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Articles by: Chris Robinson
Former journalist and teacher. Presently works as drug/alcohol worker. Has published a book about addiction: 'The Road to Recovery' by Alan Boden and Chris Robinson.

Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay (VI): The Art of Self-Defence

November 18, 2013 1:11 pm0 Comments
Can't Pay, Won't Pay (VI): The Art of Self-Defence

In Part Five of ‘Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay’ with no political party willing to seriously oppose Thatcher’s poll tax, millions of ordinary people begin to organise themselves at grassroots level, often inspired by the historic revolutionary events in the former Stalinist countries of Eastern Europe. The town of Northwich was typical of […]

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Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay (V): The Wall Comes Tumbling Down

November 13, 2013 4:48 pm0 Comments
Can't Pay, Won't Pay (V): The Wall Comes Tumbling Down

Part Five in a series of ten articles on the history of the  ‘Anti-Poll Tax Campaign’. CHRIS ROBINSON looks at how the campaign developed at the local level in his own area of Northwich, Cheshire – reflected up and down the country as millions prepared to fight back against the […]

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Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay (IV): Revolution Down Below

November 6, 2013 12:06 pm2 Comments
Can't Pay, Won't Pay (IV): Revolution Down Below

Part Four of ten articles exploring the history of the grass-roots movement against Thatcher’s infamous poll tax. CHRIS ROBINSON looks at the beginning of the fight back. Thatcher’s Tory government introduced the poll tax a year earlier in Scotland following their rejection of ‘Thatcherism’ in the 1987 elections. An acknowledged ‘Labour stronghold’, yet […]

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Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay (III): Get Militant

November 5, 2013 11:35 am0 Comments
Can't Pay, Won't Pay (III): Get Militant

Continuing with his series on the historic ‘Anti-Poll Tax Campaign’ that brought down Margaret Thatcher, CHRIS ROBINSON looks at how the political left were on the defensive in the face of the 1980s Tory government onslaught to end the post-war social consensus. With the Labour Party moving to the right, only the […]

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‘Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay’ (II): A Paler Shade of Red

October 24, 2013 10:36 am2 Comments
'Can't Pay, Won't Pay' (II): A Paler Shade of Red

Part Two of a continuing series of articles tracing the history of the anti-poll tax campaign. By 1988, following a third election victory, Thatcher’s government was determined to fund local government contributions with a personal tax. It was to be a massive transference of wealth from the poor to the […]

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The Faces Retro: ‘A Nod’s as Good as a Wink’

October 17, 2013 3:06 pm0 Comments
The Faces Retro: 'A Nod's as Good as a Wink'

A second bite of the cherry always tastes sweet. Seminal ’70s band, The Faces, knew that better than most. They provided one of the musical and cultural links between the lost idealism of the ‘poptastic’ Sixties and the grey hangover of the new decade. The nucleus of the band, former Mod […]

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Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Anti-Poll Tax Campaign

October 11, 2013 7:14 pm0 Comments
Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Anti-Poll Tax Campaign

In a new ten part series of articles, CHRIS ROBINSON traces the story behind the grassroots struggle against the poll tax – how it was organised, how it defeated this hated policy, and how the movement was instrumental in the downfall of Margaret Thatcher. ‘The lessons we learned yesterday, can be put into practice […]

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The Mask Slips (Again): UKIP Conference

October 4, 2013 3:56 pm3 Comments
The Mask Slips (Again): UKIP Conference

Just as UKIP’s leader, Nigel Farage, thought it was safe to come out into the political party conference season to set out his rightwing populist stall, his party’s very own backwoodsman Godfrey Bloom MEP went and did it again. This time, as UKIP’s 2013 Conference was already underway, it seemed there […]

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