| The Negro Worker Vol. I, No. 2 (Aug-Sept 1928) Full Issue in PDF | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-5 | Organization of an International Negro Trade Union Committee by the R.I.L.U. | ||
| 5-10 | L. Heller | The Trade Union Movement in Colonial and Semi-Colonial Countries | |
| 11-15 | Padmore (USA) | Problems of Negro Workers in the Colonies - -- U. S. A. Talsks of the R.I.L.U. | Article by George Padmore |
| 15-17 | T. W. Ford | The Mozambique Convention. Slave Traffic in 1928 | |
| 17-24 | J. F. | Industrialisation Processes of the American Negro. 2. Distribution in Industry | |
| 25-30 | Balabushevitch | Coloured Labour in South Africa Part II | |
| 30-32 | Brief News | Dispatches from South Africa, USA, Belgium | |
| The Negro Worker Vol. II, No. 1 (Jan-Feb 1929) Full Issue in PDF | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-2 | G. Slavin | Lenin --- The Inspirer of the Oppressed (Fifth Anniversary of Lenin's Death) | |
| 2-8 | J. W. Ford | The Affiliation of the Federation of Non-European Trade Unions of South Africa to the R.I.L.U.; The Workers (White and Black) of the Offensive Against Capitalist and Imperialist Exploitation | |
| 8-9 | T. Reed | Native Workers' T. U. Movement in South Africa | |
| 9-13 | Barbe | The Negro Revolt in "French" Equatorial Africa | |
| 14 | ITUCNW of the RILU | Statement of the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers of the R.I.L.U. on French Slaughtering in Equatorial Africa | |
| 15-16 | The League Against Imperialism Must Become a Militant Organisation | ||
| 16-18 | T. W. Ford [sic] | Speech of T. W. Ford, Representing the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers of the R.I.L.U., at the Meeting of the Executive Committee of the League, January 16, 1929 | Speech delivered at Plenum of the League Against Imperialism and Colonial Oppression, held in Cologne, 15th-16th Jan. 1929. "T. W. Ford" is likely a misprint of "J. W. Ford". |
| 19-21 | Crystallisation of the Negro Race Problem in Cuba | Reprint from The Nation of Jan. 9, 1929 | |
| The Negro Worker Vol. II, No. 4 (Aug 1929) "Special Issue on the Anti-Imperialist Congress" Issue in PDF (Missing pages 18-20) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1 | I. Call for International Trade Union Conference of Negro Workers | ||
| 1-22 | Comrade Ford | II. The Negro Question. Report to the IInd World Congress of the League Against Imperialism | Report by J. W. Ford |
| 23-25 | Comrade Kouyate | Speech of Comrade Kouyate (Of French West Africa) at the Congress of the League Against Imperialism | |
| The Negro Worker Vol. II, No. 5 (Dec 1929) Full Issue in PDF | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-2 | J. Reed | Anti-Imperialist Struggle of the Negro Workers | |
| 2-4 | George Padmore | Africans Massacred by British Imperialists | Page 4 is misnumbered as "52" |
| 4-8 | J. Wilenkin | Dollar Diplomacy in Haiti | Page 4 is misnumbered as "52" |
| 8-9 | J. Reed | The Strike of Negro Workers in Gambia | |
| 9-10 | Korobitzin | Persecutions in Cuba | |
| 10-12 | Victor | Under the Defence of the League of Nations | |
| 12-15 | M. Rubenstein | Industrialisation of the South and the Negro Problem in the U.S.A. | |
| 16-17 | J. W. Ford | Struggles of Negro Miners in America | |
| The Negro Worker Vol. III, Nos. 1-2 (Jan-Feb 1930) Full Issue in PDF | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1 | An Appeal to Negro Workers of the World | ||
| 2-3 | L. H. | Lenin and the Colonial Question | |
| 3-7 | George Padmore | The Negro Liberation Movement and the International Conference | |
| 7-8 | William Wilson | Some Significant Features of the Coming Negro Workers' Conference | |
| 8-10 | J. Reed | South Africa: Reformists Betray Strike | |
| 10-12 | Musso | How the Influence of the Amsterdam International is Penetrating into Indonesia | |
| 12-13 | S. Victor | Bushmen and Bisons | |
| 13-14 | J. W. Ford | Cultural Construction in Soviet Russia | |
| 14-17 | J. W. Ford | International News Briefs | Items on the USA, the West Indies, Venezuela, Haiti, North Africa |
| The Negro Worker Vol. III, No. 6 (Apr 1930) Full Issue in PDF | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-3 | J. W. Ford, Beatrice Arskind | Workers of All Races, All Nationalities, Rally Under the Banner of the Red International of Labor Unions! Forward to the London International Conference of Negro Toilers! | |
| 3-5 | Fight Against Capitalist Rationalisation, For the 7-hour Work Day! | ||
| 5-7 | L. Burns | Strengthen Workingclass International Solidarity! Defend the Meerut Prisoners! | On the case of 32 trade unionists, including three Englishmen, arrested by British colonial authorities in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| 7-8 | Religion Under the Soviets | ||
| 8-9 | The New Life of a Mongolian National Minority | On the new city of Elista | |
| 9-11 | G. Slavin | Review: "The Future of the Negro" - By Sir Gordon Guggisberg, K.C.M.G. and A. G. Fraser, M.A. | |
| 11 | From the Revolutionary Front of Oppressed Toilers | News items from Congo, the Phillipines, India, USA, | |
| The Negro Worker Vol. III, No. 7 (May 1, 1930) Full Issue in PDF | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-2 | A. Lozovsky | Negro Workers Awakening | Letter from Lozovsky, followed by invitation from from the RILU inviting trade unionists to send delegates to the London conference |
| 2-5 | L. Heller | Revolutionary Upsurge in the Colonies | |
| 5-9 | May First, International Holiday of Revolutionary Labour | ||
| 9-10 | A. Gold | Agricultural Workers' Strike in South Africa | |
| 10- | The New Life of a Mongolian National Minority | On the new city of Elista, Russia | |
| 9-12 | Gilbert Lewis | A Negro T.U.U.L. Organizer in the South of the U.S.A. | |
| 12-14 | G. Padmore | Life Among Negro Farmers in America | |
| 14-16 | Buniat Zade (Chairman of the Soviet People's Commissariat of the ASSR) | Azerbedjan Workers Keep Flag of Internationalism Flying High | |
| 17-18 | Willem Maesschalck (Brussels) | The Situation in the Belgian Congo. Suppression of the Labor Movement | |
| The Negro Worker Vol. III, No. 9 (June 15, 1930) Full Issue in PDF | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-2 | ITUCNW of the RILU | Revolutionary Greetings to the First International Conference of Negro Workers | |
| 2 | Black Masses and the War Danger | ||
| 3-6 | Slavin | Forced Labor | |
| 7-9 | The Labour Government and the Colonies | ||
| 10-13 | Saturnino Ernandez | The Negro Proletariat of Latin America and the International Conference of Negro Workers | |
| 13-16 | J. Reed | Realignment of Forces in South Africa | |
| 17-19 | A. Gold | Conditions of the Working Class in Jamaica | |
| 19-24 | Michelson | Conditions of Negroes in the French and Belgian Colonies of Central Africa | |
| 24-27 | M. K. | The Conditions of the Natives in East Africa | |
| 14-16 | Conditions of the Natives in West Africa | ||
| 27-29 | B. Smith | The Situation in the Belgian Congo. Suppression of the Labor Movement | |
| The Negro Worker Vol. III, Special Number (Oct 15, 1930) Full Issue in PDF | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| Appeal to Our Readers and Editors! | |||
| 1 | To All Toilers of the World! To All Negro Workers and Peasants! | Condemnation of the Labour Government of PM Ramsay MacDonald for impeding the First International Conference of Negro Workers | |
| 2-3 | Executive Committtee of the First International Conference of Negro Workers | To the Workers of All Countries! To all Oppressed Peoples of the World! | |
| 3-5 | V. Chattopadhyaya | The First International Conference of Negro Workers | |
| 6-7 | J. W. Ford | Chairman's Address. The Following is a Summary of the Comrade Ford's Speech to the Conference | |
| 7-9 | George Padmore | The Economic Struggles of the Negro Workers | Report to the First International Conference of Negro Workers |
| 9-10 | William Wilson | For a More Vigorous Struggle Against Forced Labor | Report to the First International Conference of Negro Workers |
| 11-13 | The Negro Workers and the War Danger | Report to the First International Conference of Negro Workers | |
| 13-14 | Resolution Against Lynching | ||
| 14-15 | To All Toilers of the World. To All Negro Workers and Peasants. | Repeat of text on pp. 2-3 | |
| 15-16 | International Congress of Negro Workers (Resolution on the International Red Aid) | ||
| 16 | Election of Executive Committee | ||
| 16-17 | The Aims of the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers | ||
| 17 | Bureau Headquarters | ||
| The Negro Worker Vol. III, Special Number (Nov 1, 1930) Special Issue on the Fifth Congress of the R.I.L.U. Full Issue in PDF | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| Statement to Our Readers | |||
| 1-2 | William Wilson | The V Congress of the RILU and the Black Colonial Masses | |
| 2-10 | James W. Ford | Report on the Work of the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers of the R.I.L.U. | |
| 11-12 | A. Losovsky | Struggle Against White Chauvinism | |
| 13-14 | Tom Marsh - Nigeria | The Negro Movement in Africa | |
| 14-17 | Comrade Green | Comrade Green | Report on conditions in South Africa |
| 17-19 | George Miller | Comrade George Miller (Gambia) | Report on conditions in Gambia |
| 19-21 | George Padmore | Comrade George Padmore (U.S.A.) | Report on conditions in the USA |
| 21-23 | Comrade Belf | The Negro Movement in North and Latin America | |
| 23-24 | Comrade Adams | Comrade Adams (U.S.A.) | |
| 25 | A Southern Textile Workers | ||
| 26-28 | Comrade Hernandez (Cuba) | Report on conditions in Latin America | |
| 29-30 | Negro Delegation Supports the Five-Years' Plan | ||
| 30-36 | Resolutions on the Negro Question | ||
| 37-38 | On the Activites of the International TU Committee of Negro Workers | ||
| The International Negro Workers'
Review Vol. I, No. 1 (Jan 1931) Full Issue in PDF | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 3-6 | Our Aims | ||
| 6-13 | A. Losovsky | Greetings to Negro Workers | Alexander Losovsky was General Secretary of the Red International of Labour Unions (RILU) aka the PROFINTERN |
| 13-16 | Thomas Ring | Revolutionary Forces of Africa | |
| 16-20 | George Padmore | Imperialism in the West Indies | |
| 20-22 | Appeal to the Black Soldiers of France | ||
| 22-24 | E.F. Small | Situation of Workers and Peasants in Gambia, West Africa | Speech at the First international Congress of Negro Workers, Hamburg, July 1930 |
