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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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‘Capitalising on crisis’: right-wing’s bid to undermine public faith in NHS

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
14 January, 2023

The right-wing media’s multi-facetted attacks on the NHS, which range from pinning the crisis on ‘woke non-jobs’ to sickening trashing of GPs,  would be enough to fill a library.
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Mick Lynch round up: best moments of the week

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
14 January, 2023

The union general secretary’s comments on the government’s new anti-striking laws were described as ‘73 seconds of pure gold.’

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The Tories are laying foundations for the next financial crash

Prem Sikka
13 January, 2023

The Financial Services and Markets Bill does nothing to check corrupt practices

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Offices of Tory MPs to be targeted in protests over anti-strike law

Chris Jarvis
13 January, 2023

The protests are being coordinated by Enough is Enough

Rishi Sunak
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Tory vote collapses in two Council by-elections as Labour and Greens gain seats

Chris Jarvis
13 January, 2023

The Tory vote fell by more than 30 points

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Question Time audience member says what we’re all thinking about the Tories

Chris Jarvis
13 January, 2023

Her comments were met with laughter and applause

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Ash Sarkar perfectly sums up Tory hypocrisy on public sector pay

Chris Jarvis
13 January, 2023

She made the comments on the most recent episode of BBC Question Time

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Strike dates: Universities to be shut down for 18 days in February and March

Chris Jarvis
13 January, 2023

UCU members will walk out in a long running dispute over pay, conditions and pensions

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Human Rights Watch says UK risks being listed as a ‘human rights abuser’

Basit Mahmood
12 January, 2023

HRW have called it the most ‘significant assault on human rights protections in the UK in decades’.

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News

A damning chart showing how far public sector wages have lagged behind the private sector

Basit Mahmood
12 January, 2023

ONS data shows that private sector pay grew 6.9% between August and October 2022 while public sector pay grew 2.7%

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