H.3.a. Poll Tax Protests, Britain, 1989-90

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Bagguley, Paul Protest, Poverty and Power: A Case Study of the Anti-Poll Tax Movement, Vol. 43, issue 4, 1995 , pp. 693-719

Examines social base, organization and tactics of the anti-poll tax movement and relates it to theoretical debates about new social movements and poor people’s movements. See also: Paul Bagguley, Anti-Poll Tax Protest, In Colin Barker, Paul Kennedy, To Make Another World: Studies in Protest and Collective Action, Aldershot, Avebury Press, 1996 , pp. 7-24

Hoggett, Paul; Burns, Danny The Revenge of the Poor: The Anti-Poll Tax Campaign in Britain, Vol. 11, issue (Dec), 1991 , pp. 95-110

See also reply by Michael Lavalette, Gerry Mooney, The Poll Tax Struggle in Britain: A Reply to Hoggett and Burn, 1993 , pp. 96-108

Lavalette, Michael; Mooney, Gerry ”No Poll Tax Here!”: The Tories, Social Policy and the Great Poll Tax Rebellion, 1987-1991, In Michael Lavalette, Gerry Mooney, Class Struggle and Social Welfare, Abingdon, Routledge, 2000 , pp. 296 , pp. 199-227

Murgatroyd, Richard The Popular Politics of the Poll Tax: An Active Citizenship of the Left, London, Brunel University (published PhD thesis), 2000 , pp. 338

Detailed case study of poll tax protest in the London Borough of Ealing.
Ramsey, Kanaan How One Small Anarchist Group Toppled the Thatcher Government, (Interviewed by David Solnit), In David Solnit, Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World (A.6.a. General Titles) San Francisco CA, City Lights, 2004 , pp. 397-410

Discusses how the poll tax campaign spread beyond its origins in Edinburgh to the rest of Britain and describes its main tactics.

Websites recommended

How One Small Anarchist Group Toppled the Thatcher Government San Francisco CA City Lights, 2004

Discusses how the poll tax campaign spread beyond its origins in Edinburgh to the rest of Britain and describes its main tactics.
Protest, Poverty and Power: A Case Study of the Anti-Poll Tax Movement (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-954X.1995.tb00715.x/abstract) , 1995

Examines social base, organization and tactics of the anti-poll tax movement and relates it to theoretical debates about new social movements and poor people’s movements. See also: Paul Bagguley, Anti-Poll Tax Protest, In Colin Barker, Paul Kennedy, To Make Another World: Studies in Protest and Collective Action, Aldershot, Avebury Press, 1996 , pp. 7-24

The Popular Politics of the Poll Tax: An Active Citizenship of the Left (http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/4852/1/FulltextThesis.pdf) London Brunel University (published PhD thesis), 2000

Detailed case study of poll tax protest in the London Borough of Ealing.
The Revenge of the Poor: The Anti-Poll Tax Campaign in Britain , 1991

See also reply by Michael Lavalette, Gerry Mooney, The Poll Tax Struggle in Britain: A Reply to Hoggett and Burn, 1993 , pp. 96-108

”No Poll Tax Here!”: The Tories, Social Policy and the Great Poll Tax Rebellion, 1987-1991 Abingdon Routledge, 2000