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International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers

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ITUCNW
International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers
Founded31 July 1928 (1928-07-31)
Dissolved1937 (1937)
HeadquartersHamburg
Key people
  • James W. Ford, General Secretary (1928-31)
  • George Padmore, General Secretary (1931-33)
AffiliationsProfintern

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]

History

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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

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Footnotes

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

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