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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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Latest Posts

News

David Cameron’s appointment as Foreign Secretary has everyone pointing out his disastrous record

Basit Mahmood
13 November, 2023

“David Cameron isn’t a “safe pair of hands”. He’s the man who introduced austerity which led to 330,000 excess deaths…”

Suella Braverman
News

Suella Braverman sacked as home secretary

Basit Mahmood
13 November, 2023

Braverman faced growing condemnation in recent days for fuelling far-right violence

Food banks
News

Trussell Trust urges government to use Autumn Statement to protect low income households, as food banks are at ‘breaking point’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 November, 2023

‘We are calling on the government to urgently confirm in the Autumn Statement that benefits will rise in line with inflation next April, and to reduce the burden of debt deductions which drive unacceptable levels of hardship.”

News

Brewing industry hit hard by Brexit, as another small brewery is forced to close

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 November, 2023

An award-winning brewery in the North-East is to close, citing ‘post-Brexit’ export problems.

Right-Wing Watch

We are all extremists now! How the Right are exploiting the Israel/Gaza tragedy to redefine extremism

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 November, 2023

The Right’s commitment to free speech is selective and self-serving, and their double standards is most transparent when it comes to Palestine.

News

High Peak MP accused of stirring up division and fear over ‘appalling’ comments about the pro-Palestine protests

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 November, 2023

“This has to stop. Violence breeds violence and hate breeds hate.”

Palestine demo
News

Hundreds of thousands gather in London for National March for Palestine – Ceasefire Now

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 November, 2023

Participants are assembling in Hyde Park at noon.

Suella Braverman
News

Suella Braverman accused of ‘peddling hate’ on BBC Question Time

Basit Mahmood
10 November, 2023

“There is no place for hate on our streets, but there’s no place for hate in the Home Office either”.

King Charles
Opinion

The King’s Speech was a recipe for repression and economic vandalism

Prem Sikka
10 November, 2023

“The policies outlined in the King’s Speech deepen repression and social divisions, and do not provide a springboard for economic rejuvenation.”

Rishi Sunak
News

UK economy has flatlined just days after Rishi Sunak said it was growing

Basit Mahmood
10 November, 2023

“These figures are further evidence that the economy is not working under the Conservatives and working people are worse off. 

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