Norges Kommunistblad was a daily newspaper

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 published in Oslo

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, Norway

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It was started on 5 November 1923 as the official party newspaper from the Communist Party

Communist Party of Norway

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, which was established that year after a split from the Labour Party

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. The first editor was Olav Scheflo

Olav Scheflo

Olav Scheflo was a Norwegian Communist politician and journalist.Olav Scheflo was a member of the Norwegian Labour Party from 1905...

. It went defunct after its last issue on 31 October 1929, and was replaced as party newspaper by Arbeideren

Arbeideren

Arbeideren was a daily newspaper published in Oslo, Norway.It was started on 2 November 1929 as the official party newspaper from the Communist Party. It lent its name from a Hamar-based newspaper of the same name, which had gone defunct on 4 October. More directly, it replaced Norges...

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Scheflo stopped editing one week after the Norwegian parliamentary election, 1924

Norwegian parliamentary election, 1924

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. He was disappointed with the Communist Party, especially its attitudes to the recent Iron Workers' Strike, which failed. He also served a prison sentence in early 1925. Olav Larssen

Olav Larssen

Olav Larssen was a Norwegian newspaper editor.He was a typographer by education. He edited the Labour Party newspapers Demokraten in Hamar from 1920 to 1927, and Hamar Arbeiderblad from 1927 to 1935. In 1935 he was hired as a journalist in Arbeiderbladet...

 was acting editor in his absence. At the Communist Party national convention in the spring of 1925 Scheflo was reinstated. After Olav Scheflo, Christian Hilt

Christian Hilt

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 took over the newspaper in September 1926 and edited it until February 1927, when he was called to Moscow

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. Albin Eines

Albin Eines

Albin Konrad Eines was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and Communist Labour parties. He later became a Nazi, working for Norwegian and German Nazis during the Second World War.-Early career:...

 then took over. When Eines was absent in July and August because of a prison sentence, Trond Hegna

Trond Hegna

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 was the acting editor. Members of Mot Dag

Mot Dag

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, namely Hegna, Johan Vogt

Johan Vogt

Johan Vogt was a Norwegian economist, translator, non-fiction writer and journal editor.He was a member of Mot Dag from 1921, and chaired the Norwegian section of Clarté from 1927. He was a professor at the University of Oslo from 1957 to 1970. He was awarded the Fritt Ord Award in 1976, as the...

, Carl Viggo Lange and Sverre Kolltveit, exercised a considerable influence in the whole of Eines' editor period. Eines was again editor in the autumn, but from November 1927 Christian Hilt had his second spell as editor, decreasing the Mot Dag influence. Arvid G. Hansen

Arvid G. Hansen

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edited from 1929 until the bankruptcy. Hansen continued as editor of Arbeideren.