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We will be returning on Monday 5th January with more hard-hitting news and comment, written by and for the UK left.
Salmond’s admiration for Vladimir Putin demonstrates once again that there is nothing left-wing about the SNP, writes James Bloodworth.
Labour and Unite have slammed the government’s new mandatory Community Work Placement scheme, reports Rob Edwards.
Progressives shouldn’t be running scared of UKIP. There are left-wing answers to the questions posed by the party, writes James Bloodworth.
New findings suggest Labour MPs are 73 per cent ‘more local’ than Tories.
HowTheLightGetsIn, the world’s leading philosophy festival, returns to Hay-on-Wye this May with hundreds of challenging debates and talks across politics, philosophy, science and the arts.
The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
The coalition is moving toward a welfare system that is surreal in its cruelty, writes Annie Powell.
New polling indicates that UKIP could be on course to make significant breakthroughs in the electoral politics of Wales.
Ed Miliband won’t be able to ban zero hours contracts, but he is tackling the worst way they are abused, writes James Bloodworth.
The Conservatives have embarked on an all-out assault on the cheapest form of renewable energy there is, writes Oliver Hayes.
