Local AA groups

Like many of the larger local AA groups, Aberdeen AA group published an annual report of its activities for local members.

Chesterfield AA Group’s newsletter advertised a Day of Action including mass leafletting of the town centre, a slide show by a local miner who had recently visited South Africa and street theatre. It set out facts about apartheid and explained why the AAM was campaigning for sanctions against South Africa. Chesterfield AA Group was set up in February 1986.

‘Boycott South Africa!’ flyer advertising the first meeting of Milton Keynes AA Group. The meeting was held in a local church, with a speaker from the national Anti-Apartheid Movement. 

Leeds Women Against Apartheid was formed in 1986 to bring together women in support of their sisters in South Africa and Namibia. The group reached out to women’s organisations in West Yorkshire, raising funds for women in Southern Africa, boycotting apartheid goods and holding day schools publicising the situation of women under apartheid. It was linked to a women’s group in Soshunguve township, near Pretoria.  This leaflet advertised a meeting held in Leeds Civic Hall in July 1986.

Many local AA groups formed links with trade union branches. In 1986 Brent AA group circulated this leaflet to local unions asking them to affiliate and asking trade unionists to join as individual members.

This leaflet was produced as part of a citywide London campaign to persuade Sainsbury’s to stop stocking South African goods. The London AA Committee set up a special boycott group which met Sainsbury’s directors to put the case for a boycott. Sainsbury’s claimed to have reduced their South African products to less than 1 per cent of total sales.

Leaflet advertising a fundraising gig at a north London trade union centre on 27 September 1986. The event was organised by Haringey AA Group and sponsored by the London Borough of Haringey’s Community Arts and Entertainment Department.

Flyer advertising a meeting to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprising at the Co-op Hall, Doncaster. Speakers included representatives of the ANC, SWAPO, the rail union NUR and local branch of the Labour Party Young Socialists. The flyer asked supporters to attend the AAM’s national Festival for Freedom, assembling in Hyde Park on 28 June.