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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (6 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 (6 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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Trade unions warn workers will continue to struggle as inflation falls

Basit Mahmood
16 August, 2023

“Until policy-makers stop attacking wages and take on the corporate profiteers there will be no end to this cost-of-living crisis.”

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Keir Starmer pledges to ‘smash the class ceiling’

Basit Mahmood
15 August, 2023

“There may have been times in the recent past where Labour was afraid to speak the language of class at all – but not my Labour Party.”

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15-year wage stagnation has left average earnings £230 a week lower than their pre-financial crisis trend

Basit Mahmood
15 August, 2023

The good news of today doesn’t make up for 15 years of unprecedented wage stagnation.

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‘Modest’ wealth tax on richest 0.3% could raise more than £10bn for public services, says TUC

Basit Mahmood
15 August, 2023

The trade union body has set out options for taxing the small number of individuals with wealth over £3 million, £5 million and £10 million

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Over a third of England’s homes will be at high risk of overheating as temperatures reach new extremes, think tank warns

Basit Mahmood
15 August, 2023

The report also warns that when it comes to work, older workers are a particular risk of heat stress

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Number of ethnic minority workers in insecure jobs rises by 132% since 2011

Basit Mahmood
14 August, 2023

BME workers account for two thirds of the growth of insecure workers in this period – despite BME workers making up just 14% of the overall workforce. 

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Chart sums up perfectly just how bad Britain’s economy is under the Tories

Basit Mahmood
14 August, 2023

It comes as a leading economic think tank warned that the UK is on course to experience five years of “lost” economic growth and is at risk of a recession next year.

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How the Sun’s anti-net zero campaign is linked to a lobby group funded by the freight and haulage industry

Basit Mahmood
14 August, 2023

What the Sun also fails to mention is that its five-point manifesto bears a striking resemblance to the ‘five core campaign objectives’ of FairFuelUK

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Cartoons not cruelty: Calls grow to restore cartoons at children’s asylum centres

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
13 August, 2023

Artists are on standby, offering to paint the cartoons back in at no expense to the taxpayer.

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Migrants removed from ‘deathtrap’ barge, as government faces huge backlash over latest hostile immigration policy

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
13 August, 2023

‘This is yet another example of an ill-thought-out, knee-jerk reaction to the government’s own backlog of asylum claims.’

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