¡Nae Pasaran! is a great wee documentary about some workers at a Rolls Royce plant in East Kilbride (near Glasgow), who refused to repair the jet engines for Hawker Hunter aircraft belonging to the Chilean air force, because of Pinochet’s coup and atrocities.

The filmmaker, Felipe Bustos Sierra, is the son of Chilean exiles, and he manages to track down various people in Chile who were connected to the events. Former air force officers who refused to support the coup and who were arrested and tortured thereby. An air force general who did serve in Pinochet’s murderous regime, but wasn’t flying the day they bombed the parliament building, honest guv!

There were eight engines in East Kilbride for maintenance when one of the workers realised they were Chilean. As a union shop steward he ‘blacked’ them: marked them as disputed and not to be worked on.

Eventually they were moved outside. After six months in the Scottish weather, we learn, even crated up, they would be useless.

Well worth a watch if you can track it down (It was available to buy on Vimeo). A celebration of international workers’ solidarity, and reminder of a time when unions were strong in this country.