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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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Strike Bill
News

‘Serious concerns’ over legality of anti-strike bill ignored, say MPs and Lords

Hannah Davenport
28 November, 2023

As teachers’ union slams “disingenuous and cynical” talks with Education Department today over minimum service levels

Sadiq Khan
News

Sadiq Khan slams exclusion of London officials from Covid meetings, saying it cost lives

Basit Mahmood
28 November, 2023

“I could have pointed out some of the reasons why community transmission was going to accelerate in London. Those views weren’t heard.”

News

INTERVIEW: Why outsourced staff at three government departments are on strike again

Hannah Davenport
28 November, 2023

“We had Andrew Lloyd Weber popping down to see how long the strike is going to go on for, and at the same time you can’t afford to buy a cup of coffee at Costa.”

Opinion

Paul Nowak: The Tories are today back doing what they enjoy most: Attacking unions

Paul Nowak
28 November, 2023

Let’s be clear. These Conservative anti-strike laws are a dog’s dinner – they’re shambolic and unworkable and will frustrate employers, workers and unions alike.

Opinion

The return of David Cameron shows Rishi Sunak has no interest in reversing austerity

Mike Buckley
27 November, 2023

‘Cameron was anything but a centrist, but he “did a remarkably good job of playing one on television.’

Lee Anderson
News

Lee Anderson doesn’t want votes for 16-year-olds because it will kill off the Tories ‘for generations’

Basit Mahmood
27 November, 2023

Anderson made the admission in secretly-recorded comments at a meeting of Tory supporters.

Nigel Farage
News

Nigel Farage’s party accused of offering Tory MP ‘a lot of money’ to defect

Basit Mahmood
27 November, 2023

Parliament has been hit with a new scandal

Youth Muslim group holds ‘Voices for Peace’ event at House of Commons

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
26 November, 2023

‘When you see all of the biggest demonstrations in the history of this country going out in support of Palestine and in a call for a ceasefire, then you know you are on the right side of history and the British people are also on the right side of history.’

Right-Wing Watch

How Europe’s far-right is using the Gaza war to whip up divisions against faith communities

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
26 November, 2023

The October 7 atrocities promise political gains for the far-right across Europe, which has been boosted by Geert Wilders’ – aka the ‘Dutch Trump’ – gains in the Netherlands.

News

Rejoin EU Party launches campaign to return UK to Erasmus scheme

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
26 November, 2023

‘We need to put pressure on the UK government to act on this issue. Already two full academic years of students have lost this right forever. Let’s act before more opportunities are lost for other.’

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