AA News March 1987

‘People’s Sanctions Work’, headlined AA News, with a report of Ford’s decision to end the import of pick-up trucks from South Africa in response to trade union demands. The newspaper reported on the decision by the AAM’s annual general meeting to launch a total boycott of Shell. A report from the London Boycott Working Group looked at the South African Tourist Board’s attempts to boost tourism. AA News highlighted the case of Viraj Mendis, threatened with deportation from Britain to Sri Lanka, drawing parallels between South Africa’s pass laws and British immigration legislation.