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| | Poll Tax Riots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | It was replaced by the Council Tax, although this, too, bought criticisms of unfairness; while generally less harsh on lower-income earners than the Poll Tax, it nevertheless took no account of the income earned by the taxpayer. | | | It is thought that the demonstrations against the Poll Tax, together with the general opposition to it (which was especially strong in the North of England (Community Resistance and Anti Poll-Tax Unions) and Scotland (APTUs)) strongly contributed to the downfall of Margaret Thatcher, who resigned as Prime Minister before the end of the year. | | | At the time of media coverage of the riot, Prime Minister Thatcher was attending a conference of the Conservative Party Council in Cheltenham. |
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| | Search Results for "Poll tax" |
| | poll tax A tax required as a qualification for voting. | | | In 1864 the poll tax (majba) was doubled to meet the government's increasing foreign debt, triggering a... | | | poll tax, a capital tax levied equally on every adult in the community. |
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| | Fifteen years since poll tax revolt9Apr05Socialist Worker |
| | The poll tax was abolished in March 1991. | | | Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government boasted that the poll tax, their new local government tax, would mean that “a duke would pay the same as a dustman”. | | | THE MASS civil disobedience that confronted the poll tax — especially the Trafalgar Square riot — fatally wounded Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher. |
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| | Margaret Thatcher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | She had a preference for indirect taxation over taxes on income, and value added tax (VAT) was raised sharply to 15%, with a resultant rise in inflation. | | | Interestingly, her early tax policy reforms were based on the monetarist theories of Friedman rather than the supply-side economics of Arthur Laffer and Jude Wanniski, which the government of Ronald Reagan espoused. | | | Opponents of the 'poll tax' banded together to resist bailiffs and disrupt court hearings of poll tax debtors. |
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| | This is Essex Local Interest Clactonian Man |
| | Tax evasion was widespread so the government appointed Commissioners to enforce payment. | | | To raise more taxes to fund the war with France, Parliament imposed the first Poll Tax or head tax in 1377, then another in 1380. | | | He agreed to their demands for social change and an end to the tax. |
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| | Margaret Thatcher - dKosopedia |
| | This was influenced by the monetarism advocated by Milton Friedman that sought to control inflation, and featured stringent trade union legislation, tax cuts, the sale of council houses to their tenants (admittedly, a good and certainly popular policy), centralization of control of government spending and large scale privatization. | | | In 1989, after winning a record third term in 1987, Thatcher introduced her flagship policy of reorganized local taxation dubbed the 'Community Charge', or Poll Tax. | | | Studied chemistry at Oxford and worked as a research chemist and tax lawyer before entering Parliament in 1959. |
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| | Evil in return - the Poll Tax riots |
| | With poll tax now seen as Thatcher's biggest blunder, this off-the-cuff reaction has stood the test of time rather well. | | | At a time when everyone expected the March 31st poll tax demonstration to be just another demo, several of us went to try to sell copies of LandTUR. | | | Evil in return - the Poll Tax riots |
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| | The Poll Tax: The battle that brought down Thatcher |
| | In 1987 the Conservatives had been re-elected with a promise to introduce the poll tax - a deliberate move to shift even more wealth from the poor to the rich and further cut local authority spending. | | | It was clear that millions just could not afford to pay the poll tax. | | | "NO POLL tax, no poll tax, no poll tax," echoed around Trafalgar Square as over 200,000 anti-poll tax demonstrators flooded the streets of central London. |
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| | Culture Shop - Battle of Trafalgar - The UK Poll Tax Riot (Film/Video) by Spectacle |
| | A chronological account of the anti-poll tax demonstration on 31st March 1990, one that contrasts disturbingly with the version presented by television news. | | | Battle of Trafalgar - The UK Poll Tax Riot | | | Culture Shop - Battle of Trafalgar - The UK Poll Tax Riot (Film/Video) by Spectacle |
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| | War... [Archive] - The Vegan Forum - a vegan message board |
| | The knock-on effect from the mass opposition to the poll tax was the ousting of Margaret Thatcher as party leader and the poll tax was finaly dropped in 1993 and changed to the council tax (which most people now want to see changed). | | | The poll tax is an example of that. | | | The community charge was introduced by the Conservative government in Britain to replace the old rates payment system in 1990, and was dubbed the poll tax after the tax from the 14th century which was responsible for the peasants revolt. |
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| | Livingstone compares poll tax riots to China massacre By Richard Spencer in Beijing (Filed: 10/04/2006) Ken Livingstone began a tour of China yesterday by comparing the Tiananmen Square massacre to London's 1990 poll tax riot. | | | This is a big issue for us in Maine, a poor state with the highest tax burden in the nation. | | | The survey has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points..." |
