The principal translators were Natasha Terlexis and Bobbis Misailides. A team of eight volunteers worked on various aspects of the project, from helping in the translation, to entering corrections, formatting, strip-up, and fund-raising.

Almost 16 months were required to translate and prepare the new book. The main text provided plenty of challenges for the volunteers, given the difficulties of rendering the work’s outline format into Greek. Owing to the long break in the history of communist continuity in the working class, the translators also found themselves charting new ground in developing more accurate political terms in the Greek language. The book includes a glossary of terms that can be used for future translations.

In order to meet the production costs of 2100 euros the small contingent of supporters of the project here took out a loan. They are now organizing fund-raising activities to pay it off.

Supporters of the project met a positive response in their first round of sales visits to bookstores in central Athens, reporting that 12 stores ordered 42 copies of the new title. Although the visits focused on the new book, orders were also submitted for three copies of Imperialism’s March toward Fascism and War, six of Yugoslavia: the Roots of the Conflict, four copies of the pamphlet NATO’s Assault on the Working People of Yugoslavia, ten of The Second Declaration of Havana, four of Communism and the Fight for a Popular Revolutionary Government: 1848 to Today, and one copy of Farmers Face the Crisis of the 1990s--all in Greek-language editions published by Diethnes Vima.

The manager of one of the largest commercial stores, with which Diethnes Vima has already established an account, commented that the publishing house has produced a number of good titles. He noted, however, that most are small books and can easily be lost in the shuffle. Upon seeing the political content of the new title, as well as its size, he put in an order for 12 copies.

With the rounds to bookstores in Athens complete, supporters are making plans for sales trips to Thessaloniki and other cities. During the summer they will also be organizing sales at a week-long Palestinian Film Festival and the annual Anti-Racist Festival.  
 
 
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