Chile Solidarity in Britain
Resistance, Rights and Refuge, 1973-2000
Chile Solidarity in Britain
Resistance, Rights and Refuge, 1973-2000
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Description
The Chilean military's violent overthrow of Salvador Allende's democratically-elected government sent shock waves around the world and sparked a global solidarity movement. This book traces that international campaign to Britain, where politicians, trade unionists, students, women's rights movements, religious groups and journalists protested human rights abuses in Chile, and stood in solidarity with the Chilean people.
Offering the first history of this international movement, this book shows how the British, especially the working class, acted for a cause far beyond their shore and linked human rights abuses in Chile to politics and society at home. Exploring themes of internationalism, exile and resistance, alongside a wealth of testimonies from key political players and displaced Chilean refugees as they coped with life in exile, Solidarity from Chile to Britain explores the motives and practices that underpinned this movement, and reveals the impact and legacies it had on British political, social and cultural life.
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Contributors
The Chile solidarity movement in Britain: An introduction, Grace Livingstone and Tanya Harmer
Part 1: Histories of British Solidarity With Chile
2. Chile Solidarity versus the Foreign Office: how campaigners can change government policy, Grace Livingstone
3. The Pinochet coup, Chile solidarity and British political parties, Owen Dowling
4. Local internationalism: Solidarity activism with Chile in Liverpool, 1973-1977, Marieke Riethof
5. From Santiago to St Fagans: Chile, International Solidarity, and Museum Wales, Alun Burge
6. Chile Vencerá: Art as solidarity, Hannah Healey
7. Learning to cope with 'allá' and 'acá' under 'dual solidarity': An educational response to the impacts of Pinochet's dictatorship and exile on second-generation exiles in Britain, Helia López Zarzosa
8. 'They tried to bury us, they didn't know we were seeds': The political activism of the Chilean refugees and its impact on the second generation, Maria Vasquez-Aguilar
Part 2: Memories of British Solidarity with Chile
British Solidarity Activists
9. Chile Solidarity, reaffirming internationalism, Mike Gatehouse
10. Chile solidarity in Sheffield, Helen Jackson
11. We learnt on the job, Wendy Tyndale
12. Solidarity work as privilege, Susan Carstairs
13. Diversity is strength: The Chile Committee for Human Rights and mobilising action against repression, Jon Barnes
14. Rolls Royce workers' boycott, Robert Sommerville and John Keenan
15. Joint Working Group for Refugees from Chile: The reception and resettlement of Chilean refugees in the UK, Gordon Hutchison
16 'Einstein was a refugee': Working on a unique scholarship programme for students and academics fleeing Pinochet's Chile, Marilyn Thomson
Exile and Solidarity in Britain
17. Exile, pain, solitude…a light, a hand, Sara de Witt
18. Exile: the worst undeserved punishment, Hernando Fernandez-Canque
19. First-generation exile: Living between a tragedy and a blessing, Carlos Gonzalez
20. The difficult decision to leave Santiago for exile in London and to raise the flag of solidarity, Mireya Baeza
21. The land where giant men wore skirts, Rossana Leal
22. Born in exile: Memories of feeling estranged at home in the UK and in Chile, Christina Pons
The 'Piquete' against Pinochet.
23. And so, we believed: El Piquete vs. Pinochet, Jimmy Bell
24. Interpreting for a dictator, Jean Pateras
25. Prosecuting Pinochet, Geoffrey Bindman
26. The hunter became the hunted, Sylvia Velasquez
27. Fighting for justice against impunity, Anna Maria Pelusa
28. When refugees come, we bring the movement, Isabel Cortes Colque
Conclusion: Memories and futures of solidarity with Chile, Tanya Harmer and Gloria Miqueles
An Introductory Bibliography for Researching British Solidarity with Chile
Product details
| Published | 18 Mar 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781350591929 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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