Socialist Outlook

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Socialist Outlook no. 35, June 2000 · 173 words

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then she had attacked the sector, choosing her terrain, one alter another, together left wing councils and, as her pièce de resistance, the minimpose a new ocal tax which But then tried hit everybody and made the most impoverished pay the TORSOU voked a mass movement which smashed the poll tax and contributed powerfully to her downfall. thinking.

Secole first introduce this tax in Scotland, a part of Britain never commanded a majority Labour Party where workers' Following this movement had strong tradiThis is not the place to hand of the poll tax, the sole victory of the British workers' morement in a neriod of heavs defcats. But this was crucial organisation: in the genesis of the SSP Militant 1.abour.

movement rapidly achieved great breadth. The which later became the main of Giasgow, component of the SSR played the leading role, defending the strategy of refusing to clection pay the poll tax combined with mass mobilisations and

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