Thanks Andrew and especially you Ken for continued study of this. I think these are very important yet little known developments in the socialist movement. I hope to find time and opportunity to learn more and more deeply. (Obviously Joseph Green has belittled this into a petty hobby horse for his unfounded preoccupation with attacking Trotsky.)
The Comintern lost much support, especially in Black and African communities, for its turn to the popular front - backing off from criticism of Britain, France, Italy and the U.S. and their colonial empires. A scandal developed over the Soviet Union's friendly relationship with the Mussolini government as Italy invaded Ethiopia. George Padmore (Malcolm Nurse) who was the initial head of the Profintern's Negro Bureau (est. 1929) and the founding leader of the Comintern-backed International Trade Union Committee for Negro Workers (est. 1930; for which he wrote "The Life and Struggle of Negro Toilers", 1931) was upset as he saw the turn to the popular front developing. Padmore ceased his leadership work for the ITUCNW in latter 1933 and was expelled from the Comintern in February 1934. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Padmore In London in 1934 Padmore began to work with his childhood friend from Trinidad, C.L.R. James, who had already developed strong anti-Stalinist views. They are well-known for their continuing leadership in anti-colonial, anti-imperialist and Pan African political work. On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 3:55 PM Andrew Pollack <[email protected]> wrote: > See Claude McKay’s *Amiable With Big Teeth* for depiction of the Ethiopia > solidarity movement in Harlem -- including a powerful skewering of the CP's > role in undermining the movement in pursuit of the popular front. > _._,_._,_ > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#3816): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/3816 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/78217453/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
