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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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Comment: The fight against Panama-style tax evasion begins at home

Anneliese Dodds
6 April, 2016

David Cameron has talked tough but done very little, and action is long overdue

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5 April, 2016

A new report says Hinkley reactors would pass burdens onto future generations

Why are so few fathers taking shared parental leave?

Jill Rutter
5 April, 2016

New research shows action is needed for gender equality in the office and at home

Comment: We need a London Renters Union to represent tenants in the housing crisis

Sian Berry
5 April, 2016

As rent soars ahead of pay, it’s time for renters to organise, argues Sian Berry

Trade Unions and Co-ops could build a ‘solidarity economy’ for the self-employed precariat

Alex Bird
5 April, 2016

If workers don’t organise, the private sector will tighten its grip

Green party’s Sian Berry launches London mayor campaign manifesto

4 April, 2016

Mayoral candidate proposes rent caps, no new airport runways and 200,000 homes

Kezia Dugdale’s EU remarks expose Labour’s vulnerability on Scotland’s future

Ed Jacobs
4 April, 2016

Tories and SNP pounce on Scottish Labour leader’s wobble on independence

Majority of young people support EU membership – but half might not even vote

4 April, 2016

Poll finds 18 to 34-year-olds could sway EU referendum

Steel crisis: Osborne’s ‘march of the makers’ now rings hollow

Ed Jacobs
1 April, 2016

Tax credits, personal independent payments, Sunday trading and now steel all suggest a Government whose sure-footedness is eroding fast.

Turkey is illegally forcing refugees back to Syria

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
1 April, 2016

The legitimacy of the EU-Turkey deal is already in tatters, as Amnesty reports asylum-seekers are being forcibly returned to Syria

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