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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

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 (2 days ago)

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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March for Climate Justice: Activists rally against fossil fuels and war profiteering as COP29 gets underway

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
16 November, 2024

‘The same fossil fuel corporations driving the climate crisis and blocking a just transition are those funnelling Israel the oil it needs for its war machine: all to secure their profits.’

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Opinion

What we need to learn from Donald Trump’s election victory

Dawn Butler
15 November, 2024

Trump’s victory is a wakeup call. It is time to regroup and get serious about the world we want to live in.

Kempsell

Right-wing blog Guido Fawkes to be taken over by Boris Johnson aide who was made one of UK’s youngest peers

Basit Mahmood
15 November, 2024

In yet more proof that Guido is firmly part of the Tory establishment, Kempsell  – was the former prime minister’s spokesman and reportedly his tennis partner.

House of Lords

Why we need to urgently reform the House of Lords

Prem Sikka
15 November, 2024

The UK and Lesotho are the only two countries to have an entirely unelected parliamentary chamber.

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News

Assisted Dying Bill: How Labour cabinet members intend to vote

Chris Jarvis
15 November, 2024

A full breakdown of what we know about cabinet members’ views so far

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Government to ban new coal mining schemes

Basit Mahmood
15 November, 2024

It comes as the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) issued a red alert on the first day of the UN Climate Change Conference, COP29.

News

Chair of Poplar and Limehouse Labour calls for resignation of chief executive of Tower Hamlets council over serious failings

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
14 November, 2024

‘It is clear that these actions are incompatible with the council’s Core TOWER values – Together, Open, Willing, Excellent and Respect.’

Zoe Williams

Must watch: Right-wing arguments on climate change dismantled in a single clip

Basit Mahmood
14 November, 2024

“Seriously, stop bringing problems to the table and start bringing solutions.”

Rachel Reeves holding the budget briefcase outside Number 11 Downing Street

How Trump’s win upends Rachel Reeves’ budget

Mike Buckley
14 November, 2024

Trump’s commitment to protectionism has destroyed the growth models on which Reeves’s budget was built

Heathrow Airport

Parmjit Dhanda: Heathrow Expansion can Deliver the Growth Britain Needs

Parmjit Dhanda
14 November, 2024

In 2015, the Independent Airport’s Commission (led by Sir Howard Davies) concluded that, by 2060, a new runway at Heathrow would create £147 billion for the UK economy.

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