United Kingdom
1980s?
Round metal anti-apartheid button. On a red circle in the middle of the button is a black fist with a broken gold chair around the wrist, with the words “Break the Chains” in gold around the inside edge. The remaining text is in gold in a black ring around the outside of the button. Ross Galbraith and Gary Sherriff were trade union militants who worked for Granby Plastics in Leicester when, in July 1989, that company accepted an offer to supply goods to a company in South Africa. When Galbraith and Sherriff refused to work on the contract, they were fired and subsequently became anti-apartheid activists. They were backed by various labor union groups in the United Kingdom. Size:...
BREAK THE CHAINS
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