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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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Latest Posts

TUC
News

TUC calls on MPs to reject ‘attack on the right to strike’ as bill comes to parliament today

Basit Mahmood
10 January, 2023

“That’s undemocratic, unworkable, and almost certainly illegal.”

Anti-strike campaign by Strike Map
News

Unions launch campaign to protect right to strike against anti-strike laws

Hannah Davenport
9 January, 2023

‘Strike Map, who launched the campaign, announced yesterday that within a few hours, representatives for over 50,000 workers had already signed the letter supporting the right to strike.’

climate change
Opinion

Labour needs to get serious about climate adaptation for our future security

Eloise Sacares
9 January, 2023

‘To tackle the phenomenon of climate anxiety that’s affecting nearly half of young people’s daily lives, we must create a sense of security that whatever the weather, our services and infrastructure will still work for us.’

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News

FTSE 100 CEO pay is up 39% to an average of £3.4million as ordinary workers continue to struggle

Basit Mahmood
9 January, 2023

FTSE 100 chief executives are paid £3.4m on average, which works out at 103 times the £33,000 average salary for full-time UK workers

Parliament
News

Tory MPs rake in £15.2 million from second jobs while telling striking workers to show pay restraint

Basit Mahmood
9 January, 2023

Boris Johnson has received more than £1 million since October, by giving just four speeches, at a rate of more than £30,000 an hour.

Uber

Thousands sign petition to give Uber drivers real living wage

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 January, 2023

The petition calls on the company’s CEO to reduce the commission it takes from drivers.

NHS workers strike

Union says anti-strike legislation ‘scapegoats NHS workers’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 January, 2023

‘A government that has presided over 13 years of failure in our public services is now seeking to scapegoat the NHS staff and ambulance workers who do so much to care for the people of our country.’

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News

‘Baffling’: Sunak’s maths plan slammed from every direction

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 January, 2023

One commentator described the proposal to ensure all pupils continue to study maths until they are 18 as a ‘cringe-inducing lack of vision.’

‘Knives Out’: Will Boris be back in 2023?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 January, 2023

As a dire electoral future beckons the Tories, desperate times call for desperate measures, lighting the touchpaper for a possible return of Boris Johnson.

GMB interview with Lynch

Mick Lynch round-up: best moments of the week

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 January, 2023

The RMT union general secretary has started 2023 with a bang, continuing to stump overzealous and ill-prepared interviewers and critics with calm, confident, and authentic responses.

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