eastern europe - alliance against the eu
WORKERS, JUNE 2003 ISSUE
In a unique coming-together Polish Communists and the Solidarity organisation have both denounced the entry of Poland into the European Union as the "colonisation of Poland". Both see the handover of Polish agriculture and provision of cheap industrial labour as being on par with Hitler's "Lebensraum" — living space at the expense of the Polish people.
In the Czech republic, the Czech Communists have called for the closing down of the offices of the organisation campaigning for the return of Sudetenland Germans to the Czech republic. Germany is calling for the overturning of the Benes Protocols, the settlement of German — Czech relations after the Second World War banned all Sudeten German compensation claims.
The transfer of industrial production and agricultural exploitation into eastern Europe, including the actions of British companies, is the resurrection of the colonialism first advocated by the Nazis.