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This month we have added a lot of anti-Poll Tax materials to the Digital Library, as well as the usual assortment of bits and bobs found at the bottom of boxes.

For more information and plenty more materials regarding the struggle against the ‘Community Charge’, please see our new Spotlight on: The Struggle Against The Poll Tax.

Newspapers, bulletins, etc.

3D - Don't pay! Don't collect! Don't implement! #02

Yorkshire 3D - Don't pay! Don't collect! Don't implement! #03

All Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation - Bulletin #02

All Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation - Bulletin 1991/04-05 #??

All Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation - Bulletin May 1990…

Aspley Anti-Poll Tax Union Newsletter #??

Axe the Tax #01 (Sherwood and District Anti-Poll Tax Campaign, 1989)

Axe the Tax #02 (Sherwood and District Anti-Poll Tax Campaign, 1990)

Fight the Poll Tax! #24 (London Against the Poll Tax)

Nottingham Defence Campaign Newsletter 1990/04 #01

Nottingham Defence Campaign Newsletter 1990/07 #02

Nottingham Defence Campaign Newsletter 1991/01 #??

Nottingham Defence Campaign Newsletter 1991/04-05 #??

Nottingham Hunt Sabs News #01

Poll-Axe Special Issue 1990/04-05

Poll Tax News #?? (AK Press?, 1991)

Poll Tax Prisoners News 1992/01-02 (Poll Tax Prisoners Support Network, Trafalgar Square Defendants' Campaign)

Refuse and Resist #02 (1990)

Somerset Clarion 1991/07

Stand Firm #03 (Trafalgar Square Defendants' Campaign, 1990)

Stand Firm #04 (Trafalgar Square Defendants' Campaign, 1990)

Stand Firm #05 (Trafalgar Square Defendants' Campaign, 1991)

Stand Firm #06 (Trafalgar Square Defendants' Campaign, 1991)

Stockbridge New Town Anti Poll Tax News (Stockbridge/New Town Anti Poll Tax Group)

(Stockbridge/New Town) Anti Poll Tax News (Stockbridge/New Town Anti Poll Tax Group)

Trafalgar Square Defendants' Campaign Newsletter #02 (1990)

Union City News #02 (Notts TUC)

Woodlands Against The Poll Tax News 1989/Autumn

Woodlands Against The Poll Tax News 1990/01-02

Pamphlets

Child Poverty Action Group: A Tax On All The People (1987)

ILP: Pole-Axe The Poll Tax (1987)

LDR Labour Research Department: The Poll Tax - What it will mean for people in England and Wales (1990)

Liberty: Privacy and the Poll Tax - Your rights and the law in England and Wales (1989)

Scottish Anti-Poll Tax Federation, Strathclyde Anti-Poll Tax Federation: The Coming of the Poll Tax - No Poll Tax Here - This Far And No Further (1989)

Trafalgar Square Defendants' Campaign: Preliminary Report on the Policing of the Anti-Poll Tax Demonstration of October 20th

Leaflets

10 Reasons why you should vote for Nobody (SMASH Society for Mutual Aid and Self Help)

Anti-abortionists are trying to stop women having the babies they desperately want and trying to force women to have the babies they don't want (National Abortion Campaign, 1990)

Assorted leaflets and other information materials regarding the campaigns against the Poll Tax/Community Charge, produced by Rushcliffe against the Poll Tax.

Assorted leaflets and other information materials regarding the campaigns against the Poll Tax/Community Charge, produced by Nottinghamshire Anti Poll Tax Federation.

Assorted leaflets and other information materials regarding the campaigns against the Poll Tax/Community Charge, produced by anti-Poll Tax groups from Basford, Bestwood, Beeston and the SDAPTC.

Assorted leaflets and other information materials regarding the campaigns against the Poll Tax/Community Charge, produced by Sherwood and District Anti Poll Tax Campaign.

Assorted leaflets and other information materials regarding the campaigns against the Poll Tax/Community Charge, produced by SNAPT South Notts Against The Poll Tax.

Assorted leaflets and other information materials regarding the campaigns against the Poll Tax/Community Charge, produced by Radford Against The Poll Tax.

Assorted leaflets and other information materials regarding the campaigns against the Poll Tax/Community Charge, produced by Nottingham Defence Fund.

Assorted leaflets and other information materials regarding the campaigns against the Poll Tax/Community Charge, produced by St Anns Anti Poll Tax Union.

Assorted leaflets and other information materials regarding the campaigns against the Poll Tax/Community Charge, produced by Lenton and Dunkirk Anti Poll Tax Union.

Assorted leaflets and other information materials regarding the campaigns against the Poll Tax/Community Charge, produced by Forest Fields/Hyson Green Anti-Poll Tax Campaign.

Assorted leaflets and other information materials regarding the campaigns against the Poll Tax/Community Charge, produced by Labour Against the Poll Tax.

Assorted leaflets and other information materials regarding the campaigns against the Poll Tax/Community Charge, produced by assorted groups, mostly local.

Assorted leaflets and other information materials regarding the Poll Tax/Community Charge, produced by Nottingham City Council.

Assorted leaflets and other information materials regarding the campaigns against the Poll Tax/Community Charge, produced by ACF/AF Anarchist Communist Federation/Anarchist Federation.

Assorted leaflets and other information materials regarding the campaigns against the Poll Tax/Community Charge, produced by All Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation.

Assorted leaflets and other information materials regarding the campaigns against the Poll Tax/Community Charge, produced by Trafalgar Square Defendants Campaign.

Assorted leaflets and other information materials regarding the campaigns against the Poll Tax/Community Charge, produced by assorted, non-local, groups.

Assorted small size leaflets promoting fundraising events supporting the campaigns against the Poll Tax/Community Charge, produced by assorted groups, many local.

Assorted small size leaflets promoting events and demonstrations (etc.), regarding the campaigns against the Poll Tax/Community Charge, produced by assorted groups, many local.

Assorted small size leaflets offering information materials regarding the campaigns against the Poll Tax/Community Charge, produced by assorted groups, many local.

Assorted bustcards and direct action related legal briefings relating to the campaigns against the Poll Tax/Community Charge, produced by assorted groups.

Fighting Fascism (Nottingham AFA)

The Gulf War: Should We Fight For Their Profits? (AF/ACF, 1990)

No Poll Tax Here (DAM)

Two leaflets by Veggies Nottingham, one related to Xmas/Christmas food, the other to the McLibel campaign.

Veggies Catering Campaign - Tasty Wholesome Snacks

Vote No To Nazi Johnson (NAFA Notts Anti-Fascist Alliance)

Posters and other

Assorted posters regarding the campaigns against the Poll Tax/Community Charge, many local.

Nottinghamshire Welfare Rights: The Community Charge (Poll Tax) - Nottinghamshire Welfare Rights Service Training Programme 1989-1990

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