The aim of the Anti-Poll Tax campaign was to make the tax unworkable. If enough people refused to pay, then the Poll Tax couldn't be enforced. The courts would be blocked; the bailiffs would be turned away; wage arrestment would prove too complicated; and the final solution — prison — would prove politically disastrous for any Labour council (and in any case was unenforceable because there was no room for large…

Isizwe (The Nation) was the journal published by the United Democratic Front to stimulate discussion and debate on topics including workerism,…

Ron Ramdin's short history on the 1958 Nottingham race riots, in which over a thousand white people took part in mass racist violence against…

The Poll Tax was a flat rate tax. It was not based on ability to pay. Everyone over eighteen was liable. Rich and poor paid the same. The millionaire paid the same as the toilet attendant. The lawyer paid the same as the shop assistant. The Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her multi-millionaire husband paid the same as their gardener. The tax, officially called the Community Charge, was dubbed the Poll Tax…

Dozens of maquiladora plants that agreed to the “20-32”—a 20 percent raise and a…

A first hand account of legendary anarcho-syndicalist Rudolf Rocker's years in London, where he became involved in the Jewish anarchist movment…

Issue of Anarchy magazine from November 1969, this issue focuses on sexuality and the work of Wilhelm Reich.

Issue of Anarchy magazine from June 1969, this issue is dedicated to an article by Nicolas Walter about Anarchism.