Following a recent much-publicised case which saw three men arrested for taking unwanted food from outside a branch of Iceland, Gyorgy Furiosa takes a look at the fine art of skip-diving You scale the wall under cover of darkness, past the barbed wire and weird razor defences that seem inordinately vicious to protect what

Kevin Watkinson argues that the halal debate is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to how and why we kill animals for food…  A few weeks ago the Danish government banned religious slaughter, justifying such an action by stating “animal rights comes before religion”, which is probably the only thing animal rights

Behind the scenes at Bristol Radical Film Festival…. Bristol Radical Film Festival kicked off on Monday (3rd March) and runs for the rest of the week, culminating in the headline weekend on Saturday (8th March) and Sunday (9th March)… We spoke to Steve Presence, one of the organisers, about this year’s festival. How long has

Media hypocrisy in the Snowden case We’ve all become accustomed to hearing about Edward Snowden and the NSA scandal. In fact, it’s almost become a daily ritual: checking major news outlets and discovering new revelations which never seem to fail in shocking us with the extent and invasiveness of what’s been called the ‘national security

Number 1, 2014 issue of Freedom  click here for details The first issue of Freedom for 2014 is now out and is available either directly from Freedom Bookshop or from other good radical bookshops or social centres, or why not take out a yearly subscription and have the paper delivered to you every month at a discounted rate.