The Band of Mercy – a radical offshoot of the RSPCA – carried out low-level actions such as damaging traps and disrupting shoots. The first thing to understand is although the ALF began in 1976, direct action in the name of animal rights is far older and goes back to at least the nineteenth century when concern around hunting, vivisection, and the like came to the fore. As no one else seems to want to do it, I suppose I’ll have to have a go. Not by asking politicians or people in power but instead through self organisation and striking back against the Animal Abuse Industries. Why then is it that in early November I can find no mention of this important anniversary? 2016 is disappearing fast and with it the opportunity to celebrate four decades of a movement that had the audacity to want to change the world.
The ALF is one of the most important direct action organizations of modern times and probably the most influential animal rights group to have ever existed. This year marks the 40 th birthday of the Animal Liberation Front.
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