Class fights

Class fights
description	national Norwegian daily newspaper
language	Norwegian
publishing company	Class camps AS
First edition	February 1969
Sold edition	23,414 copies
(2016)
Editor-in-chief	Mari Skurdal
Web link	www.klassekampen.no

Klassekampen ( German  for class struggle ) is a left-wing Norwegian daily newspaper with an editorial office in Oslo . It was founded in February 1969, has long been the party organ of the Marxist-Leninist party AKP .

The newspaper conceives itself today as the daily newspaper of the Norwegian left. Its official leitmotif is: "The Klasskampen newspaper is supposed to pursue serious, critical journalism with multifaceted political and economic revelations about exploitation, oppression and environmental destruction - and, from a basic socialist perspective, contribute to and encourage ideological criticism, organization and political struggle against such conditions." Bjørgulv Braanen has been editor-in-chief since 2002. His predecessor was the crime writer Jon Michelet . According to its own statements, the newspaper reaches a readership of 50,000 to 90,000 people every day. Contrary to the general trend in the newspaper industry, the circulation has increased in recent years. In 2019 it was just under 30,000 copies per day. In addition to political issues, it offers debates and comments on many social and cultural events.

history

The newspaper was founded in 1969 during an internal dispute in the then Socialist People's Party , after its youth organization left the party. Until January 1973 it was the monthly speaking organ of a group of Marxist-Leninist youth. It was then taken over by the newly formed communist party AKP (ml) and from then on came out in a weekly edition. It later became a daily newspaper. Formal relations with the AKP were broken in 1991 and today's leitmotif was written. After the newspaper got into a financial crisis during the 1990s, the AKP reduced its stake to 20 percent. In 2007, Klassekampen was taken over by an alliance consisting of the publishers Pax and Oktober, the Rødt party , the Klassekampens Venner Foundation (Norwegian: Friends of Classkampen) and the Fagforbundet union.

Editors-in-chief

Bjørgulv Braanen, editor-in-chief since 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

Edition

1980: 7,219 1981: 7 633 1982: 7 685 1983: 7,920 1984: 8,008 1985: 7,780 1986: 8 020 1987: 8 110 1988: 8 185 1989: 8 449 1990: 8,206 1991: 9 232 1992: 10 042 1993: 9,692 1994: 9,822 1995: 9 103 1996: 7,796 1997: 8 087 1998: 6,506

1999: 6,477 2000: 6 557 2001: 6,648 2002: 6,929 2003: 7 178 2004: 7 512 2005: 8,759 2006: 10 109 2007: 11,386 2008: 12 109 2009: 13,265 2010: 14,390 2011: 15,390 2012: 16 353 2013: 17 648 2014: 19 253 2015: 21,648 2016: 23 414

Edition 1980-2016

Web links

• Website of the newspaper (Norwegian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Media-drifting Landsforening: Nettoopplag 2010 for aviser tilsluttet MBL  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 12, 2011 (Norwegian)  
2. ^ Aert van Riel: Wages of Independence. The circulation of the left-wing Norwegian daily 'Klassekampen' has been growing for years - against the trend. How can this be explained? In: Neues Deutschland from 5./6. October 2019, pp. 10–11.
3. ↑ https://www.mediebedriftee.no/artikler/2019/digitalopplaget-oker-med-9-prosent
4. ↑ 2018-09-01. Class fights. P. 55. "ANSVARLIG REDAKTØR Mari Skurdal"

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