Local AA groups

Hounslow AA Group distributed regular newsletters reporting on its activities and AAM campaigns. The October 1986 issue highlighted the campaign to stop executions of South African political prisoners and South Africa’s attacks against the frontline states. It advertised the group’s fortnightly pickets of a local supermarket and asked for support in making Hounslow an apartheid-free zone. 

Flyer advertising a meeting organised by Kingston AA Group in October 1986. The meeting featured a speaker from SWAPO and a film about Namibia’s independence struggle. It explained that Namibia was illegally occupied by South Africa and accused Western governments of ‘soft-pedalling’ on Namibia to protect their own interests. 

AAM supporters in Oldham, Greater Manchester, call for sanctions against South Africa in 1986. At the head of the march is the Oldham AA Group banner.

 

 

Banner produced by the local AA Group in Oldham, Greater Manchester. Oldham AAM members campaigned for local support for a boycott of South African goods and for support for the ANC and SWAPO.

AAM supporters marched through the centre of Manchester to demand sanctions against South Africa on 8 November.

Milton Keynes AA Group launched a shopping trolley campaign against sales of South African produce at the local branch of Budgens, in November 1986. The group’s newsletter asked for support for the Shell boycott launched in the USA in January. It reported on a Workers Educational Association day school on South Africa in neighbouring Newport Pagnell and on a successful fundraising rock concert held at the Open University. 

Leaflet advertising a conference organised by the London Anti-Apartheid Committee to co-ordinate community action in the campaign to boycott South African goods. The aim of the conference was to share ideas for practical action to extend the boycott. Topics for discussion included liaison with trade unions and co-ordinating with community and religious leaders and ethnic minority communities.  

Ras Kuomba Balogun of St Paul’s Apartheid Free Zone Campaign in Bristol and Marion Wallace of End Loans of Southern Africa (ELTSA) at the London AA Committee’s ‘Making the Boycott Bite’ conference, 30 November 1986.