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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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GMB
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3000 construction workers back strike action at energy sites across the country

Basit Mahmood
17 October, 2023

“Our members’ pay has fallen over 20% behind inflation.”

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Greta Thunberg joins climate activists in London at Energy Intelligence Forum protest

Hannah Davenport
17 October, 2023

Protesters are targeting a major oil and gas conference this week to call out lobbying and record fossil fuel profits

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Palestinian trade unions issue urgent call to end the arming of Israel

Hannah Davenport
17 October, 2023

An urgent call to action for international trade unions to help halt arms trading

Liz Truss
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Liz Truss wants to deliver another budget

Basit Mahmood
17 October, 2023

Truss is once again advocating unfunded tax cuts and deregulation

Peter Bone
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Tory MP Peter Bone faces six-week suspension for bullying and sexual misconduct

Basit Mahmood
16 October, 2023

The MP for Wellingborough was found to have ‘committed many varied acts of bullying and one act of sexual misconduct’ against a member of his staff in 2012 and 2013.

Martin Griffiths
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UN relief chief says ‘humanity is failing’ in response to conflict in Palestine and Israel

Basit Mahmood
16 October, 2023

“I fear that the worst is yet to come”

Brexit and EU
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Demand to reverse Brexit hits ‘highest ever level’

Basit Mahmood
16 October, 2023

A poll in May also revealed that both Tory and Leave backers feel that Brexit has been a failure.

Bibby Stockholm

Refugee charity calls for not-for-profit asylum system, as it reveals companies profiting from refugees’ ‘misery’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
15 October, 2023

‘While the government gives away billions to these companies people seeking asylum are left to live in accommodation that actively harms their health.’

NHS worker conditions
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NHS waiting list surges despite Sunak’s pledge to cut backlog

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
15 October, 2023

‘The Prime Minister’s key pledge of reducing the size of the waiting list by March 2024 is looking more and more in doubt.’

Right-Wing Watch

The Big Lie – how right-wingers make stuff up to win elections

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
14 October, 2023

The devastation unfolding in Gaza this week has ignited the ugliest of political deceit, backed up by a lapdog right-wing press. 

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