Campaign for the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of Norway

Featured image: Posters in Trondheim for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Norway. Source: Tjen Folket Media

The 4th of November this year marks 100 years from the founding of the Communist Party of Norway. Activists have carried out actions ahead of the anniversary.

In Oslo and Trondheim, posters were put up. The poster says ”NKP 100 years! Long live Maoism! Down with revisionism! Reconstitute the Communist Party of Norway!”

The Communist Party of Norway was founded in the midst of a fierce anti-revisionist struggle, in which the position towards the Comintern was important. In 1909, the youth organization of the Norwegian Labor Party adopted a Marxist orientation and formed an opposition to the Party leadership. In 1918, the Marxist orientation led by Kyrre Grepp took the power in the Party, and the Party developed in close contact with the Russian revolution. In 1922, Grepp died and the right managed to usurp the power in the Party. In 1923, in a conference of the Norwegian Labor Party the right got a small majority and split from the Comintern. Immediately after, the minority left the conference and constituted themselves as the first national conference of the Communist Party of Norway. From the start, the Party took a strong position of solidarity towards the Communist International and the Russian revolution, as well as towards the struggles led by communists in Germany and Finland at the time for example. It was tightly connected to the proletarian masses and led many important struggles in the 1920s and 1930s, until it was liquidated by revisionism after the death of comrade Stalin.