Jens Galaaen (25 April 1893 – 13 May 1963) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and

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parties. He was born in

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as a son of farmers. He contributed to the local Labour newspaper ''

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'' from a young age, and edited the newspaper from 1919 to 1923. He was also imprisoned from 1918 to 1919 for being a

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. In 1923 he broke away from the Labour Party, joining the Communist Party. He was a journalist in '' Buskerud-Arbeideren'' from 1924 to 1925, edited ''

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'' from 1925 to 1929 and ''

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'' from 1929. In 1932 he was again imprisoned, this time for six months. He defended the Moscow processes in ''

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'' in 1937. In 1938 he edited the book ''Norske frivillige i Spania. En dokumentasjon om antifascistiske frontkjempere i Spania'', about Norwegian volunteers in the Spanish Civil War.

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, Lise Lindbæk and

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also contributed.Entry
for ''Norske frivillige i Spania'' in

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During the Second World War he was involved in the calamities around

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. In 1941 he was dispatched by the central committee of the Communist Party to relieve Furubotn of his position as party secretary in

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. This did not happen; instead the Western Norway party branch excluded Galaaen from the party.

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