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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

We need to stop treating care workers like disposable labour

Anonymous
22 March, 2016

When care workers don’t have basic working rights those they care for suffer too

Notes from the Primaries: Could Democrats take the White House and flip the Senate?

Simon Rosenberg
22 March, 2016

New figures suggest that the Democrats’ electoral map can be significantly expanded

Which women suffer most from the gender pay gap?

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
22 March, 2016

Progress on closing the pay gap has stalled, according to Women and Equalities Committee

solar panels

Osborne’s aversion to renewables is frighteningly short-sighted

Daisy Sands
22 March, 2016

Britain’s energy economy is designed to benefit the existing big players, even when all the evidence recommends the opposite

Short-changing voters: why the cuts to smaller parties are wrong

Josiah Mortimer
21 March, 2016

Short money goes some way to redressing our woefully disproportionate voting system

Voter turnout could swing EU referendum and there’s a hole in the electoral register

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
21 March, 2016

Conservative changes to the voting system mean that young Remain supporters are less likely to be on the electoral roll

Tories pull ahead of Labour in Scotland

Ed Jacobs
21 March, 2016

Poll suggests Tories could win 22 seats to Labour’s 21 and become the largest opposition party

Refugees on a small boat

Europe’s migration deal with Turkey is unworkable and probably illegal

Jill Rutter
21 March, 2016

We can expect violent scenes as desperate people resist being returned to Turkey

Welsh Assembly faces greater uncertainty after Labour-Plaid spat

Jac Larner
21 March, 2016

A bizarre dispute over Labour’s public health bill has undermined the possibility of cross-party cooperation following May’s elections

So long, IDS. And good riddance.

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
21 March, 2016

Despite his supposedly principled resignation, Duncan Smith’s legacy is one of deep prejudice and stigma

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