''Troms Fylkes Kommunistblad'' was a Norwegian newspaper, published in

Tromsø Tromsø (, , ; se, Romsa ; fkv, Tromssa; sv, Tromsö) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø. Tromsø lies in Northern Norway. The municipality is the ...

Troms Troms (; se, Romsa; fkv, Tromssa; fi, Tromssa) is a former county in northern Norway. On 1 January 2020 it was merged with the neighboring Finnmark county to create the new Troms og Finnmark county. This merger is expected to be reversed by t ...

county. ''Troms Fylkes Kommunistblad'' was started in a complicated situation. It belonged to the

Communist Party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. ...

which broke away from the Labour Party in 1923, but the Communist Party originally managed to usurp the existing Labour newspaper ''

Nordlys ''Nordlys'' is a Norwegian newspaper published in Tromsø, covering the region of Troms, and the largest newspaper in Northern Norway. History and profile ''Nordlys'' was founded in 1902 by Alfred Eriksen, who also was its first editor-in-ch ...

''. Peder Kaasmoli was the editor-in-chief. However, in mid-November 1923 ''Nordlys'' returned to Labour hands, Kaasmoli was fired and it came with two issues on 15 and 17 November. On 17 November, then, ''Troms Fylkes Kommunistblad'' came with its first issue. However, from 20 November the Communist Party had regained ''Nordlys'', and published it until 19 January 1924. ''Nordlys'' then returned to Labour, and ''Troms Fylkes Kommunistblad'' was restarted with Kaasmoli as editor. ''Troms Fylkes Kommunistblad'' only lasted until 23 February 1924.

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