AA News July–August 1967

AAM members disillusionment with the 1964–70 Labour Government came to a head at a National Committee meeting which asked Cabinet Ministers Barbara Castle and David Ennals to choose between their government posts and AAM membership. AA News followed this up with a debate on future strategy. Ronald Segal argued that the AAM should abandon lobbying and build a ‘democracy of the streets’. Frank Hooley responded that it should continue to use ‘every normal device of political persuasion’. This issue also reported on the Terrorism Act trial of 37 SWAPO members and on evidence from former political prisoners to the UN Human Rights Commission.