AA News December 1981

South Africa was one step nearer making its own nuclear bomb, according to the front-page story in this issue of AA News. The newspaper again accused Western countries of sabotaging the UN initiative to negotiate independence for Namibia. Its centrespread set out the arguments for a cultural and academic boycott of South Africa and listed the many British artists who supported the boycott. It reported on the AAM’s week of trade union action against apartheid and on the latest developments in British support for striking Rowntrees workers in South Africa.