Arbetar-Tidningen was a communist newspaper from Göteborg, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

, published 1929-1974. AT was started directly after the 1929 split of the Communist Party of Sweden (SKP), when the Kilbom faction

Socialist Party (Sweden, 1929)

The Socialist Party , initially known as the Communist Party of Sweden , was a political party in Sweden active from 1929 to 1948. The party was founded in 1929 by the major faction of the Communist Party of Sweden, led by Karl Kilbom and Nils Flyg, as the party split into two parties with the same...

 took the regional SKP publication Väst-Svenska Kuriren with them. At functioned as the regional publication of the SKP led by Hugo Sillén

Hugo Sillén

Hugo Sillén was a Swedish Communist politician. In the 1929 split of the Communist Party of Sweden, Sillén led the pro-Comintern fraction that expelled Karl Kilbom and the majority of the party members with support of the Comintern that feared Kilbom would support Bukharin's right opposition...

. The first edition was published on November 7, 1929.

During the Second World War, AT became the most frequently confiscated newspaper in Sweden. 34 editions of the paper were confiscated by the authorities. In March 1940 a ban on transportations was imposed on the paper, making it illegal to transport it by public transportation systems. Then it was printed at the Ny Dag press in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

. Three stencil editions were brought out clandestinely in Göteborg, until the party was able to arrange a private printing company to print the paper. When the transportation ban was lifted in 1943, the printing was shifted back to Stockholm. The editor of AT during the war was Nils Holmberg

Nils Holmberg

Nils Gösta Holmberg was a communist leader in Sweden. Holmberg was born on December 23, 1902 in Stockholm. Holmberg was a member of the Young Communist League of Sweden . From 1926 to 1929 he was a member of the executive committee of SKU. Later on, the became a leading member of the mother party,...

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In 1949 a separate AT printing press was established in Göteborg. In 1950 the readership of AT reached its peak, with an edition of 13 000.

In 1974 AT was merged with the main party publication, Ny Dag

Ny Dag

Ny Dag was a Swedish communist newspaper. It became the main organ of the Communist Party of Sweden on January 2, 1930....

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