Editor’s note: A thank you to our readers and supporters
I thought I’d write this note to update you on where we are at LFF, some of our highlights over the last year and on some of our exciting plans for the year ahead.
Left Foot Forward
10 people on the left that we lost in 2023
2023 saw a number of leading left wing figures pass away
Trade union history: Unions to march with sacked GCHQ workers in January, here’s why
Commemorating the 40-year anniversary when workers faced the sack for being in a union
Left Foot Forward’s 15 biggest interviews of 2023
Our top interviews with MPs, trade unions and activists
Top 5 big wins of 2023 for Unite the Union
From huge pay rises to long strikes, some trade union highlights this year
Mick Lynch’s best moments of 2023
This years top journalist take downs and no-nonsense lines from the RMT leader
Jacob Rees-Mogg roasted for claiming scrapping inheritance tax will ‘drive Britain into next century’
“It’s a bad tax for rich people yes Jacob.”
Rishi Sunak’s rating among Tory members reaches its lowest point ever
Sunak secured second to last place on the ranking of cabinet members.
Natalie Bennett: Schools, prison, welfare: they’re still Victorian in style
Social innovation is possible. It is happening in a fast-changing, multi-challenge world of environmental and social crisis. Just not in the UK.
Emily Thornberry slams James Cleverly as deeply misogynistic over his date-rape drug ‘joke’
“That is a really nasty and frightening joke and he should be thoroughly ashamed of himself.”