Prinsipprogram by Norges Kommunistiske Parti

In the postwar period the CPN carried out its activity in difficult conditions, characterized, as they had been before the war, by the dominant position of social democracy in the Norwegian workers’ movement. The party’s position in the trade unions became much stronger.

In the first postwar parliamentary elections (October 1945) the CPN, which previously had no representatives in the Storting, received 11.9 percent of the votes and thus 11 seats in the parliament. After the country was liberated (May 1945), representatives of the CPN became members of Norway’s postwar coalition government (June 1945). Members of the party were active in the national Resistance Movement the party’s prestige and its influence among the masses grew, and its membership increased. In 1937–38 the CPN participated in the movement of solidarity with Republican Spain Norwegian Communists fought in the ranks of the International Brigades.ĭuring the occupation of Norway by fascist Germany (1940–45) the CPN went underground. In the 1930’s its activity was carried out under the banner of the struggle for uniting the country’s progressive forces in the face of the growing threat of fascism and war. Along with the struggle against reformism and the policy of compromise pursued by right-wing Social Democrats, the CPN conducted a long struggle for the ideological and organizational strengthening of its ranks on the basis of Marxism-Leninism.

From the first days of its existence the CPN actively supported the vital interests of the Norwegian working class. (CPN Norges Kommunistiske Parti), founded in Oslo in November 1923 by representatives of the left wing of the Social Democrats after the split in the Norwegian Labor Party (which was established in 1887 and was a member of the Comintern from 1919 to 1923).

Prinsipprogram by Norges Kommunistiske Parti