Libertarian Alliance
The logo of the Libertarian Alliance
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| Motto | For Life, Liberty, and Property! |
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| Founder | Chris Tame |
| Type | Think Tank |
| Headquarters | London |
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Director
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Sean Gabb |
| Website | thelibertarianalliance |
The Libertarian Alliance (LA) comprises two libertarian think tanks in Great Britain that promote free-market economics and civil liberties. According to the websites of both organisations, "The Libertarian Alliance is a non-partisan group fighting statism in all its forms and working for the creation of a truly free society." It has been suggested that their advocacy of complete free speech and the abolition of taxation and government intervention in economic and social life combines elements of liberalism, conservatism, and anarchism. Between them, they have produced over 800 publications by over 280 authors. Free Life used to be the LA's hardcopy journal. Most LA publications are now Internet based.
With ancestral ties to the Liberty and Property Defence League of Lord Elcho and Sir Ernest Benn's Society of Individualists, the LA was founded in the 1970s by Mark Brady, Judy Englander, David Ramsay Steele and Chris Tame in Woking. It was an alliance of libertarians, minarchists, anarchists, and classical liberals. The LA was perceived to be the continuation of the Radical Libertarian Alliance founded by Brady and Tame in late 1971, or the earlier Young Libertarians founded by David Myddelton in the late 1960s.
The principles of the LA were formulated by the founding members, and written out by David Ramsay Steele in its first Tactical Note. At its founding, the LA had no official leader, but had a chairperson, secretary, and a treasurer. The Alternative Bookshop, formed in 1978, became the unofficial hub of LA activities for a time. The Alternative Bookshop, with Tame as its manager, was advertised in the National Association for Freedom's publication, The Free Nation.
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