The Negro Worker. Vol. 2 No. 1. January-February, 1929.

Contents: Lenin The Inspirer of the Oppressed by G. Slavin, The Affiliation of the Federation of Non-European Trade Unions of South Africa to the R.I.L.U. by J.W. Ford, Native Workers’ T.U. Movement in South Africa, The Negro Revolt in “French” Equatorial Africa by Barbe, Statement of the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers of the R.I.L.U. on French Slaughtering in Equatorial Africa, The League Against Imperialism Must Become a Militant Organisation, Speech of T.W. Ford, Representing the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers of the R.I.L.U., Crystallisation of the Negro Race Problem in Cuba.

First called The International Negro Workers’ Review and published in 1928, it was renamed The Negro Worker in 1931. Sponsored by the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers (ITUCNW), a part of the Red International of Labor Unions and of the Communist International, its first editor was American Communist James W. Ford and included writers from Africa, the Caribbean, North America, Europe, and South America. Later, Trinidadian George Padmore was editor until his expulsion from the Party in 1934. The Negro Worker ceased publication in 1938. The journal is an important record of Black and Pan-African thought and debate from the 1930s. American writers Claude McKay, Harry Haywood, Langston Hughes, and others contributed.

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