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Tag Archives: ANC
Adelaide Tambo and the politics of care
Gavin Brown has recently written some articles for the website of the Anti-Apartheid Legacy Centre for Memory and Learning in London – the museum planned for the site of the former London ANC offices on Penton Street in Islington. The … Continue reading
Nelson Mandela: The Centenary Exhibition (impact and refections)
On 17 July 2018, to celebrate the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s birth, a free exhibition opens at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London’s Southbank Centre, in the presence of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. The exhibition mostly charts Mandela’s … Continue reading
Posted in Archival research, Dissemination
Tagged AAM Archive Committee, ANC, Anti-Apartheid Movement, AZAPO, black consciousness movement, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, David Kitson, Nelson Mandela, Norma Kitson, PAC, Revolutionary Communist Group, South African Communist Party
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Youth Activism & Solidarity: a dedication
Now that Youth Activism and Solidarity: the Non-Stop Picket against Apartheid has been published and had its launch, we wanted to share the book’s dedication. We have told the stories of Norma, David and Steve Kitson on this blog a number … Continue reading
Posted in Academic, Dissemination, Interview material, Popular & Informal Education
Tagged ANC, Andrew Privett, Andy Gardner, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, David Kitson, Jacky Sutton, Ken Bodden, Ken Hughes, Non-Stop Picket, Norma Kitson, obituary, Pan-Africanist Congress, Revolutionary Communist Group, Solomon Odeleye, Steve Kitson, Zoilile Hamilton Keke
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Mementos of Steve Kitson
Sunday 12 November 2017 marks the twentieth anniversary of the death of Steven Kitson. Steve was born in 1957 as the eldest child of the South African communists and anti-apartheid activists David and Norma Kitson. In the 1980s, he became … Continue reading
The Non-Stop Picket and the solidarity of the British Far Left
Today is the anniversary of the launch of the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group’s Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy in London. The ways in which City Group provided solidarity with those resisting apartheid in South Africa both drew … Continue reading
Posted in Academic, Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Project staff
Tagged ANC, Anti-Apartheid Movement, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, Cold War, Communist Party of Great Britain, critical geopolitics, Far Left, geopolitics, internationalism, Marxist Workers Tendency, Militant, Non-Stop Picket, Pan-Africanist Congress, political geography, Revolutionary Communist Group, Socialist Workers Party, Solidarity, South African Communist Party, Third World
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Disobedient Films present the London Recruits
The Disobedient Objects exhibition at the V&A has now closed (prior to travelling the world over the next few years), but it continues to generate creative explorations of how objects of various kinds have been used in (and as) protest. This week … Continue reading
Non-Stop for Mandela: reflections on London’s four-year continuous protest for his release
Nelson Mandela’s death has been announced tonight (5 December 2013). Although this news is not unexpected, its impact on people around the world will be significant, not least for those who maintained a four-year protest for his release in central London. In the late 1980s … Continue reading
Posted in Archival research, Gavin Brown, Helen Yaffe, Interview material, Project staff
Tagged ANC, Anti-Apartheid Movement, apartheid in south africa, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, David Kitson, free nelson mandela, Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela's death, Non-Stop Picket, Norma Kitson, South African Embassy, south african embassy in london, Trafalgar Square, Umkhonto we Siswe
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When the personal is political: care in social movements
Earlier this week a comment was posted elsewhere on this blog by a South African who participated in the Non-Stop Picket. We have chosen to reproduce it here so that it is seen by a wider audience, rather than remaining … Continue reading
Former British ambassador praises the Non-Stop Picket
A work email account can often bring pain, as new, unanticipated tasks make unexpected and competing demands on one’s time, derailing the best laid plans. This week, however, an email arrived that had quite the opposite effect – we received … Continue reading
Letters to Mandela
When it was announced that, following his release from gaol, Nelson Mandela would be visiting London in April 1990, several members of the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group wrote to him requesting that he made time during his visit to … Continue reading
Non-Stop Against Apartheid 