Books and Zines

Ronnie Lee

c. 1981

An early history of the ALF's roots in the Hunt Saboteurs Association and the Band of Mercy, centred on Ronnie Lee, with press cuttings from 1976 to 1981.

PDF · 10.4 MB

Interviews with Animal Liberation Front Activists

David Taggart (compiler) · c. 1985

Illustrated interviews with several ALF groups about membership, motives and the media, prepared as a prototype press booklet.

PDF · 16.7 MB

Against All Odds: Animal Liberation 1972–1986

1986

How Britain's animal liberation movement grew from the early 1970s, through the 1984 laboratory raids and the trials that followed.

PDF · 17.1 MB

Kommando Tierbefreiung

Andreas Wolff · 1986

German. An account of the early animal liberation movement in West Germany, self-published in Nuremberg.

PDF · 12.8 MB

Animal Warfare: The Story of the Animal Liberation Front

David Henshaw · 1989

A BBC journalist's account of the Animal Liberation Front, its people and the police response, published by Fontana.

PDF · 25.0 MB

Green Rage

Christopher Manes · 1990

Radical environmentalism and the unmaking of civilisation: Earth First! and the rise of ecological direct action in the US.

PDF · 24.4 MB

Keep Fighting: Interviews with Britain’s ALF Press Officers

1996

Three interviews with Ronnie Lee, Robin Lane and Robin Webb, who each served as the ALF's press officer in Britain.

PDF · 12.8 MB

Meeting the People and Ideas of the Animal Liberation Movement

c. 2000

Interviews and articles from No Compromise magazine: activists who served prison sentences, and Rod Coronado on state repression.

PDF · 9.6 MB

Earth Liberation Front 1997–2002

Leslie James Pickering · 2007

A history of the Earth Liberation Front's first five years by its former press officer (second edition).

PDF · 24.8 MB

The Hunt and the Anti-Hunt

Philip Windeatt · 1982

A case against bloodsports and an account of the anti-hunting movement, opening with voices from Tony Benn to Brigid Brophy.

PDF · 11.0 MB

Outfoxed

Mike Huskisson · 1983

A factual account of hunting and other "sporting" activities in the British countryside, written for the League Against Cruel Sports.

PDF · 20.2 MB

Snarl! Handbook of Leeds Animal Liberation Front

Leeds ALF · 1980s

A Leeds-area pamphlet arguing that marches and demonstrations were not enough, with first-hand stories from activists of the time.

PDF · 6.0 MB

Diaries from Hell

Michelle Rokke · 1997

The diary of an undercover investigator inside Huntingdon Life Sciences' New Jersey laboratory, 1996–97, which helped spark the SHAC campaign.

PDF · 24.8 MB

Hunt Saboteurs Association: New Member’s Pack

Hunt Saboteurs Association

The HSA's welcome pack for new members: what the association is, which bloodsports it opposes and how its non-violent groups work.

PDF · 5.6 MB

It’s a Man’s Game

Male hunt saboteurs write about sexism and macho culture within hunt sabbing, and how men in the movement should change.

PDF · 0.7 MB

Up Against the Law: Animal Rights & the 1986 Public Order Act

J. J. Roberts · 1987

A guide to the Public Order Act 1986 and what it meant for animal rights protest in Britain.

PDF · 7.7 MB

ALF on Trial

c. 1988

The 1987 Sheffield trial of ten animal liberation activists, including Ronnie Lee, and what it said about the state's response.

PDF · 3.2 MB

War at Home: Covert Action Against US Activists

Brian Glick · 1988

How the FBI's COINTELPRO targeted US political movements, and how activists can recognise and respond to covert government operations.

PDF · 15.8 MB

Grand Juries: Tools of Political Repression

Craig Rosebraugh · 1998

An explainer on US grand juries and how they have been used against activists, with advice on non-cooperation.

