Klassekampen

Klassekampen is a Norwegian newspaper that is known in the LGBT+ community for its "anti-woke" and transphobic editorial stance. It was founded in 1969 as a Maoist newspaper owned by the former Workers' Communist Party, a small fringe party in Norway that advocated an armed uprising against the various centrist or social democratic governments Norway had during its existence. In recent years the newspaper has taken a marked turn to the populist "anti-woke" right and become known for publishing a steady stream of transphobic articles and op-eds that marginalize and demean trans women. For example, the newspaper's editor and regular columnists have attacked "gender ideology" and claimed "gender ideology" is "the new state religion." The newspaper acts as the mouthpiece of the local branch of Women's Declaration International (WDI; formerly Women's Human Rights Campaign or WHRC), an extreme anti-trans hate group with extensive ties to the far right. Jon Martin Larsen, a journalism professor, has written that the newspaper contributes to "incitement and hatred against transgender people" and that its editorial stance seems to be based on TERF ideology and outright transphobia. The newspaper is also noted for its pro-Kremlin stance. Some of the newspaper's long-time contributors have openly embraced the far right in recent years, and advocate various "anti-globalist" conspiracy theories popular on both the far right and the far left. The newspaper is sometimes described by critics as "red-brown" and cited as an example of the horseshoe phenomenon.