Klassekampen

"Klassekampen" ( _en. The Class Struggle), is a Norwegian daily newspaper, which styles itself as "the daily left-wing newspaper". It had a circulation of 11,386 in 2007, [mediebedriftene.no PDFlink|1= [http://www.mediebedriftene.no/index.asp?id=78261&open=78261] |2=36.7 KB no_icon] and a readership of 50,000 on week days and estimated 90,000 readers on Saturdays. [ [http://www.klassekampen.no/annonser/statistikk "Klassekampen" statistics] - from Klassekampen's official site no icon]

"Klassekampen" was founded in the 1969 with a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist platform. Until recently, it was owned by The Workers' Communist Party, which has maintained a minority stake in the corporation which today publishes the newspaper.

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

Among its staff are Anders Horn, Hans Petter Sjøli, Alf Skjeseth and Ali Esbati. Weekly columnists include Paul Bjerke, Arild Rønsen and Dag Seierstad, and cartoonists 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).

ee also

*List of Norwegian newspapers

References

External links

* [http://www.klassekampen.no/ "Klassekampen"] no_icon