Animal Freedom Library

The grassroots animal freedom movement, in its own words.

63 publications and 593 issues of magazines, newsletters, zines and books – free to read, search and download.

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The archive is based on the amazing work started by the now-defunct Talon Conspiracy. The books, zines, and newsletters reproduced here have been collated for historical reference and are not intended for contemporary campaigning.

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63 publications

Action for Animals (Brentwood & Havering, UK)​UK · 1989 · 1 issueAction for Animals newsletters​ (Australia)Australia · 1985–1986 · 3 issuesAgitator (Australia)Australia · 1987 · 1 issueALF Action Reports 1983-1984 (UK)UK · 1983–1984 · 11 issuesALF Action Reports, Australia, 1987Australia · 1987 · 1 issueALF Supporters Group newsletters​ (UK)UK · 1982–2001 · 24 issuesAnimal Info (New Zealand)New Zealand · 1995–1996 · 8 issuesAnimal Liberation Primer (UK)UK · 1990s · 4 issuesAnimosity (UK)UK · 1985 · 1 issueArkangel (UK)UK · 1989–1994 · 10 issuesBite Back (UK)UK · 1999 · 2 issuesBite Back (USA)USA · 2002–2005 · 10 issues

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50 years agoHOWLIssue 7 – Autumn 197640 years agoLiberatorOct/Nov 198630 years agoHOWLIssue 62 – Autumn 199620 years agoSHAC NewsletterIssue 43 – September/October 200610 years agoHOWLIssue 112 – Autumn 2016

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Hunt sabotageFifty years of the movement that went into the fields to stop hunts – told in its own newsletters.Against vivisectionCampaigns against animal experiments, from local groups to international campaigns against laboratories.The campaign against Huntingdon Life SciencesHow undercover footage of one laboratory became one of the movement’s longest and most contested campaigns.Against the fur tradeShop pickets, fur farm exposés and the campaigns that turned fur from luxury to liability.Prisoner supportNewsletters that kept imprisoned activists connected to the movement outside.Radical environmentalismWhere animal liberation met Earth First!, road protests and the defence of wild places.

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SHAC USA

Vol 2 Issue 3

SHAC USA was the American arm of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, the international campaign to close the animal testing company Huntingdon Life Sciences. Its newsletters, produced from Philadelphia from 2001, reported on the campaign's demonstrations, legal battles and progress in…

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From the bookshelf

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Books, pamphlets and zines on the history, ideas and culture of animal liberation.

Raggedy Anarchy’s Vegan BakingNonviolence and Its Violent ConsequencesWilliam Meyers · 2000Keep Fighting: Interviews with Britain’s ALF Press Officers1996Homo MilkGoing Underground… for Animal Liberationc. 1991Inside the Cages: Animal Liberation & Imprisonment2013Up Against the Law: Animal Rights & the 1986 Public Order ActJ. J. Roberts · 1987Snarl! Handbook of Leeds Animal Liberation FrontLeeds ALF · 1980s

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SHAC Newsletter (UK)Added 27 Oct 2026 · 58 issuesHOWL (UK)Added 26 Oct 2026 · 126 issuesVegan News (UK)Added 23 Oct 2026 · 1 issueUnderground (Canada)Added 23 Oct 2026 · 17 issuesUltramilitance (UK)Added 23 Oct 2026 · 5 issuesTurning Point (UK)Added 23 Oct 2026 · 4 issues