Following the repeated exposure of the nature of British most recently in the cases of the Birminngham Six and the Tottenham Three, the sysEllis was originally charged with 'conspiracy and possession of exp Unfortunately for the British state, the act in question stipuates that the cu must have do urred within the UK.
In June this was done. And JudgeSwinton Thomas-Judge in the notorious Winchester law. Thead didn't really mean the defendant had to be in the UK, he dended - SCOTTISH activists drove another nail into the coffin of the Poll Tax last week when they successtully stopped Scotland's first warrant sale.
Hundreds of protesters turned up to the sale, organisedby Labour-con trolled Strathclyde council in a former Glasgow porce station.
They surrounded the van, contain. ing two sherit's officers along with items of furniture taken from non-payers Anne and Jim Brennan of Port Glasgow, and threatened to overtur Fearing a pasting, the police ad vised the sherif's officers to cancel the sale. Tommy Sheridan, Chair of the Scottish Anti-Poll Tax Federation, proclaimed the action as a great victory and said that the campaign would also prevent any future warrant sales from taking place.
Strathclyde is one of several ON AL TAX BLI TAX TONY: TUD Labour councis that are fiercely cam. paigning to break the back of non-payment. Blaming non-payers, inslead of the Tones, for the massive cuts that they have made in local jobs and services, they have spent around £200,000 on a spiteful campaign of intimidation.
Not only is this a massive betrayal of the Scottish working class, it is also Labour Party expect Scottish workers to vote for them in a general election at the same time as they are stabbing them in the back?
The blame les entirely at the feet of the treacherous policy of compliance on the part of Labour's In the months that lead up to the election, socialists in the Labour Party should be at the forefront of the campaign in defence of non-payersin Scotland, Wales and England.