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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (1 week 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 (1 week ago)

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Latest Posts

Far right riots
News

What is the ‘two-tier policing’ conspiracy theory?

Hannah Davenport
6 August, 2024

How the far-right has capitalised on the ‘two-tier policing’ myth

Riots

Almost 9,000 people sign up to HOPE not Hate’s pledge to hold on to HOPE in their communities amid far-right violence

Basit Mahmood
6 August, 2024

The group says that it invites ‘everyone to join us in fostering positive change and addressing the challenges our country faces’.

Angela Rayner
News

Tories fume as Labour axe draconian anti-strike law 

Hannah Davenport
6 August, 2024

Angela Rayner said repealing the legislation was the first part of the party’s plan to “reset industrial relations so they are fit for a modern economy” 

CWU

CWU union urges branches to contact local mosques, refugee centres and solidarity groups to offer solidarity and support

Basit Mahmood
6 August, 2024

The ‘aims of our union and the labour movement are compromised and weakened if the agenda of race war beats the fight for working-class unity’.

Mary Bousted and Mick Lynch
News

Unions issue rallying cry to members in solidarity against the far-right

Hannah Davenport
6 August, 2024

Mick Lynch calls for a “movement-wide response so that we do not allow such vile shows of racism to divide working class unity”

Far right violence

Editorial view on far-right violence: The growth of the far-right has not occurred in a vacuum

Basit Mahmood
5 August, 2024

The far-right thugs will do all they can to attempt to turn communities against one another, we must never let them win. We must remember that we have more in common than divides us.

Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage receives cross-party condemnation for comparing BLM protests to far-right riots

Hannah Davenport
5 August, 2024

“To blame the victims of this violence is an insult to people of colour across the country, who are living in deep fear”

An image showing bank notes and pound coins
Opinion

How the Government can combat right-wing extremists by challenging neoliberalism 

Prem Sikka
5 August, 2024

The political system has abandoned low/middle income families and makes them an easy target for right-wing extremists offering simplistic solutions

Far right violence

Tory shadow minister slammed for suggesting far-right violence was ‘politically justified’

Basit Mahmood
5 August, 2024

‘Your resignation is necessary and urgent.”

Daily Telegraph
News

Outrage over Daily Telegraph’s ‘disgraceful’ headline on far-right riots

Hannah Davenport
5 August, 2024

‘One of the most repulsive, inaccurate and frankly embarrassing headlines in the history of the Daily Telegraph’

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