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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

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LFF is closed over the Christmas holidays

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

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This council just gave carers a 10% pay rise

Josiah Mortimer
6 October, 2017

Despite facing significant cuts, Salford Council is giving carers a significant pay hike. But it follows dedicated campaigning by workers and local activists.

Let’s face it: the main contenders to take on May are just as hopeless as she is

Josiah Mortimer
6 October, 2017

The potential Conservative leadership election is already looking like a battle of weak vs weaker – in a bitterly-divided, rump Tory party.

The Kurds have been vital allies in the fight against Daesh. We should be supporting them

James Alston
6 October, 2017

While Catalonia was in the headlines this week, another struggle for independence – one the UK should be backing – went unnoticed.

The government’s anti-migrant NHS policies are leaving people without access to healthcare

Sonia Adesara
6 October, 2017

With racial profiling now part of the NHS, here’s why doctors are taking to the streets against the Tories’ ‘hostile environment’ policies.

Parents and teachers call for school census boycott amid deportation fears

Charlotte England
5 October, 2017

The Department for Education has been sharing details of school children’s nationality and place of birth with the Home Office.

UKIP welcomes Front National MEPs into its parliamentary group

Charlotte England
5 October, 2017

It’s been an interesting first week for the party’s new leader, with his party in the midst of a funding crisis and appearing to inch closer and closer to the far-right.

Bosses are telling care workers they don’t have employment rights

Charlotte England
5 October, 2017

A think tank is urging the government to support low-paid care workers in collective bargaining to challenge exploitative practices.

Would EU treaties hold back a Corbyn government? It depends…

John Weeks
5 October, 2017

Within a divided Labour Party, those who consider the treaties inflexible gravitate toward the Lexit pole, while those who think the treaties can accommodate the manifesto approach the re-entry camp.

Forget the coughing and the P45 – May’s speech was a disaster regardless

Josiah Mortimer
4 October, 2017

The PM’s address was a farce – even when you ignore her delivery.

Boris Johnson’s comments on Libya are beyond the pale. Either he goes or May does

Josiah Mortimer
4 October, 2017

Joking about the deaths of hundreds of people would be unacceptable in any job. For it to come from a Foreign Secretary is the final straw.

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