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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

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
23 December, 2025

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

The UK left has totally misread the Catalan crisis

Alessio Colonnelli
17 November, 2017

British progressives have been quick to jump on the pro-independence bandwagon – without assessing the real situation.

Here’s why immigration detention is pointless – as well as cruel

Charlotte England
16 November, 2017

The Government is detaining more migrants each year but deporting proportionally fewer, wasting money in the process and causing unnecessary harm to thousands of people.

These groups will be hit hardest by changes to Universal Credit

Charlotte England
16 November, 2017

Yet again, changes to the benefit system will be disproportionately detrimental to women and people from ethnic minority groups.

Climate campaigners disrupt Mayor’s questions over ‘broken promises’

Jake Woodier
16 November, 2017

A London-based activist group swarmed City Hall this morning, to make sure the Mayor keeps his promises on saving the environment.

It’s official: Free schools have failed to deliver

Charlotte England
16 November, 2017

Academies – one of the coalition’s flagship policies in 2010 – have not lived up to any of Michael Gove’s big promises, a new report has found.

Nigel Farage just withdrew this libel against anti-racism campaigners

Josiah Mortimer
15 November, 2017

The Brexiteer then desperately took to Twitter to moan about the group again. Diddums.

Vince Cable: I was asked to lead a new pro-Remain party. Here’s why I said no

Vince Cable
15 November, 2017

The ‘pop-up’ anti-Brexit parties have little real interest in democratic politics in the UK. Voters should beware.

The end of trade unions isn’t inevitable – but it is possible. Here’s how they can reverse the decline

Josiah Mortimer
15 November, 2017

A new report sets out a plan to reverse the union movement’s decline. Leaders should listen closely.

Why we can’t afford to build a new runway

Keith Taylor
15 November, 2017

The big airports have invented a so-called ‘capacity crisis’. But the real crisis is with our climate, as news emerges that emissions are set to rise.

Unsafe tower blocks are the result of decades of local authority cuts

Simon Sapper
14 November, 2017

It’s ultimately the government and Parliament’s responsibility to ensure housing is safe.

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