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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

As students struggle under debt, uni bosses’ pay is going through the roof

Josiah Mortimer
23 August, 2017

More MPs have resigned from Bath’s advisory council over sky-high pay. Universities should be forced to come clean over Vice Chancellors’ soaring salaries.

Here’s how to prevent another BHS-style crisis

Prem Sikka
23 August, 2017

A key BHS figure is finally being prosecuted – but the whole system needs reform to prevent another BHS-style scandal, argues financial expert Prem Sikka.

Jonathan Bartley: We need to bring back the idea of a four day week

Jonathan Bartley
23 August, 2017

With the number of people wanting to work fewer hours at its highest level in a decade, Green Party leader Jonathan Bartley says we need to revive the idea of a four day week.

We need a radical solution to fight populism — the answer might be federalism

Sam Alvis
22 August, 2017

The only real and effective solution to the reactionary politics of populism is returning power to people at a local level.

A quarter of Brexit voters feel misled by Vote Leave claims — new poll

22 August, 2017

A new poll finds that over fifty per cent of people think the Leave campaign had been mostly or completely misleading.

Prince Charles’s lobbying is an affront to our democracy — It’s time politicians took him on

Graham Smith
22 August, 2017

His letters to the Scottish Government are just the most recent example in a long string of secretive, undemocratic lobbying.

The Australian government are trying to pass new laws to stop union mergers

Tony Burke
22 August, 2017

One trade union leader described the move as an “Orwellian affront to democracy” and an assault on the right to free association.

McDonalds striker: our action will spread to the whole fast-food industry

21 August, 2017

Forty McDonalds workers are set to strike in September and there are signs the industrial action will only grow.

Lambeth Council’s eviction of mother Clavia Chambers shows the brutality of our housing system

Lambeth Housing Activists
21 August, 2017

Thousands are being made homeless by a broken housing system say Lambeth Housing Activists who have been assisting the now homeless mother of two.

Our electoral system is hugely unrepresentative and increasingly unpredictable — new report

Oscar Webb
21 August, 2017

First-past-the-post is so broken that the Tories would have won a majority in the House of Commons if they’d picked up just 533 more votes.

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