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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
Today

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
Today

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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Chris Jarvis
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The Tories also have the most negative favourability tarting

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Chris Jarvis
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Support for Labour is down significantly, mostly to the benefit of the Lib Dems, Greens and Reform

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Chris Jarvis
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Over 200 protests are set to take place across more than 50 countries

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Chris Jarvis
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Naomi Pohl spoke to Left Foot Forward at this year’s TUC Congress

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Chris Jarvis
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The donation came days before the 2024 general election

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Campaigners call for end to privatisation and austerity after damning report on state of the NHS

Chris Jarvis
12 September, 2024

‘The extraction of private profits from the system has proven catastrophic for patients’

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Group of MPs issue call for four day week in government department

Chris Jarvis
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John McDonnell, Clive Lewis and Ian Lavery are among those to sign the Early Day Motion

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News

Patrick Roach: “The country did not vote for a rebrand of austerity economics”

Chris Jarvis
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The NASUWT general secretary spoke to Left Foot Forward about his hopes from the new Labour government.

Carla Denyer speaking in front of a Bristol Trades Council banner
Opinion

Carla Denyer MP: Trade unions are right. Starmer must not repeat the mistakes of Thatcher’s pit closures.

Carla Denyer
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“The time has come to mobilise millions of workers to dismantle and rebuild our broken economy, and heal our damaged planet.”

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