AA News September 1988

AA News’ editorial hailed the success of industrial action by workers in South Africa and Namibia. It asked how the mass support for the AAM’s ‘Nelson Mandela: Freedom at 70’ campaign in Britain could be transformed into pressure to force the Thatcher government to support sanctions. It reported on SWAPO’s backing for the agreement between Cuba, Angola and South Africa on the implementation of UN resolution 435 on Namibia. Jeremy Cronin analysed the relationship between the struggle for national liberation and working class action in South Africa. The issue reported on the celebrations of South African Women’s Day, 9 August, in Britain and South Africa.