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	Poll Tax Riots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This riot is sometimes referred to as the Battle Of Trafalgar, particularly by those opposed to the poll tax, because the main battle took place in Trafalgar Square.
		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.
		BBC commentary on the role of the riots in the demise of Mrs Thatcher.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poll_tax_riot (1804 words)

	Poll tax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A poll tax, head tax, soul tax, or capitation is a tax of a uniform, fixed amount per individual (as opposed to a percentage of income).
		John of Gaunt, the regent of Richard II of England, levied his poll tax in 1380 to finance the war against France that was in progress.
		The tax was not implemented in Northern Ireland, which continued, as it still does, to levy the rating system, despite some unionists calling for the province to have the same taxation system as the rest of the United Kingdom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poll_tax (1579 words)

	Poll tax
		In the United Kingdom, "Poll Tax" commonly refers to two taxes levied by John of Gaunt and Margaret Thatcher, in the fourteenth and twentieth centuries respectively.
		John of Gaunt, the regent of Richard II of England, levied his poll tax in 1381 to finance the war against France that was in progress.
		This became known as the Poll Tax due to people becoming suspicious (correctly, as events transpired) that the Electoral register[?] would be used to find people for the purposes of collecting this tax.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/po/Poll_tax.html (680 words)

	Poll tax - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		A poll tax, head tax, or capitation is a tax of a uniform, fixed amount per individual (as opposed to a percentage of income).
		A 1966 Supreme Court decision held that the poll tax as applied to state elections violated the equal protection clause of United States Constitution.
		This was a fixed tax per adult resident, hence a poll tax, although there was a reduction for low-income people.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Poll_tax (1212 words)

	Wikinfo \| Poll tax
		A poll tax is a tax of a uniform, fixed amount per individual (as opposed to a percentage of income).
		There are several famous cases of poll taxes in history, notably a tax formerly required for voting in parts the United States that was often designed to disenfranchise African Americans, as well as two taxes levied by John of Gaunt and Margaret Thatcher in the fourteenth and twentieth centuries respectively.
		Subsequent Supreme Court decisions voided the poll tax in state elections as a violation of the equal protection clause of United States Constitution.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Poll_tax (879 words)

	Poll Tax Riots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The ABF executive committee called a demonstration in London for March 31 1990 (the day of Poll Tax implementation in England and Wales, it having already been introduced in Scotland); the committee estimated that turnout would be only in the region of 20,000 people.
		Some anarchists, especially the high-profile Class War organisation, were only too happy to take the credit, and were the only section of the far left to explicity condone the riot as being largely legitimate self-defence against police attack.
		The trials of anti poll-tax demonstrators in the months after 31 March served to confirm substantial doubts about the policing styles and methods which had been developed and introduced during the 1980s to deal with mass protests such as those of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the, anti-Apartheid groups, and the Miners' Strike.
	www.redondobeach.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Poll_tax_riot (1764 words)

	Search Results for "Poll tax"
		poll tax, a capital tax levied equally on every adult in the community.
		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...
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	Fifteen years since poll tax revolt\|9Apr05\|Socialist Worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		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”.
		Beginning in Scotland, where the tax was introduced in 1989 one year before England and Wales, millions of people formed themselves into anti poll tax groups, unions and federations, pledging not to pay.
		The poll tax was abolished in March 1991.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php4?article_id=6178 (1631 words)

	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.
		Last March's anti-poll tax demonstration in London, which degenerated into a violent shambles, is recalled and analysed, with many participants describing their anger at the police tactics (or lack of them).
		Accusations proliferate that either the riot was deliberately provoked by the police, or that their handling of the situation was woefully inept.
	www.cultureshop.org /details.php?code=BATT (438 words)

	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.
		The poll tax is actually fairly unpopular among police officers.
		And it took the Poll Tax, and its widespread rejection by the whole society, including a large part of the Tory Party, to create the conditions for a riot.
	members.aol.com /BevinSoc/PollTaxRiot.html (1249 words)

	Margaret Thatcher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As party Leader she was undefeated at the polls, winning the 1979, 1983 and 1987 general elections.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margaret_Thatcher (9185 words)

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		Tommy Sheridan was flown down to appear at the end of the London rally and as the 'leader' of the All Britain Anti Poll Tax Federation was pitched into the controversy surrounding the police attack on demonstrators.
		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.
	www.spunk.org /texts/pubs/sa/2/sp001218.txt (1403 words)

	The Poll Tax: The battle that brought down Thatcher
		The tax was first introduced in Scotland in 1989 to test the water but by March 1990 the campaign north of the border had reduced councils and the poll tax to their knees.
		Fed leaders pledged to fight the poll tax in the courts, against the bailiffs and to defend all non-payers threatened with jail.
		The Fed had never advocated rioting or looting as a means of defeating the poll tax - only mass non-payment would achieve this - but its Militant (now Socialist Party) leadership fully understood that people's frustration with Thatcher, the poll tax and the police would sometimes boil over.
	www.militant.org.uk /PollTax.html (2266 words)

