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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (5 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 (5 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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A list of the strike action this autumn

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
17 September, 2023

Aslef has announced more strikes, which will coincide with the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester.

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Tories’ flagship ‘levelling up’ has ‘stalled’ under Sunak, says IfG report

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
17 September, 2023

The focus on closing gaping regional inequalities has lost momentum.

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Nigel Farage promotes Rejoin March on GB News

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
16 September, 2023

‘We are extremely grateful to Nigel Farage and GB News for promoting our march.’

Right-Wing Watch

Far-right governments’ erosion of media pluralism: a route map for our own domestic right?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
16 September, 2023

The uneasy parallels between British media and the media in countries led by far-right nationalists, confirms the desperate need for media reform in the UK.

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Trapping film panel urges politicians to do more to tackle county lines

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
16 September, 2023

‘Politicians have a responsibility to end this issue.’

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Nigel Farage turns attention to right-wing capture of National Trust

Basit Mahmood
15 September, 2023

The Restore Trust has a new list of candidates for the upcoming council elections and, this time, they’ve been endorsed by Nigel Farage.

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News

Tory candidate for London mayor liked tweets which praised Enoch Powell and which sent Islamophobic abuse to Sadiq Khan

Basit Mahmood
15 September, 2023

In February 2020, Hall liked a tweet depicting Enoch Powell with the words “It’s never too late to get London back”.

Opinion

It’s time to align the state pension with the minimum wage

Prem Sikka
15 September, 2023

2.1 million pensioners currently live in poverty

Voting Ballot Box
Opinion

Scandal fatigue must not inure us to the crumbling state of UK democracy

Tom Brake
15 September, 2023

To renew our politics, power must be wielded by more of the people more of the time. Local communities must exercise greater control over the key decisions.

Voting Ballot Box
News

Next general election will see ‘serious disruption’ due to voter ID rules

Basit Mahmood
14 September, 2023

The LGIU said electoral staff are “unconvinced they can deliver a successful general election with voter ID” if Parliament calls one ahead of the deadline, as is widely expected.

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