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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (3 days ago)

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 (3 days ago)

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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The Tories’ ‘Bill of Rights’ will end one of the foundational principles of human rights law

John Lubbock
23 June, 2022

The Bill also sets up future battles with the European Court of Human Rights.

Daily Mail’s most bizarre attacks on woke culture

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
23 June, 2022

Armed with buzzwords and cliches, the right-wing newspaper does not hold back in firing a loud and brazen attack on ‘woke’ culture.

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Thousands sign petition opposing government’s ‘toxic’ Bill of Rights

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
23 June, 2022

“The public, quite rightly, is very concerned that the government is putting themselves above the law and making themselves untouchable.”

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Brexit anniversary: Six Brexit U-turns imposed by Boris Johnson and his government

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
23 June, 2022

The PM trumpeted the deal he struck over Brexit. In less than two years, his government is already attempting to unpick many parts of it, asserting its ‘unworkability.’

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UK rail strike: Second day of action underway as RMT accuses government of ‘wrecking negotiations’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
23 June, 2022

“Until the government unshackle Network Rail and the train operating companies, it is not going to be possible for a negotiated settlement to be agreed,’ says union boss Mick Lynch.

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Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, June 2022

Basit Mahmood
22 June, 2022

The news you didn’t see this week…

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Diane Abbott MP: Of course RMT members deserve our support

Diane Abbott
22 June, 2022

‘It seems surprising to me that anyone in the labour movement should see it any other way, when the RMT’s case is so clear-cut.’

Picket line

Why the right wing attacks on the RMT are failing to turn the public against rail strikes

John Lubbock
22 June, 2022

Right wing attacks on rail unions do not seem to be translating into public opposition to the strikes.

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Right Wing Watch Newsletter: Forced Free Speech and a Summer of Strikes

John Lubbock
22 June, 2022

Last week’s newsletter looked at the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, and the coming strikes.

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Daily Mail mocked for front page claiming ‘Labour isn’t working’

Basit Mahmood
22 June, 2022

“The Tories have been in government for 12 years, and yet shitrags can still run nonsensical headlines”

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