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26 March 2020
East London Socialist Party: Couldn't pay, wouldn't pay, didn't pay - How we beat the Poll Tax
25 March 2020
30 years since the huge anti-poll tax demo... And how mass non-payment of the tax was built
On 31 March 1990, a massive demonstration surged into central London. It was the culmination of months of organisation and defiance of the Tory government's hated poll tax by millions of overwhelmingly working-class people.
24 March 2020
Newham campaign set up against council cuts and tax hikes
Back in the mists of time, on 6 March, in the days before Coronavirus was dominating everything, local residents in Newham came together to organise opposition to the budget that had just been agreed by the Labour council
11 March 2020
Salford 'no-cuts' budget includes cuts and tax rises
Salford council has cut £211 million from spending since 2010, writes Nick Chaffey, Socialist Party national committee.
5 February 2020
Newham council tax workers' pay victory
Unite members working as council tax benefit managers for Newham's Labour council in east London have won a pay and grading claim after giving the employer notice of strike action to commence.
5 February 2020
Ealing tax office workers strike against closure
Civil service workers at Ealing tax office took further strike action on 29-31 January against its closure and staff redundancies
3 February 2020
Sadiq Khan "out-Tories" himself to defend tech firms' tax bonanza
In an interview, London's Labour mayor shows he's a friend of the multinationals and not the working class
8 January 2020
Shell pays £0 corporation tax, and plans huge hike in fossil output
Faced with increasing scrutiny worldwide, oil giant Shell has revealed it paid no UK corporation tax in 2018. This is despite Shell also earning nearly £557 million in pre-tax profits in the UK over that year, with global pre-tax profits being $35.6 billion.
4 September 2019
What strategy can end the retail jobs massacre?
The last few years have seen swathes of closures of shops across the UK as whole chains have collapsed while others close considerable numbers of stores.
31 July 2019
Build a working-class movement to force an election
Johnson is keen to present himself as a representative of ordinary people - but his policy announcements are anti-worker through and through
15 May 2019
Take the wealth off the super-rich
The top 1,000 wealthiest individuals and families in Britain are sitting on a record £771.3 billion, up £47.8 billion in a year. This astonishing fact is in this year's Sunday Times Rich List.
2 May 2019
The significance of the anti-poll tax movement
Following an article in the Guardian by Matthew Taylor titled 'Extinction Rebellion protesters to stand in European elections', Coventry Socialist Party member Dave Nellist responded with a letter to the Guardian
17 April 2019
During the campaign against the Poll Tax, we used to say that the tax was unfair because a lord in his manor was expected to pay the same as a dustman down the road.
3 April 2019
End Tory cold cruelty: life under austerity in Merthyr
Scrap Universal Credit now: Merthyr has received a bad press as the "benefit capital of Britain". The Mirror newspaper pointed out the average male life expectancy on one of the estates is lower than Haiti's. But it's a friendly town.
20 March 2019
End austerity. Fight for a living wage!
The chancellor's spring statement signaled a continued squeeze on low-income families.
13 March 2019
It's one world for us and another for the super-rich especially billionaire tax avoiders!
6 February 2019
Billionaires avoid paying and even talking about tax! Take the wealth off the 1%
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman went viral by putting the cat among the pigeons at billionaires get together Davos in Switzerland recently
5 December 2018
France: mass demonstrations force president to back down
This movement, the expression of accumulated anger, brings together many who have voted very different ways in recent elections
21 November 2018
Save the high street: public ownership, not ghost malls
This year has been a bad year for the retail sector. About 14 shops are closing a day, a net loss of 1,123 from Britain's main high streets in the first half of this year, according to accountants PwC.
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