AA News March 1978

The March issue led on the AAM’s March month of action and reprinted an ANC leaflet distributed in South Africa. It reported on an AAM conference for trade unionists, at which Leyland shop stewards said they would ask workers to ‘black’ exports to South Africa. Features on South Africa’s dependence on imports of oil and investment exposed the roles of Barclays and Midland banks in supporting apartheid. AA News reported on the retrial of the Pretoria 12 and on a new show trial of PAC (Pan-Africanist Congress) supporters. A centre spread featured growing resistance to white rule in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Namibia.