Poll tax rebellion - Danny Burns
Submitted by Steven. on Apr 10 2013 22:30
Full scanned version of the definitive grassroots history of the mass working class movement which defeated Margaret Thatcher's poll tax. 17 million people refused to pay the tax, which defeated it and brought Maggie's time as Prime Minister to a premature end.
This book tells the gripping inside story of the biggest mass movement in British history, which at its peak involved over 17 million people.
Give up classtivism: Why class struggle is long, boring and hard work
The recent decision by Starbucks to attack its workers’ conditions (cutting paid lunch breaks, sick pay and other work benefits) in response to public pressure to pay its tax bill – public pressure partly generated by direct action organisations like UK Uncut – has highlighted ongoing concerns over the effectiveness of “Tax justice” campaigns and their relationship to class struggle organisation.
The recent decision by Starbucks to attack its workers’ conditions (cutting paid lunch breaks, sick pay and other work benefits) in response to public pressure to pay its tax bill – public pressure partly generated by direct action organisations like UK Uncut – has highlighted ongoing concerns over the effectiveness of “Tax justice” campaigns and their relationship to class struggle organisation.
Tax justice, austerity and class struggle
Submitted by Phil on Dec 5 2012 16:56
The recent furore surrounding Starbucks has once again pushed the issue of tax dodging and its relation to austerity into the limelight. But it has also brought into sharp focus the problem with calls to “pay your tax” being divorced from questions of class struggle.
Ahead of the October 20 “Future That Works” demonstration in London, it was revealed that the multi-million dollar coffee chain Starbucks has paid no tax in Britain for three years.
PCS blinks first in dispute with HM Revenue & Customs
Submitted by Phil on Aug 30 2012 23:19
Yesterday, the Public and Commercial Services union announced that strike action due to be taken by HM Revenue & Customs workers on Monday had been suspended. This supposedly followed "significant progress" in negotiations with the employer. The reality is quite different, in a campaign that has been mismanaged (at best) for coming on two years.
Firstly, some background. The current dispute in HMRC actually began life as three separate disputes - over job cuts and office closures, the imposition of strict sickness absence measures, and the "trial" use of private sector companies to take calls on two sites.
Beating the poll tax - Anarchist Communist Federation
Beating the Poll Tax was a widely distributed booklet that encouraged and analysed the rise of mass revolt against the Community Charge in 1989/90 as it was happening.
It was first published by the Anarchist Communist Federation in March 1990 under the Tories, following 'The Poll Tax and How to Fight It' in October 1988. Scanned in and published online for the first time on the Anarchist Federation website in March 2006.
BEATING THE POLL TAX
Occupy Equitalia
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on May 15 2012 14:52
Equitalia is a state-owned tax collection agency. Created in 2007, it was meant to replace all the private companies previously in charge of the task.
In 2010 Equitalia collected 8.87 billion euros; its profits for the same year came to 1.29 billion euros (Report), with 1.22 billion coming from the 9% commission premium that Equitalia charged on top of the 4% interest that debtors owed to different public administratio
GE returns billions to public... Not
Submitted by Steven. on Apr 14 2011 20:38
USA Today and the Associated Press fall for a prank article by activist group US Uncut, causing General Electric stock to plummet billions.
US Uncut, a burgeoning grassroots movement pressuring corporate tax cheats to pay their fair share, posted today a fake GE press release announcing that they would return their illegitimate (but legal) $3.2 billion tax refund, and that they would lobby to close the sort of corporate tax loopholes that had allowed them to skip taxes in the first place.
Lebanon set for June general strike
Submitted by Steven. on May 21 2010 14:04
Unions are to launch a general strike in Lebanon on June 17 against regressive taxes by the government.
The Lebanon Daily Star reported that the General Labor Confederation (GLC) said on Thursday that it will go ahead with the stoppage next month.
Following a meeting at the GLC headquarters in Beirut, the trade union said the government has not yet come up with a plan to create more jobs, achieve growth and ease the current taxes that are posing a big burden on low income families.
Tea parties and the white working class
A document forming the beginning of a discussion about the nature of the US "Tea Party" movement and its makeup.
Tea Parties & The White Working Class
Populism, Race & Class: Beginning a Discussion about "Tea Parties"
by Andrew Epstein
Protests in south-east China force repeal of new tax law
Submitted by Spartacus on Jul 10 2009 12:45
The Chinese state news service, Xinhua, reported on the 16th of June that violent protests in the south-east province of Jiangxi had forced authorities to repeal a new tax law.
The government of Nankang city had planned to increase the tax on furniture sales from 15th of June. Though a major industry in Nankang, furniture sales has a low profit margin, and the new tax law would have increased the tax burden, forcing many stores to close.
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