https://www.marxists.org/archive/padmore/index.htm
On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 11:03 PM Dayne Goodwin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 (#3823): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/3823 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