| 25-27 | Our Study Corner - The Rise and History of the Trade Union Movement [pt. 1] & Organization and Functions of a Strike Committee | ||
| 28-30 | Workers Correspondence | From the U.S. and Guadeloupe | |
| Executive Committee, International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers | From the U.S. and Guadeloupe | ||
| Vol. I, No. 2 (Feb. 1931) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 3 | White Terror in South Africa | On Dingaan's Day (16 Dec.) arrestees | |
| 4-5 | The International Day of Struggle Against Unemployment | To be held on 25 Feb. | |
| 5-11 | |||
| J.W. Ford | The International Labour Office and Forced Labour | Ford was the most prominent African-American member of the U.S. Communist Party | |
| 11-13 | W.Z. Foster | The Fight of the American CP Against Unemployment: Significance to Negro Workers | Foster was General Secretary of the U.S. CP |
| 14-15 | Albert Nzula, Johannesburg | Native Workers Make Organizational Advances in South Africa | Nzula was a member of the Executive Committee of the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers (ITUCNW) of RILU |
| 15-18 | Down with Racial and National Chauvinism | Declaration of the 'Negro Delegation' to the Fifth RILU Congress | |
| 18-19 | Special Resolution on World among Negroes in the U.S. and the Colonies [pt. 1] | Adopted by the Fifth RILU Congress | |
| 20-22 | |||
| Our Study Corner - The Rise and History of the Trade Union Movement [pt. 2] & How to Organize for Mass Action | From the U.S. and Guadeloupe | ||
| 23 | Workers' Correspondence | From the U.S., West Africa, and Albert Nzula (South Africa) | |
| Vol. I, No. 3 (March 1931) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 2 | The Change in the Name of Our Journal | This is the first issue to be called The Negro Worker | |
| 3 | M.M. Kotane, Durban | Coming Struggles in South Africa | |
| 4-6 | Shapurji Saklatvala | Who is this Gandhi | Reprinted from The Labour Monthly |
| 7-9 | J.W. Ford | The War Drive Against the Soviet Union - the 'Anti'-Slavery Society, London | |
| 9-12 | Maxim Gorky | Crimes Against the Workers' Republic of Soviet Russia | |
| 12-14 | Wang, Canton | Development of the Chinese Workers' Movement | |
| 14-16 | Special Resolution on Work Amongst Negroes in the U.S. and the Colonies [pt. 2] | ||
| 17-20 | |||
| Our Study Corner - The Organization of Workers' Defence Corps | |||
| 20-21 | Slavery - A Book Review | Book by Kathleen Simon | |
| 21-22 | Workers' Correspondence | From the U.S. and South Africa | |
| Vol. I, Nos. 3-4 (April-May 1931) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 3-5 | Foster Jones, a seaman, Freetown | Situation of Native Workers in Sierra Leone | |
| 5-6 | A. Nzula, Johannesburg | Conference of the African Federation of Trade Unions | To be held 3-5 April in Bloemfontein |
| 6-7 | Moreau, Havana | White Terror in Cuba | |
| 7-10 | J.W. Ford | Negro Seamen and the Revolutionary Movement in Africa (some lessons from Chinese seamen) | |
| 10-12 | R.A. Duman, South Africa | South African Native Farm Tenants | |
| 12-18 | A. Losovsky | Fifth World Congress of the RILU | |
| 18-22 | Summary of the Report of Comrade Ford to the Fifth World Congress of the RILU on Work among Negroes (pt. 1) | ||
| 23-29 | What is the RILU (A Short Record of the Fifth World Congress) | ||
| 29-30 | Workers' Correspondence | From the U.S., Australia, and Japan | |
| 31 | May Day and the Negro Toilers | ||
| The Negro Worker Vol. I, No. 6 (June 1931) Full issue in PDF | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 3-5 | G. Padmore | The Revolutionary Movement in Africa | |
| 5-6 | J.P. Sepeng (Johannesburg) | May 1st Struggles in South Africa | |
| 7-8 | Negro Revolutionary Martyrs | ||
| J. W. Nkosi - African Revolutionary Martyr | Murdered South African Communist | ||
| Death of Gilbert Lewis | An African-American Communist, died of T.B. at Yalta | ||
| 8-11 | Smash the Lynching of Eight Young Negroes | In March 1931 nine African-American youths were arrested in Alabama on rape charges. Although within three weeks all except the youngest had been sentenced to the electric chair, thanks largely to the efforts of the International Labor Defence and other Communist and leftist groups, all were eventually acquitted. | |
| 12-14 | Margaret Clyde, London | Race Prejudice in "Democratic" England | |
| 14-18 | RILU Executive Bureau | To the South African Federation of Trade Unions | Signed by A. Losovsky |
| 19-21 | Our Study Corner - Rise and History of the Trade Union Movement [pt. 3] | ||
| 21-22 | William Patterson | "Race Hatred on Trial", A Book Review | On a pamphlet published by the U.S. Communist Party. Patterson (1890-1980) was a lawyer and leading African-American member of the U.S. Communist Party |
| 22-23 | Workers' Correspondence | From South Africa | |
| The Negro Worker Vol. I, No. 7 (July 1931) Full Issue in PDF | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 2 | Introduction to a Pamphlet: ("ABC of Trade Unionism for Negro Workers") | ||
| 3-4 | Increase and Spread the Scottsboro Defense | ||
| 4-6 | August First | International Day of Struggle Against Imperialist War | |
| 7 | Hands off the Scottsboro Prisoners | Leading article from the Leningrad daily Krasnaya Gazetta of July 6, 1931 | |
| 8-10 | J.W. Ford | The International Conference on African Children | Geneva, 22-25 June 1931 |
| 11-13 | A. Losovsky | ABC of Trade Unionism for Negro Workers (Preface) | |
| 14-16 | Facts About the Soviet Union | Rising purchasing power; use of convict labour; reconstruction of agriculture; the Five Year Plan; extracts from a speech by Stalin | |
| 16-18 | Alexei Tolstoy | History has a Long Memory (The Scottsboro Case) | Poem |
| 18 | Workers' Correspondence | From South Africa | |
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| The Negro Worker Vol. I, No. 8 (Aug. 1931) Full Issue in PDF | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 2 | Liberia and the Dirty Work of the Negro Reformists | ||
| 3-5 | O. Huiswood | Imperialist Rule in British Guiana | Otto Huiswoud (1893-1961), from Dutch Guiana, was a very early member of the U.S. Communist Party. At around this time he visited Trinidad, Jamaica, elsewhere in the colonized Caribbean |
| 5-8 | Mansy | Bloody Suppression of Native Rising in the Belgian Congo | |
| 8-9 | Arthur S. Gray | Capitalism a Menace | Reprinted from Marcus Garvey's Negro World |
| 9-13 | ITUCNW | What Must Be Done in British Guiana. An Open Letter | |
| 13-14 | Against White Terror | On the 1 Aug. 1931 arrest, in Marseilles, of Tiemoko Garan Kouyaté (1902-1942) | |
| 15 | Workers' Correspondence | From South Africa | |
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| Vol. I, No. 9 (Sept. 1931) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 3-5 | Eugene Jordan | After Scottsboro, Camp Hill (The Alabama Massacre) | Reprinted from The New Masses of Aug. 1931 |
| 5-8 | ITUCNW | An Appeal to the Black Soldiers of France | |
| 9-10 | |||
| P.G. Moloinyane, African Federation of Trade Unions, Johannesburg | Vuka Afrika (Rise, Africa), Serfdom Strangles Black Masses | ||
| 10-11 | Harold Williams, New York | Socialists Spread Race Hatred - Communists Fight for Unity of the Working Class | |
| 9-13 | ITUCNW | What Must Be Done in British Guiana (An Open Letter) | Geneva, 22-25 June 1931 |
| 12-14 | George Padmore | Lynch Law: the Class Weapon of the American Bourgeoisie | |
| 14-16 | Facts About Soviet Russia & the Declaration of the Rights of Working and Exploited Peoples | As accepted by the Jan. 1918 Third Congress of Soviets | |
| 17-19 | ITUCNW | What the Workers of Sierra Leone Should Do (An Open Letter) | |
| The Negro Worker Vol. I, Nos. 10-11 (Oct.-Nov. 1931) Full Issue in PDF | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 2-4 | The War Danger - War in the East | ||
| 5-11 | George Padmore | Under the War Yoke of Imperialism. Hands Off Liberia! | |
| 12-13 | Forced Labour Under the British Flag | ||
| 13-16 | Colonial Masses in Revolt - the End of the Labour Government | The Aug. 1931 collapse of Britain's Second Labour government | |
| 16-18 | Huiswood | The Congo Uprising | |
| 18-19 | Charles Alexander (Trinidad) | Negro Workers Starving in Cuba | |
| 20-22 | The Anti-Imperialist Movement: Resolution of the League Against Imperialism (pt. 1) | Adopted in Berlin, 2 June 1931 | |
| 23-25 | Hermann Remmele | The Land of Socialist Construction. Two Worlds: Socialism & Capitalist | |
| 25-30 | International News in Brief . Facts Worth Knowing | Hunger demos in the U.S., strikes in Texas; the position of migrant workers in Cuba; an anti-tax demo. in Grenada | |
| 31 | Capitalist Terror | ||
| 31-37 | Under the Banner of The Red Aid | ||
| 37-38 | Voices from the Colonies | Inviting letters to The Negro Worker | |
| 38-42 | Workers' Correspondence | From Guadeloupe, South Africa and Nigeria | |
| 42-43 | Death of Comrade Macaulay | On the news of the death of Frank Macauley | |
| 43-44 | Workers' Bookshelf | ||
| 45 | What is the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers? | ||
| 46 | What We Fight For: | ||
| Vol. I, No. 12 (Dec. 1931) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 3-4 | Workers, Defend Your Colonial Brothers! | ||
| 4-7 | G. Padmore | Bankruptcy of Negro Leadership | Denouncing, inter alia, W.E.B. DuBois and the leader of the Trinidad Workingmen's Association, Captain A.A. Cipriani |
| 8-9 | T. Jackson (an alias of Albert Nzula) | South African Negro Workers and Dingaan's Day | |
| 9-10 | Soviet Movement in China | ||
| 10 | New Revolt in India | Tax strikes in Bengal, Kashmir, and the United Provinces | |
| 10-13 | B.J. | Belgian Imperialist Rule in Ruanda | |
| 13-15 | J.B. | Land of Socialist Construction: the Union of Free Soviet Republics | |
| 15-17 | O.E. Huiswoud | Starving Workers Demonstrate in Demerara | |
| 17-19 | Mansey | How to Organize the Unemployed | |
| 19-20 | G. Kouyaté | Black and White Seaman Organize for Struggle | France |
| 20-24 | A correspondent | British Oppression in West Africa | |
| 24-27 | The Crises in Africa | ||
| 28-29 | Workers' Correspondence | A letter from H. Williams on the position of migrant workers in Cuba and elsewhere | |
| 29 | J.B. | Press Review | Of the African Federation of Trade Unions publication The Hammer and the League Against Imperialism's Anti-Imperialist Review |
| Vol. II, Nos. 1-2 (Jan.-Feb. 1932) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 2-3 | Our First Anniversary | ||
| 3-4 | G.P. | Workers, Defend Liberia! | |
| 4-10 | G. Padmore | The War Is Here | |
