THE POLL Tax is so discredited that even the Tories want to get rid of it. However this undoubted victory has been won at some huge cost to many individual non-payers and protestors.
The ruling class wish to punish those who dare defy their unjust laws. They have wherever possible, made people pay heavily for any resistance to the Poll Tax. People are being committed to prison for non-payment on a now regular basis. Also the courts have handed down savage sentences to those who were arrested and dragged through the courts because they fought back against police brutalization of APT demonstrations.
In order to maintain the non-payment campaign, it is vital hat those victimized by the state are given the utmost solidarity. Along,oll Tax be with the demand that the scoupphave asits main demand APTM that there should be an amnesty for all those who are defendants or risoners as a recult of thi 'oll Tax. No protester should be prison for standing up to the Poll Tax or police attacks upor July 20, 1991 No. 6