Clarté ( French for "clarity") was a

socialist Socialism is an economic ideology, economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse Economic system, economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership. It describes ...

and

pacifist Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence. The word ''pacifism'' was coined by the French peace campaigner Émile Arnaud and adopted by other peace activists at the tenth Universal Peace Congress in Glasgow in 1901. A related term is ''a ...

organisation in

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

. It was founded in 1925, and had its roots in a French-based international organization of the same name. The international organization became defunct in 1923, but French and Swedish branches existed, and Danish and Finnish branches came in 1925 and 1926. In Norway, Clarté was strongly affiliated with the organization ''

Mot Dag (, 'Towards Day') was a Norway, Norwegian political group. The group was active from the 1920s to the early 1930s and was first affiliated with the Labour Party (Norway), Labour Party until 1925. After World War II, many of its former members were ...

'', and ''Mot Dag'''s Arne Ording was chairman. Ording also edited the organization's periodical, also named ''Clarté''. This was published between 1929 and 1931. Another Norwegian, Aake Anker Ording, was secretary-general of ''Nordisk Clartéforbund'' (the Nordic Clarté Association) from 1927. Clarté in Norway existed until 1936, when it was reorganized with the new name Forum. ''Mot Dag'' was disestablished in the same year. It split in 1940. In light of the

Winter War The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peac ...

, then-chairman of ''Forum'', Gudmund Harlem, proposed that communists be barred from membership in the organization. 74 voted for, 78 voted against, and the minority left the organization to form '' Sosialistisk Studentlag''.

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