| 11-13 | Lenin - Our Greatest Leader | ||
| 13-16 | Maxim Gorky | Capitalist Terror in America | |
| 16-19 | O. Huiswood | The Fight Against Starvation in Dutch Guiana | |
| 19-21 | R. Bishop | The Fight for Indian Independence | |
| 22-25 | I. Amter | What is Taking Place in Soviet Russia? | |
| 25-28 | Negro Workers, Fight Against the War! | Resolution adopted in July 1930 by the ITUCNW | |
| 28-32 | Workers' Correspondence | An African sailor describes his visit to the USSR | |
| The Negro Worker Vol. II, No. 3 (March 1932) Full Issue in PDF | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| What is the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers?3e | |||
| 2-3 | Race Prejudice in England | ||
| 4-9 | G.P. | War in the East | |
| 9-11 | Imperialist Orgies in Africa | ||
| 11-14 | G. Padmore | How the Imperialists are "Civilizing" Africa | |
| 14-18 | Charles Alexander | For a Revolutionary Trade Uni | |
| 19-26 | O.E. Huiswood | The Labor Movement: The Economic Crisis and the Negro Workers [pt. 1] | |
| 27-28 | G. Kouyatte | Solidarity Between White and Coloured Sailors | In France |
| 28 | The World Congress of Seamen | To begin 20 May 1932 in Hamburg | |
| 29-32 | Workers Correspondence | From Liberia and the U.S., and from Reginald Bridgeman, Secretary of the British section of the League Against Imperialism. Reginald Francis Orlando Bridgeman (1884-1968) had risen smoothly from one diplomatic position to another, to be posted to Teheran at about the time Reza Shah seized power, Bridgeman became so friendly with Soviet Ambassador Feodor Rothstein that the Foreign Office began to distrust him and in 1923 retired him from the Service. Bridgeman's first interest in anti-colonial work was connected with the London Chinese Information Bureau. |
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| The Negro Worker Vol. II, No. 4 (April 1932) Full Issue in PDF | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| What is the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers? | |||
| 2-3 | The Scottsboro Boys Shall Not Be Murdered! | Joint statement of Exec. Committee of Red Aid, Exec. of the ITUCNW | |
| 4-6 | War in the East | ||
| 7-9 | Child Labour in China | ||
| 10-12 | H.I.M. | Native Peoples Under the Union Jack | On the treatment of Aboriginal Australians |
| 13-15 | Bransley R. Ndobe, Secretary of the Independent African National Congress | Capitalist Terror in South Africa | |
| 15-19 | T. Jackson (South Africa) | Negro Misleaders in South Africa | On the role of Prof. D. Jabavu; also Thaele, Abdurahman and Kadalie |
| 19 | Self-Determination for the West Indies | Report of a 25 Feb. 1932 meeting of the Negro Welfare Association, London | |
| 20-24 | Appeal to Negro Seamen and Dockers! | ||
| 25-27 | O. E. Huiswood | The Economic Crisis and the Negro Workers [pt. 2] | |
| 28-29 | Capitalists Gone Crazy | On the destruction of foodstuffs in the midst of semi-starvation | |
| 30-31 | O. Huiswood | Stop the Scottsboro Murder | |
| 32 | Solidarity Between Black and White Workers | In the U.S., on the Scottsboro and other issues | |
| The Negro Worker Vol. II, No. 5 (May 1932) Full Issue in PDF | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-6 | G.P. | Soviets for Peace - Capitalists for War | Editorial |
| 6-8 | Cyril Briggs | War in the East: Negro Workers, Fight Against Imperialism | Briggs (1888-1966), from Nevis, was a very early member of the U.S. Communist Party |
| 8-9 | The Scottsboro Campaign: Boys Appeal from Death Cells to the Toilers of the World | Letter from the defendants in the Scottsboro case: Andy Wright, Olen Montgomery, Ozie Powell, Charlie Weems, Clarence Norris, Haywood Patterson, Eugene Williams, Willie Robertson | |
| 9-10 | The Origins of Lynch Law in America | ||
| 11 | Burn the "Nigger!" | Report of the lynching of Henry Lowry, reprinted from Padmore's The Life and Struggles of Negro Toilers | |
| 12-14 | T. Albert Marryshow | Appeal to West Indians Overseas | Editor of The West Indian, President of the Grenada Workers' Association, and an elected member of the Legislative Council of Grenada, Marryshow mentions a demo. by 10,000 against a proposed customs bill |
| 14-15, 18-20 | B. Jan | How the French Imperialists Are "Civilizing" Madagascar | |
| 16-17 | Bradman | How Britain Exploits India | |
| 20 | To Our Readers | Introducing an up-coming series of articles by Cyril Briggs | |
| 21-22 | Believe It or Not | On, among other things, the South African Service Contract Bill, racial discrimination in Britain, and the execution of two African-Americans for petty theft | |
| 23-25 | James Warren | Negro Miners in South Africa | |
| 26-27 | Aug. J. Egyir-Benyarku | Socialism is Only a Matter of Time | Reprinted from The Gold Coast Spectator |
| 27-28 | They Shall Not Die! | Scottsboro case | |
| 29 | In the Land of Socialism | Pictorial on the USSR | |
| 30-32 | Our Study Corner - Capitalist War, Imperialist War, and the Workers' Way Out | ||
| What is the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers? | |||
| The Negro Worker Vol. II, No. 6 (June 15, 1932) Full Issue in PDF | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-3 | Geo. Padmore | What is Empire Day? | |
| 3-4 | T. Jackson (Johannesburg) | South Africa and the Imperialist War | |
| 5-8 | Kolliselleh Tamba, Secretary of the Liberian Workers' Progressive Association | Liberia and the Labour Problem | |
| 9-11 | B.J. (Hamburg) | Scottsboro Campaign in Europe | |
| 12-14 | How the British Empire was Built | ||
| 14-15 | A.R. (Trinidad) (this was Adrian Cola-Rienzi) | "Negro Worker" Banned by Imperialists | |
| 15-16 | Colonial Dictators | On British Conservative Secretary of State for the Colonies Sir P. Cunliffe-Lister | |
| 16-17 | A Reply | Account of a London NWA meeting on the banning of the Negro Worker from Trinidad | |
| 18-19 | How Negroes Live in America | ||
| 20-22 | J.M. Olgin | In the Land of Socialism: A Brotherhood of Nationalities | |
| 23-25 | World Congress of Seaman | Hamburg, 20-23 May 1932 | |
| 25-27 | Negro Worker Nominated for Vice-President | The CP U.S. candidate for vice-president was James W. Ford | |
| 27-29 | Cyril Briggs (New York) | The World Situation and the Negro (pt. 1) | |
| 30-31 | L. Volinsky | International News: Twelve Years of the League of Nations | |
| What is the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers? | |||
| The Negro Worker Vol. II, No. 7 (July 1932) Full Issue in PDF | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-6 | Geo. Padmore | How the Empire is Governed | |
| 6 | ITUCNW, George Padmore | An Open Letter to the I.L.D. (U.S.A.) | To the U.S. section of the International Labour Defence |
| 7-9 | Lukuta te | Atrocities in the Congo | |
| 10-11 | Mr. Vandervelde "Discovers" the Congo | Vandervelde was President of the Second International | |
| 12-15 | Charles Alexander (Trinidad) | Against Illusions in the West Indian Masses | Garveyism and false hopes of aid from the British Colonial Office |
| 16 | A Worker Correspondent | Slave Labour in African Mines | |
| 16-18 | "West African" | Reactionary Methods in Nigeria | |
| 18-19 | Jim Headley | Let Us Close Ranks | On a class rather than 'race' basis. Headley was a seaman who spent most of his life in the U.S. |
| 20-22 | A Correspondent | Lynch Justice in America | |
| 22-23 | Letter from a Son to his Mother | American Tom Mooney, imprisoned since 1916 | |
| 24-28 | In the Land of Socialism - A Challenge to the War Mongers | ||
| 28-30 | J. Bilé, Secretary, League for the Defence of Cameroon workers | How the Workers Live in Cameroon | |
| 31 | Revolutionary Poems | "An Open Letter to the South" by Langston Hughes and "If We Must Die" by Claude McKay | |
| What is the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers? | |||
| The Negro Worker Vol. II, No. 8 (Aug. 1932) Full Issue in PDF | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-4 | George Padmore | The World Today | |
| 5-8 | T. A. Jackson | Ireland Fights for Freedom | Reprinted from The Daily Worker |
| 9-10 | Charles Alexander (Trinidad) | Free Speech and Press for West Indian Masses | |
| 11-13 | J. E. | The Situation, Kenya | |
| 14-17 | Cyril Briggs | How Garvey Betrayed the Negroes | |
| 18-20 | J. Louis Engdahl | Scottsboro Campaign in England | |
| 21-22 | S. P. R. (Grenada) | Misery in the West Indies | |
| 22-24 | A Garveyite Offended | An exchange between Padmore and a British Guiana Garveyite | |
| 24-2820 | J. Komfeder | Where Terror Reigns | Re. Venezuela |
| 29-31 | Cyril Briggs (New York) | The World Situation and the Negro [pt. 2] | |
| 32 | Romain Rolland | Romain Rolland Denounces Imperialism | |
| What is the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers? | |||
| Vol. II, Nos. 9-10 (Sept.-Oct. 1932) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-6 | Looking the World Over: Congress Against War; British "Justice" in India; Negro Victories at the Olympics; World Congress of the ILD | ||
| 7-9 | Special Correspondent | Oppression in Nigeria | Hut taxes |
| 9-12 | Yuraba | Religion in the Service of Imperialism | In Nigeria |
| 12-14 | Ottawa - Conference of Imperialist Exploiters | ||
| 14-16 | Under the Banner of the Red Aid: Terror in Madagascar and the Scottsboro Case | ||
| 17-18 | Believe It or Not | On South Africa's pass system | |
| 19-21 | In the Land of Socialism - Education in the Soviet Union | ||
| 22 | Arnold Ward | A Letter from London | On a outing for 130 children to Southend-on-Sea sponsored by the Negro Welfare Association |
| 23-25 | Voices from the Colonies | Letters from Liberian and British Guiana | |
| 26 | Africa at Work | On African skilled workers | |
| 27-28 | B. Jan | The Struggles of Seamen and Harbour Workers in British Guiana | |
| 28-30 | Open Letter to Gandhi's Agent | To Vitalbai Patel from Reginald Bridgeman, Secretary of the British section of the LAI | |
| 31-32 | Langston Hughes | The Same | A poem |
| Vol. II, Nos. 11-12 (Nov.-Dec. 1932) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-3 | New Slave Law in South Africa | The Native Contract Service Act | |
| 4-5 | Hands Off Ovamboland! | Southwest Africa, a League of Nations mandate under South African control | |
| 6-17 | O.H. | Labour Movement in South Africa - Problems and Tasks of the Revolutionary Trade Unions | This was Otto Huiswoud, who the COMINTERN had sent to work with the CP of South Africa |
| 17-24 | Potechin | How to Build the Unemployed Movement | Re. South Africa, by I.I. Potekhin |
| 25-27 | A. Dombowski | Under the Banner of the Red Aid - the Scottsboro Case | |
