Ny Dag

For other uses, see Ny Dag (Norwegian newspaper).

Ny Dag ('New Day') was a Swedish communist newspaper. It became the main organ of the Communist Party of Sweden (later renamed 'Left Party - Communists', VPK) on January 2, 1930.^[1]

Ny Dag was one of six newspapers that was subject to a 'transport ban' during the Second World War.^[2] The 'transport ban', based on a law in place between 1940 and 1944, meant amongst other things that the newspaper could not be transported through the postal services, railways or other forms of public transport.^[2]

As of 1945, Ny Dag had around 29,700 subscribers.^[3] About ten local editions of Ny Dag were launched during the 1940s. All were closed down during the 1950s.^[4]

After the meagre election result for the Communist Party in the 1962 municipal elections (in which the party obtained 3.8% of the nation-wide vote), a lengthy, and for a Communist Party publication remarkably harsh, debate erupted in the pages Ny Dag, in which critics held the party leadership personally accountable for the electoral defeat.^[5]

Ny Dag became a twice-weekly newspaper in 1965.^[6] As of 1970, it had a circulation of around 15,000.^[6] Ny Dag was printed at Västermalms Tryckeri AB, on Kungsholmen in Stockholm.^[3]

Editors

Hugo Sillén edited Ny Dag between 1931 and 1934.^[7] Around 1940, Gustav Johansson was the editor of the newspaper.^[3]

Hilding Hagberg, also the party chairman, was the political editor of Ny Dag 1943 to 1964,^[8] whilst C.-H. Hermansson served as the editor of the newspaper 1959 to 1964.^[9] As of the late 1970s, ­Ingemar ­Andersson was editor-in-chief of the newspaper.^[10]

References

1. ^ Kalendarium om vår rörelses historia
2. ^ ^{a b} Sverige. Vissa tryck- och yttrandefrihetsrättsliga frågor: internationellt rättsligt bistånd, brottskatalogen, målhandläggningsfrågor m.m. : delbetänkande. Statens offentliga utredningar, 2004:114. Stockholm: Fritzes offentliga publikationer, 2004. p. 305
3. ^ ^{a b c} SOU 2002:93 Övervakningen av ”SKP-komplexet”
4. ^ Sverige. Mångfald och räckvidd : slutbetänkande. Statens offentliga utredningar, 2006:8. Stockholm: Fritze, 2006. p. 511
5. ^ Jørgensen, Thomas Ekman. Transformation and Crises: The Left and the Nation in Denmark and Sweden, 1956-1980. New York: Berghahn Books, 2008. p. 38
6. ^ ^{a b} Scott, Franklin D. Scandinavia. The American foreign policy library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975. p. 111
7. ^ Lazić, Branko M., and Milorad M. Drachkovitch. Biographical Dictionary of the Comintern. Stanford, Calif: Hoover Institution Press, 1986. p. 429
8. ^ [Historieforskning på nya vägar]. Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2006. p. 172
9. ^ Jørgensen, Thomas Ekman. Transformation and Crises: The Left and the Nation in Denmark and Sweden, 1956-1980. New York: Berghahn Books, 2008. p. 28
10. ^ Brylla, Charlotta (August 1, 2006). [­http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/debatt-essa/storebror-i-berlin-1.509083 "Storebror i Berlin"]. Dagens Nyheter. ­http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/debatt-essa/storebror-i-berlin-1.509083.