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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

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

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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Opinion

Anti-strike bill: The UK government is obsessed with suppression of workers

Prem Sikka
27 January, 2023

The anti-strike bill is part of a wider pattern of anti-democratic and anti-worker legislation

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Opinion

The Tories neglect coastal and rural areas. Progressives must not make the same mistake.

Ben Cooper
27 January, 2023

‘For 13 years, Conservative governments have run down coastal and rural communities.’

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News

Anti-strike law: Major protest planned to defend the right to strike

Chris Jarvis
27 January, 2023

Zarah Sultana, Michael Rosen and Mick Lynch will be speaking at the demonstration

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Strike dates: Civil servants to take a further 20 days of strike action

Chris Jarvis
27 January, 2023

The Department for Work and Pensions will be hit with a wave of walkouts

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News

Revealed: The shocking real terms pay cut NHS staff have been hit with since 2008

Chris Jarvis
27 January, 2023

The pay of bankers has risen three times as fast as NHS workers

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Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week

Basit Mahmood
26 January, 2023

A roundup of news on the left…

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Tory party hits new low after MP is condemned for appalling comments on child refugees

Basit Mahmood
26 January, 2023

“Just when you think you’ve heard it all, the Tory Party find a new low.”

Jacinda Ardern
Opinion

Dawn Butler MP: We need more of Jacinda Ardern’s authenticity in British politics

Dawn Butler
26 January, 2023

‘I know from my own experience that centring women is not easy to do.’

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News

EXCLUSIVE: Voters say government has treated striking workers unfairly, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
26 January, 2023

The public isn’t on the side of the government.

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Opinion

The government is pushing GMO deregulation at breakneck speed

Natalie Bennett
25 January, 2023

‘The science is still far too uncertain, and what we know has not been properly considered or understood, by the government, or by parliament.’

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