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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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Democracy in the west is groaning under the weight of greed, inequality and political self-interest. Unfortunately Tariq Ali doesn’t have the answers

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Adam Barnett
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Rumours of the Labour party’s death within a decade have been greatly exaggerated

The ISC’s new report on mass surveillance is a missed opportunity

Andrew Noakes
16 March, 2015

Most of the report simply defends current practices and ignores their potential for misuse

The Independent finds that not a single high street retailer will guarantee the living wage

Ruby Stockham
16 March, 2015

Meanwhile a report by the CSJ finds that over a quarter of workers are stuck on low pay for five years or more

Lies, damn lies and David Cameron on free schools

Annie Powell
16 March, 2015

The only way that David Cameron can make the case for his policy is by abusing statistics

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Ruby Stockham
16 March, 2015

Half of all respondents think there is too much outsourcing to the private sector

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Craig Berry
16 March, 2015

The government is no longer just revving the engine – it’s also cutting the brakes

Projecting the Kremlin line

Pierre Vaux
15 March, 2015

For The Guardian, Seumas Milne’s recent output on Russia must present a terrible quandary

Hope and Change in Israel

Lorin Bell-Cross
14 March, 2015

Many see in Herzog a real alternative to Netanyahu

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