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Orientering

The "minority problems" in Africa and Europe

colonialism: What is the bill from the colonies after four centuries of colonial rule? Almost not a thing of what Hitler did within Europe was different from what the colonial powers over the centuries had done outside Europe.
Jens Bjørneboe -

Prime Minister Absent registered by the Surveillance Police!

SURVEILLANCE: The Prime Minister shares the fate of surveillance in Norway with 200–400 compatriots. It gets worse, according to the book, "when the surveillance police's archives are apparently made available to NATO".
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Another story about the weekly newspaper Orientering

THE STORY: weekly newspaper Orientering is often portrayed as the work of three men. It is overlooking a large number of contributors – many of them women. Torild Skar himself wrote around 400 articles over the course of seventeen years. Read here her story about Orientering.
Torild Skard -

20 years that we didn't dare to dream about

THE STORY: Orientering was created as a fighting body after the Norwegian Labor Party had brought Norway into NATO. But the newspaper fronted both the East and West blocks. The newspaper's focus was particularly on working, wage and living conditions for small people, as well as surveying economic power in Norwegian society and the real power holders behind the Storting.
Sigurd Evensmo -

Charged with espionage

SWEDEN: The culprits in the spy case were not caught. The journalists risked up to six years in prison.
Erling Borgen -

Swedish version of CIA exposed

SURVEILLANCE: The information agency spies in Egypt for the benefit of Israel, infiltrates Swedish trade unions, FNL groups and political parties, breaks into embassies and other offices. This whole operation – in collaboration with the CIA (USA), MI6 (UK), Shin Beth (Israel) and SDECE (France) – is a clear violation of Sweden's constitution and neutrality. The people at Bild worked on the case for several years.
Jea. -

The zero-tax payer's summer paradise

SHIP OWNER: He arrives at the holiday paradise on private plane. But on the contrary, he could tell that he lived very simply, almost spartanly.
Arne Skouen -

Marx's dialectical materialism

MARX/LENIN: The fight against alienation is, after all, the general goal – something that has disappeared in Leninism
Dag Østerberg -

Østerberg and Leninism

PHILOSOPHY: As a contribution to a possible ideological discussion within the Socialist Electoral Association, I think the article about Lenin is not exemplary
Hans I. Kleven -

To leninism

MARX/LENIN: With the formation of the Socialist Election Union, the parties' relationship with Vladimir Lenin's teachings is important. It is human activity, their work, struggle, play, research, which is the source of knowledge.
Dag Østerberg -

NATO-Norway

ALLIANCE PARTNERS: What kind of "freedom" is NATO fighting for in Greece, Turkey and Portugal? What kind of "peace" was the US fighting for in Vietnam? NATO membership for nearly 25 years has disempowered Norway.
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NATO base Norway

MILITARISERING: From being a "pact between independent nations", NATO developed in a short time into a gigantic military apparatus. Do we have a fight against the compact silence? Kari Enholm documents.
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Norway's allies among the worst

TORTURE: Here we take a review from Amnesty's report with 16 countries where torture is used.
Orientering (1953-75) -

“Mr. Kissinger. They are a killer.”

VIETNAM: We must become the contemporary humanity that pushes for an end to America's genocide in Vietnam.
Sarah Lidman -

Norway and Vietnam

BORN: Only after many years can the parties come together on something resembling a protest against US warfare. To be honest, we are not very impressed.
Kjell Cordtsen -

"We are fascists"

nationalism: To give an insight into Portugal's extreme right, the pressure Orientering in 1973 the following.
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Rich full-format MODERN TIMES including the supplement Orientering and Modern Times Review comes out quarterly in early March, June, September and December) with international book reviews (non-fiction) and comments / essays. According to the physical newspaper (and PDF), the articles are published regularly online (see the newsletters).

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