	This is Essex \| Local Interest \| Clactonian Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The Poll Tax Riot in 1990 was nothing new: the first took place in Essex in 1381, and unlike its 20th century descendent resulted in a full-scale revolt.
		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.
		Tax evasion was widespread so the government appointed Commissioners to enforce payment.
	www.thisisessex.co.uk /essex/local_interest/history/polltax.html (309 words)

	Adloyada: The ultimate "Nobody's Perfect" line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The Trafalgar Square riots are thought to have contributed strongly to the downfall of Margaret Thatcher in the same year.
		The Poll Tax was abolished shortly after her successor, John Major, came into office.
		Poll Tax riots in Trafalgar Square in 1990.
	adloyada.typepad.com /adloyada/2006/04/the_ultimate_no.html (833 words)

	Margaret Thatcher - dKosopedia
		Thatcher dismissed the more moderate Tories who expected to be appointed to her government as 'wets' and pursued a hard-right agenda that came to be known as Thatcherism.
		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.
		This was unfair and hugely unpopular, saw many people choose to be sentenced to jail terms rather than pay and provoked the 1990 Poll Tax Riot of more than a quarter of a million demonstrators, which featured the aggressive police action and surveillance permitted by Thatcher's public order legislation.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Margaret_Thatcher (502 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| A taste of things to come? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		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.
		The Brixton riots of 1981 signalled a decade of disorder
		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.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/407363.stm (739 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Livingstone compares poll tax riots to China massacre
		Ken Livingstone began a tour of China yesterday by comparing the Tiananmen Square massacre to London's 1990 poll tax riot.
		"We've had some interesting riots in Trafalgar Square - I mean, only 20 years ago, the poll tax riots, and flames licking up." Mr Livingstone is spending a week in Beijing and Shanghai discussing Olympic planning and promoting London businesses in the world's fastest growing major economy.
		When it was pointed out that the Metropolitan Police had not shot or killed anyone during the poll tax riot in London in March 1990, he suggested the comparison should be put into a longer context.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/10/wken10.xml (850 words)

	Dissent a network of resistance - Against the G8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		A later enquiry of the Poll Tax riot concluded that the Police quickly lost control of the situation, and there are even rumours that the officer in charge on the ground on the day was found in a phone box, a gibbering wreck after the riot!
		Of course, the Police are not going to admit that they deliberately start riots, even if they did, but it is much easier to explain their public order tactics as cock-up rather than conspiracy, which then cause events to spin out of their control.
		Shortly before the 1994 CJB riot in Hyde Park, the officer in charge took 1000 riot Police off duty- 1/3 of his total force, as the demo appeared to be winding down.
	www.dissent.org.uk /content/view/246/29 (2807 words)

	London Riot Re-enactment Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Having read their Rules of Association it appears that the London Riot Re-enactment Society may not be eligible to join the National Association of Re-enactment Societies.
		If, for example, you are involved in a re-enactment of the Gordon riots and you are very good at acting drunk for days on end, then feel free to just drink water, but if you think that only gin will do the trick, then drink gin, and we won't ask where you got it from.
		Riots are usually associated with urban life, but it doesn't have to be that way.
	www.c8.com /anathematician/lrrs.htm (1793 words)

	Civil Disobedience : Fool Moon
		However, I recall the "Poll Tax" riot that took place in London in the late 80s (can't remember what year exactly).
		The riot started out as a protest march against what the vast majority of the population of the UK saw as an unfair and unjust tax.
		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.
	foolmoon.com /showthreaded.php?Number=114558 (247 words)

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		The inner-city riots of late1985 proved to be another boost for Class War (12,000 papers were being sold each issue that Autumn)but following the end of the Bash The Rich campaign,an increasing number of people around the country wanted to consolidate the gains of the last three years.
		The Federation shot to prominence after the 1990 poll tax riot in Trafalgar Square where the Metropolitan Police got a well deserved beating at the hands of thousands of people from all over 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.
	www.spunk.org /library/groups/classwar/sp000598.txt (924 words)

	Politics \| Livingstone compares Tiananmen Square to poll tax riots
		Ken Livingstone made a controversial start to his tour of China by comparing the Tiananmen Square massacre to London's 1990 poll tax riot.
		No one was killed in London's poll tax riots and the police did not use tanks.
		To compare the poll tax riots with Tiananmen Square is an insult to victims of China's human rights abuses, according to Yael Weisz-Rind of the Free Tibet Campaign.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,329454803-107935,00.html (512 words)

	Poll Tax - AKG Tax's Best Poll Tax Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		A poll tax, head tax, or capitation is a tax of a uniform, fixed amount per individual (as opposed...
		The word poll is an English word that once meant "head", hence the name poll tax for a per-person...
		A poll tax, head tax, or capitation is a tax of a...
	www.akgtax.com /polltax (1321 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		SNIP a Zogby poll released Tuesday found 61 percent of likely American voters felt less sympathetic to the plight of illegal immigrants after seeing the first round of demonstrations, including the massive, Mexican-flag-waving protest in Los Angeles on March 25.
		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.
		Poll director Peter Woolley said that right now voters' preferences for the candidates are being...
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=POLL (3873 words)

	Feature article: Hattersley's heroes
		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).
		Had it been left to them, the poll tax would still be with us, no doubt another of the hated Tory policies which the Labour government can do nothing about.
	pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk /sr212/german.htm (1830 words)

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