Arbeider-Politikken
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Arbeider-Politikken was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Oslo
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

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Arbeider-Politikken was started in 1920 as an organ for the right-wing group within the Norwegian Labour Party
Norwegian Labour Party
The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....

. Since 1918 this had been an oppositional group, mainly to the party's Comintern
Comintern
The Communist International, abbreviated as Comintern, also known as the Third International, was an international communist organization initiated in Moscow during March 1919...

 association. Its first editor was Oscar Pedersen
Oscar Pedersen (politician)
Oscar Adolf Pedersen was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and Social Democratic Labour Labour parties....

. In 1921, when the Social Democratic Labour Party of Norway
Social Democratic Labour Party of Norway
The Social Democratic Labour Party of Norway was a Norwegian political party in the 1920s. Following the Labour Party's entry into the Comintern in 1919, its right wing left the party to form the Social Democratic Labour Party in 1921...

 broke away from the Labour Party, Arbeider-Politikken became the party's main organ.

In 1924 Hans Amundsen took over as editor. When the Labour Party's main organ Social-Demokraten
Dagsavisen
Dagsavisen is a daily newspaper published in Oslo, Norway. The former party organ of the Norwegian Labour Party, the ties loosened over time from 1975 to 1999, and it is now fully independent...

changed its name to Arbeiderbladet, Arbeider-Politikken changed its name to Den nye Social-Demokraten as a demonstration. The newspaper went defunct in 1927, when Social Democratic Labour reunited with Labour.
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