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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

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Latest Posts

Public sector workers ‘going without a daily meal’ because of Tory pay cap

Oscar Webb
11 September, 2017

The survey of 11,000 workers found that 17 per cent couldn’t afford to keep their homes warm, whilst 9 per were going without a regular daily meal.

Revealed: the repressive regimes attending the world’s largest arms fair in London this week

11 September, 2017

The list has been released following a question in Parliament by Caroline Lucas.

The Tories are starting to cave on the public sector pay cap

Josiah Mortimer
10 September, 2017

If leaked reports are to be believed, the 1% pay freeze is finished – but not for everyone.

UCU head: Unions must stand up for free movement of people

Sally Hunt
10 September, 2017

Ahead of a key TUC debate on single market membership at Congress, UCU General Secretary Sally Hunt sets out why unions should get behind freedom of movement.

The TUC just called for the UK to stay in the single market – potentially for good

Josiah Mortimer
10 September, 2017

If a key motion passes this afternoon, the trade union movement will go beyond Labour’s policy on the EU, marking a radical shift.

Frances O’Grady: Unions will have to change – but they will always be essential

Frances O'Grady
10 September, 2017

As trade unionists gather in Brighton for the movement’s annual Congress, General Secretary Frances O’Grady writes exclusively for LFF on the challenges and opportunities for the movement in the year ahead.

Two years on from Alan Kurdi, we are still failing child refugees

Diane Abbott
8 September, 2017

The government must implement the Dubs Amendment and meet our international obligations, writes Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott.

PETITION: Stop the Tories trying to rig Parliament in their favour

8 September, 2017

The government are planning a power grab. Sign the petition to stop it in its tracks.

The Tories are trying to rig Parliament to stifle opposition to Brexit

Josiah Mortimer
8 September, 2017

Opposition parties have called the move a ‘power grab’. They’re right.

The hard-right is about to lose one its most important newspaper allies

Josiah Mortimer
8 September, 2017

Handing over Dirty Des’ media empire to the Mirror group can only be a good thing.

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