International African Opinion The front cover of volume one of International African Opinion. Date 1937–1965 Catalogue reference MEPO 38/91 International African Opinion described itself as 'the monthly organ of the International African Service Bureau.' Founded in 1937, the editorial of the first issue states the group's aims: 'No people, race or nationality has been oppressed, exploited and humiliated as the black people for centuries past up to the present day, and the Bureau was formed to assist by all means in our power the unco-ordinated struggle of Africans and people of African descent against the oppression from which they suffer in every country.' It goes on to describe the paper’s role 'will be … the mouthpiece of the black workers and peasants, and those intellectuals who see the necessity of making the cause of the masses their own.' Under police surveillance, the file includes several copies from 1938 and 1939, as well as copies of the paper’s predecessors, 'Africa and the World,' and the 'African Sentinel.'