] «Avisenes leser- og opplagstall for 2009» Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine from Mediebedriftenes Landsforening, 16 February 2010

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