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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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We Own It

Majority of public support taking shares off polluting water companies instead of fines – poll

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
30 July, 2023

‘Under privatisation, it pays to pollute.’

Migrants crossing the Channel
News

High Court rules Home Office’s accommodating of unaccompanied child asylum seekers in hotels ‘unlawful’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
30 July, 2023

‘There can be no compromise when it comes to children’s safety and welfare.’

Polling Station

Calls for General Election NOW trend (again)

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
29 July, 2023

Appeals for an immediate general election are being ramped up again following more chaos within the Conservative party, which lost two seats in recent byelections.

Right-Wing Watch

How Uxbridge emboldened the anti-climate-action Right

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
29 July, 2023

Earth has passed from a warming phase into an ‘era of global boiling,’ says the UN chief. Could there be a worst time to drag the existential climate crisis into party politics and debate about potential backsliding on environmental commitments?

strikes

UK strikes: List of upcoming industrial action

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
29 July, 2023

All the strike action set for coming weeks.

COP26
News

Voters care more about the climate than politicians think

Basit Mahmood
28 July, 2023

Politicians like Sunak seem to have misread the public mood.

Office worker
Opinion

The Betrayal of Equality: Tory Government’s Failure to Address the Ethnicity Pay Gap

Abdi Mohamed
28 July, 2023

Addressing the ethnicity pay gap is not just a matter of social justice; it is also an economic imperative.

Child poverty
Opinion

A refusal to tackle child poverty shames us as a country

Prem Sikka
28 July, 2023

Over the last decade the number of children living in poverty has increased by around 600,000.

News

More than 3.5 million Londoners have an income below what is needed for a basic standard of living

Basit Mahmood
28 July, 2023

48% of children living in London are in households with incomes below what they need for a decent living standard.

Sadiq Khan
News

Sadiq Khan takes apart Rishi Sunak in a single tweet over Tory record on housing

Basit Mahmood
27 July, 2023

‘Are you the same guy who dropped his house building targets?’

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