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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

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
Yesterday

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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‘It would empower and embolden the anti-net zero, flat-earth brigade across the world’

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The plot shows just how out of touch and deranged the Tory party is.

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‘We know what the solutions to the refugee homelessness crisis are – it’s high time political leaders started implementing them.’

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‘The NHS is a mess? If only I could remember the name of the political party championed by the Telegraph who’ve been in charge of running it for the last 14 years.’

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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
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‘It’s vital that we keep up the pressure from the streets for an immediate ceasefire and an end to UK weapons sales to Israel.’

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‘This is a political choice that has been made by this government for the last 14 years and it is absolutely unforgivable’

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Labour must be bolder and more radical if it wants clamp down on tax dodgers

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Without eliminating anomalies and freeing tax policymaking from the tentacles of the avoidance industry, Labour is unlikely to make a significant dent in the leakage of tax revenues.

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‘Maybe it’s about time that those who can stand up for young people do, rather than punching down’

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