Understanding the support from the Australian far-left and ALP-Left for Greek Cypriot enosis during the EOKA period (1955-59): migrant workers, anti-imperialism and national liberation in Australia

IF 0.7 4区管理学 Q1 HISTORY

Labor History Pub Date : 2023-03-04 DOI:10.1080/0023656X.2023.2208077

Andrekos Varnava

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ABSTRACT Why did the Australian far-left, namely the Communist Party of Australia (CPA), and the left-wing of the Australian Labor Party (ALP-left), support Cypriot enosis (union with Greece), when it was led by a violent far-right nationalist group, EOKA, and Greece was a repressive right-wing state? There are two aspects to answering this question: the ideological-intellectual and the political-electoral. Intellectually, the CPA and the ALP-left favoured their anti-imperialism and support for left-wing national liberation over any qualms in supporting far-right nationalist causes. Politically, they saw an electoral opportunity in courting left-wing and potential left-wing Greek-speaking migrants from Greece and Cyprus and championing both their labour and perceived ‘national’ causes. In doing so, they engaged with the Greek-speaking migrant labouring classes and gave prominence to their perceived ‘national’ struggles. This article considers why and how the Australian far-left in the form of the CPA and ALP-left became involved in the enosis politics of Greek Cypriots and the violent struggle of a small far-right minority in the island, while attempting to court the votes of left-wing Greek-speaking migrants, by supporting them in what they accepted was their ‘national’ cause – the ‘liberation’ of Cyprus and its enosis with Greece.

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了解EOKA时期(1955-59)澳大利亚极左翼和工党左翼对希族塞人独立的支持:澳大利亚的移民工人、反帝国主义和民族解放

摘要为什么澳大利亚极左翼，即澳大利亚共产党（CPA）和澳大利亚工党左翼（ALP left），在极右翼暴力民族主义团体EOKA的领导下，支持塞浦路斯与希腊的联盟，而希腊是一个镇压性的右翼国家？回答这个问题有两个方面：思想知识分子和政治选举。在理智上，CPA和ALP左派倾向于他们的反帝国主义和对左翼民族解放的支持，而不是对支持极右翼民族主义事业的任何疑虑。在政治上，他们看到了一个选举机会，吸引了来自希腊和塞浦路斯的左翼和潜在的讲希腊语的左翼移民，并支持他们的劳工和所谓的“国家”事业。在这样做的过程中，他们与讲希腊语的移民劳工阶层接触，并突出了他们所感知的“民族”斗争。本文探讨了澳大利亚极左翼以CPA和ALP左派的形式参与希族塞人的enosis政治和岛上少数极右翼的暴力斗争的原因和方式，同时试图争取讲希腊语的左翼移民的选票，通过支持他们接受的“民族”事业——塞浦路斯的“解放”及其与希腊的关系。

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