“[A] history that is indispensable for serious students of the freedom struggle in Africa and the African Diaspora.” —Abdul Alkalimat, author of The History of Black Studies

 

Drawing on years of archival research, Professor Hakim Adi uncovers an often overlooked revolutionary alliance: between African and Caribbean leaders and organizations, and the Communist International, a pioneer of a global, anti-colonial, anti racist and anti-imperialist politics. Pan-Africanism and Communism digs deep into the development of the Comintern’s approach to the question of African liberation, and its eventual establishment of the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers (ITUCNW). Looking at the ITUCNW’s activities in Africa, the US, the Caribbean, and Europe, it shows what it looked like to build solidarity between those forwarding the international communist movement and those fighting against capitalism in all of its faces.

This book remains an essential text for anyone who wants to truly understand the history of solidarity that shaped revolutions past, and the unfinished fights they left behind.