cul03. AAM statement on the cultural boycott, 1982

In the early 1980s there was a flowering of anti-apartheid theatre groups, music and poetry within South Africa and some groups travelled overseas. This posed a problem for the AAM’s cultural boycott policy and it became untenable to boycott every group that visited Britain from South Africa. This statement reaffirmed the AAM’s policy of opposing visits by South African artists to Britain. But it stated that South African shows that opposed apartheid should not be subject to organised protests.