| 28-31 | George Padmore | The Land of Socialist Construction - Fifteen Years of Soviet Russia | |
| 32 | Langston Hughes | Good-bye Christ | One of his most controversial poems |
| Vol. III, No. 1 (Jan. 1933) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 2-3 | Free Tom Mann | Mann was a 76 year-old Communist arrested in an 'anti-means test' demo. | |
| 3-4 | Huang Ping Must Be Saved! | Huang Ping was Chair of the Chinese Federation of Trade Unions | |
| 5-6 | Imperialist Rule in Jamaica | Concerning a riot involving the 1st Northumberland Fusiliers in Kingston | |
| 6-7 | G. Padmore | Nationalist Movement in West Indies | Also mentions the London Negro Welfare Association |
| 8-10 | Cyril Briggs | We Honor the Memory of an African Fighter | Zulu leader Dingaan, finally subdued by the Boers on 16 Dec. 1838 |
| 11-12 | Africa in Revolt: Natives Storm Jail in Rhodesia | Also contains a section on events in French-colonized west Africa | |
| 12-14 | Raoul Marquez | Africa in Revolt: Portuguese Guinea | |
| 14-18 | R. Doonping | In Japan the Protector of the Coloured Races? | |
| 18-25 | J. Kenyatta, General Secretary of the Kikuku Central Association | An African Looks at British Imperialism | |
| 26-28 | Wal. Daniels | Unemployment in Sierra Leone and the Way Out | Daniels was a nom de guerre of I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson |
| 28 | Negro Longshoremen in New Orleans | Efforts to bar African-American workers from the docks being fought by the Marine Workers' Industrial Union | |
| 30-31 | Our Study Corner - What is Imperialism? | ||
| 32 | Langston Hughes | "Song of the Revolution" and "The End of War" | |
| Vol. III, Nos. 2-3 (Feb.-March 1933) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-6 | George Padmore | Negro Toilers Speak at the World Congress of the International Labour Defense | Padmore's speech on this occasion |
| 6-8 | W. Taylor | Conditions of Negroes in the U.S.A. | Excerpts from his speech at the ILD Congress |
| 9-12 | T. Jackson, South Africa | The ILD and the Negro Peoples | |
| 13-15 | South African Imperialism Institutes New Terror Actions Against Natives | ||
| 15-16 | A Wave of Terror is Sweeping Over Haiti | Ligue des Ouvriers en General d'Haiti made illegal; author Jacques Roumain arrested | |
| 16 | Mass Protest Saves Working-Class Leader | Huang Ping | |
| 16-19 | Edgar Owens | What is the ILD? | |
| 20 | America's "Honour" Role | List of 37 people, including 2 'whites', lynched during 1932 | |
| 21-24 | Vivian E. Henry | Class War in the West Indies | A speech to the ILD Congress by a Trinidadian |
| 24-25 | Stop Murder of Workers | Scottsboro case | |
| 25-26 | Chairman of the ILD Engdahl - Symbol of International Solidarity | ||
| 27-28 | T. Jackson | Under the Banner of the ILD in Africa | Speech by Nzula to the ILD Congress |
| 29-30 | Letters from Delegates | From V.E. Henry (Trinidad) and Hubert Critchlow (British Guiana) | |
| 31 | Langston Hughes | Free Tom Mooney | |
| Vol. III, Nos. 4-5 (April-May 1933) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-3 | Fascist Terror Against Negroes in Germany | ||
| 3-4 | British Hypocrisy Exposed | In South Africa and the Meerut case in India | |
| 4-7 | Mob Rule in Germany | A summary of information culled from the Manchester Guardian | |
| 8-15 | The Scottsboro Case | ||
| 15-16 | Land Robbery in Africa | Kenya | |
| 17-18 | British Refugees in Liberia | People who had fled Sierra Leone | |
| 19-21 | A Colonial Worker | Anti-Imperialism Movement in the West Indies | |
| 22-23 | Sydney and Beatrice Webb (Lord and Lady Passfield) | Russia Today | |
| 24-26 | Race Prejudice in England | A letter from Cardiff, Wales | |
| 25-26 | S.M.D. | Peasant Distress in Jamaica | A letter |
| 27-28 | Believe It or Not | On various topics including Gandhi, literacy in the USSR, and Soviet plans for a film on the life of Toussaint l'Ouverture | |
| 28-31 | Report of Negro Workers' Leader on the Soviet Republic | Speech by Hubert Critchlow in Georgetown, British Guiana | |
| 31-32 | Successful Fisherman's Strike in Africa | South Africa | |
| Vol. III, Nos. 6-7 (June-July 1933) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-4 | George Padmore | The Fight for Bread | |
| 5-6 | Land Robbery in Africa | ||
| 7-9 | Terror Over Germany | ||
| 10-12 | League Against Imperialism | What is Empire Day? | |
| 13-18 | John L. Spivak | The Scottsboro Trial | |
| 19-21, 26 | D.N. Pritt, K.C. | Justice in Soviet Russia | |
| 22-26 | Believe It or Not | Slavery in the contemporary world; illiteracy in India; abuse of Aboriginal Australians | |
| 27-29 | E.R. Roux, Johannesburg | Black Traitors Exposed | |
| 30-31 | ITUCNW | United Front Against Fascism | |
| 32 | An Appeal | For funds to aid the London NWA's children's program | |
| Vol. III, Nos. 8-9 (Aug.-Sept. 1933) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-2 | Harold Williams | Toussaint L'Ouverture | |
| 3-4 | The White Men's Civilizing Mission in Africa | ||
| 4-5 | Bravo, British Guiana! | Demo. by 1,000 on May Day | |
| 6-8 | Religion in the Service of Imperialism | ||
| 9-17 | George Padmore | Notes and Comments | On British Imperialism in India; slavery in the contemporary world; American "democracy"; the visit of a South African cabinet minister to Hitler: "Uncle Tom" Moody |
| 18 | George Padmore | Au Revoir | |
| 19-25 | To Our Brothers in Kenya | ||
| 26 | London Negroes Support West Indian Freedom | The London NWA had adopted a resolution opposing the Trinidad Trade Union Ordinance of 1932, advocating refusal to register | |
| 27 | A Voice from the Colonies | A letter from Nigeria | |
| 29-31 | Romain Rolland | British "Justice" in India | |
| 32 | Nancy Cunard | Lincoln's Grinding Verbiage | A poem |
| (Oct. 1933-April 1934 - publication suspended) | |||
| Vol. IV, No. 1 (May 1934) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-2 | We Resume Publication | From Copenhagen, under the editorship of Charles Woodson | |
| 3-4 | May Day | ||
| 5-8 | E. Owens | Lynch Terror in the U.S.A. | In 1933, there had been more than 40 recorded lynchings |
| 9 | Albert Nzula | Died, 7 Jan. 1934, in Moscow | |
| 10-16 | ITUCNW | To the Workers and Peasants of Liberia | |
| 17-19 | B.D. Amis | National Recovery Act in U.S.A. means Negro Repressive Act | |
| 20-26 | Albert Nzula | The Fusion Movement in South Africa | |
| 27-29 | Helen Davis | The Negro Workers and the Cuban Revolution | 'Helen Davis' was Hermina Dumont-Huiswoud (1905-98), originally from British Guiana |
| 30-32 | Notes and Comments | Feb. 1934 execution of 9 African-Americans; the colonial government of Trinidad's Seditious Publications Ordinance banned 30 foreign publications including The Negro Worker | |
| 32 | ITUCNW | Expulsion of Kouyaté | |
| The Negro Worker Vol. IV, No. 2 (June 1934) Full Issue in PDF | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-4 | Editorial | On South African control of Swaziland, Basutoland, and Bechuanaland | |
| 5-8 | An Appeal to the Negro Workers: Support the Chinese People in their Struggle Against Japanese Imperialism | ||
| 8, 15, 31-32 | Gravest Danger for Thaelman's Life. Statement of Saar Delegation who spoke with Thaelmann | Ernst Thälmann (1886-1944) was Chair of the German Communist Party | |
| 9-13 | The Struggle for the Independence of Liberia | ||
| 14 | International Control Commission | The Expulsion of George Padmore from the Revolutionary Movement | As of 23 Feb. 1934, the COMINTERN expelled Padmore for "contacts with a provocateur [Garan Kouyaté], for contacts with bourgeois organizations on the question of Liberia, for an incorrect attitude to the national question". |
| 14-15 | Charles Woodson (Secretary of the ITUCNW) | Statement of the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers | Statement on the expulsion of George Padmore |
| 16-18, 22-23 | The Second Five Year Plan in the Soviet Union | ||
| 19-20 | A. De Kom | Starvation, Misery and Terror in Dutch Guyana | Due to his politics, Anton De Kom (1896-1945) was exiled from Dutch Guiana to the Netherlands |
| 21-22 | Helen Davis | Stop the Disruptive Tactics of the Negro "Leaders" | |
| 24 | Scottsboro Case on Appeal May 24 | ||
| 25-26 | Nandi Noliwe | The Native Revolt in Togoland (pt. 1) | |
| 27-31 | Notes and Comments | On Liberia, the Congo, South Africa, and the Gold Coast | |
| Our Aims: | |||
| Vol. IV, No. 3 (July 1934) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-5 | Smash the Attack on Colonial Seamen | ||
| 5 | Smash U.S. Fascist Terror - Rescue Herndon from Chain-gang | Angelo Herndon (1913-1997) was an African-American Communist organizer of the unemployed | |
| 6-10 | A Betrayer of the Negro Liberation Struggle | Against Padmore and Kouyaté | |
| 11-13 | Regime of Terror in Nigeria | ||
| 13-15 | D.T. | Education in Jamaica, British West Indies | |
| 16-17 | J.G. | South Africa Greets the Negro Worker | |
| 18 | British Guiana Labour Union Reports | ||
| 19-21 | M. Nelson, Liberia | Liberia and Imperialism | |
| 21 | Virgin Islanders Fear U.S. Million Dollar Offer | ||
| 23-30 | Notes and Comments | Britain, France, and the U.S. talk disarmament while preparing for war; veterans march in the U.S.; German Jewish villages subjected to 'ethnic cleansing'; U.S.S.R. establishes a Jewish Soviet Region; Scottsboro defence outlawed in Haiti; in the U.S., a strike involving 25,000 Pacific and Gulf port-workers; U.S. postal workers display inter-racial solidarity; new forced labour laws in French-colonized Africa; spreading revolt in Angola; worsening conditions of Africans in South Africa, Kenya, and the Congo; Cuban workers organize | |
| 31-32 | H.D. | Stevedore | Review of a play |
| 32 | Langston Hughes | Union | A poem |
| The Negro Worker Vol. IV, No. 4 (Aug. 1934) Full Issue in PDF | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-2 | ITUCNW | To the Negro Peoples of the World! | Editorial |
| 2-3 | A Century of "Emancipation" | On 1 Aug. 1834, slavery had been abolished across the British Empire. It was followed by four years of 'apprenticeship' before true emancipation on 1 Aug. 1838. | |
| 3-4 | The 143rd Anniversary of the Haitian Revolution | ||
| 5-8 | Herman W. MacKawain, Assistant General Secretary, U.S. League of Struggle for Negro Rights | The Negro Thinks of War | |
| 8-9 | Proposed Bill for Negro Rights in the U.S.A. | ||
| 10-11 | Langston Hughes | Negroes Speak of War | |
| 11-12 | B. | The Soviets for Peace | |
| 13-14 | Greetings to the "Negro Liberator" | Under the editorship of Ben Davis Jr., this was the new name of The Harlem Liberator | |
