LONDON ANTI-APARTHEID MOVEMENT. 5 posters supporting Nelson Mandela and the London racial equality movement. 1980s.

Very rare Anti-Apartheid Movement Posters published by London activists.

Free Nelson Mandela. London: Blackrose Press for Haringey Anti-Apartheid Group and Haringey Council Anti-Apartheid Working Party, [1986]. Screenprint poster (595 x 420 mm.) An anti-apartheid event poster for the naming of Nelson Mandela Close in Haringey, London. (Three light central, left, and right vertical creasefolds and a horizontal creasefolds, minor creases to lower left corner.)

London Says Apartheid No Sanctions Yes. London: [No publisher] for London Committee against Apartheid, [1986]. Screenprint poster (603 x 420 mm.) Three-colour poster for assembling Londoners against apartheid. (Minor insignificant marginal creases to upper left corner and lower centre margin, soft scratches at the lower left.)

Apartheid No! Sanctions Yes. London: Spider Web for London Committee against Apartheid, 1986. Screenprint poster (623 x 380 mm.) Three-colour poster as part of anti-apartheid rally for sanctions against South Africa. (A tiny trivial nick to the upper right corner, minor creases at lower centre.)

Solidarity with South African Youth in Struggle. [No place, no publisher, but presumably London:] for the National Organization of Labour Students and the ANC Youth League, 1985 (dated on verso). Screenprint poster (600 x 418 mm.) Poster with the representative colours of ANC for encouraging people to unite with South African youth in the struggle against apartheid. (A light dogear to lower right corner, a tiny nick to upper centre margin, and minor creases at the upper right.)

He’s Imprisoned for Wanting a Vote. You Are Free to Use Yours. London: (760 x 510 mm.) London: Unknown publisher for London Against Racism project, Hackney Council, and Race & Voting Rights Campaign, date unknown. Offset-lithographic poster (760 x 503 mm.) including a photograph of young Nelson Mandela for persuading people in Hackney area to register as electorates. (A minor nick to the lower right edge, tiny dogearing to the lower right corner, a few marginal creases at the upper right and lower centre margins, and slightly stained by possibly another poster on verso).

London played a significant role in the campaign against apartheid. To opposing South Africa’s racial segregation policy, the Boycott Movement was founded in London on 26, June 1959 at a meeting of South African exiles and their supporters. After eight months, it was renamed the "Anti-Apartheid Movement" to support all the anti-apartheid work including economic sanctions. In the 1980s, the Anti-Apartheid Movement was transformed into Britain’s biggest ever international solidarity movement and mostly based on ‘people’s sanctions’. They attempted to lobby the government isolating South Africa, protest the products from South Africa, and most importantly, campaigned for free Nelson Mandela. Hundreds of roads, buildings, and garden were named in his honour including the Nelson Mandela Close. The Anti-Apartheid Movement could be considered as the Labour Party opposing Thatcher in some way.