Klassekampen

Not to be confused with Klassekampen (1909–1940).

Klassekampen

Type	Daily newspaper
Editor	Bjørgulv Braanen
Founded	1969
Political alignment	Socialism
Headquarters	Oslo, Norway
Circulation	15,390 (2011)
Official website	Homepage

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

Klassekampen was founded in 1969 with a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist platform. Until recently, it was owned by The Workers' Communist Party. Today it is owned by Rødt, Fagforbundet, OktoPax and Industri Energi among others.

Bjørgulv Braanen has been the editor of Klassekampen since 2002, succeeding Jon Michelet. 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).

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–

Circulation

Klassekampen has a readership of more than 50,000 on week days and 90,000 on Saturdays.

1980: 7 219 1981: 7 633 1982: 7 920 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

Circulation 1980 - 2011

See also

• List of Norwegian newspapers

External links

• Klassekampen (Norwegian)