An important issue of ‘The Negro Worker’ if for only the statement on former editor, and historic leader of the ITUCNW, George Padmore’s expulsion from the movement for ‘nationalist deviations.’ There is much else of interest, including reports on the struggle in Liberia and Dutch Guyana, with a detailed report on the revolt in former Togoland by Nandi Noliwe, and statements from the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers on China, Thaelmann, and South Africa.

The Negro Worker. Vol. 4 No. 2. June, 1934.

Contents: Editorial On South Africa, Support the Chinese People in their Struggle Against Japanese Imperialism, Gravest Danger for Thaelman’s Life, The Struggle for the Independence of Liberia, The Expulsion of George Padmore from the Revolutionary Movement by The International Control Commission, Statement of the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers by Charles Woodson (Secretary of the ITUCNW), The Second Five Year Plan in the Soviet Union, Starvation Misery and Terror in Dutch Guyana by A. De Kom, Stop the Disruptive Tactics of the Negro “Leaders” by Helena Davis, Scottsboro Case, The Native Revolt in Togoland (pt. 1) by Nandi Noliwe, Notes and Comments On Liberia Congo South Africa and the Gold Coast, Our Aims.

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/1934-v4n2-jun.pdf