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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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MPs are right to stand up to the Sun’s racist anti-Muslim rhetoric

Josiah Mortimer
16 August, 2017

There can be no tolerance for Nazi-like language: bigots must be shown the door.

Revealed: The eight Tories Momentum are now gearing up to unseat

Josiah Mortimer
16 August, 2017

The left-wing campaign group are teaming up with Owen Jones to go after some of the most marginal Conservative seats – and the nastiest of the Nasty Party.

Jeremy Corbyn must back anti-fracking protests

Natalie Bennett
16 August, 2017

The Labour leader is expected to be near major anti-fracking protests at the end of the week. He should join the movement against dirty energy, Natalie Bennett writes.

Rail fares to rise at fastest rate in 5 years exacerbating cost of living crisis

Oscar Webb
15 August, 2017

The hike in rail fares will make life even harder for struggling households seeing the cost of goods and services rising, wages dropping and consumer debt growing.

Only corporate democratisation can stop the growing polarisation of pay in UK

Prem Sikka
15 August, 2017

Companies should have a two-tier system of corporate management, a new board of stakeholders balancing out the power of the shareholders.

Government ‘concealing’ crisis in local mental health care by redefining what local means

Oscar Webb
15 August, 2017

Children and parents are being forced to travel hundreds of miles to access care which is classed as ‘local’ by new government definition.

Would Trump run as an independent? His relationship with the Republicans is on the rocks

Sam Pallis
15 August, 2017

With growing crises at home and abroad, Trump is looking for scapegoats for his failing premiership: the Republican Party will be the biggest.

Charlottesville spells the end of the Alt-Right, a US activist speaks

14 August, 2017

Fascist protests in Virginia at the weekend left one counter-demonstrator dead and twenty others injured. US public attitudes to the Alt-Right are changed forever.

The solution in Venezuela must be peaceful – here’s how it could happen

Tony Burke
14 August, 2017

With Donald Trump threatening a military intervention, there’s never been a more critical time to campaign for a democratic way forward in Venezuela.

Nine out of ten major NHS hospital trusts do not have enough nurses

Oscar Webb
14 August, 2017

Whilst there’s no money for nurses the health secretary found £44k for a new bathroom in the Department of Health.

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