Turkish Cypriot women and children gathered in Lefkoşa’s Atatürk Square to demonstrate against the UN, 1964
During the 1970s and 1980s, members of the International Socialists (IS), later the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), produced a number of publications with the purpose of politically organising different communities in Britain.
These publications were either printed in the English language or in a language relevant to the intended readership. While they have not benefited from much research, most publications have had some record of their existence.
This record has sometimes been “in passing” treatment in general histories. For example, Flame, the black workers’ paper, is discussed in Tony Cliff’s autobiography A World to Win: Life of a Revolutionary. A recent interview with Balwinder Rana in International Socialism gives context to the Asian paper Chingari, which was published in Urdu and Punjabi. Both Chingari and Flame have also benefited from national pamphlets published jointly with the IS and SWP.
One publication from that period that seems to have been forgoten is Cypriot Worker—a publication that was produced in Greek and Turkish. The Cypriot Worker star may only have shone brightly for a few years in the late 1970s, but it is significant that, today, nearly 50 years later, a host of those involved remain committed to their revolutionary socialist goals.
In this piece, we publish forgotten pieces from the Cypriot Worker:
Crpyriot Worker:
Greek papers:
Cypriot right to work:
Cypriot defence campaign:
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