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| | 'Anti-Capitalism' as Ideology - and as Movement? |
| | The SWP criticize the liberals' demand for a Tobin tax as a demand which won't work within capitalism. | | | As the name suggests, it concentrates on lobbying the French government for a tax on the international movement of money (Tobin tax) - something which that government is now considering. | | | [59] One example - in this case of Militant, another Trotskyist sect, - is the 1990 poll tax riot. |
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| | Bookwatch: the Labour Party in decline |
| | Whatever has happened at the polls, Labour remains the party which the overwhelming majority of advanced workers define as 'their' party. | | | He denounced people who could not or would not pay the poll tax. | | | Labour won a smaller proportion of the votes of the unemployed than in 1987. |
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| | Instead of resistance to the poll tax disintegrating it was Thatcher's government which was rocked and a salutary lesson was learned as to 'who your friends were'. | | | Elsewhere in Britain, Militant has not achieved the impact or benefits from the organisational stranglehold on the late lamented anti poll tax movement, and they are just another trotskyite marginalised sect along with the SWP and all the others, too numerous and unworthy of mention. | | | In the months to come there was uproar in the APTF, both at federation level and in the local Anti-poll tax groups. |
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| | Mayor of London blog: London Olympics 2012 - NO !!!! Archives |
| | The forthcoming Olympics Bill, will codify the Chancellor's promise of a massive tax subsidy to the International Olympic Committee, so their profits and expenses will not be liable for UK tax ! | | | They are careful to wash their hands of any financial risks or losses by the host cities or governments. | | | The projected £100 million profit spun by the medi is a pure guess and would be a tiny return on a risky investment of nearly $3 billion. |
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| | poll tax - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Phrases that include poll tax: poll tax collector, poll tax riot, the poll tax | | | noun: a tax of a fixed amount per person and payable as a requirement for the right to vote | | | poll tax : The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info] |
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| | BATMAN DOESN'T LOVE ME ANYMORE !! |
| | The forces of conservatism are staffed by shifty, twatish wankers who care about only themselves and, in such a situation, will vote on stuff like who gives them more money. | | | First you cut services paid for by the state down to local level, in an attempt to atrophy them and free tyhe oppresed peoples of Britain, empowering them to act within a market to get the3se goods for themselves. | | | The Poll Tax riots were against a stupid policy that had no grounding in public opinion. |
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| | [Anarchy-list] Then and Now |
| | ("Socialists and the Struggle Against the Poll Tax", SWP Pamphlet). | | | Now and Then Socialist Worker (9/4/2005) had a two page special on the 15th anniversay of the Poll Tax Riot. | | | We wonder why the SWP did not consider those facts worthy of mention in their account of the defeat of the poll tax and what lessons we should draw from it? |
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| | BBC News TALKING POINT Do street protests work? |
| | While they are smashing up central London in the name of anti-capitalism I'll be working to pay the taxes that fund both their benefits and legal aid bills. | | | Everyone has issues they feel strongly about, even if it's something as selfish as the amount of tax they have to pay. | | | Basically all these people do is disrupt the lives of ordinary people trying to earn a crust, and cause a lot of public money to be wasted that could be better spent. |
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| | We decided to do this to pull together, more efficiently, the Federation's resources, to make us a more effective national organisation and to bring in increased democracy with the proper election of officials and delegates. | | | Now that anger was taken up by thousands of miners throughout the country. | | | In association with grass roots anti-Poll Tax groups and prisoners support organisations the Federation organised a successful Bailiff Day of Action, in July 1991,which saw poll tax bailiffs intimidated and harassed all over the country, turning the tables on these scum who profit out of misery and poverty. |
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| | Dr Robs Day: May 2005 |
| | Being an elected member meant that you could not be in arrears with your Poll Tax according to Section 106 of the Local Government Act which was passed by the Thatcher Govt to put a stop to our ‘Loony Left activities. | | | Anyway come the big day of the rally in London to protest against the injustice of the Poll Tax. | | | This then outlines my commitment and opposition to the Poll Tax and as a councillor, I also supported people in Plymouth who were having their doors burst open by the bailiffs seizing goods from these poor people’s homes to pay their Tax (Thatcher was a wicked witch). |
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| | Pivatol change in Ilumined activities - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums |
