Austevoll is a municipality and an archipelago in Vestland county,Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Midthordland in Western Norway. The administrative centre is the village of Storebøon the island of Huftarøy. Other villages include Årland,Austevollshella,Bakkasund,Bekkjarvik,Birkeland,Haukanes,Husavik,Kolbeinsvik,Otterå,Våge,and Vinnes.
Red Electoral Alliance was an alliance of far-left groups formed into a Norwegian political party to promote revolutionary socialism ideals into the Norwegian parliament. The party dissolved itself on 10 March 2007,when it participated in the founding of a new party,Red (Rødt).
Klassekampen is a Norwegian daily newspaper. It describes itself as "the newspaper of the Left." The paper's net circulation is 33,265 (2022),and it has around 111,000 daily readers on paper. This makes it the third largest Norwegian print newspaper,based on readership. Chief editor from 2018 is Mari Skurdal.
The Workers' Communist Party was a Norwegian communist party (1973–2007). AKP was a Maoist party and one of two communist parties in Norway;the other was the older Communist Party of Norway which had remained pro-Soviet. The relationship between the two parties was characterized by strong hostility.
The Fatherland Party was a political party in Norway,which was founded by former local Progress Party politician Harald Trefall in 1990. Primarily based in Western Norway,the party supported nationalist positions such as opposition to immigration and the European Union. It got two representatives elected to public office in the 1991 local elections,in a county and municipal council respectively. The party never won representation since,and was dissolved in 2008 after years of electoral inactivity.
Erling Folkvord is a Norwegian politician for the Red party,and a former member of the Parliament of Norway. A revolutionary socialist,he was one of the leading members of the Workers' Communist Party and the Red Electoral Alliance before they merged to form Red. He sat as a member of the Parliament of Norway from 1993 to 1997,becoming the first socialist to the left of the Socialist Left Party and the Labour Party in parliament since 1961. He later lost his position in 1997,and has been a candidate for parliament ever since. He has been a member of the Oslo City Council from 1983 to 1993,and again since 1999. Folkvord has become one of the best-known Norwegian politicians on the left who is not connected with the Labour Party and the Socialist Left Party.
Knut Nærum,is a Norwegian comedian,author,comics writer and TV-entertainer. He is best known for being one of the permanent panelists in the Norwegian show Nytt pånytt. On 23 April 2015,Nærum announced that he would step down from the show at the end of the season. Nærum was born in Arendal,but grew up in Halden,and attended high school in Grimstad. He later studied at the Agder Regional College and currently lives in Oslo with his wife and two children.
The Red Party is a communist political party in Norway. It was founded in March 2007 by a merger of the Red Electoral Alliance and the Workers' Communist Party. A Marxist party,it has been described as left-wing and far-left on the political spectrum. In its political programme,the Red Party sets the creation of a classless society to be its ultimate goal,which the party says is "what Karl Marx called communism". The party's other goals are replacing capitalism with socialism,an expansive public sector and nationalisation of large enterprises. It has a revolutionary socialist ideology,which aims towards new legislatures taking power on behalf of the workers,though the party does not support violent armed revolution as espoused by its predecessors in the 1970s and 1980s. It strongly opposes Norway becoming a member of the European Union.
Gro Dahle is a Norwegian poet and writer.
Aslak Sira Myhre is a Norwegian culture administrator. Since 2014 he is director of the National Library of Norway. Myhre has been a leftwing politician,and was for a period leader of the former party Red Electoral Alliance (RV). In the local election in Oslo in 2015 he was listed for Red,the party succeeding Red Electoral Alliance since 2007,however not on top,and he did not get a seat.
Bård Vegar Solhjell is a former Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party. He served as Minister of Education from 2007 to 2009,and as Minister of the Environment from 2012 to 2013,both in Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet. Starting in March 2018,he is the Secretary General of WWF Norway.
Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 13 and 14 September 2009. Elections in Norway are held on a Monday in September,usually the second or third Monday,as determined by the king. Early voting was possible between 10 August and 11 September 2009,while some municipalities also held open voting on 13 September. Voters elected 169 members for the Storting,each for a four-year term. Voter turn-out in the 2009 general elections was 76.4%.
Lars Gule is a Norwegian philosopher. He has graduated with a doctorate in philosophy,and is an associate professor. From 2000 to 2005 he was secretary general of the Norwegian Humanist Association. Gule became known to the general public in 1977 when after having joined the DFLP group,Gule was arrested in Beirut,Lebanon with Semtex in his luggage intended for Israeli targets leading to a six-month conviction and subsequent deportation. He remains active as a anti-Israel activist. Gule is often used by Norwegian media as an authority on questions regarding the Middle East,Islam and extremism.
Pål Steigan is a Norwegian writer and politician,best known as founder of the newspaper Klassekampen and the website Steigan.no. He was leader of the Maoist Workers' Communist Party,AKP (m-l) from 1975 to 1984,and co-leader of the Red Electoral Alliance (RV) until 1979. Both parties were small fringe parties that were never represented in parliament during his tenure. He co-founded Klassekampen as a monthly periodical in 1969,and during his leadership AKP developed the periodical into a newspaper in 1977. He later founded the alternative news website Steigan.no that is described by mainstream Norwegian media as a platform of Russian propaganda,conspiracy theories,racism and transphobia.
Gunnar Garbo was a Norwegian journalist,politician,and ambassador. He represented the Liberal Party of Norway at the Norwegian Parliament during four electoral periods,from 1958 to 1973,and was leader for the party from 1964 to 1970. He was ambassador in Dar es Salaam from 1987 to 1992.
Serve the People –Communist League is a Norwegian communist organization formed in 1998 by expelled members of the Workers' Communist Party. It aims to establish a new communist party in Norway based on Marxism–Leninism–Maoism. Its youth wing is the Revolutionary Communist Youth,which was created after a split from Red Youth,the youth wing of the Red Party,who it deems as revisionist.
Hans Petter Sjøli is a Norwegian journalist for Dagsavisen and Klassekampen and author of the book Mao,min mao. Historien om AKPs vekst og fall,published by Cappelen forlag in 2005.
Turid Thomassen is a Norwegian politician who was party leader of the Norwegian Red party from 2010 to 2012,succeeding Torstein Dahle.
Gnist (Spark) is a Norwegian quarterly Marxist periodical published by the left-wing Red Party.
Bjørnar Moxnes is a Norwegian politician and activist representing the left-wing political party,the Red Party in the Storting. Moxnes opposes the European Union,characterizing Norway's participation in the EEA as undemocratic. Moxnes describes himself as a socialist. He served as the leader of the Red Party from 2012 to 2023,when he resigned in the wake of stealing a pair of sunglasses from a shop at Oslo Airport Gardermoen. Moxnes had previously served as the party's deputy leader from 2010 to 2012.
