Chile Solidarity in Britain

Tanya Harmer is Associate Professor of International History at London School of Economics, UK. A specialist on the Cold War in Latin America with a particular interest in the international, transnational and global dynamics of the struggle, she is the author of Allende’s Chile and the Inter-American Cold War (2011) and Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America (2020).Grace Livingstone is an affiliated lecturer at the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge, UK. She is the author of several books including Britain and the Dictatorships of Argentina and Chile 1973-82 (2018) and America’s Backyard: The United States and Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the War on Terror (2003). She reports regularly from Latin America for the BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Online and has also reported for The Guardian, The Observer and The Independent.

• Introduction: Tanya Harmer & Grace Livingstone (London School of Economics and University of Cambridge, UK)Part 1: Histories of British Solidarity with Chile1. 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 ChileSolidarity Activists1. 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 Keenan6. Einstein was a Refugee: Students and Academics Fleeing Pinochet’s Chile, Marilyn ThomsonExile and Solidarity1. 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 Pinochet1. 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)Annotated BibliographyArchival Sources