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Poster publicising a parliamentary lobby on 17 June 1986 calling on the British government to impose sanctions against South Africa. More than 3,500 people lobbied their MPs askin them to press for a change of policy. The lobby was initiated by the AAM, with support from the TUC, British Council of Churches and the United Nations Association. The summer of 1986 was the high point of the international campaign for sanctions against South Africa. 

AAM memorandum arguing that British and US policies were the main obstacles to effective international action against apartheid. The memorandum was presented to Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe by a delegation led by AAM President Bishop Trevor Huddleston on 18 June 1986.

This leaflet was produced as part of a citywide London campaign to persuade Sainsbury’s to stop stocking South African goods. The London AA Committee set up a special boycott group which met Sainsbury’s directors to put the case for a boycott. Sainsbury’s claimed to have reduced their South African products to less than 1 per cent of total sales.

Biligual leaflet advertising a march through Cardiff, capital city of Wales, on 28 June 1986. Two thousand Wales AAM supporters demanded that the British government impose sanctions against South Africa. The march followed a report by the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group mission to South Africa that concluded that Commonwealth countries should impose sanctions. It was timed to coincide with the AAM Festival of Freedom in London the same day.

Poster advertising a march through Cardiff, capital city of Wales, on 28 June 1986, calling for sanctions against South Africa. The march was organised by Wales AAM to coincide with the AAM’s March and Festival of Freedom in London. The demonstrations were the culmination of a month-long intensive campaign for sanctions organised by the AAM.

Welsh language version of a poster advertising a march through Cardiff, capital city of Wales, on 28 June 1986, calling for sanctions against South Africa. The march was organised by Wales AAM to coincide with the AAM’s March and Festival of Freedom in London on the same day. The demonstrations were the culmination of a month-long intensive campaign for sanctions organised by the AAM. All the material produced by Wales AAM was bilingual, published in Welsh and English. 

Two thousand Wales AAM supporters marched through Cardiff demanding that the British government impose sanctions against South Africa on 27 June 1986. The march followed a report by the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group mission to South Africa that concluded that Commonwealth countries should impose sanctions. It was timed to coincide with the AAM Festival of Freedom in London the following day.

Two thousand Wales AAM supporters marched through Cardiff demanding that the British government impose sanctions against South Africa on 27 June 1986. The march followed a report by the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group mission to South Africa that concluded that Commonwealth countries should impose sanctions. It was timed to coincide with the AAM Festival of Freedom in London the following day.