Those of us who have met trade unionists from Poland and Estonia are being asked what they have done and why we have walked away from them. Those who sweated ten, 15 or 20 years ago in Solidarnosc and other groups in eastern Europe trying to cast off the shackles of a totalitarian, Stalinist regime did so on our promises that there would be a welcome, openness and support for them in Europe. We cannot turn our backs on them now; it would be disgraceful. It would be a betrayal of all we said in the late 1980s, up to the 1990s, up to the collapse of the Berlin Wall and around that time. This is where we are at. A sense of moral authority needs to brought to bear on this. The leaderships of trade unions, political parties and large organisations have a duty to indicate to their members where we stand on these issues.