Klassekampen is a Norwegian daily newspaper, which styles itself as "the daily left-wing newspaper".

Klassekampen was founded in 1969 with a Marxist-Leninist

Marxism-Leninism

Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideology, officially based upon the theories of Marxism and Vladimir Lenin, that promotes the development and creation of a international communist society through the leadership of a vanguard party over a revolutionary socialist state that represents a dictatorship...

-Maoist

Maoism

Maoism, also known as the Mao Zedong Thought , is claimed by Maoists as an anti-Revisionist form of Marxist communist theory, derived from the teachings of the Chinese political leader Mao Zedong . Developed during the 1950s and 1960s, it was widely applied as the political and military guiding...

 platform. Until recently, it was owned by The Workers' Communist Party

Workers' Communist Party (Norway)

The Workers' Communist Party was a Norwegian communist party . AKP was a maoist party and one of two communist parties in Norway; the other was the older Communist Party of Norway which has remained pro-Soviet. The relationship between the two parties was characterized by strong hostility.AKP was...

. Today it is owned by Rødt, Fagforbundet, OktoPax and Industri Energi among others.

Bjørgulv Braanen

Bjørgulv Braanen

Bjørgulv Braanen is editor-in-chief of Klassekampen.Braanen is educated as a welder in addition to have studied history at university. He is former chairman of Red Youth and journalist in Klassekampen and Dagens Næringsliv . In 2000 he returned to Klassekampen and has been editor-in-chief since...

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

Jon Michelet

Jon Michelet is a Norwegian novelist.He was the editor-in-chief of the Norwegian far-left daily Klassekampen from 1997 to 2002...

.

Among its staff are Mari Skurdal, Yohan Shanmugaratnam, Alf Skjeseth, Karin Haugen and Julie Jørgensen.

Weekly columnists include Paul Bjerke

Paul Bjerke

Paul Bjerke, born 1952, is a Norwegian media scientist.He currently works as a research fellow at the Volda University College and the research institute De Facto, having graduated from the University of Oslo with the mag.art degree in 1982. Bjerke was the editor-in-chief of Klassekampen from 1995...

, Arild Rønsen and Dag Seierstad, and cartoonist Hallvard Skauge

Hallvard Skauge

Hallvard Skauge is a Norwegian illustrator.He holds a cand.mag. degree from the University of Oslo, and started illustrating for the newspaper Klassekampen in 1970. His signature is "M". He has also worked for Nynorsk Pressekontor, Nationen, Dagens Næringsliv, LO-aktuelt and Journalisten...

 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

• Anders M. Andersen 1969
• Anders M. Andersen and Finn Aasheim 1969
• Finn Aasheim 1969
• Sigurd Allern
  Sigurd Allern
  Sigurd Allern is a Norwegian media theorist and the first professor of journalism at the University of Oslo. He was also one of the central people in starting the Workers' Communist Party of Norway in the early 1970s, and was the first chairman of the party between 1973 and 1975 and at the same...
  
   and Finn Aasheim 1969–1970
• Sigurd Allern
  Sigurd Allern
  Sigurd Allern is a Norwegian media theorist and the first professor of journalism at the University of Oslo. He was also one of the central people in starting the Workers' Communist Party of Norway in the early 1970s, and was the first chairman of the party between 1973 and 1975 and at the same...
  
   1970–1972
• Finn Sjue 1973–1977
• Egil Fossum 1977–1978
• Egil Fossum and Sigurd Allern
  Sigurd Allern
  Sigurd Allern is a Norwegian media theorist and the first professor of journalism at the University of Oslo. He was also one of the central people in starting the Workers' Communist Party of Norway in the early 1970s, and was the first chairman of the party between 1973 and 1975 and at the same...
  
   1978–1979
• Sigurd Allern
  Sigurd Allern
  Sigurd Allern is a Norwegian media theorist and the first professor of journalism at the University of Oslo. He was also one of the central people in starting the Workers' Communist Party of Norway in the early 1970s, and was the first chairman of the party between 1973 and 1975 and at the same...
  
   1979–1995
• Paul Bjerke
  Paul Bjerke
  Paul Bjerke, born 1952, is a Norwegian media scientist.He currently works as a research fellow at the Volda University College and the research institute De Facto, having graduated from the University of Oslo with the mag.art degree in 1982. Bjerke was the editor-in-chief of Klassekampen from 1995...
  
   1995–1997
• Jon Michelet
  Jon Michelet
  Jon Michelet is a Norwegian novelist.He was the editor-in-chief of the Norwegian far-left daily Klassekampen from 1997 to 2002...
  
   1997–2002
• Bjørgulv Braanen
  Bjørgulv Braanen
  Bjørgulv Braanen is editor-in-chief of Klassekampen.Braanen is educated as a welder in addition to have studied history at university. He is former chairman of Red Youth and journalist in Klassekampen and Dagens Næringsliv . In 2000 he returned to Klassekampen and has been editor-in-chief since...
  
   2002–

Circulation

Klassekampen has a circulation of about 13,000 and a readership of 50,000 on week days and estimated 90,000 readers 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

Circulation 1980 - 2010