Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Fight to Stop the Poll Tax - Couverture souple

Hannah, Simon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745340814 ISBN 13 : 9780745340814

Editeur : Pluto Press, 2020

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Simon Hannah is a writer, activist, and trade unionist living in South London. He is an assistant branch secretary in UNISON and has written several books, including A Party With Socialists In It: A History of the Labour Left, which was a Guardian Book of the Day.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pluto Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745340814
• ISBN 13: 9780745340814
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
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