In the late autumn of 1973, Colin Henfrey, a young sociology lecturer at Liverpool University, was ushered into the closely guarded headquarters of the Liverpool dockers’ union.
His address helped persuade the traditionally militant shop stewards to boycott Chilean cargoes, contributing to the international isolation of the regime of Gen Augusto Pinochet, who a few weeks earlier had seized power in a military coup. Colin subsequently played a big role in establishing what was to become one of Britain’s most effective campaigns of solidarity.
