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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

Activate proves the Tories have absolutely nothing to offer young people

Charlotte England
31 August, 2017

The young Tory campaign group’s message resonates… with designer-clad Nazi-teenagers who want to gas ‘chavs’.

Climate change made Hurricane Harvey worse. We must demand action

Jonathan Bartley
31 August, 2017

There is hope in the eye of the storm: Space is opening up to make robust, radical demands for action on climate change.

The government’s proposals will do little to check fat-cattery or improve corporate governance

Prem Sikka
31 August, 2017

Fat-cats have no shame and shareholders have no long-term commitment to any company. New measures won’t work.

It’s time for Labour to back patients when it comes to medical marijuana

Paul Millar
30 August, 2017

This month the medical marijuana industry announced its first ever conference in the UK. Paul Millar argues Labour should now get behind patients on the issue. 

ACTION: Tell Asda and Sainsbury’s to drop the tampon tax

30 August, 2017

The Co-Op have become the latest supermarket to scrap the 5% VAT rate on sanitary products. It’s time for the last ones holding out to follow suit.

Scottish Labour leadership race: Who will replace Kezia Dugdale?

Ed Jacobs
30 August, 2017

As Kezia Dugdale stands down, we look at who’s in the running to become the party’s fifth leader in six years.

It’s official: The public have no faith in May to secure a good Brexit deal

Josiah Mortimer
30 August, 2017

A new study by HOPE Not Hate reveals just how divided England is on Britain’s departure from the EU. But they’re united when it comes to the PM.

Labour should champion free movement indefinitely, not just for a “transitional period”

Ana Oppenheim
29 August, 2017

Polls show advocating free movement doesn’t spell electoral suicide — even a majority of Leave voters support it. Labour needs to wake up to this.

A Brexit group just called the EU’s chief negotiator a “smackhead” on their official Twitter

29 August, 2017

The Leave.EU campaign, funded by UKIP businessman Arron Banks, tweeted the remark to 136,000 followers.

May drops promise to curb corporate excess, slammed by unions as “feeble”

Oscar Webb
29 August, 2017

She promised radical reform in boardrooms and that “big business needs to change”, but the plans unveiled today maintain the status quo in the City.

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