| | a few weeks down the line (or was it a few days) the Thatcher government decided to bring in a new howsing tax as a reviewed and more fair poll tax replacent... | | | The british complacency returned when Thatcher decided to put VAT/ tax on purchased goods up from 15 to 17.5% where it still remains today. | | | Only to compensate for the U Turn and the public agreed with ease.... |
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| | Feature article: Hattersley's heroes |
| | The tax was made unworkable by massive non-payment. | | | The principled opposition to a tax which reduced the local government levy on the rich and increased it for the poor was compromised by the association of some Labour supporters with the damaged, but not yet destroyed, Militant Tendency. | | | They believed that the proper response to the poll tax was fiscal disobedience, and showed every sign of really believing that, if enough people could be persuaded not to pay, the whole scheme would be dropped and a bankrupt government would be forced to resign' (p342). |
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| | Oliver Kamm: Livingstone (and others) on China |
| | For the record, the 1990 riots began as a protest against a tax introduced by a democratic regime. | | | The Daily Telegraph comments on Ken Livingstone's ingratiating remarks to his Chinese hosts comparing the Tiananmen Square massacre to the poll tax riot in Trafalgar Square: | | | That Mr Livingstone should see any equivalence between the autocrats of Beijing and the Tory administrations of either Lord Liverpool or Margaret Thatcher tells us a great deal about him. |
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| | Civil Disobedience : Fool Moon |
| | It took the events of the riot to bring about change, not only in the proposed legislation, but in the leadership of the Conservative Party too. | | | By that time in her government, Thatcher was of the opinion that she was right in everything she did (as stated since by members of her cabinet and government insiders) and would not listen to the advice of ministers or civil servants, unless they were agreeing with her. | | | That led directly to the fall of Mrs Thatcher as Prime Minister. |
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| | J18 Where were you? |
| | Yet this was significantly different to the Poll Tax. | | | Firstly, because it was the biggest riot in Britain since the Poll Tax riot of 1990. | | | It shows that people globally are starting to wake up and link up. |
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| | Hampshire County Council |
| | Tony took part in Saturday's poll tax riot. | | | This page last updated on 26 March 1999. |
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| | The British Government decided to replace an outdated system for raising local government finance, the rating system which was based on property, with one based on individuals. | | | Opposition was strong and a rally in London prior to the tax's introduction became a riot. | | | USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev was placed under effective house arrest while on holiday and several key members of the USSR Presidium sought to take over control of government. |
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| | London mayor in trouble over riot claim - Breaking News - World - Breaking News |
| | London's Mayor Ken Livingstone has likened Beijing's 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre with a poll tax riot in Trafalgar Square in 1990. | | | The paper said that when reporters pointed out that British police had not shot anyone during the poll tax riot against the then Thatcher government, he suggested the comparison should be put into a wider context. | | | London's Daily Telegraph quoted Livingstone as saying the Tiananmen bloodshed in which thousands of pro-democracy protesters fell before bullets and tanks was part of the Chinese capital's "interesting history". |
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| | Kate Sharpley Library Bulletin - No. 29 |
| | As a strong and active organisation we helped set up London-wide and national anti-poll tax networks and federations, including the Trafalgar Square Defendants' Campaign after the poll tax riot. | | | We have produced pamphlets on the local anti-poll tax campaign, and on a local support campaign for a strike. | | | Then came the poll tax — a huge turning point. |
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| | More states are proposing to tax digital downloads. | | | Guess how many of those legislatures are controlled by Democrats vs. Republicans? | | | Scientist have invented an ultra-thin, natural light that could spell the end of the traditional light bulb. |
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| | London Riot Re-enactment Society |
| | Our re-enactment will be as global as capital | | | One idea would be to re-enact the riot at the end of Seaton Point. | | | If you read a bit about the Gordon Riots or Wat Tyler's peasant revolt you will see that the re-enactment of these riots will take vast numbers, and a lot of planning or luck, so we may start with a smaller, more recent riot, such as the Poll Tax riot. |
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| | Anarchist Riots |
| | 1991, March 31 Poll Tax Riot in Manchester more… | | | Here is a list of Major Anarchist Riots, each riot on the list was either anarchist organized or anarchists were involved in strongly. | | | 1991, November Anti-Education Reform Riots in University of Athens more… |
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| | BBC - History - Poll Tax 1990 |
| | This became known as the Poll Tax after the hated 14th-century Poll Tax, which had been a major cause of the Peasants' Revolt. | | | The result in the late 20th century was a large anti-Government vote in local and by-elections. |
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| | Dissent a network of resistance - Against the G8 |
