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 It is not surprising that the outcome of Ch. Eliades' politics is the justification of a "national liberation" war, joining his voice with other chauvinists:
-//"Workers' Democracy reduces the substance of the matter more or less to a level of discussion about the ability or not of the Greek Cypriot ruling class to achieve a **a victorious military confrontation** with the Turkish occupation army.//
+//"Workers' Democracy reduces the substance of the matter more or less to a level of discussion about the ability or not of the Greek Cypriot ruling class to achieve a ** victorious military confrontation** with the Turkish occupation army.//
 //At the outset, we should note that freedom from Turkish military occupation is the **absolute right** of the entire Cypriot people, without excluding **any means**.//
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 A clear internationalist stance is still necessary to enable the workers of all sides to make a victorious socialist revolution. Something that cannot be done unless the working class is trained in democracy, not bourgeois democracy, but socialist, internationalist democracy:
-//"Capitalism and imperialism can be over thrown only by economic revolution. They cannot be over thrown by democratic transformations, even the most “ideal”. **But a proletariat not schooled in the struggle for democracy is incapable of performing an economic revolution*...*//
+//"Capitalism and imperialism can be over thrown only by economic revolution. They cannot be over thrown by democratic transformations, even the most “ideal”. **But a proletariat not schooled in the struggle for democracy is incapable of performing an economic revolution**...//
 //...Through utilisation of bourgeois democracy to socialist and consistently democratic organisation of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie and against opportunism. There __is no__ other path... We must direct free secession and free merging of nations along that path, not fight shy of them..." (Lenin, English Collected Works, Vol, 23, p, 25, 27).//
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 **THEY DO NOT WANT TO SEE**
+The problem with Ch. Eliades, as with others like him, is not that they cannot see and understand what is really happening in southern Cyprus.
+They just **don't want** to understand and they won't understand, because it doesn't suit their nationalism.
+Today the Greek Cypriot and Greek bourgeoisie dominate, as well as their social patriotic fellow travellers of the traditional left. Alongside them, there are those who do not cooperate (in words only) with "our" bourgeoisie because they consider it "incompetent" because they want even more extreme measures than it can implement today. Those of us who see the hypocrisy of all this can and must move on to discussion and joint action. The [[en:groups:epitropi_simparastasis_parpa|committee for the defence of conscientious objector Y. Parpas]], who is being retried on 18 January, continues to provide this opportunity.
+The nationalist "self-evident" and "self-explanatory" truths of Ch. Eliades are the same as those of almost the entire Greek Cypriot society.
+They express the current dominance of bourgeois and petty bourgeois ideology and nationalism. It is for this reason, and not because of their theoretical or logical strength, that they are very difficult to deal with.
+But it is not impossible. At least the lowest strata of workers and youth are not as steeped in it, as anyone who had joined us outside the factories to campaign against the re-vote on the "emergency contribution for defence" could see.
+These "self-evident truths" need to be addressed, not just in theory but in practice.
+[[en:groups:ergatikidimokratia|PUBLISHING GROUP "WORKERS' DEMOCRACY"]]
+. If anyone thinks that in order to be imperialist a country must necessarily be a great power, with heavy industry, fleets and colonies, let him look at what Lenin wrote mainly about "little" Switzerland in 1916 but even about Bulgaria of the same period in his article "Defence of Neutrality", in Greek Collected Works vol.30 pp. 336.
+⚫ p.g.w.d.
+{{tag>
+Condition:"Needs Translation":"Needs Turkish Translation"
+Magazines:"Within the Walls (Issue 41)"
+Groups:"Workers' Democracy (Group)"
+"Decade:Decade 1980-1989"
+"Year:1989"
+Areas:Nicosia:"Nicosia (south)" Areas:Nicosia
+Subject:"Cyprus Problem"
+}}