NUR GUARDS | Socialist Action 1983

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the railworkers railworkers. The general council's role in defeating ASLEF's strike in 1982 still burns in the memory. The same treatment was meted out to the vie fight, starting at this congress, must be to turn that entire policy of the TUC around.

The left in the NUR are arguing for an all-out rail strike as the only way to roll back British Rail's attack. The TUC congress must give full unequivocal political and practical backing for the NUR. This means in particular:

• Immediate reinstatement of all sacked railworkers • Follow the lead of the NUM. No transfer of goods normally carried by rail to any other form of transport • A boycott by the other transport unions of all goods normally carried by rail • No crossing NUR picket lines • Full political and financial backing by the TUC and Labour Party to the railworkers • Full backing by the TUC to the NUR against any legal attack on the union.