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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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Right wing press

Right-wing press ramps up smear campaign on RMT union

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 December, 2022

The Conservative media is building its assault on the union, demonising them as ‘communists and Kremlin supporters.’

A placard with text reading "There is no planet B"

Approval of first UK coal mine in decades sparks condemnation from activists, opposition, and government’s official climate advisers

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 December, 2022

‘The UK government risks becoming a superpower in climate hypocrisy rather than climate leadership.’

Mark Serwotka

Union boss says winter strike frustration should be aimed at Tory government, not workers

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 December, 2022

PCS chief Mark Serwotka says ‘we’re paying the price’ for the government’s errors

Piers Morgan

Piers Morgan mocked for eating meat in front of Animal Rebellion activist

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 December, 2022

‘Television content at its absolute worst.’

Rishi Sunak at the House of Commons despatch box at PMQs
News

Tories threaten to push ahead with anti-strike laws in new year if Christmas strikes take place

Basit Mahmood
7 December, 2022

“If the Christmas Eve strike goes ahead, we need to crack on with the anti-strike laws early in the new year”, said one minister.

Keir Starmer
News

Keir Starmer takes Rishi Sunak apart at PMQs for handing over millions to Tory Peer for dodgy PPE

Basit Mahmood
7 December, 2022

“How did his colleague Baroness Mone end up with nearly £30 million of taxpayers money in her bank account?”

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News

Wife of former Putin minister makes another £52,000 donation to the Tories

Basit Mahmood
7 December, 2022

Lubov Chernukhin, the UK’s biggest female political donor ever and who is a wife of a former Putin Minister, donated a further £52,000 to the Tories over the summer.

Opinion

Diane Abbott MP: The Public Order Bill has no place in a democratic society

Diane Abbott
7 December, 2022

‘This is a government that does not tire of lecturing the rest of the world on democracy and human rights, and yet this is Bill creates two classes of citizens.’

Braverman
News

UNHCR says report on asylum seekers from right-wing think tank backed by Suella Braverman contains ‘critical factual and legal errors’

Basit Mahmood
6 December, 2022

The report endorses a ‘radical crackdown’ on refugee asylum seekers and also calls for indefinite detention of all asylum seekers that enter the UK without prior legal permission to do so.

Matt Wrack
News

Fire Brigades Union’s Matt Wrack praised for ‘superb’ media appearances defending strikes for better pay

Basit Mahmood
6 December, 2022

‘Why should firefighters and other public sector workers and workers anywhere indeed be told to take a pay cut?’

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