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.

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.