| 14 | 9 Years of Struggle | The U.S. section of the ILD had been established in June 1925 | |
| 15-17, 21 | Helen Davis | The Rise and Fall of George Padmore as a Revolutionary Fighter | |
| 18 | A Conference on "The Negro in the World Today" | Held in London, 14-15 July 1934. Represented were the League of Coloured Peoples, the LAI, the NWA, and the Bus Workers' Rank and File Movement. Some colonial students were also present. | |
| 19-21 | Nandi Noliwe | The Native Revolt in Togoland (pt. 2) | |
| 22 | P.M. | A British Worker Writes | From Cardiff, on the National Union of Seamen's non-defence of the rights of colonial workers. |
| 22-23 | ITUCNW | Our Reply | |
| 23 | Fascist Activities in Africa | In Southwest Africa and Kenya | |
| 26-27 | Notes and Comments: The program fro human destruction | On arms bought by the imperialist powers | |
| 27 | Bloody June 30th in Germany | On Nazism's 'Night of the Long Knives' elimination of Ernst Röhm and his Sturmabteilung | |
| 28 | South African Party Fusion | ||
| 29 | Prohibition of German War Film in Kenya | Prohibition of the making of a pro-German film on the First World War in Kenya | |
| 29 | Intensified Repression of Kenya Natives | ||
| 30 | Confiscation of Native Arms in Tanganyika | ||
| 30 | Longshoremen's Strike | The San Francisco General Strike | |
| 30 | Scottsboro Decision Upheld - ILD Appeals | ||
| 31 | War Film on Negroes | About film on African-Americans in World War I | |
| 31 | Portugal's Colonial Exposition | ||
| 3 | Situation in Belgian Congo | ||
| 32 | The Congo - Ocean Railway Completed | ||
| 32 | French Medical "care" in Equatorial Guinea | ||
| 32 | Profits of the Colonial Exploters | ||
| Our Aims | |||
| The Negro Worker Vol. IV, No. 5 (Sept. 1934) Full Issue in PDF | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-2 | This "Foul and Obnoxious" Tract | Editorial on British Secretary of State for the Colonies Cunliffe-Lister statements on The Negro Workerq | |
| 3 | "Democracy" and "Equality" in Britain | On 1 Aug. 1834, slavery had been abolished across the British Empire | |
| 4-7 | W. Daniels | Development of Fascist Terror in the Gold Coast | Daniels was I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson |
| 7-8 | Youth Anti-War Congress Supports Colonials | ||
| 8 | Women's Congress Against War | ||
| 9-13 | J.S. | Fight for the Freedom of Abyssinia | |
| 14-15, 22 | H.D. | Is Imperialist Japan the Friend of Negro Toilers? | Referring to an article by Harry Haywood in the C.P.U.S. Daily Worker |
| 16-19 | Organizational Tasks Among the Water Transport Workers | Section titled "Organizational Points" | |
| 20-22 | Resolutions Adopted at the London Conference | 14-15 July, resolutions presented by the League of Coloured Peoples and the NWA | |
| 23-26 | M.G. | A Letter from South Africa: Fusion and "Die Bureger's" Attitude Toward the Natives | |
| 26-27 | Wallace-Johnson | A Letter from the Gold Coast: The Criminal Code Ammendment Bill of the Goald Coast | On the Criminal Code Amendment (Sedition) Bill |
| 28 | Excerpts from letter from Trinidad, Br. W. Indies | On organizing the unemployed | |
| 29 | Mombassa Dock Strike | ||
| 29-30 | Negroes active in Strikes | In the U.S. | |
| 30 | Herndon Out on Bail | ||
| 30 | British Fascist Touring West Indies | A representative of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists | |
| 31-32 | U.S. Government Sends Agent to Liberia | ||
| 32 | Japan's Provocations Against Soviet Russia | ||
| 32 | Indian Communist Party made Illegal | ||
| Our Aims | |||
| Vol. IV, Nos. 6-7 (Oct.-Nov. 1934) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-2 | TUCNW | The Negro Worker Shall Not Be Silenced | Publication prohibited by the Belgian government |
| 2 | World Congress of Students | To be held 29-31 Dec. in Geneva | |
| 3 | Wal. Daniels | Nigeria Again - Another Wave of Atrocity | |
| 3 | To the Readers and Supporters of The Negro Worker | An appeal for articles and letters | |
| 4-6 | J.H. - this was Trinidadian seaman Jim Headley | Jobless Trinidad Toilers Demand Bread | |
| 7-9 | A. Ward, Secretary of the NWA, London | The Negro Situation in England | |
| 9-11 | Myra Page, author of The Gathering Storm and Soviet Main Street | In the Black Belt of the U.S. | |
| 12-14 | J. Kenyatta | British Slave Rule in Kenya | His speech to the July 1934 London 'Negro' Conference |
| 15 | W. Daniels | Das sdrarstwuiet | A poem reprinted from The Gold Coast Spectator |
| 16-17 | Rescue the Scottsboro Boys from the Hangman | ||
| 18, 24 | Samuel Weinman | Roosevelt Goes Slumming in the Virgin Islands | Reprinted from the C.P.U.S. Daily Worker |
| 19-20 | Our Letter Box | Letters from England and South Africa | |
| 21-24 | Notes and Comments | On British colonial 'justice' in Kenya; continuing revolt in the Congo; revolution in Spain; solidarity victory of South African 'Bantu' miners; other South African trade union activity | |
| Vol. IV, No. 8 (Dec. 1934) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-2 | Dingann's Day | In South Africa | |
| 3 | On the Anti-Imperialist Front: Conference of the LAI in London | ||
| 3-4 | Indian Conference in London | ||
| 4 | Italian Imperialism Attacks Abyssinia | ||
| 5-6 | Helen Davis | The Approaching War of "Defence" | |
| 10 | Barney Conal | War is Murder of the Masses | A song |
| 11, 15 | John Reed Club of New York | Another Scottsboro Victory | |
| 12-15 | Organizing Tasks Among the Mine Workers | ||
| 16-17 | Do You Know That | On the British Incitement to Disaffection Bill; British inflation; the arms race; arrest of 350,000 annually in South Africa; the Duke of Kent's £25,000 annual "dole" | |
| 18-19, 24 | A Negro Delegate to the Soviet Union | Seventeen Years After | 17 years since the Bolshevik Revolution |
| 20-21 | South African Events | ||
| 22-24 | Notes and Comments | Re. South Africa's 'poor whites'; Alfred Rosenberg's The Myth of the Twentieth Century; Japanese budget for 1935-36; government outrages in Spain; la Cri des nègres in the Belgian Congo; Chinese Red Army battles foes | |
| Vol. V, No. 1 (Jan. 1935) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-2 | Italian Imperialists Grab at Abyssinia | ||
| 2-4 | To the Toiling Masses of Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland | ||
| 5-6 | Charles Woodson | The United Front of the White and Native Workers in South Africa | |
| 7-9 | J.Q. | Fusion in South Africa | |
| 10-16 | H. Jordan (a pseudo-name of I.I. Potekhin) | What is the Independent Native Republic? | |
| 16 | Mayibuye (Give Us Bank Our Land) | A song from South Africa | |
| 16 | Albert Nzula | Commemorating his death, a year earlier, age 29 | |
| 17-20 | Organizational Points | Concerning agricultural workers | |
| 21-23 | J. Mansey | Strikes in South Africa | |
| 23-26 | John Izotla - another nom de guerre of I.I. Potekhin | On the Question of the Native Cooperative Societies in South Africa | |
| 27-28 | Do You Know That? | On Ceylon's new constitution; Britain's arms budget; the fall of palm-oil prices in Cameroon; Japanese versus British trade with Morocco | |
| 29-31 | Notes and Comments | On recent strikes and demonstrations in Mombassa, Kenya; Road workers' strike in Jamaica; demonstrations in the Virgin Islands; election of West Indian Robert Robinson to the Moscow city Soviet | |
| Vol. V, Nos. 2-3 (Feb.-March 1935) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-2 | "They Sell Us and Our Children" | Re. Bechuanaland | |
| 2 | London Theatres Ban Scottsboro Aid | ||
| 3-5 | Charles Woodson | Italy's Grab for Africa | |
| 5-6 | Central Committee of the Italian Communist Party and Young Communist League | Hands Off Abyssinia! | |
| 6 | Italian Troops Sail to Make War on Abyssinia | ||
| 7-8 | Lester Hutchinson | The New Constitutional Straight-jacket for India | |
| 10-12 | The Struggle Against Fascism in South Africa | ||
| 12-13 | D.I., South Africa | What the A.C.C. Mean | The African Congress Clubs |
| 13-15 | Helen Davis | Supporters of Colonial Rule | Against missionaries |
| 16-19, 15 | Albert Nzula | The Struggles of the Negro Toilers in South Africa (pt. 1) | |
| 20-21 | Akim | The Handicrafts Men of Africa Belong in the Fighting Front of the Workers | |
| 22-24, 28 | M. Nelson | The Situation in Liberia (pt. 1) | |
| 25-28 | Our Letter Box | Letters from South Africa and A. Ward of the London NWA | |
| 29-31 | Notes and Comments | On a 'Race Museum' in Moscow; victory by the Chinese Red Army; strike in St. Kitts; Germany's colonial ambitions | |
| 32 | W. Daniels | The Declaration of Capitalism | A poem reprinted from the Gold Coast Provincial Pioneer |
| Vol. V, No. 4 (April 1935) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-3 | Slave Rule in the Belgian Congo | ||
| 3-4 | Imperialist Apologists | On Charles Roden Buxton's visit to east Africa | |
| 4-5 | "Europe is Dying" - Mussolini | ||
| 6-10, 24 | Charles Woodson | Italian Troops Pour into Africa | |
| 11-14 | Albert Nzula | The Struggles of the Negro Toilers in South Africa (pt. 2) | |
| 15 | Colonial Program of the British Communist Party | As adopted in Feb. 1935 | |
| 16-20 | Organizational Points - How to Organize the Unemployed | ||
| 21-24 | M. Nelson | The Situation in Liberia (pt 2) | |
| 25-26 | H.F. | Our Letter Box: Gold Coast - Why Farmers Get So Little for Their Cocoa | |
| 26 | Our of Their Own Mouths | Quotes from Lord Curzon and G.M. Huggins, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia | |
| 27-? (pp. 28-30 missing) | |||
| Notes and Comments | On the plight of West Indians; Congress of U.S. unemployed workers; jailing of Haitian revolutionary writer Jacques Roumain; strike in Natal coalmines; South African importation of workers from Mozambique | ||
| 31-32 | Helen Davis | Rakosi Stands Before His Judges | Mathias Rakosi had been a leader of the 1919 Hungarian Soviet, sentenced to life imprisonment |
| Vol. V, No. 5 (May 1935) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-3 | May Day | ||
| 3-4 | Jubilation and Thanks-giving for Profits | Why Lever Brothers, the United Africa Co., Ashanti Goldfields, etc., should celebrate the 25th anniversary of George V's coronation | |
| 5-7 | James W. Ford | For Defence of Ethiopia | Extracts from a speech, 7 March 1935, in New York |
| 7, 24 | Italy Continues War Preparations | ||
| 8-9 | Hermann Eugene | The Fight for Bread - A General Strike of Agricultural Workers | Martinique |
| 10-11 | RILU Executive Bureau | Letter to the International Trade Union Federation | |
