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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

McDonald’s workers won in New Zealand and they can win here — here’s how

Oscar Webb
5 September, 2017

A union activist explains how their decade-long campaign against zero-hours contracts and low pay was successful.

The Tories want to enhance non-dom status — it’s a colonial relic and should be abolished

Prem Sikka
4 September, 2017

The government are seeking to give further concessions to Britain’s wealthy elite who hide their money abroad.

The Tories are preparing to do a U-turn on seven years of public sector pay austerity

Oscar Webb
4 September, 2017

Downing Street has refused to deny its planning to end the 1 per cent freeze on public sector pay.

McDonalds workers have gone on strike for the first time in UK history — here’s why

Oscar Webb
4 September, 2017

#Mcstrikers picketed McDonalds HQ on Saturday. We went along to hear why they’re taking action.

Like fracking in Lancashire, tree felling in Sheffield rides roughshod over local opposition

Natalie Bennett
4 September, 2017

The Labour council in Sheffield have already cut down 4,500 trees in the city, earning it the international reputation of “the city that cuts down trees”. It must stop.

The government are using taxpayer money to provide PR for dodgy regimes

Josiah Mortimer
1 September, 2017

Our civil service is being used to mop up the image of dubious foreign governments. Aren’t there better things to spend Whitehall cash on?

As the link between Alzheimer’s and air pollution grows – the Tories are failing on both fronts

Keith Taylor
1 September, 2017

Why is the government still standing by while Britain chokes?

Now young Tories behind ‘Activate’ group are talking about ‘shooting peasants’

Josiah Mortimer
1 September, 2017

Leaks and muck from the new young ‘grassroots’ Tory group just keep on coming.

Enough about rich footballers – let’s focus on the low-paid

Alex Collinson
1 September, 2017

The record-breaking deadline day deals saw headlines about fat-cat footballers. But many clubs are still refusing to pay the real living wage.

Civil servants demand the government ‘scrap the cap’ on their pay

Charlotte England
31 August, 2017

Workers say their take home pay has stayed the same for almost a decade.

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