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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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A photo of Nick Candy, Reform's new treasurer and Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK in an interview on Sky News
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Reform’s billionaire treasurer Nick Candy to hold face to face talks with Elon Musk amid reports of £100m donation

Basit Mahmood
16 December, 2024

The Sun’s Kate Ferguson reports that the meeting between Musk and Candy could ‘come within days’.

Eton
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Eton claims it is having to slash bursaries due to VAT on private school fees-despite sitting on £553 million endowment fund

Basit Mahmood
16 December, 2024

“When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”

A photo from outside the M&S store in Westfield Stratfield shopping centre, London

M&S food exports hampered by Brexit paperwork ‘nobody looks at’

Olivia Barber
16 December, 2024

‘So we’ve rented a warehouse to store these bits of paper that nobody looks at in the first place.’

Trade unionist arms factory protest Israel. Banner at front of protest reads "ceasefire now, stop arming Israel, end the occupation'

MPs to hold demonstration outside Parliament demanding Israeli arms embargo

Olivia Barber
16 December, 2024

‘We believe the UK Government is on the wrong side of history, and must stop the sale of arms to Israel.’

Fair pay for the NHS
News

Unions call for direct pay talks, urging government to ditch ‘outdated’ NHS pay review body

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
15 December, 2024

‘The government has the power to change this for us.’

Right-Wing Watch

Can Reform make a breakthrough in next year’s local elections?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
15 December, 2024

If financial backing were the sole measure of a party’s success, Reform would be home and dry.

Water coming out of a tap
News

Brexit blamed for threatening the safety of UK’s tap water

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
15 December, 2024

Another ‘Brexit problem.’

Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell
News

Socialism tops capitalism in popularity among Britons, new poll shows

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
14 December, 2024

‘We won’t get socialism with a Murdoch right wing press.’

News

Tenants stage major protest in London over spiralling rents

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
14 December, 2024

‘We are sick and tired of seeing our city carved up by the rich and powerful.’

Far right riots

MPs urge government to appoint ‘community resilience tsar’ to counter toxic far-right politics

Olivia Barber
13 December, 2024

‘Our current political system enables inequality, fuels distrust, and leaves too many people feeling powerless.’

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