PDF · 3.6 MB

Let’s Get Free

c. 2002

Writings by and about Jeff "Free" Luers, the earth defender and political prisoner, including his court statement and poetry.

PDF · 13.2 MB

Got the Hollow Points for the Snitches

c. 2006

An anarchist zine on informants, snitching and security culture in radical movements.

PDF · 5.6 MB

Inside the Cages: Animal Liberation & Imprisonment

2013

Writings from a British animal liberation prisoner during and after their sentence, on prison life, probation and solidarity.

PDF · 20.5 MB

SHAC: A Campaign That Made History

c. 2013

A zine on the SHAC campaign against Huntingdon Life Sciences and the prosecutions of its campaigners, written to renew prisoner support.

PDF · 3.3 MB

Spectacular Times: Animals

1980s

A Situationist-style pocketbook arguing that our view of animals is shaped by the "Spectacle", and taking on the usual arguments for speciesism.

PDF · 3.8 MB

Animal Liberation: A Graphic Guide

Lori Gruen and Peter Singer, illustrated by David Hine · 1987

An illustrated introduction to the case for animal liberation: speciesism, factory farming and animal experiments.

PDF · 18.8 MB

Going Underground… for Animal Liberation

c. 1991

A discussion document on public opinion, the press and the courts, and on the place of underground action in the movement.

PDF · 4.0 MB

Operation Tierbefreiung

Edmund Haferbeck and Frank Wieding · 1998

German. A plea for radical animal rights action, surveying the German and international movement of the 1980s and 1990s.

PDF · 5.5 MB

Nonviolence and Its Violent Consequences

William Meyers · 2000

A critique of the ideology of nonviolence and its role in US radical movements such as Earth First!.

PDF · 3.2 MB

Strategic Nonviolence for Animal Liberation

Animal Liberation League · c. 2005

The case for strategic nonviolence as the best route to animal liberation, drawing on civil rights and other movements.

PDF · 5.6 MB

Resistance Ecology (mini issue 2)

c. 2013

A preview issue of Resistance Ecology, with essays on total liberation by Adam Weitzenfeld, Marco Maurizi, lauren Ornelas and others.

PDF · 3.7 MB

The ALF Is Watching

c. 1987

Lyrics booklet from a benefit compilation of punk bands singing about animal liberation.

PDF · 5.5 MB

Sabotage (comic)

1992

A comics zine about the ALF and hunt sabbing, made to raise funds for the Vale and Valleys hunt saboteurs.

PDF · 17.6 MB

Copse

Kate Evans · 1998

A cartoon book of the 1990s road protest and tree-sitting camps, with an introduction by George Monbiot.

PDF · 23.3 MB

Rage and Reason

Michael Tobias · 1998

A novel of animal liberation activists driven to take revenge on those who harm animals.

PDF · 20.9 MB

The Mother Cage

Máire Ní Bhradaig · 2004

A novel about a group of animal liberation activists, published by Magpie House.

PDF · 20.4 MB

Homo Milk

A personal zine on milk, motherhood and the dairy industry, from the TNT Love project in Sacramento.

PDF · 2.0 MB

Raggedy Anarchy’s Vegan Baking

A handwritten zine of vegan baking recipes, with rants and thoughts on DIY culture along the way.

PDF · 15.2 MB

Targeted: The Anatomy of an Animal Rights Attack

Lorenz Otto Lutherer and Margaret Sheffield Simon · 1992

A laboratory break-in told from the researchers' point of view, written to rally scientists against the animal rights movement.

PDF · 18.8 MB

Dog Days in Huntingdon

Christopher Cliffe · 2000

Lessons from a corporate crisis: an industry view of the early campaign against Huntingdon Life Sciences.

PDF · 18.4 MB

US Congress Subcommittee on Eco-Terrorism (2002)

US House of Representatives · 2002

Record of the 2002 congressional hearing on "eco-terrorism", including subpoenaed testimony from former ELF press officer Craig Rosebraugh.

PDF · 23.9 MB