On this day, 31 March 1990, the poll tax riots broke out in Trafalgar Square, London, after police attacked 200,000 demonstrators. The riots help spur more widespread opposition to the tax, introduced the following week, and was eventually defeated by a mass non-payment campaign. This is an interesting selection of personal accounts of the riot: https://ift.tt/2FEwVVJ https://ift.tt/2UbF3Y5
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