Norway’s radical-left party, Rødt, has recruited thousands of members in recent years and looks set to boost its scores in Monday’s election. Seher Aydar MP told Jacobin about how it’s building on discontent with the established parties.

Norway is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, due in large part to its massive oil reserves. But just as important as the country’s oil has been the strong labor movement, which, beginning in the 1960s, ensured that oil profits flowed not into the pockets of the rich but into the coffers of the welfare state. Unlike other oil-rich states, Norway’s wealth was used to build a remarkably equal society, transforming the lives of working-class people in just one generation.

But recent years have seen social inequality rise in Norway as across Europe

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