As Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine continues, Russia’s other neighbors are looking on nervously. Norway shares a northern land and marine border with Russia. Historically the two have had tensions over competing territorial claims in the oil-, gas-, and animal-rich Barents Sea. The past decade, however, has seen them cooperate more closely in exploring and exploiting the region’s resources — especially oil, gas, and fish. Now, in the context of Russian belligerence, a fierce debate is developing in Norway about the country’s economic entanglement with some of Putin’s closest allies, and how best to help bring an end to his war.

The left-wing Rødt Party’s support has more than doubled since last September’s election — it’s now sitting at about 10.3 percent. Its eight parliamentarians have been bold antiwar and anti-oligarch participants in the debate and their interventions in the Storting are supported and shaped by antiwar movements on the streets. Jacobin sat down to talk with Alberte Bekkhus, the leader of the party’s youth organization, Rød Ungdom, about solidarity with Ukrainian victims of the conflict, rattling Putin’s wealthy support base, splitting ordinary Russians from the elite, and socialist opposition to war.