The International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers (ITUCNW) was a section of the Profintern that existed during the late 1920s and 1930s and acted as a radical transnational platform for black workers in Africa and the Atlantic World.[1]
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 |
History
editIt 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
editFootnotes
edit- ^ Weiss 2012, pp. 362–3.
- ^ "The Negro Worker A Comintern Publication of 1928-37". Marxists.org. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
Sources
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