AA News June 1980

In its lead article AA News warned that the British Government was subverting UN moves to establish a democratic government in Namibia. It featured moves by British local authorities and church groups to close their accounts with Barclays Bank. It reported on the campaign to save the life of James Mange, a young freedom fighter sentenced to hang, and on new school boycotts by South African students. The issue highlighted the use of the contraceptive Depo Provera to restrict the birth rate of black South African women. It outlined AAM plans for an campaign for an end to nuclear collaboration, freedom for Nelson Mandela and a consumer boycott in June 1980.