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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
Today

Our readership continues to grow but none of this would’ve been possible without readers and donors. We need your support now more than ever, with the rise of the right, as progressives we must continue to fight back against regressive policies and ideas.

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LFF is closed over the Christmas holidays

Basit Mahmood
Today

We will be returning on Monday 5th January with more hard-hitting news and comment, written by and for the UK left.

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Latest Posts

Christmas is a huge burden on those in debt and without savings. But it shouldn’t be

Claire Tyler
29 December, 2017

40% of the working age population have less than £100 in savings – urgent action is needed.

Opposing Brexit might be the best strategy for Labour in 2018. Here’s why

Eloise Todd
29 December, 2017

The party grassroots and Labour voters are anti-Brexit. It’s this which must guide the leadership.

Raising the state pension age is regressive class politics – the Tories have no excuse for it

Prem Sikka
29 December, 2017

Forcing people to retire later is class politics dressed up as economic policy.

TTIP all over again: Liam Fox’s plans for total secrecy in trade talks

Mark Dearn
26 December, 2017

If you think the Brexit talks have been secretive, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Too many young parents are struggling to put Christmas dinner on the table

Dr Carole Easton
24 December, 2017

Christmas is a particularly hard time for those on low pay who want to provide for their families – and for many, this year has been harder than ever.

REVEALED: The carbon footprint of your Christmas dinner

Chad Greggor
22 December, 2017

Changing the type and amount of meat you eat this Christmas could go a long way to reducing your environmental footprint, according to new analysis for Left Foot Forward.

Think the EU talks have been secretive so far? That’s just the tip of the iceberg

Josiah Mortimer
22 December, 2017

Get ready for a decade of secret trade deals.

Six stories the Sun missed while raving about blue passports

Josiah Mortimer
22 December, 2017

Forget Cabinet sackings, Brexit bungling, government law-breaking and NHS disasters – it’s the return of blue passports that really matters today.

Brexit: Four reasons to be cheerful as we go into 2018 – and what must happen next

Heidi Alexander
22 December, 2017

Labour MP Heidi Alexander says the government’s plans for a hard Brexit are looking weaker by the day – and says voters have the right to think again.

The Tories broke the law with ‘discriminatory’ cuts to disability benefits

Charlotte England
21 December, 2017

164,000 people living with mental illness will now receive the benefits they were entitled to all along.

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