AA News June 1987

The June issue heralded the success of the two-day strike called by the UDF in protest against South Africa’s whites only general election on 6 May. It announced a new campaign to end all involvement by British banks in South Africa, following the withdrawal of Barclays Bank in 1986. It exposed how the USA was arming UNITA in Angola. It reported on the public launch in London of Lawyers Against Apartheid, at a meeting which drew parallels between apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany.