Socialdemokraten

Social-Demokraten (The Social Democrat) was a Norwegian and Danish weekly socialist newspaper published in the United States from 1911 to 1921. The paper was a privately owned entity closely associated with the Scandinavian Socialist Federation of the Socialist Party of America.

In 1921 the name of the publication was changed to The New Age and a transition was made to publication in English. The paper followed the left wing of the Scandinavian Federation into the new Workers Party of America and was relaunched as Voice of Labor, the principal Chicago-based organ of the American Communist movement.

The first newspaper published by the Scandinavian Socialist Federation was Svenska Socialisten (The Swedish Socialist), a weekly broadsheet published in the Swedish language and launched in November 1905. This proved satisfactory to the Federation's Swedish-speaking members but the Dano-Norwegian-speaking members of the Federation felt themselves unserved and in need of a press organ of their own.

The decision to launch a combined Dano-Norwegian socialist newspaper in the United States had been made by a pair of the Scandinavian Federation's best organized and most active branches, the Norwegian-American "Skandinavisk Socialist Forening for Chicago og Omegn" (Scandinavian Socialist Association of Chicago and Vicinity) and the Danish-American "Socialistforeningen Karl Marx" (Karl Marx Socialist Organization), both of which were based in Chicago. An initial attempt was made to purchase an already-existing publication called Revyen (The Review). When this effort failed it was decided to launch a wholly new publication, to be called Socialdemokraten (The Social Democrat).

Socialdemokraten was launched in Chicago on October 5, 1911 by the Skandinavisk Socialist Forbund i Amerika (Scandinavian Socialist Federation in America), a language federation of the Socialist Party of America.

The first editor of the paper was Ferdinand "Frans" Hurop, a veteran of the Danish labor movement who on the other side of the Atlantic had previously served as the founder and first president of the Danish Blacksmiths' and Machinists' Union. The publication subsequently served as the official organ of the Scandinavian Federation.

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