remained in office for eight years only by rigging the elections, political crisis. We must redouble our efforts to ensure that the The Greek junta has fallen. Having failed to solve the grave economic and political problems which face the Greek capitalist class, the hard-line regime which replaced Papadopoulos after the Athens riots last November has finally been toppled by the fiasco of its adventure in Cyprus.
It is reported that the junta have called on Constantine Karamanlis, the prime minister from 1955-63, to return to Greece to form a new government.
Karamanlis is certainly no friend to the working class-he and was finally overthrown and forced to flee to Paris by a AN UNEASY PEACE REIGNS IN CYPRUS.
The capitalist war machine, having taken its toll of Cypriot workers-both Greek and Turkish-is for the moment only ticking over.
Diplomacy has temporarily taken over from sheer brute force, But the fundamental issue of independence for Cyprus still remains at stake.
The events of the last week have shown just how hollow was the independence granted to Cyprus in 1960. The deal cooked up then by Britain and its NATO allies in Greece and Turkey allowed for continued military intervention by all three. The tragic consequences for the Cypriot workers and peasants are now plain for all to see.
Imperialism aimed simply to keep the pot boiling by stirring up differences between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities.
Indeed, the clashes in late 1963 even allowed, a further check on Cyprior independence to be introduced with the despatch of a United Nations force to the island.
But the Sampson coup ten days ago showed just how unstable some of the elements in this situation had become. In particular, the Greek mistary junta was running into desperate cconomic and political problems at home, A foreign adventure, the generals hoped, would distract public attention elsewhere. The Turkish invasion of Cyprus, however, showed that they had badly miscalculated.
In this situation the responsibilities of the British labour movement are particularly heavy and the need to be absolutely cleat on the issues involved is particularly important. + WITHDRAW ALL FOREIGN TROOPS FROM CYPRUS. The British buses at EpiskopiAkrotiri and Dhekelia are there as part of the NATO siliance to protect imperialist interests in the area, The Grock and Turkish troops are also part of the same reactionary alliance. All these forces must be withdrawn. * NO UNITED NATIONS INTERVENTIONWITHDRAW THE FORCES ALREADY THERE. The role of the United Nations is to block any maw struggle, treezing the situation while imperialism regroups its forces. Its presence in Cyprus since 1964 has simply served to emphasise the Greek-Turkish communal divisions and blur the class ones. The real nature of the interests it represents is underlined by the fact that the main contingent (despite Cypriot protests) has always neen British. *NO PARTITION, The 'solution" now being widely canvassed is the partition of the island between Greece and Turkey. This carve-up would set a seal on the communal differences and strengthen NATO's hold over the whole island. *DOWN WITH THE GREEK AND TURKISH REGIMES. The clashes in Cyprus have further underlined the reactionary nature of these regimes, both of which have seized on the issuc massive working class upsurge. But any return to civilian government will take the lid off Greek political life and-like the Spinola coup in Portugal-open up tremendous new possibilities for the workers' movement.
It also threatens to rip a huge hole in NATO's southern flank, already in a sorry state after the Cyprus clashes. US imperialism's hold in the area has increasingly depended on a stable rightwing regime in Athens. Now that prospect is threatened Yet another country of capitalist Europe is now in deep outcome is favourable to the socialist revolution.
their problems at home, objectives of the struggle. intrigues. as a means of diverting attention away from *FOR A UNITED STRUGGLE. Revolutionary marxists will wage a joint struggle with other forces-such as the supporters of Archhishop Makarios-for the independence of Cyprus. But they will not yiekd an inch on the political *FOR AN INDEPENDENT SOCIALIST CYPRUS. The last ten days hove shown that bourgeois democracy is no foundation for an independent Cyprus. Only an appeal based on clear class lines can overcome the communal differences and draw the Greek and Turkish Cypriot workers and peasants into a united struggle. Only a full mobilisation of the working people of the island can defend the independence of Cyprus against imperialist