CIVISReports

CIVIS Bulletins and International Foundation Reports - selected articles

Hans Ruesch, author of Slaughter of the Innocent and Naked Empress produced, throughout the 80’s and 90’s, a number of Foundation Reports, and two Bulletins, for his CIVIS organisation. Following the publication of Slaughter, and the subsequent censorship of the book from a number of supposed animal rights and anti-vivisection groups, Ruesch came to the conclusion that the greatest obstacle to abolition was the actions of these groups, who deliberately refused to inform both their members and the public as to the vital urgency of the need to abolish vivisection for humanity‘s sake on medical grounds, but instead concentrated only on those self-evident moral arguments which have, alone, been totally ineffective in getting vivisection abolished.

As such, in his Reports, Ruesch is highly critical of various individuals and organisations. Only a very naive person would believe that infiltration does not exist wherever any threat exists to a multi-billion pound industry, and so these articles should serve as an indication as to the sincerity or otherwise of any group or individual supposedly fighting to end vivisection.

They should also be read in the light of when they were written, and as such the policies of various groups or individuals might well have changed by now, and concerned people are naturally advised to compare these policies with the experiences Ruesch has written about in these Reports. Having said that, it is a fact that certain individuals he names and shames are still active and are still putting forward their sly plugs for vivisection - naivety or infiltration? It hardly matters as the result is the same.

Infiltration has been the main stumbling block in the fight for abolition. Fortunately, we have entered a new millenium with more people founding grass-roots campaigns, which cannot be infiltrated. Although we are not opposed to the concept of national societies per se, we do hope these Reports will prove useful for the campaigner when considering offering their support for the various societies, taking into account the old adage that those who forget the past are doomed to make the same mistakes again.

CIVIS Bulletin 1, 1983 (nine pages)

CIVIS Bulletin 2, 1988 (Ten pages)

CIVIS Report 1, April 1988

CIVIS Report 2, Summer 1988

CIVIS Report 3, Autumn 1988

CIVIS Report 4, Winter 1988/89

CIVIS Report 5, Spring 1989

CIVIS Report 6, Summer 1989

CIVIS Report 7, Autumn 1989

CIVIS Report 8, Winter 1989/90

CIVIS Report 9, Spring /Summer 1990

CIVIS Report 10, Autumn/Winter 1990-91