1st Edition

Youth Activism and Solidarity The non-stop picket against Apartheid

By Gavin Brown, Helen Yaffe Copyright 2018
260 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

From April 1986 until just after Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in February 1990, supporters of the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group maintained a continuous protest, day and night, outside the South African Embassy in central London. This book examines how and why a group of children, teenagers and young adults made themselves ‘non-stop against apartheid’, creating one of the most... Read more
1. South Africa and Britain in the 1980s

2. A non-stop protest in a non-stop world

3. Becoming non-stop

4. Being non-stop against apartheid

5. Defending the right to protest

6. Being unruly

7: Growing up through protest

8. ‘Until Mandela is free…’

9. Lessons and reflections

Biography

Gavin Brown is an Associate Professor in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment at the University of Leicester, UK. He is a cultural, historical and political geographer with an interest in protest movements, solidarity, and the geopolitics of sexual orientation and gender identity. 

Helen Yaffe is a Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow. She has focussed on Cuban economic history, political economy, Latin American development and the history of economics.

 

'The book provides a detailed account of the activity of the non-stop picket, from the comparatively large-scale or spectacular events,to the “mundane, possibly boring, aspects of political activism. Part of the importance of Youth Activism and Solidarity is that the care and detail with which the non-stop picket is recounted gives those of us who were not there a real sense of what it was like, allowing us to learn some of the lessons of that campaign and, hopefully, to more effectively and equitably organise solidarity in new contexts.'
Diarmaid Kelliher, Antipode, January 2018