Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union

ICU
Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union
PredecessorIndustrial Workers of the World
SuccessorReformed Industrial Commercial Union
(in Southern Rhodesia)
Founded1919
Dissolved1930s
TypeTrade union
PurposeSyndicalism
Location

The Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU) was a trade union and mass-based popular political movement in southern Africa. It was influenced by the syndicalist politics of the Industrial Workers of the World (adopting the IWW Preamble in 1925), as well as by Garveyism, Christianity, communism, and liberalism.[1]

  1. ^ Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (Counter-Power vol. 1), by Lucien van der Walt and Michael Schmidt, AK Press, 2009, p. 273.