Editing EOKA (section)

===Objectives===
The main objective of EOKA was [[Enosis]]. The organization adopted typical Greek national ideologies and displayed religious, conservative and anticommunist ideas.{{sfn|Θρασυβούλου|2016|p=298}}{{sfn|Novo|2012|p=194}} This was in agreement with the prevailing ideas of Cypriot society at the time.{{sfn|Βαρνάβα|2000|p=88-105|loc = Church and EOKA youth}}{{sfn|Novo|2012|p=195-196}} There was a widespread belief that leftists opposed national objectives and provided a certain support to the colonial regime{{sfn|Θρασυβούλου|2016|p=316}} contrary to other contemporary anti-colonial insurgencies in Africa or Asia, which were led by Marxists.{{sfn|Novo|2010|p=64-65|ps=: While the antagonism between AKEL and EOKA was real and eventually bloody, the alleged ‘cooperation’ between AKEL and the British authorities did not happen.(...) EOKA’s right-wing ideology made it the exception to the rule of post-Second World War insurgencies. Such movements were most often led by communists who aimed at establishing new Marxist societies. This was the case in China, Malaya, Vietnam, and Cuba. As a nationalist and anti-communist movement, EOKA had far more in common with the Irgun and Stern Gang in late-1940s Palestine.}}

Grivas and Archbishop [[Makarios III]] disagreed about the way to rid the island of British rule. Grivas rejected Makarios' attempt to limit the campaign to acts of sabotage, avoiding loss of life. Nevertheless, he shared Makarios' view that victory would be won by diplomatic means.<ref name="Newsinger96">Newsinger, 2016, p. 96</ref> Grivas' goal was to subject the British to continued relentless harassment, making it clear to them that occupation carried a price, while keeping Enosis on the international diplomatic agenda.<ref name="Newsinger97">Newsinger, 2016, p. 97</ref> The British response to the EOKA campaign was crucial in this regard: repression would on the one hand alienate the Greek Cypriot population from British rule, and on the other hand provide Makarios and the Greek government with a stick to beat the British with before the United Nations. EOKA would ensure that there was a Cyprus problem and demonstrate to the world that the British could not resolve it.<ref name="Newsinger97" />