Showing posts with label poll tax. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poll tax. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Poll Tax Archive (6): Barnet and Edgware Hospital Workers against the Poll Tax

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Here is an example of some workplace organising against the poll tax in the NHS. 'Edgware Nurses Against Poll Tax' - I believe...
Monday, February 17, 2020

Poll Tax Archive (5): Trafalgar Square Defendants Campaign

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In the aftermath of the London poll tax demonstration and riot on 31 March 1990, the Trafalgar Square Defendants Campaign to ‘Unconditional...
Sunday, February 16, 2020

Poll Tax Archive (4): Prisoners Support Conference, Birmingham 1991

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This flyer is for a poll-tax prisoners national solidarity conference held in Birmingham in October 1991, with the stated aims being: to la...
Saturday, February 15, 2020

Poll Tax Archive (3): Community Resistance Against the Poll Tax

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'Pay no poll tax' posters like this one graced many a window during the anti-poll tax movement.  This particular one was produced in...
Friday, February 14, 2020

Poll Tax Archive (2): St Valentines Day 1991 - Massacre the poll tax (in Lambeth)

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Next up in the Poll Tax Archive,  a leaflet from early 1991 giving advice to people being taken to court by Lambeth Council for non-payment....
Thursday, February 13, 2020

Poll Tax Archive (1): North Middlesex Hospital Anti-Poll Tax News 1990

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It is now 30 years since the high point of the movement against the poll tax. The 'community charge', as it was officially called,...
Monday, April 06, 2015

Geoff Dyer on Underground Culture in 1980s London and Now

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The novelist Geoff Dyer wrote an article for the Observer this week entitled ' Underground culture isn’t dead – it’s just better hidden...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

'Mobs riot in West End' - London Poll Tax Riot press coverage 1990

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'Mobs riot in West End' (Independent on Sunday, 1 April 1990) 'Central London experienced its worst riot this century yeste...
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