The Exploited: Don't Pay the Poll Tax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6n4U1ZSCJM&list=RDd6n4U1ZSCJM&start_radio=1

#punkrock #PollTax

Today in Labor History November 28, 1990: Margaret Thatcher resigned in tears after a mass non-payment of her hated poll tax forced her out of office. The tax was a flat tax, hugely unfair, charging all adults, regardless of their wealth or income, the same amount. At the height of the campaign, nearly half of all British adults, 17 million people, had refused to pay the tax. The Labour Party refused to back any protest of the tax. But Anti-Poll Tax Unions formed across the country, and there were thousands of demonstrations, many of which became riots after mounted police charged the protesters. Over 100 were injured and more than 330 were arrested in the protests.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #polltax #margaretthatcher #protests #demonstrations #directaction #anarchism #socialism #tax

Farage “firmly opposed to @Keir_Starmer’s digital ID cards” | …I hate it when I agree with him:

“It will make no difference to illegal immigration, but it will be used to control and penalise the rest of us. The state should never have this much power.”

Though I suspect that he just wants to have his own (not “Starmer’s”) ID cards, instead. I wonder if this will be Labour’s “Poll Tax”?

https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1971258492687352012

#digitalId #idCards #kierStarmer #pollTax #reformUK

On 31 March 1990, Trafalgar Square saw its largest number of arrested protesters with a staggering 339 people arrested because they objected to paying the hated #PollTax.

That was until 6 days ago, when that ceiling of 339 was smashed!

#PalestineAction