George Padmore

George Padmore, born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse ( born July 28, 1902 in Tacarigua, Arouca District, Trinidad, † September 23, 1959 in London ) was a West Indian writer, communist politician and a pioneer of Pan-Africanism.

Life

Malcolm Ivan Nurses father Hubert Alfonso Nurse was a teacher and agricultural adviser to the British colonial government of the West Indian island of Trinidad. The boy attended the primary school, tranquility, then ( 1915-1916 ), the St. Mary's Roman Catholic College and the private Pamphylion High School. He was an apprentice to a pharmacist and then a journalist with the Trinidad Guardian. C. L. R. James was a childhood friend. Padmore married Julia Semper, they had a daughter, Blyden, who remained in the Caribbean. He went in 1924 to the USA to study at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee Medicine (enrollment 1925). He worked as an activist. In 1927, he enrolled at New York University Law School without taking courses.

In 1928 he joined the Communist Party and took the name of a cousin, George Padmore, at. The party sent him to Washington, DC, at the Howard Law School. Padmore took for them at the second congress of the League against Imperialism in Frankfurt. In late 1929, he traveled to Moscow, where he was soon appointed head of the newly established Negro Bureau of the Communist International of Labour Unions. He organized the first International Conference of Negro Workers League against imperialism on 7 -8. July 1930 in Hamburg. Padmore had left this year Moscow and now operated from Vienna and Hamburg, where he published until 1933, the monthly magazine, The Negro Worker. In 1933, he was briefly imprisoned and then expelled from Germany.

Moscow led his abrupt about-face ( People's Front ) by in his anti-imperialism. It occurred in 1934 when the League of Nations and did not want to unnecessarily upset the Western colonial powers. The 1928 established the main office of the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers in Hamburg ( harbor office ) was closed in April 1933 by the Nazis. Meanwhile, Secretary Padmore was expelled from the Soviet Communist Party on 23 February 1934. He lived at that time in Paris and in London, where he drew the beginning of 1934. Padmore worked on Nancy Cunard's Negro Anthology (1934 ). He renewed his friendship with the Trotskyist CLR James.

1945 Padmore was involved in the organization of the fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester. In the same year he met in London Kwame Nkrumah, with whom he henceforth shared a fruitful cooperation. The last two years of his life George and Dorothy Padmore in 1957 newly independent Ghana, as adviser to the president Kwame Nkrumah. He died in London, in medical treatment.

Writings

• The Life and Struggles of Negro Toilers. R.I.L.U. [ Red International of Labour Unions ] Magazine for the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers, London, 1931.
• How Britain Rules Africa. Wishart, London, 1936.
• Africa and World Peace. . Secker & Warburg, London, 1937 Preface: Stafford Cripps.
• Nancy Cunard: White Man's Duty. , 1942.
• With Dorothy Pizer: How Russia Transformed Her Colonial Empire. Dennis Dobson, London, 1946.
• Africa: Britain 's Third Empire. In 1949.
• The Gold Coast Revolution: The Struggle of an African People from Slavery to Freedom. In 1953.
• Pan -Africanism or Communism? The Coming Struggle for Africa. Dennis Dobson, London 1956. Introduction by Richard Wright.