Pål Steigan
Pål Steigan | |
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Pål Steigan lecturing at Parkteateret at a seminar about author Tron Øgrim in 2007 | |
| Leader of the Workers' Communist Party | |
| In office 1975–1984 | |
| Preceded by | Sigurd Allern |
| Succeeded by | Kjersti Ericsson |
| Leader of the Red Electoral Alliance | |
| In office 1975–1979 | |
| Preceded by | Sigurd Allern |
| Succeeded by | Hilde Haugsgjerd |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 31 May 1949 Oslo, Norway |
| Other political affiliations | Workers' Communist Party Red Electoral Alliance |
| Residence(s) | Oslo, Norway |
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Pål Steigan (born 31 May 1949) is a Norwegian writer and politician, best known as founder of the newspaper Klassekampen and the website Steigan.no. He was leader of the Maoist Workers' Communist Party, AKP (m-l) from 1975 to 1984, and co-leader of the Red Electoral Alliance (RV) until 1979. Both parties were small fringe parties that were never represented in parliament during his tenure. He co-founded Klassekampen as a monthly periodical in 1969, and during his leadership AKP developed the periodical into a newspaper in 1977. He later founded the alternative news website Steigan.no that is described by mainstream Norwegian media as a platform of Russian propaganda, conspiracy theories, racism and transphobia.