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(Demo)graphics: who we have interviewed

Posted on October 11, 2013 by Gavin Brown

There is nothing quite like the rapid approach of the start of a new academic year to focus the mind.  As the new term loomed at Leicester, we concluded the main set of interviews with former participants in the Non-Stop … Continue reading →

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Who we have interviewed (so far)

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Gavin Brown

Last week we passed a significant milestone on the Non-Stop Against Apartheid project – we ‘interviewed’ the 40th former supporter of the Non-Stop Picket about their experiences of anti-apartheid protest in London in the 1980s.  This means that, with about … Continue reading →

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Organising for militant solidarity: City Group and the 1986 Anti-Apartheid Movement AGM

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Gavin Brown

Over the weekend of 10/11 January 1987 the national Anti-Apartheid Movement held its Annual General Meeting in London.  Although the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group had been ‘disaffiliated’ (expelled) from the Anti-Apartheid Movement two years previously, City Group supporters remained … Continue reading →

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Under a ‘false flag’: City Group and the troubling case of the SWAPO detainees

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Gavin Brown

One of the joys of archival research is that at times a single, short letter can reveal a great deal.  Amongst the correspondence that we have been examining from the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group’s archive is a short note, … Continue reading →

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