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Geoff Walker
Tour history
Geoff Walker and Peter Beach, eds., 56 Days: A History of the Anti-Tour Movement in Wellington (Whanganui: Citizens Opposed to the Springbok Tour, 1982).
COST executive committee
The Workers Communist League dominated Citizens Opposed to the Springbok Tour at all levels.
The COST executive committee was elected after the initial May 1st 1981 mobilisation. It consisted of;
- Lindsay Wright (chairman) Previously a research officer for NZUSA, on the central committee of the National Anti Apartheid Council and an official of the Committee on Vietnam. A former contributor to The Paper.
- Geoff Walker Later a chairman of Wellington HART.
- Campbell Duignan A HART activist, later VUWSA National Affairs officer and a confirmed member of the Victoria University Progressive Students Alliance, the student wing of the WCL. Later closely linked to the WCL in Dunedin.
- Eileen Cassidy Named by the SIS as a probable WCL member. Her daughter Lindy Cassidy, was an open member of the WCL's predecessor, the Wellington Marxist-Leninist Organisation.
- Dennis Rockell A former organiser of the National Anti Apartheid Council.
- Dave Cuthbert A founding chairman of the NAAC, former president of NZUSA and a HART national councillor. Named by the SIS as a probable WCL member.
- Ian Baxter No information.
- David Stott Confirmed as a WCL member in 1984, ex NAAC central committee.
- David Wickham Denies WCL membership, but a former partner was a WCL member. Former AUSA International Affairs officer, HART activist and contributor to The Paper.
later co-opted was Alick Shaw Open WCL member.