Can't Pay, Won't Pay

Simon Hannah

Description

Thirty years ago, a social movement helped bring down one of the most powerful British Prime Ministers of the 20th Century. For the 30th anniversary of the Poll Tax rebellion, Simon Hannah looks back on those tumultuous days of resistance, telling the story of the people that beat the bailiffs, rioted for their rights and defied a government.

Starting in Scotland where the 'Community Charge' was first trialled, Can't Pay, Won't Pay immerses the reader in the gritty history of the rebellion. Amidst the drama of large scale protests and blockaded estates a number of key figures and groups emerge: Neil Kinnock and Tommy Sheridan; Militant, Class War and the Metropolitan Police.

Assessing this legacy today, Hannah demonstrates the centrality of the Poll Tax resistance as a key chapter in the history of British popular uprisings, Labour Party factionalism, the anti-socialist agenda and failed Tory ideology.

Preface

Introduction

1. A Brief History of Tax Resistance and Revolutions

2. Why a Poll Tax?

3. Scotland

4. Debates Over Strategy

5. The Resistance Begins

6. The Battle of Trafalgar (Square)

7. A Ragtag Army

8. Endgame

9. Social Movements, Class and Strategy

Conclusion: A System Shaken or Broken?

Notes

Index

Sujets

• Public Affairs
• Political Science
• Partido Nacional Escocés
• Advocacy group
• Anti-Poll Tax Unions
• Maureen
• History of Glasgow
• National Union of Public Employees
• National and Local Government Officers Association
• Marxism Today
• Public administration
• Jeremy Corbyn
• Dennis Skinner
• Scottish Militant Labour
• Class War
• Communist Party of Great Britain
• Conservative Party
• Chartism
• Scottish National Party
• History of Europe
• Activism
• Tony Benn
• Nigel Lawson
• Michael Heseltine
• Tommy Sheridan
• Reynolds
• Ken Livingstone
• Lambeth
• Socialist Workers Party
• Neil Kinnock
• Parti national écossais
• Administration

Informations

• Publié par: Pluto Press
• Date de parution: 20 mars 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786806055
• Langue: English

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Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay