Chile Solidarity in Britain
Resistance, Rights and Refuge, 1973-2000
Chile Solidarity in Britain
Resistance, Rights and Refuge, 1973-2000
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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.
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Table of Contents
Part 1: Histories of British Solidarity with Chile
1. Tea with a dictator or ethical policy? British governments and Pinochet, Grace Livingstone (University of Cambridge, UK)
2. The Pinochet coup, Chile solidarity and British political parties, Owen Dowling (University of Cambridge, UK)
2.: Local Internationalism: Solidarity activism with Chile in Liverpool, 1973-1977, Marieke Riethof (University of Liverpool, UK)
3. From Santiago to Swansea: Wales and international solidarity with Chile, Alun Burge (The National Museum of Wales)
4.: Chile Vencerá: Art as Solidarity, Hannah Healy (The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK)
5.: Learning to cope under 'Solidarity with Exile': Educational responses to the impacts of Pinochet's dictatorship and exile on the second-generation, Helia López (University of Chile)
6. '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 Vazquez-Aguilar (University of Sheffield, UK)
Part 2: Memories of British Solidarity with Chile
Solidarity Activists
1. Chile Solidarity, Reaffirming Internationalism, Mike Gatehouse (Chile Solidarity Campaign)
2. Diversity is Strength, Jon Barnes (Chile Committee for Human Rights)
3. Chile Solidarity in Sheffield, Helen Jackson (MP for Sheffield Hillsborough)
4. Life Will Never Be So Good Again, Susan Carstairs (Chile Solidarity Campaign)
5. Rolls Royce Workers: Boycotting Hawker Hunter Bomber Planes, Bob Sommerville and John Keenan
6. Einstein was a Refugee: Students and Academics Fleeing Pinochet's Chile, Marilyn Thomson
Exile and Solidarity
1. Exile, Pain, Solitude, Sara de Witt (First-generation exile)
2. Exile: The Undeserved Punishment, Hernando Fernandez-Canque (First-generation exile)
3. Living in Exile: Between a Tragedy and a Blessing, Carlos Gonzalez (First-generation exile)
4. Leaving Santiago for Exile in London: Raising the Flag of Solidarity, Mireya Baeza (First-generation exile)
5. 'The Land where Giant Men Wore Skirts', Rossana Leal (Second-generation exile)
6. Born in Exile: Feeling Estranged at Home in the UK and Chile, Christina Pons (Second-generation exile)
The 'Piquete' against Pinochet
1. And So, We Believed: El Piqute vs. Pinochet, Jimmy Bell (Second-generation exile)
2. Prosecuting Pinochet, Geoffrey Bindman (Amnesty International)
3. Interpreting for a Dictator, Jean Pateras (Metropolitan police Interpretor)
4. The Hunter became the Hunted, Sylvia Velasquez (Chilean exile/activist)
5. Fighting for Justice against Impunity, Anna Maria Pelusa (Chilean exile/activist)
Conclusion: Memories and Futures of British Solidarity with Chile, Tanya Harmer and Gloria Miqueles, (London School of Economics, UK, and independent researcher)
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| Published | 07 Jan 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 9781350591936 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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