Kansan Uutiset
[1][2] Kansan Uutiset was founded in 1957[1] as the joint organ of Communist Party of Finland (SKP) and Finnish People's Democratic League (SKDL),[3] both of which, until then, had had their own papers, Työkansan Sanomat (SKP) and Vapaa Sana (SKDL).During the 1970s and in the first half of the 1980s Kansan Uutiset represented the moderates in these groups whereas Tiedonantaja was the organ of the doctrinaire faction.The paper had close ties to the new Left Alliance, which was founded in 1990, but it did not declare itself the organ until 2000.A joint stock company was founded, and the new owners were, for example, left-wing trade unions, banks and foundations.[8] In 2007, the editor-in-chief Janne Mäkinen was convicted of an editorial misdemeanor (Finnish: päätoimittajarikkomus), after the newspaper published an opinion piece about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict claiming that the Holocaust was an "acceptable and desirable measure".