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| Piotr Ikonowicz is a journalist. He worked for the Polish news agency PAP, then for Solidarnosc before being arrested several times after the proclamation of martial law in Poland in 1981. Co-founder of the Polish Socialist party in 1987, he was arrested for having participated in the workers’ strikes on the same year. During the Round table negociations, Poland Cardinal Primacy Jozef Glemp resquested and obtained from general Jaruzelski that Ikonowicz would not be allowed to participate. After 1989, while pursuing his journalistic and academic teaching activities, Ikonowicz was elected as a representative for 8 years. He is known for his initiatives in favour of public service, marginalised social classes, peace, the refusal of Poland’s participation to NATO and the Iraq war, and for cooperation between Poland and its European neighbours East and West. Today he is the head of the Social Advocacy Association. |  |