Aurora, until December 1927 known as Ystads-Bladet Aurora, was a daily Social Democratic

Swedish Social Democratic Party

The Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party, , contesting elections as 'the Workers' Party – the Social Democrats' , or sometimes referred to just as 'the Social Democrats' and most commonly as Sossarna ; is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1889...

 newspaper published from Ystad

Ystad

Ystad is a "locality", or town, and the seat of Ystad Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden, with 17,286 inhabitants .Settlement dates back to the 11th century and the town has become a busy ferryport, local administrative centre and tourist attraction...

 in southern Sweden

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. As of 1957, the newspaper had a daily circulation of around 4,730.

Editors of the newspaper included J. Pihlman, Elias Nilsson, Ludvig Törnqvist and Henry Hallgren.

The first issue of Aurora was published on August 5, 1899. Then it was a weekly paper, published on Saturdays. It labelled itself as a 'left-leaning

Left-wing politics

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' newspaper. 1900-1902 it was published twice a week, 1902-1907 thrice a week. From October 1907 onwards it is was published six times per week.

In 1910 the newspaper was titled as 'radical

Far left

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' and in 1933 as 'Social Democratic, pro-Temperance

Temperance movement

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 and religious'. Other the political label was simply 'Social Democratic'.

The last issue of the paper was published on December 31, 1957. In 1984, the Ystad arbetarkommun

Arbetarkommun

Arbetarkommun alt. Arbetarekommun is the municipal unit of Sveriges Socialdemokratiska Arbetareparti . An arbetarkommun consists of several base level party units, workplace units, etc....

('Labour Commune', i.e. Social Democratic municipal unit) began publishing a quarterly newsletter with the same name.