The Negro Worker – A Comintern Publication, 1928-37

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

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

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 Union Movement in the West Indies
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.

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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