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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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London Ambulance
News

A damning chart which shows just why the NHS is in crisis

Basit Mahmood
4 January, 2023

A number of trusts have announced critical incidents in recent days

Paul Nowak
News

TUC’s Paul Nowak takes apart government’s false claims about unions and public sector strikes

Basit Mahmood
4 January, 2023

‘The average nurse is £4,000 a year worse off than If their pay would’ve risen by the rate of inflation since 2008.’

A photo of London's skyline
News

UK faces deepest and longest recession in G7, say economists, with ‘Brexit and incompetence of ministers’ blamed

Basit Mahmood
3 January, 2023

‘The UK was in a ‘structural hole, not a cyclical downturn’

Brendan Clarke-Smith
News

Tory MP slammed after telling firefighters using foodbanks to ‘learn how to budget’

Basit Mahmood
3 January, 2023

“Then on your much higher MP wage, why are you needing to claim expenses and eat taxpayer subsidised food? Just budget.”

Mick Lynch
News

RMT’s Mick Lynch slams Tory minister for lying and insists government torpedoed a deal to prevent rail strikes

Basit Mahmood
3 January, 2023

Lynch claimed that ministers were “undermining efforts to get a settlement” and had sunk an agreement in December.

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Editor’s note: Thank you from the team at LFF and happy holidays!

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2022

A massive thank you to our readers and supporters!

Unite balloons being flown at a TUC march
News

A full list of upcoming strike dates

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2022

We take a look at the upcoming list of strike dates.

Chessum
Opinion

Book Review: This Is Only the Beginning: The Making of a New Left, From Anti-Austerity to the Fall of Corbyn by Michael Chessum

David Renton
23 December, 2022

‘The left will face its chance again, but not soon, and until then we have not yet built up the institutions or the common strategies which would entitle us to govern.’

Parliament
Opinion

A group of neo-liberal elites have captured the British state

Prem Sikka
23 December, 2022

Taming the elites is a necessary condition for transformation of the British economy, but no political party is willing to shackle the power of the elites.

Laurie Magnus
News

Rishi Sunak slammed for appointing old-Etonian banker and Tory donor as new ethics adviser

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2022

“The social distance between us – an old Etonian, in 21st century?”

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