| 12-14 | Letter from Tom Mann to the South African Trade Unions and to all Working Men and Women in South Africa | ||
| 15 | Victory for Scottsboro Boys | ||
| 16-17 | Slavery: 100 Years Ago [and] Today | ||
| 18-19, 22 | A.Z. | Is There a Class of Native Capitalists in South Africa? | |
| 20-22 | Albert Nzula | The Struggles of the Negro Toilers in South Africa (pt. 3) | |
| 23-24 | M. Nelson | The Situation in Liberia (pt. 3) | |
| 25-27 | Our Letter Box | From R. Bridgeman on Roden Buxton's African visit | |
| 27 | Imperialism the Enemy | A quote from Lenin on British imperialism | |
| 28-31 | Notes and Comments | On a riot in Harlem; a U.S. anti-sedition bill; anti-war demos. In New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago; unemployed demo. in the Gold Coast; malaria epidemic in Ceylon; 19 March 1935 massacre in Karachi, India; protests by British farmers | |
| 32 | Chinese Reds Reap Victories | ||
| Vol. V, No. 6 (June 1935) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1 | Impending Conflicts in West Africa | ||
| 2 | Tightening the Shackles | South Africa | |
| 3-5 | ITUCNW | To the Gold Coast Trade Unions | |
| 6-9 | Akim | The Struggles of the Workers in West Africa | |
| 10-13 | Kofi Kwessi | Struggle of the Workers of Sierra Leone and Gambia | |
| 14-15 | Soukt | The Gold Coast Delegation and the Anti-Imperialist Movement | |
| 16-19 | William L. Patterson | The Abyssinian Situation and the Negro World | |
| 19, 25 | War Menace Hangs Over Abyssinia | ||
| 20-22 | Albert Nzula | The Struggles of the Negro Toilers in South Africa (pt. 4) | |
| 23-24 | The Ashanti Confederacy | ||
| 26-28 | Workers Shot in the West Indies | St. Kitts sugar strike, Jan. 1935 | |
| 29 | Dockers Strike in Jamaica | ||
| 29 | Gold Coast Mine Strike | ||
| 30 | Nazis Persecute Negro | African-born wrestler Jim Wango | |
| 31 | British Colonial Seamen Face Destitution and Deportation | ||
| 32 | Another Strike in Jamaica | ||
| Vol. V, Nos. 7-8 (July-Aug. 1935) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-3 | Five Years of Struggle | The fifth anniversary of the formation of the ITUCNW | |
| 3-5 | ITUCNW | Hands Off Abyssinia | |
| 6-10 | The Anti-Imperialist Struggle in Northern Rhodesia | ||
| 11-12 | The Rhodesian Mine Strike | On the copper-fields of Northern Rhodesia | |
| 15 | "God Save the King" | On the fatigue of King George V | |
| 16-19, 34 | Watt Nolan | Preparing New Land Expropriations in Kenya | |
| 20-22 | Fifth Anniversary Greetings | From R. Bridgeman, the African Federation of Trade Unions, the U.S. branch of the ILD, the London NWA, and H.E. O'Connell representing Black workers in Cardiff | |
| 24-27 | William L. Patterson | Negro Harlem Awakes | |
| 28 | Monster May Day Rally in British Guiana | With emphasis on the defence of Abyssinia | |
| 29 | Negro Worker Elected in Paris | Felix Merlin, from Martinique | |
| 29 | Workers Sentenced | Martinique | |
| 30-31 | Organizational Points: A Few Hints on How to Carry on a Strike | ||
| 32-34 | "I am Among My Own People in My Own Land" | From African-American Margaret Glascow, living in the Soviet Union | |
| 35-3830 | Our Letter Box | From Hubert Critchlow (British Guiana); from London, giving extracts of a speech by S. Saklatvala to the Coloured Nationals Mutual Social Club | |
| 38 | Trade Union Unity in Dutch Guiana | ||
| 39-40 | Notes and Comments | The Divide-and-rule tactics of South African capital; U.S. relations with Liberia; Japan's invasion of China | |
| Vol. V, No. 9 (July-Aug. 1935) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-2 | ITUCNW | An Appeal - Stop this Fascist Robber's War | Ethiopia |
| 3-5 | International Conference in Paris in Defence of Abyssinia | ||
| 5-6 | Durban Committee of the South African Communist Party | Refuse to Ship Goods to East Africa (an appeal to the Harbour Workers of South Africa) | |
| 7-9 | Lorenzo Gault | An End to Empire-Building | |
| 10-11, 18 | Cardiff Coloured Seamen's Committee | Coloured Seamen's Struggle Against De-Nationalization | |
| 12-14 | International Actions in Support of Abyssinia | In the U.S., Europe, St. Lucia, Trinidad, British Guiana, India, Egypt, and South Africa | |
| 15, 24 | Call for a United Front | India | |
| 16-17 | Nationalities in the Soviet Union | ||
| 17-18 | Nomad | Gypsies | |
| 19-20 | Workers' Victory | In a Johannesburg strike, reprinted from Umsebenzi | |
| 20 | "Sedition Craze" | Reprint of an editorial in The Gold Coast Provincial Pioneer of 18 May 1935 | |
| 21 | Henri Barbusse - Friend of Oppressed Colonials Dead | ||
| 22-23 | Notes and Comments | Cardiff port-workers threatened with deportation; a colonial seamen's organization formed in London; African-American L.A. Walton appointed to Liberia; Polish investment in Liberia; ILD efforts to save Anglo Herndon; riot in Kenya; Henderson, an African-American woman, represents the C.P.U.S. in Moscow for the Seventh Congress of the COMINTERN; union growth in Dutch Guiana | |
| Vol. V, No. 10 (Oct. 1935) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-2 | Editorial: End the Bloody Slaughter in Abyssinia | ||
| 2-3 | To the Negro People | Defend Abyssinia | |
| 4-5, 26-27 | E. Varga | Italy and the Struggle for Abyssinia | Abridgement reprinted from the British Daily Worker |
| 6-7 | ITUCNW | An Open Letter to the Negro Workers and Toilers of [Northern] Rhodesia, to the Watch Tower Movement and to the Members of the Watch Tower Organization | |
| 8-11 | The Struggle Against Fascism in South Africa | ||
| 12-13 | New Anti-Native Bills! | Reprinted from Umsebenzi | |
| 14-15 | German Imperialism Seeks Colonies in East Africa | ||
| 16, 27 | An E. African | Gold in East Africa | |
| 17-18 | Aid Your Journal | ||
| 20-21 | "Loin Cloth" | On Japanese versus European competition in selling textiles to Africa | |
| 22-23, 25 | Albert Nzula | The Struggles of the Negro Toilers in South Africa (pt. 5) | |
| 28-31 | Notes and Comments | 20th birthday of Umsebenzi ("the South African Worker"); Trade union unity in France; Haiti condemns Italy in the League of Nations; most Italian-Argentinians are anti-fascist; British CP demonstrates in support of Ethiopia; events on India's northwest frontier; whites split in Kenya (settlers versus the colonial government); Nazi Germany bans jazz; four South African CP members on trial; sugar-workers revolt in British Guiana | |
| 32 | Langston Hughes | The Same | A poem |
| Vol. V, No. 11 (Dec. 1935) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-2 | Editorial: Defeat the Imperialist Sell-Out! | Of Ethiopia by the League of Nations | |
| 2 | Dingaan's Day | ||
| 3, 28 | G.R. | Johannes Nkosi | Commemorating his death, 16 Dec. 1930 |
| 4-5 | The Robber "Peace" Project | An Anglo-French plan to dismember Ethiopia | |
| 6-7 | Ethiopia's Protest | At the League of Nations | |
| 7-8 | Red Cross Protests Italian Murder | Bombing of the Tafari Makonnen Hospital in Dessie, Ethiopia | |
| 8-9 | Conference of the Negro Welfare Association | London, 20 Oct. 1935 | |
| 9 | NWA, London | Resolution on Abyssinia | |
| 10 | The New English parliament | Results of the Nov. 1935 election | |
| 11-13 | Communist Parties of Canada, Ireland, England, Iraq, Palestine, Egypt, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand | An Appeal to the people of all part of the Empire against war | |
| 13, 20-21 | Harry Pollitt | How the "Jolly George" was Stopped | In 1920, London dockworkers had refused to load munitions intended for use against the USSR |
| 14-16 | Charles Woodson | Peoples' Candidate Victor in the Gold Coast | A.W. Kojo-Thompson elected to the Legislative Council |
| 16 | Indian Opinion on the Italo-Ethiopian Conflict | ||
| 16 | European Deported from Africa | A representative of the Watch Tower (Jehovah's Witnesses) society | |
| 17 | Soviet China Hails Abyssinia | ||
| 17 | West African Youth League Growing Rapidly in the Gold Coast | Its leader was I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson | |
| 18-19, 24 | Helen Davis | Egypt Awakes | Opposition to British policy on Ethiopia |
| 21 | Mutiny on Italian Ship | ||
| 21 | Anti-Fascist Balloons | Carry leaflets into northwest Italy | |
| 22 | Saratu Kaidun | Liberia Greets Soviet Russia | |
| 23 | British Congress on Peace and Soviet Russia | ||
| 23 | Statement of the World Youth Committee (Paris) against Italian Aggression in Ethiopia | ||
| 25-28 | Notes and Comments | Angelo Herndon released on bail; Japanese advance further into China; Cardiff worker Harry O'Connell arrested; racist policies in Southern Rhodesia; further segregation of South African Cape 'coloureds'; San Pietro, Italy, anti-war/ unemployed demo; Trinidad dockworkers refuse to unload Italian ship 'Virgilio' | |
| Vol. VI, No. 1 (March 1936) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-2 | Editorial: The Geneva Proposal | Selling-out Ethiopia | |
| 2-3 | A South African "Compromise" | Creating separate voters roles in Cape Province | |
| 5-6 | Shapurji Saklatvala | British General Election | In Nov. 1935, creation of a second coalition "National" government |
| 7-9 | Sidelights on the Italo-Abyssinian Conflict | Increases in draft-evasion and desertion; Vatican supports invasion of Abyssinia | |
| 9 | The First French Field Hospital Goes to Abyssinia | ||
| 9-10 | Maritime Federation of the Pacific Votes to Stop all Transport of War Material to Italy | ||
| 10 | Conference of Negro and Arabs to take place in Paris, 12-13 April | International Committee for the Defence of the Ethiopian People | |
| 12 | London Scottsboro Resolution | ||
| 13-15 | R. Bridgeman | Fight Against Colonial Oppression: Election Methods in the Gold Coast | |
| 15-16 | Conference of the LAI | Fifth annual conference held in London, 25-26 Jan. | |
| 16 | Stop This, English Workers! | Harassment of a distributor of The Negro Worker | |
| 17-18 | Aid Your Journal | ||
| 19 | National Negro Congress in the U.S. | Chicago, 14-16 Dec. 1935 | |
| 19-20 | Chinese Soviet Greetings to the U.S. Negro Congress | Sent by Mao | |
| 20-21 | China's Students Arise | Reprinted from China Today | |
| 22-23 | Resolution Adopted by the All-Africa National Convention | Bloemfontein, 16 Dec. 1935 | |
| 24-26 | Our Letter Box | A letter from British Guiana, and a letter and poem from 'Charlie' in Liberia | |
| 26-27 | A white seaman | Exploitation of Indian Labourers | |
| 28 | Saklatvala - Kipling | Their deaths, 16th and 18th Jan. respectively | |
| 28-29 | Helen Davis | Two Epitaphs in an English Graveyard | Contrasting the role of Saklatvala with that of arch-imperialist Kipling |
