Klassekampen

Klassekampen (lit. 'The Class Struggle') is a Norwegian daily newspaper published in print and online. Its tagline is "The daily newspaper of the Left". The paper's net circulation was 33,265 in 2022, and it has around 111,000 daily readers on paper (160,000 on Saturdays). This makes it the third-largest Norwegian print newspaper, based on readership. Since 2018, the chief editor has been Mari Skurdal.

Klassekampen started in early 1969 as a monthly periodical published by a group of Oslo-based Marxist-Leninists, with Pål Steigan as a key founder and Anders M. Andersen as the first editor. Part of the alternative media landscape of the era, it promoted the positions of the Workers' Communist Party (AKP; founded 1973) and its predecessors. Klassekampen became a weekly in January 1973, a bi-weekly in January 1976, and a daily newspaper in April 1977. It was the official organ of the AKP until April 1991. Its mission statement now describes itself as "revolutionary socialist." As with most Norwegian newspapers, it relies on financial support from the Norwegian government.

Klassekampen has received a varied reception over time. During its early history it promoted a strongly ideological Marxist-Leninist view of society, although its party alignment softened during the 1990s, especially after Paul Bjerke became editor. It has been commended for its in-depth cultural coverage, labor-oriented reporting, and platforming of voices outside the mainstream media consensus. At the same time, it has faced criticism for promoting Russian propaganda narratives, anti-LGBTQ views including homophobia in the 1970s and transphobia in the 2020s, and, for several decades from the 1970s to the 2010s, for antisemitism, notably with Holocaust denier Trond Andresen serving as a regular columnist and editor of the paper's debate forum, frequently writing antisemitic articles, for 16 years until 2016. Its editor has denied accusations of transphobia.