30 Years Since Poll Tax Non-Payment Brought Down Thatcher – Leeds Socialists
April 27, 2020 @ 18:00 - 20:00
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30 years ago, the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, was reduced to ‘iron filings’ by the 18 million strong mass non-payment movement of the poll tax. Even sleepy traditional Tory towns had hundreds strong demonstrations outside courthouses to defend non-payers, and resist them being sent to jail.
Eric Segal, whose new book on the struggle against the Poll Tax was published earlier this year, was a leading figure in the anti-poll tax movement, Secretary of the Kent Anti-Poll Tax Federation, and was one of the several hundred people who were jailed for non-payment of the Poll Tax, will be our speaker and discuss the lessons of the battle against the poll tax for today.
Meeting taking place via Zoom – please message Leeds Socialists for the code and any assistance needed
Couldn’t Pay, Wouldn’t Pay, Didn’t Pay – is available from leftbooks.co.uk – http://leftbooks.co.uk/Couldnt-Pay