 The circulation of the paper reached its peak in the 1920s, with 11,000 daily copies.After the Social Democratic Party was divided in 1917, the newspaper became a regional organ of the Swedish Social Democratic Left Party (SSV) in Norrbotten County, and later the Swedish Communist Party (SKP).When the Communist Party split in 1977, the newspaper became the voice for the Workers Party - The Communists (APK).