| 30-32 | Notes and Comments | The 16 Feb. Spanish election; Twenty African-American prisoners burned to death in the U.S.; the Franco-Soviet Pact; Gold Coast railway workers protest; tax-resistance in Kenya | |
| Vol. VI, No. 2 (April 1936) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-2 | Editorial: The Great Betrayal! | Of Abyssinia by the League of Nations | |
| 3-4 | The Struggle for Colonies | ||
| 4, 30 | Tom Mann is Eighty Years Old! | ||
| 5-8 | Who Rules British Africa and the West Indies | ||
| 9 | Colonies - For Whose Benefit? | ||
| 9-10 | The Plight of the Poor Peasants and Oppressive Taxation | In the face of falling prices for exported raw materials | |
| 12-15, 22 | Helen Davis | Hitler Germany Demands Colonies | |
| 16-17, 36 | The "Haves" Reply to the "Have-nots" | British, French, Portuguese, Dutch and other colonials reply to German demands | |
| 18-20 | ITUCNW | An Appeal to the Negro Workers and Toilers | |
| 21-22 | Do You Know That: | The British Empire covers a quarter of the earth; the extent of white-settler occupation in South Africa and Kenya; the extent of illiteracy in India; the state of education in Britain's African colonies | |
| 23, 36 | Native Labour in the Colonies | By colony and economic sector | |
| 24-26 | Henri Morice | The Marine Workers' Fight Against the Fascist Italian War in Ethiopia | |
| 27 | Rotten Sardines for the Ethiopian Army | An English company at fault | |
| 27 | Doctors boycott German goods | In India | |
| 28-29 | I. Richter | The Coloured Workers in South Africa | |
| 30 | Ernst Thaelman | His 50th birthday | |
| 31-34 | Vivien Jackson | Shapurji Saklatvala | An obituary |
| 35 | British Fascist Propaganda | ||
| 35 | Youth Peace Conference | Brussels, 29 Feb. to 1 March | |
| 35 | Why Hitler Got 99% | On recent German 'election' | |
| Vol. VI, Nos. 3-4 (May-June 1936) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-2 | Editorial: Mussolini Occupies Ethiopia | ||
| 3 | ITUCNW | An Appeal to the Negro Workers and Toilers | |
| 3-5 | International Conference on Abyssinia | Paris, 9-10 May | |
| 6-9, 34 | R. Bridgeman | Britain and the System of Colonial Mandates (pt. 1) | |
| 10-12, 35-36 | Notes and Comments | New Registration of Natives legislation in S. Rhodesia; Land Question in Kenya; Gold Coast election case re. Kojo-Thompson; labour migration from Nyasaland; N. Rhodesia government 'native' newspaper; struggles in the Belgian Congo; National Congress Convention in India; Subhas Chandra Bose imprisoned without trial | |
| 13-16 | A Friend of South Africa | A Memo. on South Africa with Special Reference to Native Conditions (pt. 1) | |
| 17 | British Guiana Labour Union | May Day Message | |
| 18-19 | Reaction Beaten in Cape Town | Charges against Minnie Gool and John Gomas dropped | |
| 20-21 | John Marks | Native Oppression in S. Africa | |
| 22-27 | Herbert Newton | The National Negro Congress | Chicago, 14-16 Feb., attended by some 900 delegates |
| 28-29 | Our Letter Box | Letters from Hubert Critchlow (British Guiana); John Marks (South Africa) and H. O'Connell (Wales) | |
| 30-34 | News About Abyssinia | ||
| 36 | The Woman Today | New York: A new monthly for women workers begins publication | |
| Vol. VI, No. 5 (July 1936) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-2 | Editorial: Britain Turns Tail | Withdraws sanctions against Italy | |
| 2-3, 7 | First Steps in Roman "Civilization" | In Ethiopia | |
| 4-5 | The People's Front | Spain and France | |
| 5 | Accra Election Results | Kojo-Thompson defeats his opponent 1,022 to 867 | |
| 6-7 | K.B., Jerusalem | An Appeal from Palestine | |
| 8-11 | Helen Davis | Palestine Arabs Revolt | |
| 12 | Sixth Anniversary of the ITUCNW | ||
| 13-16 | A friend of South Africa | A Memo. on South Africa with Special Reference to Native Conditions (pt. 2) | |
| 17 | Alex Gossip, General Secretary, U.S. National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades Association | A letter | About the union, formed in 1865 |
| 18-19, 35 | John Marks, Johannesburg | Transvaal Native Teachers and their Conditions | |
| 20-21 | Our English Correspondent | Arrival of Ethiopian Emperor | Haile Selassie I in London, 2 June |
| 22-24 | Our English Correspondent | Gold Coast Levy Bill Passed | Extending indirect rule |
| 25, 35 | German Colonial Campaign | ||
| 26-32 | Notes and Comments | Poisoned in Prison? (Jolibois, Haiti); Gold Coast arrest of I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson and detention without trial of the former Dadiasuabehene of Kumasi, Kofi Sechere | |
| 18-21, 32 | Robertson, London | For Equal Rights and Freedom in South Africa | |
| 22-23, 36 | John Gomas | All-African Convention to be Permanent - Make it a Mass Liberation Movement | |
| 24-26 | Harold Preece | Negro Disfranchisement in Texas | |
| 27-29 | Charles Alexander, West Indies | Emancipation Day and the Struggle for Real Freedom | |
| 29-30 | D.R. | Slavery in the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago | |
| 31 | Negro for Vice Presidency | James W. Ford again running as CP U.S. candidate | |
| 32 | Native Trade Union Conference | Johannesburg, 5 July 1936 | |
| 33-36 | Our Letter Box | Letters from South Africa, Jamaica, and Boston | |
| Vol. VI, No. 8 (Oct. 1936) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-2 | Editorial: The Menace of Fascism | ||
| 2-3 | The New Soviet Constitution | ||
| 4-6, 15 | Ray Alexander, Cape Town | The Fight for Trade Union Unity in South Africa | |
| 7-14, 22 | Non-European Railway Workers' Conference | Cape Town, 3-4 Aug. 1936 | |
| 15 | Aubrey Lowe | Need for a United Front with Natives | Reprinted from The South African Worker |
| 16-19 | A. Mathews, South Africa | For a Peoples' Front in South Africa - For Bread, Work and Land | |
| 20-22 | Frank O'Brien | Harlem Shows the Way | Abridged article reprinted from The New Masses |
| 23-24, 32 | Harold Preece | Negro Slaves and Mexican Solidarity | Against efforts to victimize Mexican migrant workers |
| 25-26 | D.R., Trinidad | British Imperialisms' Hunger Drive in Trinidad | Against the colonial government's Cocoa Relief Scheme, Shop Closing Hours and Minimum Wage Ordinances |
| 27-28 | Notes and Comments | Eight Puerto Rican nationalists sentenced to 2 to 6 years imprisonment; Sharecroppers Union Convention of delegates from Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi; Herndon wins Stay of Appeal; Haitian writer Jacques Roumain released from jail; Arrests of 300 Jehovah's Witnesses in the Belgian Congo | |
| 29-30 | The Struggle in Abyssinia | ||
| 30 | D. Matini, South Africa | National Liberation League formed in Port Elizabeth | |
| 31-32 | Our Letter Box | Letters from the South African Railway and Harbour Workers' Union, Cape Town, and the Dock Workers' Union of Dutch Guiana | |
| Vol. VI, No. 9 (Nov. 1936) | |||
| 1-2 | Editorial: Nineteen Years of Soviet Rule | ||
| 2 | On Going to Press | German recognition of the Italian empire | |
| 3-4 | Ray Alexander, Cape Town | The League Decision on Abyssinia | |
| 5-10 | Charles Woodson | No Colonies for Hitler | |
| 11-13, 16 | Henri Morice | Italian Fascism Has Installed its Regime of Terror and Slavery in Ethiopia | |
| 14-16 | Leo Wanner | Fascist Danger in N. Africa | |
| 17-19 | Charles Alexander, West Indies | The Struggle of the Unemployed in St. Vincent | |
| 20-21 | The Fascist Rebellion in Spain | ||
| 21-22 | Declaration of French Minister of Colonies | Marius Moutet: "... we shall seriously carry on our role of civilizers and emancipators" | |
| 22 | How to Fight Against the Anti-French Propaganda of Germany in Our Colonies | Moutet statement reprinted from Le Petit Parisien of 9 Sept. 1936 | |
| 23-24 | Speech of Cypril Philip | Black delegate to Brussels International Peace Congress | |
| 24-25 | Resolutions Concerning Colonial Peoples Introduced at the Brussels International Peace Congress | ||
| 26, 31 | Nandi | Review of Should Colonies Be Given Back to Hitler? by Francis Jourdin | |
| 27-29 | Notes and Comments | Native 'stay-in' strike of some 100 members of the South African Laundry Workers' Union; Miami strike by 250 African-American dock-workers; Martinique workers organize; plans to curb Black population growth in Bermuda; tragic condition of labour migrants from Nyasaland; taxation in Nigeria; education in Southern Rhodesia; Trinidad in the Vanguard - letter from T. Harris (President of the southern section of the Trinidad Labour Party) to The People newspaper, opposing anti-communist propaganda and urging anti-fascist unity re. Spain | |
| 32 | Aid Your Journal | ||
| Vol. VI, No. 9 (Dec. 1936) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-2 | Editorial: The Fascist Front | ||
| 3 | Hail The Dawn | Published by the Gold Coast West African Youth League | |
| 4-5, 11 | Transvaal All-African Convention | ||
| 6 | The Peoples' Front in S. Africa | ||
| 7-11 | Wm. L. Patterson | Helping Britain to Rule Africa | Pt. 1 of an attack on George Padmore's book How Britain Rules Africa |
| 12 | How They Rule! | British rule in Malaya | |
| 13-18, 22 | Notes and Comments | ID cards in Nyasaland; Cape Town African voter challenges the National Republic Act in the Supreme Court; South Africa Native Trust and Land Act of 1936; in memory of Zulu King Chaka; Johannesburg mine strike; Austria, Hungary, and Yugoslavia recognize the Italian empire; taxation methods in Kenya; Prof. H.J. Fleure and Sir Cyril Fox denounce theories of racial superiority at a conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; Dr. Van Broekhuizen (S. African ambassador to Belgium) promotes apartheid; representatives of the Gold Coast Aborigines Rights Protection Society return home; an Arkansas cotton-planter is indicted for slavery | |
| 19-20 | Wm. L. Patterson | Who Are the War Makers? | Letter reprinted from the Baltimore Afro-American |
| 23-28 | Our Letter Box | A Letter from Garveyite J.R. Ralph Casimir (Dominica) and a reply; a letter from Dutch Guiana | |
| 29-32 | Monte | Review of two books: The Preparation and First Operations by Marshal de Bono and The Ethiopian War by Marshal Bodoglio | |
| Vol. VII, No. 1 (Jan. 1937) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-2 | Editorials: 1937 - Japan Recognizes Italian Conquest | ||
| 3 | The Fate of Ethiopia | ||
| 4 | Sovereign or Slave? | On the Gold Coast sedition trial of I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson | |
