Local AA groups

Leaflet publicising the London AA Committee’s 1987 annual conference. The committee was set up in the 1970s to co-ordinate the work of local London AA groups and student, trade union, faith and community groups. The committee was made up of elected delegates from local AA groups and affiliated organisations and held monthly meetings. In 1987 it organised London-wide events to promote the consumer boycott of South African goods and the Boycott Shell campaign.

Leaflet publicising a fundraising concert organised by Tower Hamlets AA Group at the Half Moon Theatre in east London in 1987. The event was sponsored by the local council’s arts committee.

Brent AA Group supporters with their local MP Ken Livingstone asked shoppers to boycott South African goods sold by Tesco in February 1987 on the eve of the AAM’s March Month of People’s Sanctions.

Nottingham AA Group converted a local bus to publicise the campaign for a boycott of South African goods and of Shell. 

This conference for trade unionists was one of many regional initiatives in the mid and late 1980s. It brought together local trade unionists and anti-apartheid activists. The conference focused on campaigning for sanctions and the role of the ANC in South Africa and SWAPO in Namibia.

Anti-apartheid demonstrators marched through Birmingham on 21 March 1987 in support of the AAM’s March Month of People’s Sanctions. They were remembering the South Africans shot by the police at Sharpeville in 1960 and at Langa in the Eastern Cape in 1985.

Leaflet distributed by Exeter AA Group advertising events held as part of the AAM’s March month of action for people’s sanctions in 1987.

Waltham Forest AA Group organised this meeting in north-east London to win local support for the AAM’s month of action for people’s sanctions in March 1987.