Implement TUC congress decisions! | Socialist Action 1983

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NO quivocable policy would win the strike. cessions on the NUM. tack on the miners.

switt response from cher on Monday: end to this strike while the moved an inch.' IN SEPTEMBER the Congress of the TUC voted a clear and uneIn other words the reality is that the Tories are going for total defeat of the NUM. If that happens, the whole trade union movement will face the most ferocious assault on its rights for a century. No trade unionist will be able to stand aside from the conseWhat makes this situation still STAK contrast to the leadership of the NUM and the suphave. There are 140,000 miners and their families still on strike months, thousands of women who have mobilised with the women's support groups, NUR and ASLEF members who have stepped • WItn coal movement for 38 weeks.

potential for action was shown by the rail workers at Coalville who responded to the first scab train weeks with strike action.

Thousands of power station workers are still refusing to handle scab coal Hundreds of thousands of rank and file trade union and Labour Party continue to raise money, food, and support for the miners.

The miners will continue to fight simple in 1985. They are as determined now COAL as they were in March.

Photo: JOHN HARRIS The government will face growing difficulties in the power stations which is why for the first time they are now beginning to try to move coal from striking pits and to try to break the rail blockade of coal Activists across the movement will be equally determined to secure victory for the miners. This is the mood and reality that must be counterposed to the general council The general council must either carry out the mandate of Congress or it must be openly shown that the general council refuses to implement Congress decisions The NUM does not need TUC initiatives like the talks Walker. It can negotiate for itself. It needs not urgings but directives to all unions on how to implement Congress policy.

In every union members should campaign to call their leaders to account for their actions on the general council. If the TUC refuses to implement Congress decisions, as it is doing, then TUC Congress must itself be recalled.

The message for the new year to the trade union movement must NO MOVEMENT OF DELIVER TUC CON.

GRESS POLICY.