Background
George Padmore, whose given name was Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse, was born about 1902 in Arouca District, Tacarigua, Trinidad, then part of the British West Indies, now Trinidad and Tobago.
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Originally published in London in 1931 by the R.I.L.U. (Red International of Labour Unions) Magazine for the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers, this publication had three purposes: "To briefly set forth some of the conditions of life of the Negro workers and peasants in different parts of the world; to enumerate some of the struggles which they have attempted to wage in order to free themselves from the yoke of imperialism; and, to indicate in a general way the tasks of the proletariat in the advanced countries so that the millions of black toilers might be better prepared to carry on the struggles against their white imperialist oppressors and native (race) exploiters, and join forces with their white brothers against the common enemy-World Capitalism."
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George Padmore is activist, writer, thinker, born leader and champion of the Pan-Africanism movement. In Caribbean Reasonings - George Padmore: A Pan-African Revolutionary, editors Fitzroy Baptiste and Rupert Lewis s selection of papers unveil a fitting portrait of the life and times of this legendary Trinidadian. The essays in this collection, explore Padmore s development from student activist to political figure under the auspices of C.L.R. James, and his role as journalist and organizer, creating the International African Services Bureau and subsequently organizing the historic 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress in England.
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George Padmore, whose given name was Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse, was born about 1902 in Arouca District, Tacarigua, Trinidad, then part of the British West Indies, now Trinidad and Tobago.
Padmore was educated through secondary school in Trinidad. In 1924 he went to the United States, where he studied at Columbia University, Fisk University, New York University Law School, and Howard University. He had been at first attracted to the study of medicine but then developed an interest in law. His political involvement diverted him from completing his law degree.
In 1928, as part of his Communist party activities, Padmore began editing the Negro Champion, later called the Liberator, in Harlem. In 1929 Padmore was summoned to the U. S. S. R. , where he became the head of the Negro Bureau of the Red International of Labor Unions. In 1931 he was sent to Germany to head the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers (ITUC-NW). He edited this organization's journal, Negro Worker, and wrote extensively. His first major work appeared at this time, Life and Struggle of Negro Toilers, which dealt in some depth with working conditions of blacks around the world. Steeped as he was in Communist ideology, he was very critical of black leaders whom he considered of bourgeois inclination, such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey, and the political leadership of Liberia and Ethiopia. In 1933 Padmore's position shifted dramatically. The rise of Hitler forced the termination of ITUC-NW activities in Germany. The threat of fascist Germany also forced the reworking of certain policies in Soviet Russia, including an easing of critical attacks on the imperialism of Britain and France. Padmore soon found the Communist party willing to condemn only the imperialism of Japan. Unable to subscribe to this shift in political tactics, he left the party and in 1934 was officially expelled and denounced. During the subsequent 20 years Padmore resided primarily in England. Almost immediately after leaving the party, he moved into the pan-Africanist camp, for which he had always shown some affinity. By 1935 he had contacted his former adversary W. E. B. Du Bois and was contributing articles to Crisis. From this date he never joined another nonblack organization.
Padmore's Africa and World Peace (1937) examines the Ethiopian crisis as well as Hobson's and Lenin's views of African-European relations. That year Padmore organized the International African Service Bureau (IASB), designed to promote the pan-Africanist cause. In 1938 he began editing the IASB's journal, International African Opinion. During the latter years of World War II he worked on a new book, How Russia Transformed Her Colonial Empire: A Challenge to Imperial Powers. His purpose was to describe the Soviet method in developing the minority nations of the U. S. S. R. as a model for the Western empires. Conceived at a time when the Western powers were closely allied with Russia, the book appeared at the end of the war; and as the developing cold war hardened relations, it was coolly received.
In 1944 Padmore merged the IASB with several other organizations into the Pan-African Federation. The following year he was influential in planning the Fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester, England. By this time he had formed a close relationship with Kwame Nkrumah. Padmore's Africa: Britain's Third Empire (1949), a very critical study, was banned in Kenya and the Gold Coast. By now Nkrumah had returned to the Gold Coast, and Padmore's attention was drawn more and more to the process of the emerging independent state of Ghana. On Nkrumah's invitation he wrote The Gold Coast Revolution (1953), a study of that colony's struggle to achieve self-government. Pan-Africanism or Communism? (1956) is perhaps his most significant work. In 1957, when Ghana became fully independent, Padmore moved to Accra to become Nkrumah's personal adviser on African affairs. Padmore's return to a position of political influence was marred by the resentment some Ghanaians held toward non-Ghanaians in government. Despite these difficulties, Padmore remained in Accra in an attempt to press forward his pan-Africanist ideals. During a conference in Liberia in 1959 he was struck with acute dysentery. He flew to London for medical care but died shortly thereafter. He was buried in Christianborg Castle (Osu Castle, also known as Fort Christiansborg or simply the Castle), Accra.
George Padmore was instrumental in shaping the theory and discourse of Pan-African anti-imperialism in the first half of the twentieth century. admore's international journalism and other writings linked African American struggles with liberation movements in Africa and with African Diaspora peoples around the world and thus had a profound effect on the contours of black political thought.
(From the book: When Africa's young leaders gathered in Ma...)
(A study of how Africa, as an object of imperialism for th...)
(George Padmore is activist, writer, thinker, born leader ...)
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
(Originally published in London in 1931 by the R.I.L.U. (R...)
(concerned about peace and justice in Africa)
In 1927 he joined the Communist party. He left the Communist Party in 1934 because of the abuses and widespread purges under Stalinism. He continued to support socialism.
Padmore was married to Julia Semper. They had a daughter Blyden.
