The Young Communist League of Norway was until April 2006 the youth league of Norges Kommunistiske Parti (NKP). The NKP declared on 1 April 2006 that the NKU was no longer its youth organization,and that all youths interested in joining the movement should contact the party directly. The NKU still persisted as an organization,however,and held a congress in the middle of May 2006,where it declared its wish to cooperate with the NKP,but also to continue on its own if necessary. At the same time the NKP organized a conference of their own,where they established a new youth organization for the party,with the same name and logo as the original NKU. This has led to a conflict over the rights to the name,logo,history,international contacts and property of the NKU,which lasted until July 2008. The conflict ended in court,where both the NKU and NKP were found responsible for the problems that had arisen. However,it was decided that the NKU still had the right to their name and logo. Therefore,the NKP's re-established version of the Youth League,which had taken up several new members since 2006 had to change its name from Young Communist League of Norway to Youth Communists in Norway and also change their logo. UngKom took over for the NKU as the NKP's youth league and view themselves as an incarnation of the NKU.
The Communist Party of Norway is a communist party in Norway.
Asbjørn Edvin Sunde was a Norwegian politician for the Communist Party of Norway,communist partisan during the Spanish Civil War,saboteur against the Nazi occupation of Norway during the Second World War,and a convicted Soviet spy. During the Second World War,from 1941 to 1944,Sunde's group,the Osvald Group,carried out approximately 39 acts of sabotage and assassination against the German occupation forces and Norwegian collaborators. In 1954 he was convicted by Eidsivating Court of Appeal of treason and espionage in favour of the Soviet Union,and sentenced to eight years in prison. He was released from prison in 1959 after serving two thirds of his sentence. He was expelled from the Communist Party of Norway in 1970.
Peder Furubotn was a Norwegian cabinetmaker,politician for the Communist Party and resistance member during World War II.
The Osvald Group was a Norwegian organisation that was the most active World War II resistance group in Norway from 1941 to the summer of 1944. Numbering more than 200 members,it committed at least 110 acts of sabotage against Nazi occupying forces and the collaborationist government of Vidkun Quisling. The organisation is perhaps best known for conducting the first act of resistance against the German occupation of Norway,when on 2 February 1942,it detonated a bomb at Oslo East Station in protest against Quisling's inauguration as Minister-President.
Emil Løvlien was a Norwegian forest worker,trade unionist and politician from Løten. He represented the Labour Party until the split in 1923,and the Communist Party thereafter. He was the chairman of the Communist Party from 1946 to 1965,and served three terms in the Parliament of Norway.
Ragnar Toralf Kalheim was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Socialist Electoral League.
Kristian Welhaven was a Norwegian police officer. He was chief of police of Oslo for 27 years,from 1927 to 1954. He was a leading force in establishing an organized Norwegian intelligence service before World War II,and in re-establishing it after the war. During the war years Welhaven was arrested by the Germans and imprisoned in both Norway and Germany,before spending the remainder of the war as a civilian internee in Bavaria.
Asbjørn Johan Bryhn was a Norwegian police officer,known for his resistance work during World War II,and later head of the Norwegian Police Surveillance Agency.
Roald Halvorsen was a Norwegian typographer,Communist Party politician and resistance member from World War II.
Arvid Gilbert Hansen was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and Communist parties.
Ottar Lie was a Norwegian communist and resistance member.
Ørnulf Egge was a Norwegian politician for the Workers' Youth League and Communist Party and resistance member during World War II.
Arne Taraldsen was a Norwegian artist and resistance member during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. He started his drawing career with underground publications during World War II.
Halvor Enok Sørum was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Communist Party.
Lars Borgersrud is a Norwegian military historian and government scholar. His work has largely centered on World War II in Norway.
Martin Rasmussen Hjelmen was a Norwegian sailor and communist activist.
Henry Olaf Hoff was a Norwegian welder,trade unionist and politician for the Communist and Labour parties.
Norman Iversen was a Norwegian sailor,resistance member and communist politician.
Østfold is one of the 19 multi-member constituencies of the Storting,the national legislature of Norway. The constituency was established in 1921 following the introduction of proportional representation for elections to the Storting. It consists of the municipalities of Aremark,Fredrikstad,Halden,Hvaler,Indre Østfold,Marker,Moss,Råde,Rakkestad,Sarpsborg,Skiptvet and Våler in the county of Viken. The constituency currently elects eight of the 169 members of the Storting using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2021 parliamentary election it had 223,945 registered electors.
