The Libertarian Alliance (LA) refers to two

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think tanks in the UK. Originally one organisation, it split in 1982. One Libertarian Alliance was renamed "Mises UK" in 2017; the remaining Libertarian Alliance holds regular meetings in London.

Early history

The Libertarian Alliance was founded to advocate the abolition of taxation and government intervention in economic and social life. With ancestral ties to the Liberty and Property Defence League of

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and

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Society of Individualists The Society for Individual Freedom (SIF) is a United Kingdom-based association of Libertarianism, libertarians, Classical liberalism, classical liberals, free-market conservatism, conservatives and others promoting individual freedom. It has li ...

, the LA was founded in the 1970s by Mark Brady, Judy Englander, David Ramsay Steele and

Chris Tame Christopher Ronald Tame (20 December 1949 – 20 March 2006) was a British Libertarianism, libertarian political activist. He is best known as the founder and Director of the Libertarian Alliance, a free market and civil liberties think tank.< ...

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. It was an alliance of libertarians,

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