Népszava is Hungary's eldest continuous print publication and as of October 2019 the last and only remaining liberal, social democratic political daily in the country.

It was the official newspaper of the Hungarian Social Democratic Party until 1948 when Hungary became a communist state.

[2] During this period two of Népszava's editors in chief were murdered: Béla Somogyi (along with reporter Béla Bacsó) in 1920 by right wing officers and Illés Mónus in 1944 by members of the Hungarian Nazi Arrow Cross Party militia.

[4] The paper had a circulation of 31,742 copies in 2009, making it the sixth most read daily in the country.

[5] After closure of Népszabadság, today Népszava is Hungary's market leader among political dailies.