Norwegian Movement for Vietnam

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The Norwegian Movement for Vietnam (Norwegian : Vietnambevegelsen i Norge) was a Norwegian advocacy group.

Norwegian language North Germanic language spoken in Norway

Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken mainly in Norway, where it is the official language. Along with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a dialect continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional varieties; some Norwegian and Swedish dialects, in particular, are very close. These Scandinavian languages, together with Faroese and Icelandic as well as some extinct languages, constitute the North Germanic languages. Faroese and Icelandic are not mutually intelligible with Norwegian in their spoken form because continental Scandinavian has diverged from them. While the two Germanic languages with the greatest numbers of speakers, English and German, have close similarities with Norwegian, neither is mutually intelligible with it. Norwegian is a descendant of Old Norse, the common language of the Germanic peoples living in Scandinavia during the Viking Era.

Advocacy groups, also known as special interest groups, use various forms of advocacy in order to influence public opinion and ultimately policy. They play an important role in the development of political and social systems.

Its purpose was to convey friendship and solidarity with "people of Indochina", opposing the Vietnam War. It was created in January 1968 as an offshoot of the Norwegian Solidarity Committee for Vietnam, which had been hijacked by the Socialist Youth League (SUF) to the dismay of the Workers' Youth League. Eventually, the Movement for Vietnam was joined by Socialist Youth, the Young Communist League as well as various trade unions and women's organizations. [1]

Vietnam War 1955–1975 conflict in Vietnam

The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies; South Vietnam was supported by the United States, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies. The war, considered a Cold War-era proxy war by some, lasted 19 years, with direct U.S. involvement ending in 1973, and included the Laotian Civil War and the Cambodian Civil War, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.

Workers Youth League (Norway) Norwegian political youth organization

The Workers' Youth League is Norway's largest political youth organization and is affiliated with the Norwegian Labour Party.

Socialist Youth (Norway) organization

Socialist Youth is the youth league of the Socialist Left Party of Norway. The current head of the organisation is Andreas Unneland. SU considers itself a revolutionary party and wants to gain popular support for socialism in Norway. In this respect it differs from SV, the mother party.

Leaders of the Movement for Vietnam include Arne Kokkvoll (1969–1972), [2] MP Tove Pihl (1973–1974), [3] and Jostein Nyhamar. [4]

Arne Kokkvoll was a Norwegian historian, librarian/archivist and politician for the Labour Party.

Tove Agnethe Pihl was a Norwegian educator and politician for the Labour Party.

Jostein Nyhamar was a Norwegian magazine editor, biographer and politician for the Labour Party.

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References

  1. ↑ Tjønneland, Elling Njaal (1976). "Vietnambevegelsen i Norge". Pax leksikon . Pax.
  2. ↑ Henriksen, Petter, ed. (2007). "Arne Kokkvoll". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
  3. ↑ "Tove Pihl" (in Norwegian). Storting.
  4. ↑ Undheim Larsen, Dag Eivind (15 February 2008). "Vietnam samlet protestene". Klassekampen (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2009.
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