The Negro Worker. Vol. 2 No. 7. July 15, 1932.

Contents: How the Empire is Governed, An Open Letter to the I.L.D. (U.S.A.), Atrocities in the Congo, Mr. Vandervelde “Discovers” the Congo, Against Illusions in the West Indian Masses, Slave Labour in African Mines, Reactionary Methods in Nigeria, Let Us Close Ranks, Lynch Justice in America, Letter from a Son to his Mother, In the Land of Socialism: A Challenge to the War Mongers , How the, Workers Live in Cameroon , Revolutionary Poems , What is the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers? “An Open Letter to the South” by Langston Hughes and “If We Must Die” by Claude McKay.

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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