Local AA groups

Leaflet advertising an afternoon of videos, exhibition and stalls in support of South African women on International Women’s Day in 1987. The afternoon was followed by a gig with post-punk Artery Band. It was organised by Ealing AA Group with sponsorship from the London Borough of Ealing.

Hackney AA Group joined with local community groups to organise a week of activities celebrating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the African National Congress. The week included a meeting at the Turkish Community Centre, a filmshow at the Rio Cinema, culminating in a day of music, dance and poetry at the local leisure centre on 4 July 1987. The week was sponsored by the Race Relations Unit of Hackney Borough Council.

Doncaster AA Group planned a full calendar of activities, September–December 1987. It included collecting funds for striking miners in South Africa, demonstrations and a conference opposing the import of South African coal, and a picket of Tesco. The group hired a coach to take supporters to the AAM national demonstration in London on 24 October and organised stalls at Doncaster’s African-Caribbean Gala in August and Doncaster Women’s Centre at the TUC Women’s Day of Action in October.

Leaflet advertising a rally and march calling for a ban on South African coal imports, organised jointly with the Hatfield branch of the National Union of Mineworkers. It was planned to march along the local wharfs where coal imports were unloaded. The march was followed by a social event at a local miners welfare centre. Anti-Apartheid supporters in the Yorkshire and Northumberland coal fields worked closely with the NUM during and after the 1984–85 British miners strike.

Leaflet publicising a conference for trade unionists and Labour Party members organised by Birmingham AA Group in 1987.

Letter from Reading Anti-Apartheid Campaign to local trade union branches advertising a meeting calling for the release of South African political prisoners.

Newsletter of Reading Anti-Apartheid Campaign. Issue 7, dated September 1987, focused on the South African National Mineworkers strike and called for an international boycott of South African coal. It also highlighted a strike by Namibian copper miners.

Reading Anti-Apartheid Campaign leaflet asking local people to take action in support of the campaigns for the reprieve of the Sharpeville Six, sentenced to death in South Africa, and the release of trade unionist Moses Mayekiso, one of five people charged with sedition. The leaflet also advertised the Shell boycott and the AAM’s national ‘Sanctions Now!’ demonstration on 24 October 1987.