The Negro Worker
{{short description|Newspaper of the International Trade Union Committee for Black Workers.}}
The Negro Worker was the newspaper of the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers. It was called The International Negro Workers' Review, when launched in 1928, but the name was changed in March 1931. It ceased publication in 1937.{{cite web|title=The Negro Worker A Comintern Publication of 1928-37|url=https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/negro-worker/|website=Marxists|accessdate=24 January 2016}}
It was edited first by George Padmore until 1931 and then by James W. Ford.
Relevance
The Negro Worker was the great dissemination instrument of the Comintern, which allowed black people and allies to "have updated information on the struggles that were being waged around the world and the necessary (communist) political orientation for radical transformations, taking as reference to the feat of Soviet Russia".{{Cite book |last=Almanza-Hernández |first=Roberto |url=http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1794-24892020000300059&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=es |trans-title=Afro-Caribbean Panafricanism in George Padmore and C. L. R. James. Inputs Toward Widening the Decolonial Theory |date=2020 |title=Panafricanismo afrocaribeño en George Padmore y C.L.R. James. Insumos para ampliar la genealogía de la teoría descolonial |publisher=Tabula Rasa |doi=10.25058/20112742.n35.03 |pages=59-89 |language=en}} Like Marcus Garvey's Negro World, it was banned for subversion in Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada and Saint Vincent, although this did not prevent the working class (mostly from the oil companies) from circulating the publication clandestinely.{{Cite book |last=Teelucksingh |first=Jerome |title=Ideology, Politics, and Radicalism of the Afro-Caribbean |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US |year=2018 |isbn=978-1-34-995660-9 |language=en}}
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External links
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- [https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/negro-worker/table.htm Table of Contents of each issue]
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