International_Trade_Union_Committee_of_Negro_Workers

International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers

International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers

International trade union organisation for black workers in Africa and the Atlantic world

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]

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History

It was launched in July 1930 at an "International Conference of Negro Workers" that took place in Hamburg. There were 17 delegates including:

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

  1. [1]
    Weiss 2012, pp. 362–3.
  2. [2]
    "The Negro Worker A Comintern Publication of 1928-37". Marxists.org. Retrieved 24 January 2016.

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