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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (3 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 (3 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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Young climate activists launch campaign to seat 8 ‘green champions’ in elections

Hannah Davenport
13 February, 2024

Campaigners to back independent Jamie Driscoll and unseat “climate villains” at elections this year

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Opinion

HeartUnions week: Unions are winning for working people, and every worker should join a union

Paul Nowak
13 February, 2024

HeartUnions week is about celebrating the solidarity and power of a stronger trade union movement.

Rishi Sunak in Aberdeen
Opinion

Why this week could be the most challenging of Rishi Sunak’s premiership so far

Basit Mahmood
12 February, 2024

The stakes are high

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Opinion

If Julian Assange is extradited it will have huge implications for human rights and press freedom around the world

Charlie Jaay
12 February, 2024

‘Assange has not been convicted of any crime, but incarcerated solely for acquiring and publishing hundreds of thousands of classified documents, which exposed US state criminality’

Rishi Sunak
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Who are the senior Tory MPs set to lose seats in rural areas as support collapses?

Basit Mahmood
12 February, 2024

The poll found Conservative support had fallen by 25 points since the 2019 election, with just 34 per cent of voters in the 100 most rural constituencies in England saying they would vote for the party.

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Opinion

Our politics is plagued by a failure of accountability

Tom Brake
12 February, 2024

Accountability and integrity, as well as honesty, selflessness and leadership, demand of our politicians that they own up to their mistakes

Pensioners

Pensioner poverty: Rising pension age risks greater levels of poverty and health inequities, experts warn  

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 February, 2024

“Even the suggestion that people won’t get it until their 70s will make people feel more distrustful than they already do in the state pension system.”

News

Calls grow for childcare workers to earn £15 an hour minimum wage and to end zero-hour contracts

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 February, 2024

‘Caring for and educating young children is skilled work, and the overwhelmingly female workforce deserves decent pay and conditions.’ 

Right-Wing Watch

The European Parliament: The Next Target of the Far-Right

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 February, 2024

What is fevered activity between minor parties in Europe, becomes equally fevered factional activity within the Tory Party.

News

Homelessness charity issues chilling warning over council funding cuts

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
10 February, 2024

A vital charity that helps vulnerable people has become vulnerable itself.

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