| International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers | |
 1932 issue of the ITUCNW journal The Negro Worker | |
| Founded | 31 July 1928 (1928-07-31) |
|---|---|
| Dissolved | 1937 (1937) |
| Headquarters | Hamburg |
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| Affiliations | Profintern |
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.
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.
References
Footnotes
- Weiss 2012, pp. 362–3.
- "The Negro Worker A Comintern Publication of 1928-37". Marxists.org. 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.