International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers explained

ITUCNW
Full Name:	International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers
Affiliation:	Profintern
Headquarters:	Hamburg

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.

History

It was launched in July 1930 at an "International Conference of Negro Workers" that took place in Hamburg. There were 17 delegates including:

• Vivian Henry: Trinidad
• S. M. DeLeon: Jamaica
• I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson

Sierra Leone

• Albert Nzula

South Africa

• Jomo Kenyatta: Kenya
• Frank Macaulay
• George Padmore
• James W. Ford
• I. Hawkins
• J. Reid
• Edward Francis Small: Gambia

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.^[1]

References

Sources

• Weiss . Holger . The Road to Moscow: On Archival Sources Concerning the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers in the Comintern Archive . History in Africa . 2012 . 39 . 361–393 . 10.1353/hia.2012.0000 . 23471011 . 161804698 . 0361-5413.

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Negro Worker A Comintern Publication of 1928-37. Marxists.org. 24 January 2016.