Erling Folkvord (15 June 1949 – 1 March 2024) was a Norwegian politician for the Red Party and a member of the Parliament of Norway.

Folkvord's political views turned to communism and anti-capitalism when he became a member of the Workers' Communist Party.

[4] In 1982, along with fellow Red Electoral Alliance member Harald Stabell, Folkvord sued Oslo's social-office leading figures, Signe M. Stray Ryssdal and Marit Moe.

[5] After finding no proof of their accusations, Moe sued Folkvord and Stabell for defamatatory charges made against her,[6] but she abstained from pursuing this in court.

[7] Folkvord and Stabell reported to the police that the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet breached the pimp paragraph of the criminal code.

[8] In 1983, Folkvord, along with Liv Finstad, was elected as Red Electoral Alliance representative for the Oslo City Council, taking office on 1 January 1984.

According to Aftenposten, the Red Electoral Alliance and the Christian Democratic Party had the most loyal voter base throughout the election.

[9] Folkvord was later highly vocal in his opposition toward the decentralisation of health and social services in Oslo where control was to be given to the boroughs.

[10] During his early years as member of the City Council, Folkvord used most of his time in defending the then "current" social administration.

[11] By the late 1980s, Folkvord had earned the nickname "watch dog", as he usually wanted an "independent investigation" into corruption matters.

[13] Earlier that year, when finding more proof of a so-called corruption scandal, Folkvord asked for assistance from the district attorney urging him to lead an investigation into the matter.

[14] By 1990, there were talks within the Red Electoral Alliance toward replacing Folkvord and Athar Ali as City Council representatives in Oslo to make way for more women in the top positions within the party.

[15] By September 1990, Folkvord had demanded a police-run investigation against Conservative Party member Michael Tetzschner, accusing him of corruption and hidden money.

[17] Folkvord was one of the co-founders of the Oslo party cell, established in early 1991, of the Red Electoral Alliance.

[21] In January 1993, at the national convention, several long-standing members discussed the best way to organise Folkvord's Oslo electoral campaign.

Various analysists, and Folkvord himself, believed the Red Electoral Alliance achieved good results in Oslo because the Socialist Left Party performed poorly in the municipalities.

[4] In 1994, Folkvord criticised the Labour Government for exporting weapons to Turkey, which at that time was engaged in a civil war against the Kurdish people.

He claimed it violated a parliamentary decision made in 1959 which said that the government would not distribute, or export, weapons to countries involved in a civil war.

[44] By February 2001, the Workers' Communist Party proposed making Folkvord the new leader of the Red Electoral Alliance, since Myhre would resign if he was elected to parliament.

[48] During the 2003 local elections three different polls showed that the Red Electoral Alliance was close to earning three seats on the Oslo City Council.

[63] When the votes for the municipality of Oslo were counted, the party managed to gain three seats on the City Council, with Folkvord's position secure.

Jens Stoltenberg and Kristin Halvorsen from the Red-Green Coalition were both highly negative toward the idea of having Red in parliament.

[2] During an interview in 1993, Folkvord said his most important commitment if he gained a seat in parliament was giving the National trade union centers more power so that they could better defend the working class.

Another opinion of his was that "capitalism destroys the natural environment around us making the bourgeois society planners understand that there must be something new in the future.

[74] Being an anti-war activist, he was highly vocal against Norwegian involvement in the War on Terror since the start of the American led invasion of Iraq.

[76] He was also highly vocal against Norwegian membership in the European Union, claiming the organisation is spreading "German imperialism".

[77] After earning the position of Oslo City Council representative in 1984, Folkvord used much of his time writing books about his political experiences and beliefs.

[79] In the book Folkvord claimed that Lise Harlem was involved in some sort of corruption in Norway, although to verify this he had only one source, Knut Frigaard.

[82] When writing the book, he wanted it to have some sort of impact on Red Youth members and other left of center groups or activists.

[90] She was notable for her far-left political activities in Norway, having membership status in the Workers' Communist Party[91] and the Red Electoral Alliance.