| 4, 10 11 | Two Worlds | Adoption of the new Soviet Constitution contrasted with the Edward VIII abdication 'crisis' | |
| 5-7 | Helen Davis | Who Really Rules Britain | |
| 7 | English Popular Front Campaign | ||
| 8-9, 15 | Wm. L. Patterson | Helping Britain Rule Africa (pt. 2) | Continuing the attack on Padmore |
| 10 | West African Youth League | 27 Nov. 1935 telegram to the LAI, London, on the 114-day detention-without-trial of four WAYL | |
| 10 | R. Bridgeman, representing the LAI | 30 Nov. 1936 letter to the Colonial Office | |
| 11, 16 | Culled From the Press | What is Detribalization (from The Gold Coast Spectator); The Issues of War or Peace Are in Our Hands (Daily Worker); Unjust Taxation of Native (South African Worker) | |
| 12-14 | Notes and Comments | British punitive expedition on India's northwest frontier; Nehru re-elected Congress President; 11,000 Chinese street-sweepers strike, Singapore; Chief Tshekedi Khama of Bechuanaland loses his claim; Jamaicans reject tariff bill; Italy's other victims - North Africa; death of Italian writer Luigi Pirandello; Angelo Herndon victory; Spain promises Morocco self-government | |
| 15-16 | Our Letter Box | From W.A. Domingo of the Jamaica Progressive League (New York); from P.K. (North Shields, England), a "colonial able seaman with an international outlook" | |
| Vol. VII, No. 2 (Feb. 1937) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1-2 | Editorials: Support the Spanish People; German Foothold in Morocco; Spread the Negro Worker Campaign | ||
| 3 | ITUCNW | An Appeal to All Negro Organizations | To keep Germany imperialism out of Africa |
| 4 | British Left-Wing Unity: Support for Colonial People | Declaration by the British CP, the LAI, and the Socialist League | |
| 4 | Colonial Seamen Conference | London, 29 Nov. 1936 | |
| 5-6 | Negro-Blooded Pushkin to be Honoured by Soviet Toilers with Great Jubilee | Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) honoured on the centenary of his death | |
| 6 | Helen Davis | Frederick Douglass | On the 120th anniversary of his birth (12 Feb. 1817) |
| 7, 10 | Charles Alexander, West Indies | Bermuda Government Plans to Sterilize Negroes | |
| 8-9 | Wm. L. Patterson | The Negro Spirituals and the Robeson Concerts | Paul Robeson visiting the USSR |
| 11, 15 | Culled From the Press | In Defence of Soviet Russia (News Chronicle, 9 Jan. 1937) | |
| 12-13, 16 | Wm. L. Patterson | Helping Britain to Rule Africa (p. 3) | Again, against Padmore |
| 14 | Monte | Soviet Film: Circus | An anti-racist film |
| 14, 16 | Ben Davis Jr. | Soviet documentary: Abyssinia | |
| 15 | Two Conference of European Youth on Spain | ||
| 15 | Our Letter Box | A message from Basutoland | |
| Vol. VII, No. 3 (March 1937) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1 | Editorial: An Ethiopian Fights for Spain | Ghvet, son of Ras Imru | |
| 1, 7 | No Colonies to Hitler | Resolution adopted by the Colonial Seamens Association, London | |
| 2-3 | A Pole | Fascist Poland - Prison of Peoples | |
| 3 | A Progressive Parson | African-American Baptist minister Marshall Shepard | |
| 4 | Two Ethiopians: Father [Ras Imru] Italian Captive - Son Fighting for Spain | ||
| 5 | Bermuda Bosses Ban Births, to Solve Unemployment they Say | In reality, to prevent the Black population from becoming a majority | |
| 6-7 | Charles Alexander | Frederick Douglass: Great Negro Abolitionist | |
| 8-9, 13 | Wm. L. Patterson | West African Youth and the Peoples' Front | |
| 10-11 | Charles Alexander, West Indies | 1937 - A New Year of Struggle for the West Indian Masses | |
| 11, 15 | Culled from the Press | South African Native Affairs Minister's New Year's 'gift' | |
| 12-13 | Paul Robeson Speaks | Over Radio Moscow | |
| 14-15 | Nandi | Some Results of the French Peoples' Front Government in Favour of the Colonies | |
| 15 | Two Conference of European Youth on Spain | ||
| 16 | Notes and Comments | South African Native doctor and curfew regulations; slave conceptions in South Africa; All-African Convention wins a case against tram-car segregation; transit strike in Nigeria; West African Youth League protests; Cuba deporting 50,000 Haitians and Jamaicans | |
| Vol. VII, No. 4 (April 1937) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1 | Editorial: Atrocious Massacre in Abyssinia | Of some 6,000 people in Addis Ababa | |
| 2 | World Commission Against War and Fascism | Save the Spanish Republic, the Bulwark of Liberty and Peace! | |
| 3-4 | Wallace-Johnson | "No Sir! No Colonies Back" for Germany | |
| 5-6 | Ben Bradley | India Goes to the Polls: Election Under the New Constitution | |
| 6 | Share-croppers' Union Presents Proposals: 40 acres and a mule | ||
| 7, 14-15 | Wm. L. Patterson | The Negro and the Centenary of Alexander Pushkin | |
| 8-10 | Civil Liberties for Colonial Peoples | Sixth annual conference of the LAI, London, 27-28 Feb. 1937 | |
| 10, 16 | Minimum Wages in the Windward Islands [Caribbean] | From ILO publication Industrial and Labour Information | |
| 11 | Culled From the Press | Soviet Ambassador to Britain M. Maisky warns the aggressors; "Negroes Pledge Aid to Steel Drive" (from U.S. Sunday Worker) | |
| 12-13, 15 | Our Letter Box | A letter from and a reply to J.R. Ralph Casimir (Dominica); a letter from the U.S. replying to Casimir's Dec. 1936 letter to The Negro Worker | |
| 16 | Notes and Comments | Native Court in South Rhodesia; Gold Coast representative to the coronation of George VI | |
| Vol. VII, No. 5 (May 1937) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1 | Editorials: May Day, 1937; Terror in Abyssinia | ||
| 1 | The Negro Worker Confiscated | In Cape Town, South Africa | |
| 2 | Negroes on the Spanish Front | Ethiopian Ahmed din Joseph, and African-American nurse from Harlem, Salaria Kee | |
| 3-5 | South African News | ||
| 4 | W.D.L. Matini | National Liberation League of South Africa Active in Port Elizabeth | |
| 6-7 | African Workers on the March | On recent strikes | |
| 7 | W. Driver | Suid Afriknanse Spoorweg En Hawer Werkers Unie | |
| 8 | Edward E. Strong, U.S. National Negro Congress | The Negro Youth Offensive | |
| 9, 13-14 | Wallace-Johnson | The W. African Youth League: its Origins, Aims and Objectives | |
| 10-12 | Voices from South Africa | Letters | |
| 14-15, 19 | Jacques Roumain | Haiti a Dictatorship - Lessons and Results | |
| 16 | Concerning Sterilization in Bermuda | ||
| 16 | No Colonies for Germany | Statement to the League of Nations by two Trinidad groups - the Negro Welfare and Cultural Association and the Amalgamated Building and Woodworkers' Union | |
| 16 | Negro Expert Heads Soviet Farm | He was George W. Tynes | |
| 16-17 | Helen Davis | Book Review: W. Adolphe Roberts' pamphlet Self-Government for Jamaica | |
| 17, 19 | Austin Worth | How Religion and the Church Mislead the Negro People | |
| 20 | Our Letter Box | Letters from Trinidad, Haiti, and Dutch Guiana | |
| Vol. VII, No. 6 (June 1937) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1 | Editorials: Aid for Negro Fighters [support from Paul Robeson]; Herndon Lives!; Free the Scottsboro Boys!; Keep Ethiopia at Geneva | ||
| 2 | Paul Robeson | He calls for Aid to Negroes Defending Democracy in Spain | |
| 2 | Abyssinian [Ahmed din Joseph] killed in Spain | ||
| 2 | James For in Stirring Appeal [to aid Spain] | ||
| 3 | L.P. | Angelo Herndon is Free! | |
| 4 | John Gomas | 2000 Protest Against New Anti-Colour Legislation, Spirit of Unity Grows | Cape Town, 22 March |
| 5, 15 | Charles Alexander (W. Indies) | The New King [George VI] and the W. Indian Masses | |
| 6 | Helen Davis | Abyssinia - A Year After [the Italian victory] | |
| 6 | May Day Celebrations | In the U.S., France, London, the USSR, and Spain | |
| 7 | Congress of the National Liberation League [of South Africa]: Resolution | ||
| 7 | Native Delegation for Geneva | South African Trades and Labour Council asks to attend an international labour conference | |
| 7 | Nazis checked in S.W. Africa | ||
| 8-9 | Ray Alexander (Cape Town) | One More the Fight for Trade Union Unity in S. Africa | |
| 10-11 | Austin Worth | Some Negro Workers in the Soviet Union | |
| 12 | Robert Warren | "Follow the Drinkin' Gourd" | A story about the Underground Railway |
| 12 | African chiefs at Coronation | Ademola II, Alake of Abeokuta (southern Nigeria) and Yeta III of Barotseland | |
| 13 | With the Paul Robeson family | Paris interview | |
| 14-15 | Wallace-Johnson | Great Britain and the Bond of 1844 | A British treaty with kinds and elders of the Gold Coast |
| 16 | Notes and Comments: No equality for natives [re. South African Minister of Defence Pirow]; Stay-in Strike in Salvation Army [by 100 junior officers in Tokyo]; Two young New Zealanders jailed in London as stow-aways; Some Britons Are Slaves [British seamen sentenced to 3 months hard labour for mutiny]; Peaceful use for Soviet Planes [spraying to eradicate malarial mosquitoes] | ||
| 16 | Our Letter Box | From Dutch Guiana and South Africa, the latter opposing return of colonies to Germany | |
| Vol. VII, Nos. 7-8 (Sept.-Oct. 1937) | |||
| Pages | Author | Headline | Description |
| 1 | Editorial: Japanese Imperialists invade China | ||
| 1 | A donation from Spain | From a 'white' American fighting in Spain | |
| 2-3 | ITUCNW | Statement ... To all our Supporters! To all readers of The Negro Worker | |
| 2-4, 16 | Charles Alexander (W. Indies) | The Fighters for Emancipation | Cudjoe and the Jamaica Maroons |
| 5-6 | William L. Patterson | The Scottsboro Case | |
| 6-7 | H. | A Story of the Great Strike | On the oilfields of Trinidad, June 1937 |
| 7, 14 | Helen Davis | "Black Dogs Only Bark - They Cannot Bite" | Contravening this idea from the experience in Trinidad |
| Copy of a Leaflet which Encouraged the Workers in the Strike | Issued by the Trinidad British Empire Workers' and Citizens' Home Rule Party | ||
| 8-9, 11 | Wallace-Johnson | British Armaments and the West African Colonies as I See Them | |
| 10-11 | Langston Hughes | Speech | To the second International Writers' Congress, Paris, July 1937 |
| 12-13, 16 | Call for National Convention | Issued by Cape Province organizations | |
| 14 | Revolt in "Little England" | Barbados uprising of July 1937 | |
| 15 | T. Harris (a colonial worker) | What is Fascism? | |
| 15 | A Trinidadian Writes on Fascism | A poem reprinted from The Barbados Observer of 12 June 1937 | |
| 16 | Sugar Strike in Mauritius | ||
| 16 | Jamaica Banana workers strike | ||
| 16 | Inquiry Commission Sails for Trinidad | Commission headed by Forster | |
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