poll tax

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…

Letters from issue 16 of Wildcat (UK).

This article is an attempt to investigate certain problems of the left via the lens of micropolitics and macropolitics, terms first introduced by…

Full scanned version of the definitive grassroots history of the mass working class movement which defeated Margaret Thatcher's poll tax. 17…

Great pamphlet about the successful fight against the poll tax in Haringey, north London. Produced by Haringey Solidarity Group in 1999, this…

Beating the Poll Tax was a widely distributed booklet that encouraged and analysed the rise of mass…

A summary of anarchist activities in the Hackney area in the late eighties and throughout the nineties.

Footage of the 1990 Poll Tax Riots as well as interviews with participants.

The poll tax was not an act of pure madness but was an attempt to deal with the intractable problems of the public goods crisis that afflicted…

Subversion article from 1990 or 1991 about cuts in local government, workers' struggles against them and the unions' complicity in the cuts.

Libertarian/council communist group Subversion on the anti-poll tax struggle.