| | A PhD study of The 1990 Poll Tax riot in London (Stott, 1996) argues that what happened is a classic example of how Police over-reaction to a perceived problem actually created far more problems for them. | | | It could also be argued that it is not often in their interests to start riots, especially in the centre of London, near all the government buildings, because of the dangers of losing control of the crowd, and the high probability of those in charge losing their jobs as a consequence! | | | What seems more likely is that they allow their fear of the crowd to influence their public order tactics to such a degree that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy and they end up creating the ‘irrational mob' that they fear. |
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| | Activist stereotypes - man in black |
| | The Poll Tax Riot, Trafalgar Square, April 1990 | | | Under the circumstances it was a mere formality to have a large-scale punch up with the cops and break a lot of windows. | | | The widely-loathed Poll Tax (which replaced council rates) finally provided the Man In Black (MIB) with the ideal day out: lots of angry people and multiple squads of thoroughly pissed-off policemen packed into a confined space. |
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| | Red Action Discussion Page |
| | For instance the Poll Tax riot in 1990; do you think Maggie T and her administration would have been so shocked by 100,000 people demonstrating a la CND in the early 1980s? | | | Change in society - by which I mean real change - rarely if ever comes about peacefully. |
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| | BBC News UK A taste of things to come? |
| | The poll tax riot of 1990, which saw shops in central London looted and set ablaze, became a belated bookend on a decade of disorder. | | | Forty-six people taken to hospital, an estimated £2m worth of damage and 42 suspects arrested - London's 18 June riot was the worst example of civil disorder since the poll tax riot of 1990. | | | Newspaper reports have also suggested the unit will draw up action plans aimed at heading off potential rioting. |
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| | The Free Association, "Event Horizon" : SF Bay Area Indymedia |
| | At the time we were so fixated on the forms the anti-poll tax struggles had taken we couldn’t see the potential of the new anti-roads movement and the forms it developed. | | | It’s easy to slip into the trap of using precarity as some kind of sociological category: so precarity comes to mean talking about migrants, or workers in fast food outlets, or the ‘cognitariat’, or culture workers or any number of fixed identities. | | | We couldn’t see that similar underlying processes threw up differently shaped movements that could resonate with each other. |
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| | The Poll tax riots of 1990 find their echo in..." (Cut to historical painting of Peasants Revolt) BB: "....the Peasants Revolt. | | | Cut to a shot inside the Museum, with Bill walking through exhibits from the 'Stuart' period of British history (c. | | | Charter 88 takes its name in part from..." (Cut to black and white line drawing of some Chartists being executed) BB: "...the Chartist movement. |
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| | Despite TV - The Battle of Trafalgar What really happened during the Trafalgar Square Poll Tax riot The Jewish Anarchists Documents the Jewish immigrant anarchist movement in the U.S.A. and the 87 year history of the anarchist newspaper "Die Frei Arbeiter Stimmer". | | | The Noam Chomsky Interview John Pilger interviews the U.S.A.'s foremost anarchist intellectual. | | | Celebrate 100 years of anarchist agitation in Glasgow by joining in the fun. |
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| | And it is in that international climate of disapproval that the Italian disapora went to the polls, and who can blame them if they felt so embarrassed by their scandalous Prime Minister that a majority of them voted against him, and thereby gave Prodi his minuscule two-seat majority in the Senate? | | | The site is launched as initial findings from a Eurobarometer poll reveal as many as 60% of the public would like to have more information about the EU. | | | They hated the nationalism implicit in his political party, and they hated his jokes - jokes that were not easy to reconcile with the EU's abundant charters and directives on combating sexism and homophobia. |
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| | The Battle of Trafalgar Square - Anti Poll Tax riot/party | | | Atom Heart Live PA- Two live sets from Aust. |
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| | A total of 23 people - including a boy of 13 - are to stand trial in connection with a riot in Belfast last July. | | | Youths rioted in this southern city for a second straight day Wednesday to protest a suicide bombing that killed 56 people, which a top Pakistani official said was aimed at "eliminating" the leadership of a moderate Sunni Muslim group. | | | Indian Actor Raj Kumar Dies, Fans Riot (ABC News) |
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| | Anarchist films and videos were shown throughout the weekend: - Despite TV, The Battle of Trafalgar; what really happened during the Trafalgar Square Poll Tax riot. | | | Bookstalls from A K Press (Edinburgh), Northern Herald Books (Bradford) and various local groups were on display. |
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| | I gave myself the name after being arrested at Maggie's Poll Tax Riot 1991. | | | Whilst in the cells with another ten or so alleged rioters, I thought c'est la vie life's like that. |
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