Chilekommittén

[1][2] The organization conducted advocacy in support of the reforms of Salvador Allende's Unidad Popular government.

[5] The Committee met at Club de los Cronopios, an association of Spanish republican émigrés.

[8] The same month, Sweden's Ambassador to Chile, Harald Edelstam, was declared persona non grata due to his humanitarian actions.

[9] Chilekommittén campaigned for the right of asylum for Chilean refugees in Sweden, with protests at the Immigration Authority, Arlanda Airport, hunger strikes, etc..

[2] Chilean exiles, albeit remaining a minority within the movement, joined Chilekommittén in significant numbers.

[2] Chilekommittén organized many cultural events, Chile-bullentinen often carried reports about how Chilean exiles sang songs at the meetings of the movement.

[10] In some ways the work of Chilekommittén canalized some of the activism that had been manifested in the United NLF Groups (FNL-grupperna).

As of the mid-1970s, the main political tendencies in Chilekommittén were VPK, KAF and Förbundet KOMMUNIST (which supported the Chilean MIR).

[7] In June 1975 a European Conference to Boycott the Military Dictatorship in Chile was organized by Chilekommittén in Stockholm, with participation of solidarity movements across Europe.

[12][13] Towards the end of the 1970s the organization began to engage in advocacy work regarding the situation in Argentina, El Salvador and Nicaragua.

[2] During the end of the 70s and the 80s, they stablished a strong collaboration with different Chilean associations in Sweden, due to the high number of refugees.

[14] Chilekommittén mobilized protests against the Davis Cup match in Båstad in 1975, when Sweden played against Chile.

[11] The organization protested against the awarding of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences to Milton Friedman.