paign was set up, shopkeepers followed by a delegation.' would have a hard time persuading them. has Jagun for brought by environment officers. the docks. which are crucial.
freedom would be great step forward? Southern Africa on Obstruct the NUM in its Africa.
| SOCIALIST ACTION spoke with JAGUN AKINSHEGUN who is chair of St Pauls, Bristol Apartheid-free zone campaign, one of the first such campaigns in the country. "The camThe said to persuade local shopkeepers or businesspeople to stop selling or trading with the South African regime. We wanted to implement sanctions in our community because the Tory government doesn't have the moral or common sense to implement. We wrote to local But lobbying was not the only activity. 'We've also picketted Barclays,' he told us. 'And we have been leafletting and petitioning to get the message across. This is more important than persuading a few shopkeepers.' However it also get a good reponse from the shopkeepers: 'they exist to make money and if people didn't go in and ask abou South African goods and refuse to buy them, we Media coverage is bad, as could be expected but the message is getting across. Police also tried to discredit the campaign, bringing charges against Noise ronunon, a charge usually Bristol council has passed resolutions but, says Jagun 'in terms of doing something concrete they've been slow, as the ban doesn't extend to the The campaign now plans to petition for a statue in honour of Nelson Mandela: 'Bristol is full of statues in honour of capitalists who exploited African people for profit — to have one in honour of someone who stands for peace and North West conference TWO HUNDRED delegates came to Manchester Town Hall for the north movement Saturday. The con ference was opened by Peter Heathfield who explained how the judiciary was used to long battle to withdraw pension fund assets from South Diane Abbott received prolonged applause when she exposed the hypocrisy of British and American governments who refused to impose sanctions on South Africa while carrying out bomMwahafar Ndilula of SWAPO condemned the US government for attempting to link South Namibia to Cuhan And Simon Sapper, AAM trade union organiser, reported on the growing support for the movement among trade unionists. The conference organisers extended the lunch break to allow delegates to take part in the A well-attended NUM workshop decided to use the broadsheet to help improve awareness on the issue among miners in the north west. NUT delegates took the opportunity to set up an anti-apartheid teachers' group, and engineers decided to organise a speakers' tour of district committees.
Women delegates heard a report by Jean Gittings of Women Against Pit Closures and agreed to establish a women's network to build solidarity among women in the north west. The black activists' workshop discussed ways of increasing the profile of black people in the anti apartheid moveat conference was that on the Labour Party and Southern Africa.
The workshop agreed to mount a campaign to secure a manifesto commitment to break all links diplomatic links) with apartheid in Several delegates also stressed the importance of implementing existing regional party conference policy, which includes a pledge to organise a regional demonstration in co-operation The final plenary session pledged full support to the AAM and its ten-point programme of action