BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS REVIEWED
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BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS REVIEWEDThe Poll Tax Rebellion in HaringeyThe dreaded Poll Tax. Where the people of Haringey (and nationwide) did rise up and join together (10,000 local residents signed the no-pay pledge), made friends, and made enemies with Margaret Thatcher. This booklet details what a mass movement looks like. It was a national movement that had its greatest value in grassroots activism in local communities across the country. Find out about the aims and issues behind the anti-poll tax movement from a Haringey perspective. But more importantly find out about the passion, the subvertised posters, the marches (including the inspiring Trafalgar Square uprising), the storming of the council chambers and mostly the sheer commitment of local activists. A time when 'people stuck together to resist authority and won and started to discuss alternative ideas about how society could be run by people themselves for everyone's needs.' Lots of photos, illustrations, leaflets and newspaper clippings provide a great insight into an important part of our recent radical history. Also in the text are lots of practical ways to organise local campaigns. The movement sowed the seeds for what is now Haringey Solidarity Group and the Legal Defence Monitoring Group. which can only be a good thing!
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