Women's Front of Norway.

About Women's Front of Norway

The Women's Front is a Norwegian radical feminist organization that has in the 2020s increasingly promoted gender-critical and anti-gender views. Describing itself as the country's oldest and largest radical feminist group, it was founded in 1972 and was historically associated with the now defunct Maoist Workers' Communist Party (AKP). Its central focus from the 1970s was fighting what it called "monopoly capitalism" and "imperialism". It claimed that "we have one common enemy: imperialism" and considered "the state, business and capital" to be the main forces which oppressed women. Kvinnefronten considered themselves part of the "proletarian women's movement" and viewed feminism as an opposing, bourgeois ideology. Kvinnefronten was under surveillance by the Norwegian Police Security Service from 1975, as the authorities regarded the organization as a threat to national security. A 1984 report by the Police Security Service described Kvinnefronten as extremist and as a front organization for the Workers' Communist Party. Among other women's organizations in the 1970s Kvinnefronten was sometimes referred to as "Pål's hens" due to its fealty to Pål Steigan, the AKP chairman.