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Tag Archives: apartheid in south africa
Contribution to Decolonising Geography
This week Gavin Brown has contributed a post about the Non-Stop Picket and the forms of informal, anti-racist political education that took place on it, to the Decolonising Geography blog. Gavin concludes his contribution by stating: Although the Non-Stop Picket … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Popular & Informal Education, Project staff
Tagged apartheid in south africa, black consciousness movement, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, decolonization, informal education, Nelson Mandela, Non-Stop Picket, Norma Kitson, Pan-Africanist Congress, Solidarity, South African Embassy, Trafalgar Square
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Viva Carol, our convenor. No one tougher, no one meaner
Carol Brickley, the Convenor of the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group throughout the 12 years of its existence, died in September. Carol was central to the formation of City Group and her revolutionary communist politics played a key role in … Continue reading
Posted in Archival research, Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Interview material, Popular & Informal Education, Project staff
Tagged Anti-Apartheid Movement, anti-imperialism, apartheid in south africa, Carol Brickley, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, Non-Stop Picket, Revolutionary Communist Group
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“Youth Activism and Solidarity” out in paperback in March
The paperback edition of Youth Activism and Solidarity: The Non-Stop Picket against Apartheid will finally be published in March 2019. Watch this space for details of a launch event in London for the new paperback edition.
Posted in Academic, Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Helen Yaffe, Popular & Informal Education, Project staff
Tagged anti-imperialism, apartheid in south africa, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, international solidarity, Non-Stop Picket, Solidarity, South Africa, South African Embassy, Youth activism
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Two reviews of “Youth Activism and Solidarity”
This week the first two reviews of our book Youth Activism and Solidarity, about the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy in London during the 1980s, have been published. One is aimed at an academic readership and the other for activists … Continue reading
Posted in Academic, Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Helen Yaffe, Media coverage, Project staff
Tagged Anti-Apartheid Movement, Antipode journal, apartheid in south africa, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, historical geography, Non-Stop Picket, Revolutionary Communist Group, social and cultural geography, Solidarity
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A suitable anniversary: youth and student action to close apartheid’s embassy
It is a joyful coincidence that our book Youth Activism and Solidarity: the Non-Stop Picket against Apartheid has been published on 19 October 2017. On this day, thirty-two years ago, hundreds of students and other young people took mass direct action … Continue reading
Stopping the Non-Stop Picket, 24 February 1990
Today is the 25th anniversary of the end of the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy in London. The Non-Stop Picket had lasted 1408 days and nights, calling for the release of Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid demands. In the … Continue reading
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
Marking South Africa House with ‘blood’ on election day 1987
As South Africa celebrates twenty years since the end of apartheid, and prepares for tomorrow’s election, I want to remember a protest that responded to a very different South African election. On 6 May 1987, there was a white-only general … Continue reading
Posted in Archival research, Interview material
Tagged apartheid in south africa, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, Direct Action, election day, Elections in South Africa, Non-Stop Picket, South Africa, South Africa House, South African Embassy, south african embassy in london, Trafalgar Square
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Our achievements and the future of this blog
We’re nearly done! Officially, the current phase of our research about the Non-Stop Picket comes to an end in under a fortnight. Since July 2011 our work has been funded by a research project grant from the Leverhulme Trust. That … Continue reading
Posted in Academic, Archival research, Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Helen Yaffe, Interview material, Popular & Informal Education, Project staff
Tagged Anti-Apartheid Movement, apartheid in south africa, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, historical geography, Non-Stop Picket, political geography, social and cultural geography, South African Embassy, Trafalgar Square
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Non-Stop Against Apartheid in 2013
Two events in 2013 brought significantly increased traffic to the Non-Stop Against Apartheid blog: the first was Margaret Thatcher‘s death; the second, of course, was Nelson Mandela’s. The day after Thatcher died, this blog received its most traffic in a single … Continue reading
Posted in Archival research, Dissemination, Interview material, Popular & Informal Education
Tagged Anti-Apartheid Movement, apartheid in south africa, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, Dunnes Store Strikers, Dunnes Stores Strikers, Ken Bodden, Leicester, Margaret Thatcher, Metropolitan Police, Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela's death, Non-Stop Picket, Pan-Africanist Congress, South African Embassy, south african embassy in london, Trafalgar Square, workers' sanctions, Zolile Hamilton Keke
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Non-Stop Against Apartheid 