The Negro Worker. Vol. 3 No. 7. May 1, 1930.

Article by George Padmore linked to online text below.

The Negro Worker. Vol. 3 No. 7. May 1, 1930.

Contents: Negro Workers Awakening by A. Lozovsky, Revolutionary Upsurge in the Colonies by L. Heller, May First International Holiday of Revolutionary Labour, Agricultural Workers’ Strike in South Africa by A. Gold, The New Life of a Mongolian National Minority, A Negro T.U.U.L. Organizer in the South of the U.S.A. by Gilbert Lewis, Life Among Negro Farmers in America by George Padmore, Azerbedjan Workers Keep Flag of Internationalism Flying High by Buniat Zade, The Situation in the Belgian Congo. Suppression of the Labor Movement by Willem Maesschalck (Brussels).

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.

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/negro-worker/files/1930-v3n7-may-1st.pdf

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