We would like to assure you that 70 per cent of Polish society (according to sociologist surveys) does nor support the participance of Polish army in war in Iraq and demands the their fastest possible withdrawal. We are also extremely appalled that the Iraqi society is told that Poland is the country that made profits on pro-capitalist transformation. Meantime, Poland has the highest unemployment rate (about 20 per cent); the social differences are becoming larger; rates of alcoholism, drug addiction are increasing; political and financial elites are corrupted. Companies are massively bankrupting, and young people after finishing studies more and more often are left unemployed. So please do not believe that capitalism is the same thing as welfare for wide masses of employed people. Because it is not. That is why our struggle must go on.

Solidarity,
On behalf of National Commission
of All-Polish Trade Union
"Workers' Initiative"

Marcel Szary
Poznań, 28.05.2005