Catalogue Number
NMLH.1992.409.12.93
Object Name
Poster
Title
Chile Received from Britain £24 Million in 1974 / Oppose the Renegotiation of Chile's Foreign Debt
Events
Chilean Coup; South African Apartheid
Date
around 1975
Description
Poster, "Chile Received From Britain £24 Million in 1974[â¦]Oppose the Renegotiation of Chile's Forgeign Debt", printed by the Cultural Committee of the Chile Solodarity Campaign.
The poster is red, with two square black and white images in the centre; one showing a crowd shouting with raised fists, and the other showing the backs of figures, with white crossed bracers. Without the cultural context, it is difficult to know what the figures represent. Above the images reads "Chile Received From Britain £24 Million in 1974" and below reads "The same British Officials that tried to smash the popular unity in 1972 now try to bail out the military Junta with our money" and, in a larger font, "Oppose the Renegotiation of Chile's Foreign Debt".
Over the second image, someone has stuck an orange sticker, reading "Don't buy product of apartheid" which was printed by the Anti-Apartheid Movement based in Charlotte Street, London. This shows how many of the international solidarity and rights campaigns in Britain at the time intersected, and were taking place at the same time.
