AA News September 1987

COSATU’s endorsement of comprehensive sanctions against South Africa was the front page headline in this issue of AA News. It reported on solidarity action by British trade unionists and on the National Petition Campaign for the release of all South African political detainees. Angela Davis was one of the speakers at a South African Women’s Day rally in Finsbury Park that welcomed the formation of the UDF Women’s Congress. A centrespread documented the history of the apartheid regime’s attempts to destroy non-racial trade unions in South Africa and Namibia.