International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers
International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers | |
 1932 issue of the ITUCNW journal The Negro Worker | |
| Founded | 31 July 1928 |
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| Dissolved | 1937 |
| Headquarters | Hamburg |
Key people |
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| Affiliations | Profintern |
The International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers (ITUCNW) was a section of the Profintern active during the late 1920s and 1930s that acted as a radical transnational platform for black workers in Africa and the Atlantic World.[1]
History[]
It was launched in July 1930 at an "International Conference of Negro Workers" that took place in Hamburg. There were 17 delegates including:
- Vivian Henry: Trinidad,
- S. M. DeLeon: Jamaica,
- I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson: Sierra Leone
- Albert Nzula: South Africa
- Jomo Kenyatta: Kenya
- Frank Macaulay
- George Padmore
- James W. Ford
- I. Hawkins
- J. Reid
- Edward Francis Small: Gambia
It produced a journal, The Negro Worker, which was edited by George Padmore until 1931 and by James W. Ford until 1937 when it ceased publication.[2]
References[]
Footnotes[]
- ^ Weiss 2012, pp. 362–3.
- ^ "The Negro Worker A Comintern Publication of 1928-37". Marxists. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
Sources[]
- Weiss, Holger (2012). "The Road to Moscow: On Archival Sources Concerning the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers in the Comintern Archive". History in Africa. 39: 361–393. doi:10.1353/hia.2012.0000. ISSN 0361-5413. JSTOR 23471011. S2CID 161804698.
Categories:
- Ethnic organizations